2018–2019 SCHOOL PROFILE Student and senior class profile at a glance Number of students 547 Number of seniors 128 (9–12) Percent of seniors who George School Number of states 22 56% PMB 4493 | 1690 Newtown Langhorne Road are boarders Newtown, PA 18940-2414 53% www.georgeschool.org (receiving Number of countries Percent of students Phone: 215.579.6538 | Fax: 215.579.6529 43 more than outside United States receiving financial aid CEEB Code: 391505 $10.5 million J. Samuel Houser, Head of School in aid) Scott Spence, Associate Head of School Average boarding Percent US students 37% student financial aid $44,000 COLLEGE COUNSELING STAFF of color Beth Ann Burkmar, Director award [email protected] Percent international Average day student 27% $24,000 Claire Criniti, Associate Director students financial aid award [email protected] Endowment as of Tova Meyer, Associate Director Percent Quaker 10% $180.6 million [email protected] June 30, 2018 Rachael Polton, Associate Director 86 (62 with [email protected] Number of faculty advanced Average class size 14 Terry Tuttle, College Counseling Assistant [email protected] degrees) 3 trimesters, MISSION STATEMENT School year approx. 11 Student : faculty ratio 6.5 : 1 With Quaker tradition as its touchstone and weeks each academic excellence at its core, George School seeks to develop citizen scholars cheerfully committed to openness in the pursuit of truth, to service and peace, and CLASS OF 2018 UNWEIGHTED GPA DISTRIBUTION to the faithful stewardship of the earth. We THROUGH JUNIOR YEAR want our students to treasure learning for its own sake and to use it to benefit a diverse world. Above all, we want them to “let their lives speak.” 0 3.14 3.75 4.15

SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY Average GPA = 3.42 Founded in 1893 George School is The middle fiftypercent of the Class of 2019 has a GPA between 3.14 and 3.75. a Quaker, college preparatory, coed boarding and day school for students Twenty percent of students in the Class of 2019 have a GPA of 3.8 or higher. in grades 9 through 12. George School is accredited by the Pennsylvania GPA only includes courses taken at George School. Association of Independent Schools and Middle States Association of Colleges and George School does not weight grades, compute class rank, or release Schools. The International Baccalaureate individual GPAs to colleges. program is accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization. Class of 2019 SAT and ACT Testing Data as of August 20, 2018 George School is located on 240 acres of SAT (105 test takers) ACT (48 test takers) land in historic Newtown, Pennsylvania, a suburban area forty minutes north of EBRW Math 1600 Composite Philadelphia and thirty minutes south of 25th percentile 600 575 1170 25th percentile 24 Princeton. 75th percentile 710 740 1425 75th percentile 32 Nearly 100 percent of graduates attend four- Average 650 660 1300 Average 28 year colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. George School offers college-prep, advanced, intensive (some subjects), Advanced Placement (AP), and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses. George School is one of the few boarding schools in the United States offering the In representing to colleges the rigor of our students’ academic programs, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma. George School designates each student’s program as demanding, more demanding, highly demanding, or most demanding. Please see the Secondary School Report for more information.

Page 1 George School Curriculum for the Class of 2019 Subject Requirements AP Courses IB Courses English AP English Language and Composition IB HL English 1: American Lit or Adv. American Lit - 4 years IB SL English: World Lit IB HL English 2: World Lit or Writer’s Focus History AP Economics IB SL Global Politics - 3 years, including US History AP Human Geography IB SL Economics AP US History IB HL Economics AP World History IB SL History IB HL World History - Americas Focus Language IB/AP French 5 IB Chinese 4 - Students must complete the third level of a IB/AP Latin 4 IB Chinese 5 language or demonstrate proficiency. IB/AP Latin 5 IB Chinese Seminar - Students who previously attended school IB/AP Spanish 5 IB/AP Latin 4 in a language other than English are not IB/AP Latin 5 required to study a language at George IB French 4 School, but are encouraged to. IB/AP French 5 - Languages offered: Chinese, French, Latin, IB Spanish 4 Spanish. IB/AP Spanish 5 IB HL Spanish Seminar Math AP Calculus AB IB SL Math Studies - 3 years, including geometry and second AP Calculus BC IB SL Calculus year algebra. AP Statistics IB HL Mathematics IB HL Further Mathematics Science AP Biology IB SL Biology - 3 years, including one physical science and AP Chemistry IB HL Biology one life science course. AP Computer Science A IB SL Environmental Systems and Societies AP Physics C – Mechanics and Electricity & IB SL Physics Magnetism IB HL Physics Arts AP Studio Art IB Dance Studies - 3 years IB Film Production - Varied options in theater, stagecraft, painting IB Music: Vocal, Wind, String Ensembles and drawing, ceramics, sculpture, wood- IB Theater Arts working, video production, photography, IB Visual Arts instrumental music, choral music, and dance. Religions/Heath/Theory of Knowledge IB SL World Religions - 3 years, including Essentials of a Friends IB Theory of Knowledge Community and Faith Traditions in 9th grade and Spiritual Practices and Holistic Health in 10th grade.

Physical Education/Athletics Service Prerequisites for Junior and Senior Year Courses Athletics and physical education are an Each student must complete campus service Most junior and senior year courses have integral part of the George School experi- assignments (co-op) each term and a 65-hour minimum course and grade prerequisites. ence. George School teams play local domestic, international, or independent ser- Quaker schools in the Friends Schools vice project before graduation. League and other area schools. Academic Program Notes Grades: Grades of A through F First-term grades are reported at the end of Head of School’s List recognizes commit- (including + and -) are given in all academic November, second-term grades in mid-March, ment to excellence (based on attitude, effort, and arts courses. D- is the lowest passing and final grades in June. initiative, and preparation) of students who grade. have been nominated in a single term by at Special mid-year grades are reported for least five faculty members (at least three Student Schedules: Students must complete seniors only in early February. In yearlong must be classroom teachers). six yearlong (or the equivalent) courses each courses, grades at the end of each term are Honor Roll recognizes students with no year. After 9th grade taking more than six cumulative for the year. grade below B or students with a B+ average courses is considered an overload. with no grade below C. For a detailed listing of courses available to George School students, course descriptions, and more details about requirements and special curricula, please visit www.georgeschool.org/academics.

Page 2 MATRICULATION TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FOR THE CLASSES OF 2014–2018 The 133 students in the George School Class of 2018 were offered admission to 313 and matriculated at 105 different colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Colleges in bold are those at which five or more students matriculated. Alamance Community College The George Washington Princeton University University of California, Albright College University Purchase College - SUNY Los Angeles Alvernia University Georgetown University Purdue University University of California, American University Georgia Institute of Technology Quest University Canada San Diego Amsterdam University College Gettysburg College Reed College University of California, Antioch College Goucher College Rensselaer Polytechnic Santa Barbara Arcadia University Grinnell College Institute University of Chicago Bard College Grove City College Rhode Island School of Design University of Colorado at Barnard College Guilford College Rice University Boulder Baruch College - CUNY Hamilton College Roanoke College University of Connecticut Bates College Hampshire College Rochester Institute of University of Edinburgh Bennington College Hartwick College Technology University of Illinois at Urbana Bentley University Harvard University Rogue Community College Champaign Binghamton University Haverford College Rosemont College University of Kentucky Bloomsburg University of PA High Point University Rowan University University of Lynchburg Boston College Hobart and William Smith Rutgers University - University of Maryland, Boston University Colleges New Brunswick Baltimore County Bowdoin College Hofstra University Rutgers University - Newark University of Maryland, Brandeis University Howard University Saint John’s University (NY) College Park Brown University Hunter College - CUNY Saint Joseph’s University University of Massachusetts, Bryn Mawr College Indiana University at Saint Leo University Amherst Bucknell University Bloomington Salve Regina University University of Miami Bucks County Community Indiana University of PA School of the Art Institute of University of Michigan College Ithaca College Chicago University of Mississippi California State Polytechnic Jacksonville State University Sciences Po - University of University of Nevada, University - Pomona James Madison University British Columbia Dual Las Vegas Carleton College Johnson & Wales University Program University of North Carolina Carnegie Mellon University Kean University Sciences Po - Columbia at Chapel Hill Case Western Reserve Kent State University University Dual Program University of North Carolina at University Kenyon College Scripps College Greensboro Central Piedmont Community King’s College Seattle Central College University of Pennsylvania Champlain College King’s University College Seton Hall University University of Phoenix Chapman University Lafayette College Sewanee: The University of University of Pittsburgh Charleston Southern University Lehigh University the South University of Richmond Clark University Lincoln University Skidmore College University of Rochester Colby College London School of Economics Smith College University of San Francisco Colgate University College and Political Science St. John’s College University of South Carolina College of William and Mary Loyola University Maryland St. Lawrence University University of South Florida, Colorado College Manhattanville College Stetson University Tampa Colorado State University Mansfield University of PA Stevens Institute of Technology University of Southern Connecticut College Marist College Suffolk County Community California Cooper Union for the Marlboro College College University of St Andrews Advancement of Science & Art Miami University of Ohio SUNY Broome Community University of Texas, Austin Cornell College Mills College College University of the Sciences in Cornell University Monmouth University Susquehanna University Philadelphia Corning Community College Montclair State University Swarthmore College University of Vermont Dartmouth College Morehouse College Syracuse University University of Warwick Davidson College Mount Holyoke College Temple University University of Washington Delaware College of Muhlenberg College Texas Christian University University of Wisconsin, Art & Design New College of Florida Texas State University Madison Delaware Valley University New Jersey Institute of The Catholic University of Ursinus College Denison University Technology America Vanderbilt University DePaul University The New School The College of New Jersey Vassar College Dickinson College New York University Thomas Jefferson University Villanova University Drew University Niagara University Towson University Virginia Commonwealth Drexel University Northeastern University Trinity College University Duke University Northwestern University Trinity College Dublin Virginia Military Institute Durham University Nova Southeastern University Tufts University Virginia Tech Earlham College Nuova Accademia di Belle Tulane University Wake Forest University East Stroudsburg Arti Milano Union College Washington University in University of PA Oberlin College Universidad de Los Andes St. Louis Eckerd College Occidental College Université de Montreal Wellesley College Elon University The Ohio State University University of Alabama Wesleyan University Emerson College Ohio Wesleyan University University of Arizona Wheaton College (MA) Emory University Old Dominion University University of Bridgeport Whitman College Emporia State University Otis College of Art & Design University of British Columbia Worcester Polytechnic Institute Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Pace University, New York City University of California, Yale University Florida Southern College Pennsylvania State University Berkeley York College of Pennsylvania Fordham University Pitzer College University of California, Davis Franklin & Marshall College Pomona College University of California, Irvine George Mason University Pratt Institute Page 3 This page intentionally left blank.

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