Cascadilla School i l l a d  a s 2016–2017 Profile c c s h o a Cascadilla School o c l About Cascadilla close proximity to and Mission long historical association We are an independent co- with Cornell University. At the Cascadilla educational boarding and Students have ready access School we know that day school founded in 1876 to outstanding museum individual students learn as a college preparatory high collections at the Johnson in individual ways. We school for Cornell University, Museum of Art, the Olin & believe in small classes, a one of the nation’s leading Uris research libraries, and nurturing community, and academic and research various athletic facilities, and teachers who understand universities. The Cascadilla some research laboratories. and respect each student School is a not-for-profit University faculty, scientists, as an individual. We institution governed by psychologists, poets, instill and nurture the an independent Board of economists, and historians critical learning skills Trustees. The school offers regularly visit Cascadilla and the confidence that students an accelerated classes. Upperclass students will ensure success in curriculum in grades nine in advanced mathematics college and beyond. through twelve as well as in a may enroll in University We believe in helping post graduate year. Students courses at Cornell’s adjacent students handle the from all over the world are campus. Recently, a Cascadilla responsibilities they guided by an expert faculty student worked during are asked to assume. on our campus in the small the summer in the Cornell Cascadilla gives students college town of Ithaca, located Research Apprenticeships individual care and in the beautiful Finger Lakes in Biological Sciences support in a community region of central New York. Program on a research that stimulates their Cascadilla graduates go on to project for which she was development as matriculate at leading colleges credited as an author when individuals and as and universities. the results were published in members of society. an Oxford scientific journal. College Environment Cascadilla students have access to exceptional resources because of the School’s Advanced Placement Courses The Cascadilla Seminar All Advanced Placement The Cascadilla Seminar is Cascadilla’s advanced (AP®) courses are full-year seminar in history & literature taught jointly courses. Approximately 50 by the History and English departments and % enroll in at least one of required for all graduating seniors. In each the AP® courses offered. Seminar, students develop the necessary skills We are prepared to teach in careful and critical reading, logical reasoning, all Advanced Placement® persuasive argumentative writing, and academic courses depending on research that will ensure success in college and student interest and in life. The Seminar is taught at an introductory commitment. There is no college level and is a rigorous experience, equal limit to the number of AP® to a full year’s humanities course. A new theme courses a student may take. relating to history and literature is chosen each These eleven AP® courses year. have been offered at least once since 2009: Examples of annual Seminar topics: · Biology · Dragon Ships & Saga Sailors: The Viking Age in · Calculus AB History and in the Popular Imagination · Calculus BC · Idle Talk or the Lifeblood of Humanity: Discreet · Chemistry Graduation Requirements Indiscretions & the Cultural History of Gossip · English Literature & · The Scroll, the Codex, & the Kindle: Capturing Composition Students must acquire a the Word from the Alphabet to the Internet · Latin: Vergil minimum of 22 credits and · Food for Thought: Cultural Meanings in · Physics B must fulfill the following Foodstuffs & Foodways · Psychology core requirements. Cascadilla · Mirror, Mirror: The Cultural History of Reflection · Statistics awards only New York State · Bread & Circuses: Media Spectacle & Popular · U.S. History Regents or Advanced Regents Culture in History & Literature · World History diplomas. · London – The Seminar · Around the World in Eighty Days: Travelers & · English – 5 credits (must Traveling in History & Literature include the Cascadilla · Lies, Slogans & Hidden Meanings: The Seminar) “Shameful” Art of Persuasion · Mathematics – 3 credits · Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Road (including precalculus) to Middle Earth · Science – 3 credits (typically · Where’s Walden? Paradise Lost & Found in including biology and History & Literature chemistry, with labs) · “I Have A Dream”: The Sleep of Kings & the · World Language – 1 credit Politics of Dreaming (3 credits required for · Outlaws, Outcasts & Misfits: People on the Advanced Regents diploma) Margins in History & Literature · Social Studies – 4 credits · Get A Life! Autobiography & Memory in (must include 1 year of US History & Literature history and Government & Economics) · Physical Education – 2 credits · Fine Arts – 1 credit (including drawing, painting, sculpting, ceramics, and photography) · Health – ½ credit · Community Service – 20 hours Cascadilla Well-Considered Grades and Ranking Profile: Class of 2016 Contact Information for College Counseling Cascadilla School does not Size 11 report academic rank. We Attending 4-year college 9 Cascadilla School compute the grade point 116 Summit Street average (GPA) by using AP® Scholars Ithaca, NY 14850 an unweighted 4.0 grading Class of 2015 2 Counseling Office Phone: system. Numerical grades Class of 2014 3 607·272·3110 appear on the student’s Class of 2013 3 Counseling Office Fax: transcript. The GPA takes Class of 2012 6 607·272·0747 into account other American Class of 2011 2 College Counselors or international schools Patricia T. Kendall the student has previously Standardized Testing Headmistress attended. A grade of 70 is [email protected] considered a passing grade. SAT – COMPOSITE SCORES A grade of 75 is considered Class of 2016 Christian R. Jensen college recommendation. New SAT 990–1320 Academic Dean Class of 2015 1430–1800 [email protected] Grade Numerical Class of 2014 1540–2320 Jenna H. Kendall A 90–100 Class of 2013 1580–1990 Director of Student Services B 80–89 Class of 2012 1420–2380 [email protected] C 75–79 Mary B. Lorson D 70–74 Curriculum & Approach Guidance Cascadilla School prepares [email protected] students for college in an Rosa L. P. Fox accelerated program. The International Guidance School offers a complete [email protected] high school curriculum emphasizing honors and Accreditation advanced placement courses as well as an honors-level high Cascadilla School is school program. Full-unit recognized and accredited high school courses can be by the New York State taught by the semester if they Department of Education are in the accelerated program. with an absolute charter The typical student completes granted by the New York between 7 and 8 units per State Board of Regents in year. Each class meets for 1944. one hour per day. Except for advanced placement programs, courses typically meet for one semester. WHERE CASCADILLA GRADUATES GO TO COLLEGE Cascadilla facts at a glance College Placement 2012–2016 Recent Cascadilla School St. John’s College Average SAT scores for the graduates (2012-16) entered (Maryland) 1 8 of the top 50 colleges and St. John’s University last 5 years range from universities in the United (New York) 1 States (as ranked by U.S. Santa Monica College 1496 to 2196 In recent years, News & World Report, (California) 1 Cascadilla 2016). Our graduates have Simmons College ® students have enrolled at the following 44 (Massachusetts) 1 students named AP come from colleges since 2012: School of Visual Arts 13 Scholars since 2011 nations (New York) 1 20 Arizona State University 2 Seattle Central College Barry University (Florida) 1 (Washington) 2 Buffalo State (State State University of New 5 to 1student to faculty ratio University of New York) 1 York at Delhi 1 City University of Stony Brook University Hong Kong 1 (State University of Students have enrolled Columbia University New York) 2 (New York) 1 University at Albany (State at Cascadilla every year Hamilton College University of New York) 1 (New York) 1 University at Buffalo years Hofstra University (State University of for 140 (New York) 2 New York) 1 Ithaca College (New York) 3 University of Arizona 1 student clubs Typically Kent State University (Ohio) 1 University of California, 13+ and groups King’s College London (UK) 1 Riverside 1 Le Moyne College University of California, 100 % (New York) 1 San Diego 2 students Les Roches International University of Colorado 50 of graduates School of Hotel Boulder 1 attend a Management (Switzerland) 1 University of Delaware 1 classes LIM College (New York) 1 University of Massachusetts offered four-year Long Island University Amherst 1 each year at Post (New York) 2 University of Illinois at 48 college after Marymount Manhattan Urbana-Champaign 1 Cascadilla College (New York) 1 University of Miami (Florida) 1 Cascadilla Massachusetts Institute University of Missouri 1 of Technology (MIT) 1 University of Pittsburgh All Cascadilla students are instructed in the Miami University (Ohio) 1 (Pennsylvania) 1 use of the Cornell University Library system Michigan State University 2 University of Wisconsin at which has over million volumes New York Institute of Madison 1 8 Technology 1 Wells College (New York) 1 New York University (NYU) 2 Northwestern University feet to Cornell University where (Illinois) 1 advanced Cascadilla students can Pace University (New York) 4 300 receive permission to take classes i l l a 116 Summit Street d  a s c c Ithaca, New York 14850 s h o a Cascadilla School phone 607.272.3110 o c l fax 607.272.0747 www.cascadillaschool.org.