The Hotchkiss School 2017-2018 The Hotchkiss School Mission The Hotchkiss School seeks to inspire a diverse range of students who are committed to the betterment of self and society, and to cultivate in them at the highest standards of excellence imagination and intellect, openness and personal integrity, empathy and responsible citizenship that they may discover and fulfill their potential as individuals fully engaged in our world. Our Students The Student Body, 2017-2018 Standardized Test Scores: Class of 2017 ADMISSION • Applicants 1,853 MIDDLE 50% OF ALL STUDENTS • Admitted 361 (19%) SAT After March 2016 1320-1470 • Matriculated 175 • Evidence Based Reading and Writing 660-730 • Math 650-750 ENROLLMENT SAT Before March 2016 1890-2210 • Total on-campus enrollment 615 • Critical Reading 620-740 • Math 630-750 • Writing 610-730 Full enrollment including students on 617 Hotchkiss-approved off-campus opportunities ACT Composite 30-33 • Boarding 575 • English 31-35 • Day 42 • Math 28-33 • Reading 30-35 • Science Reasoning 27-34 • Grade 12 (Seniors) 172 • Grade 11 (Upper Mids) 173 2016-2017 SAT SUBJECT TESTS MEAN SCORES • Grade 10 (Lower Mids) 161 SUBJECT MEAN SCORE # OF TESTS • Grade 9 (Preps) 111 Bio-Ecology 661 33 Bio-Molecular 675 35 Chemistry 699 113 • States represented 35 Chinese with Listening 736 17 • Countries and territories represented 33 French 671 36 French with Listening 608 6 • Students of color 33% Latin 642 30 • International students 15% Literature 665 153 • Students receiving financial aid 32% Math Level 1 650 55 Math Level 2 726 212 • Members of Class of 2018 receiving financial aid 36% Physics 686 35 Spanish 664 51 Spanish with Listening 668 4 U.S. History 688 66 AP Tests In May 2017, 317 candidates took 731 AP examinations. 67 percent of Hotchkiss students earned a 4 or 5; 88 percent earned a 3 or higher. The overall distribution of scores was: 5 4 3 2 1 257 231 154 70 19 2 RANGE OF CUMULATIVE GPAS SINGLE-YEAR AVERAGES FOR UPPER-MID YEAR CLASS OF 2018 (11TH GRADE) RANGE OF CLASS OF 2018, JUNE 2017 CUMULATIVE GPAS # OF STUDENTS 50% 4-Year Seniors Avg. 9.57 (106 students) 11.00 and Above 6 40% 10.50 to 10.99 17 10.00 to 10.49 17 30% 9.50 to 9.99 21 9.00 to 9.49 19 20% 8.50 to 8.99 13 8.00 to 8.49 2 10% 7.00 to 7.99 6 6.00 to 6.99 5 0 Below 6.00 0 A+ A A- B+ B B- I 3-Year Seniors Avg. 9.63 (39 students) 10.50 and Above 7 THE HOTCHKISS TRANSCRIPT 10.00 to 10.49 11 Hotchkiss does not report class rank, SAT, or AP scores on its transcript. As a matter of policy, the School does not weight grades. 9.50 to 9.99 9 The School’s grading scale is based on letter grades, A+ to F. 9.00 to 9.49 2 11.50-12.00 A+ 97-100 8.50 to 8.99 3 10.50-11.49 A 93-96 8.00 to 8.49 2 9.50-10.49 A- 90-92 7.00 to 7.99 5 8.50-9.49 B+ 87-89 Below 7.00 0 7.50-8.49 B 83-86 6.50-7.49 B- 80-82 2-Year Seniors Avg. 9.35 (15 students) 5.50-6.49 C+ 77-79 10.50 and Above 2 4.50-5.49 C 73-76 10.00 to 10.49 1 3.50-4.49 C- 70-72 9.50 to 9.99 3 2.50-3.49 D+ 67-69 9.00 to 9.49 5 1.50-2.49 D 63-66 8.50 to 8.99 2 0.50-1.49 D- 60-62 8.00 to 8.49 2 0.00-0.49 F Below 60 Below 7.00 0 SCHOOL PROFILE 2017-18 3 College Matriculation Hotchkiss Classes of 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 10 OR MORE STUDENTS # 5 -9 # Boston College 12 Babson College 6 Brown University 13 Bates College 9 Carnegie Mellon University 15 Boston University 5 Columbia University 13 Bowdoin College 7 Cornell University 20 Colby College 6 Dartmouth College 16 Colgate University 9 Georgetown University 25 Duke University 5 Harvard University 16 Hamilton College 6 Middlebury College 18 Hobart and William Smith Colleges 5 New York University 30 Johns Hopkins University 8 Princeton University 16 Kenyon College 6 Stanford University 10 Lehigh University 7 Trinity College 16 McGill University 5 Tufts University 10 Northwestern University 7 University of Chicago 20 Pomona College 7 University of Pennsylvania 13 Rhodes College 5 University of Richmond 11 St. Lawrence University 6 Yale University 31 The George Washington University 9 Tulane University 5 Union College 6 University of California, Berkeley 6 University of Michigan 8 University of Southern California 9 University of St Andrews 8 University of Vermont 7 University of Virginia 6 Vanderbilt University 6 Washington University in St. Louis 7 Wesleyan University 8 Williams College 8 4 FEWER THAN 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Bristol Michigan State University University of California, Los Angeles Amherst College Mount Holyoke College University of California, Santa Barbara Barnard College Northeastern University University of Colorado at Boulder Berklee College of Music Norwich University University of Illinois at Chicago Bishop’s University Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences University of Miami Bryn Mawr College Occidental College University of New Hampshire Bucknell University Ohio Wesleyan University University of New Haven California Institute of the Arts Olin College of Engineering University of Notre Dame Case Western Reserve University Pitzer College University of Oregon Claremont McKenna College Purdue University University of Oxford College of the Holy Cross Queen’s University University of Rochester College of William and Mary Reed College University of Toronto Colorado College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ursinus College Concordia University - Montreal Rhode Island School of Design Vassar College Connecticut College Rice University Villanova University Dawson College Rutgers University Wake Forest University Denison University Santa Clara University Washington and Lee University DePauw University Sciences Po Paris- Campus de Reims Wellesley College Dickinson College Seton Hall University Whitman College Drexel University Sewanee: The University of the South Wilfrid Laurier University Eckerd College Skidmore College Wofford College École des Beaux-Arts Smith College Emory University Southern California Institute of Fairfield University Architecture Franklin & Marshall College Southern Methodist University Georgia Institute of Technology St. John’s University Gettysburg College St. Olaf College Goucher College SUNY Maritime College Harvey Mudd College Swarthmore College Howard University The Culinary Institute of America Indiana University at Bloomington The University of North Carolina at Lafayette College Chapel Hill Lake Forest College The University of Texas, Austin Linfield College United States Naval Academy Macalester College Universite de Montreal THE GAP YEAR Hotchkiss encourages students to consider a gap year, a year between high school and college to enable reflection on goals for college and focus on further intellectual pursuits. Students can choose from opportunities such as internships, service, and continued learning—in the U.S. or abroad—while living independently and taking responsibility for their choices. In the past four years, 54 students have chosen to take a gap year. SCHOOL PROFILE 2017-18 5 Our Education Our goal is to produce graduates who are well-trained for the Global and International Relations: This course considers and academic and intellectual demands of college study —as well as the employs conceptual tools including crisis escalation, bipolarity, social and emotional challenges they’ll face wherever they go next. zero-sum game thinking, spheres of influence, national security, Our students learn how to take risks, fail, persist, and succeed. and deterrence to understand the nature of superpower rivalry, past Along the way, and in keeping with the School’s finest traditions, and present. The course will draw on readings from a diverse group they pursue global literacy, are enlisted as environmental stewards, of modern scholars as well as ancient sources in considering the and learn the complexities of genuine civic engagement. Our cases of classical Greece in the 5th century B.C., Europe in 1914, core academic program involves six departments: English, Arts, the outbreak of the Cold War, and the post-9/11 age. Classical and Modern Languages, Humanities and Social Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Science. Below are other Applied Scientific Researchis a two-semester, laboratory-based programs that engage students in further academic pursuits. research course in which students design, execute, and formally present their own research project in the areas of molecular biology and biochemistry. For students interested in continuing FEATURES OF THE their research, Hotchkiss has established relationships with several CORE CURRICULUM colleges and universities to host upper-mid and senior Hotchkiss The Humanities Programbuilds the skills and knowledge that students for four weeks during the summer. students need to become learners, scholars, and informed citizens of the world. Students follow an interdisciplinary curriculum that spans Applied Science Reasearch: Observational Astronomy: In this academic departments, studying with faculty members from the course, students use a permanently mounted 20” reflecting telescope English, History, Arts, and Philosophy & Religion departments. The and ccd camera system to image stars that change in brightness over Humanities Program awards three credits for each of the Prep and time. They will perform photometry on these images, and try to Lower Mid years. characterize the cause of variability. Using technical hardware and software, students will practice scientific observational skills, conduct Calculus-Based Statistics: This one-semester, college-level course data analysis and clearly communicate their results. Interested is for students with a strong interest in mathematics who have students should have a background in astronomy and a demonstrated successfully completed AP Calculus (AB or BC).