PROFILE FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION 2017-2018 Morgan Park Academy is an independent, coeducational Our Mission college preparatory school located on the South Side of Morgan Park Academy Chicago in the Morgan Park-Beverly neighborhood. engages the whole child, inspires the independent Founded in 1873, the school enrolls 450 students in pre-kindergarten learner, and prepares the through grade 12, including 135 students in the upper school. global leader of tomorrow Built around small class sizes and strong teacher-student relationships, to make a positive the MPA program invites students to develop a world view rooted in difference in the world. their own culture while broadening and deepening their thinking beyond the boundaries of campus, city, and country. This global focus includes exposure to diverse cultures and traditions as well as opportunities for Our Values further study, international travel, and service learning. Independent Thinking Graduates emerge as confident young adults, original thinkers, and We believe in providing a creative problem solvers. They progress into the next stages of their rigorous, broad-based liberal lives well-prepared for advanced college coursework and poised to meet arts program that inspires and exceed the high expectations that they refined at MPA. a student’s pursuit of skills, knowledge and values. STUDENT DIVERSITY Global Leadership The student body reflects Chicago’s diversity in ethnicity, nationality, We believe that our sexual orientation, gender identity, and socioeconomic background, student body should be with students from 80 zip codes throughout Chicago, the surrounding socioeconomically, ethnically suburbs, and northwest Indiana, as well as 25 international students. In and culturally diverse, so a community where no ethnicity comprises more than 35% of the upper that students delve into a school, students embrace the differences that make each other unique. curriculum that sees the Fifty-three percent of upper school students receive financial assistance. world’s challenges through a FACULTY global lens. Morgan Park Academy’s upper school faculty comprises 20 dedicated A Whole Child Approach members, of whom 75% have earned master’s degrees or higher and We believe in an education more than 50% have lived, worked, or extensively traveled abroad. that is both challenging GLOBAL STUDIES and nurturing, by engaging Students explore literature, language, and history from multiple students’ heads, hearts and perspectives. Each March, students travel around the country and hands. internationally during Project Week, including recent explorations of Mutual Respect culture, history, science, religion, and service in China, Germany, Greece, We believe that a school Iceland, India, Italy, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Spain, and Thailand. community should stand SERVICE for and teach a set of core Graduation requirements include at least 80 hours of service work, values: integrity, respect, including 40 hours of self-directed service work outside of school. responsibility, diligence, Students participate in two all-school service days and organize special kindness, cooperation, and events such as Dance For Life, which raises money for HIV/AIDS research. service. CEEB/ACT Code # 141040 Tanuja Rathi Director of College Counseling Mercedes Z. Sheppard Head of School 2153 W. 111th St., Chicago, IL 60643 [email protected] Tom Drahozal Upper School Principal p 773-881-6700 f 773-881-8409 p 773-881-6703 f 773-445-5687 Emily Drown Upper School Assistant Principal www.morganparkacademy.org Mary O’Malley Director of Admission COURSES All MPA classes are taught at an advanced level. We offer 14 AP courses and eight Honors courses (represented below in bold print), though scheduling conflicts may prevent students from enrolling in all of them. Students are required to take AP exams if enrolled in an AP course. English Global Issues Genetics Arts World Literature World Religions Forensic Science Ceramics 1 American Literature Earth, Space and Science Math Ceramics 2 Advanced Literary Studies Photography 1 Algebra 1 World Languages AP English Language Photography 2 Algebra 2 Spanish 1 and Composition Band Algebra 2 Honors Spanish 2 AP English Literature Chorus Geometry Spanish 3 and Composition Drawing and Painting 1 Geometry Honors Spanish 4 Honors Graphic Novels Drawing and Painting 2 Pre-Calculus Honors Spanish 5 Honors Speech Intro to Art Fundamentals AP Calculus AB AP Spanish Language Popular Literature AP Music Theory AP Calculus BC and Culture British Literature Radio AP Statistics AP Spanish Literature Major Author Studies Music Appreciation 101 College Algebra and Culture Literature of the Holocaust Music Appreciation 102 Math Applications Advanced Topics in Spanish Introduction to Music Social Studies and Statistics French 1 Theory World History Numeracy for French 2 United States History the 21st Century French 3 Physical Education Consumer Economics French 4 Honors Physical Education Psychology Science French 5 Honors Health Law Biology AP French Language 10th Grade PE Project Politics and Society Chemistry and Culture AP United States History Physics Mandarin 1 College Counseling AP Comparative AP Biology Mandarin 2 College 102 Government and Politics AP Chemistry Mandarin 3 College 103 AP Human Geography AP Physics 1 Mandarin 4 Honors ACT COMPOSITE SAT SCORES GPA DISTRIBUTION Class of 2018 Class of 2018 Class of 2018 Highest Average Highest 36 Highest 1580 Weighted 4.39 3.30 Average 26 Average 1355 Unweighted 4.00 3.10 AP SCORES 2017 GRADING SCALE AP Students with Scores 3+ Morgan Park Academy does not rank students beyond the MPA Illinois Global recognition of a valedictorian and salutatorian. 83% 66% 60% Percentile Regular Honors AP A+ 97-100 4 4.5 5 GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS A 93-96 4 4.5 5 Credits A- 90-92 3.7 4.2 4.7 English 4 B+ 87-89 3.3 3.8 4.3 Social Studies 3 B 83-86 3.0 3.5 4.0 Math 3 B- 80-82 2.7 3.2 3.7 Science 3 C+ 77-79 2.0 2.3 2.3 World Languages 3 C 73-76 2.0 2.0 2.0 Arts 2 C- 70-72 1.7 1.7 1.7 Physical Education 1.5 D+ 67-69 1.3 1.3 1.3 College Counseling 1 D 63-66 1.0 1.0 1.0 Electives 3.5 D- 60-62 1.0 1.0 1.0 TOTAL 24 F 0-59 0 0 0 COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES, 2013-2017 100 percent of Morgan Park Academy students are admitted to and choose to attend four-year colleges and universities. Some students choose to defer to explore non-academic opportunities. (Asterisks denote Class of 2017 acceptances.) Alabama A&M University Emerson College *Northern Illinois University *University of California, Albion College Emory University *Northwestern University Santa Barbara *Allegheny College *Florida Gulf Coast University *Occidental College *University of California, Santa Cruz *American University Florida Southern University *Ohio State University *University of Chicago *Amherst College Florida State University Olivet Nazarene University University of Cincinnati Arizona State University Fontbonne University Paul Mitchell The School University of Connecticut Ashland University *Fordham University *Pennsylvania State University *University of Dayton Auburn University Franklin & Marshall College *Pitzer College University of Denver Augsburg College Furman University Polytechnic Institute of University of Findlay Augustana College *George Washington University New York University *University of Illinois at Chicago Ave Maria University *Georgetown University Providence College *University of Illinois at Babson College Georgia Institute of Technology *Purdue University Urbana-Champaign Ball State University Gettysburg College Purdue University Northwest *University of Iowa Bard College Grinnell College Regis University University of Kansas Barnard College Hamline University *Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Kentucky Bates College Hampton University Rhodes College University of Massachusetts Boston *Baylor University *Haverford College Ripon College University of Memphis Belmont University *Hillsdale College *Roosevelt University *University of Miami Beloit College Holy Cross College Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology *University of Michigan Benedictine University *Howard University *Rutgers University *University of Minnesota Boston College *Illinois College Saint Joseph’s College, Indiana *University of Missouri *Boston University *Illinois Institute of Technology Saint Leo University *University of Missouri, Kansas City Bowdoin College *Illinois State University *Saint Louis University University of Montana Bowling Green State University Illinois Wesleyan University Saint Mary’s College University of Nevada, Reno *Bradley University *Indian Hills Community College Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota University of North Carolina, *Brigham Young University Indiana State University *Saint Xavier University Chapel Hill Brock University *Indiana University at Bloomington San Diego State University *University of Northern Iowa *Brown University Iowa Wesleyan University San Francisco State University University of Notre Dame Butler University *Johns Hopkins University Santa Clara University University of Oregon California State University, Kalamazoo College Sarah Lawrence College *University of Pennsylvania San Marcos Kendall College Skidmore College University of Pittsburgh *Carleton College *Kenyon College Southern Illinois University, University of Redlands Carroll University Knox College Carbondale University of Rochester Carthage College *Lake Forest College Southern Illinois University, University of San Francisco *Case Western Reserve University Lakeland College Edwardsville