260 Jay Street • Katonah, NY 10536-3707 914-232-3161 • www.harveyschool.org

CEEB Code: 332644

William J. Knauer Accreditations/Affiliations At a Glance Head of School New York State Association of Independent Schools RR 275 Students in the Upper School Richard R. Wyland National Association of Independent Schools Assistant Head of School RR 72 students in the Class of 2017 RR 95%+ of students attend college Philip J. Lazzaro SCHOOL PROFILE 2016–2017 upon graduation Head of Upper School RR 26% of students receive need-based financial aid Christine M. Cahill The Harvey School is an independent RR 30% racial/ethnic student diversity Director of College Counseling co-educational boarding and day school located RR Students draw from Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and 40 miles north of New York City in Westchester Westchester Counties, New York County. The school was founded in 1916 and has an City, Connecticut, New Jersey and abroad

enrollment of 355 in grades 6–12. The curriculum RR 18 students in our International Student Program from three is directed toward a mastery of languages, liberal countries in a 5/2 boarding arts and sciences. All students pursue programs program combining dorm-living and family homestay.

that emphasize the acquisition of skills in writing, RR Students represent various reading, mathematics, the sciences, ancient or economic, social and racial backgrounds

modern languages, history and political science, RR Emphasize educational diversity within a traditional and the fine arts. and disciplined framework

RR Average class size 10 College Placement 2016 RR Technology integrated into curriculum with multiple labs accessible to students including Percent to 4-year colleges/universities 100% broadcast/editing, robotics and 3-D printing labs. Private University 82% RR Model UN and Robotics team Public University 18% compete and excel at state and national levels In-state 37% RR Offer 15 varsity sports; have won Out-of-state 63% 25 championships since 2000

RR Offer 25+ classes in the arts and put on 10 productions a year in theater, music and dance CURRICULUM AND REQUIREMENTS CLASS RANKING

The academic year is divided into trimesters. One credit awarded for Students are ranked by quintile. The scale below represents the a trimester course and three credits for a full-year course. A minimum cumulative grade-point average of students from this year’s senior class of 69 credits is required for graduation. The minimum distribution of in the following quintiles, as of the beginning of Fall Term 2015. course requirements for graduation are as follows: 1st Quintile 3.88 — 4.25 RR ENGLISH: 4 years 2nd Quintile 3.60 — 3.87 RR HISTORY: 3 years, including Non-Western History, 3rd Quintile 3.30 — 3.59 Western Civilization and U.S. History 4th Quintile 2.95 — 3.29 RR MATH: 3 years, including Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II 5th Quintile 2.55 — 2.94 RR SCIENCE: 3 years, including Science Trajectories as a freshman, and at least one lab science.

RR FOREIGN LANGUAGE: 2 years consecutively of the same GPA RECOGNITION language completed in grades 9–12 4.0+ Cavalier Scholar RR ARTS: 2 years (6 trimesters) 3.7–3.99 Head’s List RR SENIOR BRIDGE SEMINAR: required of all seniors 3.3–3.69 Honor Roll Students are expected to go beyond the minimum requirements and take four years of a foreign language (either four years of one language or two years of two different languages), four years of mathematics (Algebra CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAM I & II, Geometry and Pre-Calculus), and additional science courses. We offer classical and modern languages (Latin, Spanish and Japanese) The school has a strong co-curricular and athletics program to comple- and a number of elective courses in the arts, English, history and other ment its academic program. The program’s purpose is not only to allow humanities. Senior course loads are determined for each senior individually the student to pursue his or her individual interests but also to provide a during conferences with the student’s academic advisor. Each student must structure in which a student will be able to exercise a position of construc- fulfill all academic requirements, be found in good disciplinary standing, tive leadership. The school is committed to expanding its co-curricular and be approved by the faculty before a diploma may be awarded. offerings and encouraging the participation of its entire student body in sports, co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Programming ranges We offer Honors and Advanced Placement courses in every discipline from a full host of arts offerings, 15 different varsity sports, Model (students are typically recommended to participate starting junior year in UN, community service and most recently the addition of a nationally AP coursework), and encourage all our students to participate in these recognized robotics program. Participation in after-school activities is programs according to their particular abilities and interests. AP courses mandatory for day students in grades 6–10 and all boarding students. offered in biology, American history, calculus, chemistry, computer science, English, European history, microeconomics, physics (1 & 2) and statistics. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM GRADING SYSTEM Harvey currently has a small international student population, with There are five letter grades, A through D and F. D- is the lowest passing 18 students from three countries. International students take the grade. The trimester grade in a given course is determined by averaging same curriculum as American students with two exceptions: a foreign equally the two marking-period grades and the trimester final exam- language other than English is not required (although it may be taken ination grade. The full-year grade is determined by averaging the three as an elective), and all students must enroll in an English reading/ trimester grades. For purposes of averaging, each letter grade is assigned writing workshop during their first two years. International students at a numerical value as follows: A = 4.0, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3.0, B- = Harvey are not “exchange students,” but matriculate at Harvey typi- 2.7, C+ = 2.3, C = 2.0, C - = 1.7, D+ = 1.3, D = 1.0, D- = 0.7, F = 0. cally as freshman or sophmores intending to graduate from our school Cumulative grade point averages and quintile ranks are determined by and continue their education at American colleges and universities. averaging all major courses. Courses in Honors and Advanced Placement The program, currently in its fourth year, has maintained a full 100% will be averaged with an additional weighted value. An Honors course will retention rate from year one. The first international students graduating have a value of .3 added to the final grade and an Advanced Placement from The Harvey School were members of the Class of 2016. All five course will have an additional value of .7 added to the final grade. Fall of the members of the class of 2016 are attending American colleges term grades will be sent to colleges at the end of November, winter term and universities representing a variety of higher educational school grades will be sent to colleges in mid-March and final transcripts will be communities, including: Boston University, Emory University, Maryland sent by mid-June (usually a week after commencement). Institute College of Art, Rutgers University and Trinity College. College Acceptances and Matriculations for the Classes of 2015 and 2016

(#) Denotes multiple students applied * Denotes a matriculated school and (#) after asterisk denotes multiple matriculations

Adelphi University (3) Endicott College (8) *(3) Miami University, Oxford (3) *(2) Seton Hall University (2) Albright College (2) Fairfield University (5) *(1) University of Miami (2) *(1) Sewanee: The University of Alfred University (2) Fordham University (2) *(2) University of Michigan the South (2) American University (6) *(2) Fort Lewis College University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Siena College (5) Andrews University (2) Franklin and Marshall College (3) *(1) Montana State University, Bozeman Skidmore College (4) *(2) Arcadia University Franklin Pierce University Montserrat College of Art Southern Methodist University The University of Arizona Furman University * Morehouse College Spelman College Assumption College The George Washington University (3) Mount Saint Mary College St. Bonaventure University (3) *(3) Bard College Gettysburg College (4) Muhlenberg College (3) St. John’s University (3) Baruch College of the CUNY Gordon College The Naropa University St. Joseph’s College Bennington College (3) *(2) Hamilton College - NY University of New Hampshire St. Lawrence University (4) *(1) Bentley University Hampshire College (2) at Durham St. Thomas Aquinas College (2) *(1) Binghamton University (7) Hampton University * University of New Haven (2) State University of New York Bloomsburg University of University of Hartford (4) New York University * - Plattsburgh Pennsylvania Hartwick College (2) Nichols College (10) *(1) State University of New York Boston University (2) *(2) University of Hawaii at Manoa University of North Carolina at Albany (6) Brandeis University (2) High Point University (3) at Asheville (2) State University of New York Brown University * Hobart and William Smith Colleges (4) University of North Carolina at New wPaltz (2) *(1) Bryant University * Hofstra University (6) *(2) at Wilmington * Stetson University Bryn Mawr College College of the Holy Cross Northwestern University * Stevenson University (2) California College of the Arts Hunter College of the CUNY Ohio Wesleyan University * Stonehill College (3) (San Francisco) Indiana University University of Oregon Stony Brook University (4) University of California, Berkeley * at Bloomington (6) *(1) Pace University (4) *(1) SUNY College at Cortland (2) *(1) University of California, Irvine Iona College (5) *(1) Pennsylvania College of Technology SUNY College of Environmental University of California, Santa Barbara Ithaca College (16) *(6) Pennsylvania State University (3) *(1) Science & Forestry Canisius College (2) James Madison University (2) *(1) Pepperdine University SUNY College at Geneseo (4) *(1) Castleton University John Jay College of Criminal Justice Philadelphia University (2) SUNY College at Oneonta Cazenovia College (3) Johnson & Wales University (3) University of Pittsburgh (2) *(1) SUNY Oswego (2) Champlain College Juniata College Plymouth State University SUNY Polytechnic Institute * College of Charleston (5) * (1) Keene State College Pratt Institute Susquehanna University (4) City College of New York CUNY Keiser University * Pratt MWP Syracuse University (12) *(6) Clark University (5) University of Kentucky (2) Providence College * The University of Tampa (4) *(1) Clarkson University La Salle University University of Puget Sound (2) *(1) Temple University (6) *(2) Coastal Carolina University (2) Lafayette College (4) *(2) Purchase College State University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2) Colby-Sawyer College Lasell College (4) University of New York (3) The University of Texas, Austin * University of Colorado at Boulder (5) Le Moyne College Purdue University The Kubert School * University of Colorado Lehigh University * Quinnipiac University (18) *(3) The New School (2) at Denver (3) *(1) Lehman College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2) *(1) Trinity College (2) *(1) Colorado State University (2) *(1) Lesley University (2) *(1) Rhode Island College Tulane University (5) *(2) Columbus College of Art and Design Lewis & Clark College (2) University of Rhode Island (8) *(1) Union College (5) *(3) Concordia College * Long Island University (3) Rhodes College University at Buffalo The State Connecticut College (4) *(1) Loyola University, MD (8) *(1) University of Richmond University of New York (2) University of Connecticut (11) *(1) Loyola University, LA (2) Rider University The University of Melbourne University of Connecticut Lynn University (2) Ringling College of Art University of Newcastle at Stamford (3) University of Maine (2) *(1) and Design (2) University of Sydney Curry College (2) Manhattan College (4) *(1) Roanoke College (3) Utica College Davidson College * Manhattanville College (4) Roberts Wesleyan College University of Vermont (12) *(1) University of Dayton Marist College (3) *(1) Rochester Institute of Technology (3) Villanova University Delaware Valley University Marquette University University of Rochester * Virginia Commonwealth University of Delaware (4) *(1) University of Mary Washington (2) Roger Williams University (11) University (2) *(1) University of Denver (7) Maryland Institute College Rollins College (4) *(1) Wake Forest University * DePaul University of Art (2) *(1) Rutgers University * University of Washington DePauw University University of Maryland Sacred Heart University (6) *(2) West Chester University of DeSales University University College Saint Anselm College * Pennsylvania Dickinson College (3) University of Maryland, Saint Michael’s College (3) West Virginia University Dowling College Baltimore County (2) The College of Saint Rose Western Connecticut Drew University University of Maryland, Salve Regina University (4) State University (2) Drexel University (11) *(2) College Park (3) *(1) Santa Clara University Western New England University (3) Duquesne University Marymount Manhattan College Sarah Lawrence College Wheaton College MA (2) *(1) Eastern University University of Massachusetts, Savannah College of Art Whitman College * Eckerd College (2) Amherst (4) and Design (3) *(1) Willamette University Elmira College McGill University (2) *(1) School of the Museum Williams College * Elon University (5) *(5) Mercer University of Fine Arts (2) *(1) University of Wisconsin, Emerson College (3) Mercy College School of Visual Arts Madison (2) *(2) Emmanuel College Mercyhurst University The University of Scranton (5) *(2) The College of Wooster Emory University * Merrimack College (2) Seattle University (2) *(1) Xavier University *