College Admission Profile 2011â12 - The Loomis Chaffee School

College Admission Profile 

2011–12 

Head of School 

Sheila Culbert, Ph.D. 

Director of College Guidance 

Webster T. Trenchard 

Senior Associate Director of College Guidance 

Amy E. Thompson 

Associate Directors of College Guidance 

Alison H. Burr 

Andrea M. Rooks 

Jami B. Silver 

Administrative Assistant 

Rachel Falco 

www.loomischaVee.org 

college_oVice@loomis.org 

Windsor, Connecticut 06095 

Telephone 860 687 6351 

Facsimile 860 687 6356 

THE Loomis ChaVee School is a four-year, coeducational, independent 

boarding school located on a 3oo-acre campus in Windsor, Connecticut. 

Chartered in 1874 by five siblings whose children all died tragically 

and who then selflessly determined to found a school as a gift to the children 

of others, Loomis ChaVee provides a superb education for boys and girls 

regardless of religious or political beliefs, national origin or financial resources. 

Academically rigorous, the school promotes active learning and close facultystudent 

bonds within a respectful and civil community. All Loomis ChaVee 

students, who represent 29 U.S. states and 35 countries, plan to attend 

four-year colleges and universities. The school is accredited by the New 

England Association of Schools and Colleges and is a founding member of the 

Association of College Counselors of Independent Schools. 

Enrollment 

675 students in grades 9 through 12 and postgraduate study. There are 219 

students in the Class of 2011 (98 girls and 121 boys). 

Teaching Faculty 

162 faculty members at Loomis ChaVee; 69% of teaching faculty hold at least 

one advanced degree (master’s degrees and doctorates). 

Requirements for Graduation 

16 units 

English - 4 years 

Foreign Language - 3-year proficiency in one language 

History and Social Science - 2 years (World History and U.S. History) 

Mathematics - 3 years (2 of algebra, 1 of geometry) 

Science - 2 years (2 years of laboratory science, including 1 life science 

and 1 physical science) 

Philosophy, Psychology and Religion - 2 term courses, at least one at the 

upper-class level 

Fine Arts - 3 courses for entering freshmen; 2 courses for all others 

Fitness and Wellness - 1 term course 

Course Load and Calendar 

Normally students take four to five courses each term. In rare cases and with 

special permission, students may take six courses. The school year is divided 

into three academic terms. Since Loomis ChaVee runs on a trimester system, 

fall term grades, which are available in early December, are our midyear grades; 

winter term grades are available in mid-March. 

Special Academic Programs 

Loomis ChaVee students may study in France, Italy, China, Spain, Japan or 

Vietnam with the School Year Abroad Program; at The Chewonki Semester 

School in Maine; The Mountain School in Vershire, Vermont; The Rocky 

Mountain Semester in Leadville, Colorado; The School for Ethics and Global 

Leadership in Washington, D.C.; or at CITYterm in Dobbs Ferry, New York. 

Students may also undertake independent study and/or educational projects. 

An Independent Study Project focuses on a particular topic within a discipline, 

satisfies the requirements of a term course credit and is supervised and graded 

by a member of the faculty; educational projects allow students to pursue oVcampus 

study beyond the scope of the regular curriculum. 

CEEB Code: o7o945

Curriculum Notes 

Sophomores typically take four yearlong courses, 

including a Writing Workshop and Fitness and 

Wellness as well as one or two term courses. 

Sophomore Writing Workshop, a requirement 

of the English Department that complements its 

emphasis on the teaching of writing, meets once 

a week throughout the school year and includes 

an intensive, systematic review of grammar. 

Some departments oVer advanced courses in 

lieu of the Advanced Placement curriculum. 

The following are considered at least 

as rigorous, if not more, than their AP 

counterparts: Advanced French V Literature, 

Advanced Spanish V Literature, Advanced 

Biology II electives (Microbiology, Molecular 

Biology, Genetics, Anatomy & Physiology, 

Evolutionary Biology). 

Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra 

are oVered to exceptional students who have 

excelled in AP Calculus BC prior to the senior 

year. 

Each student enrolled in an American history 

course completes a major research project using 

primary source material and culminating in a 

substantial college-level paper in the second half 

of the junior year. 

As a result of a curricular review and in response 

to student interest, both our economics and 

environmental science offerings have been 

expanded. The History Department now offers 

the following trimester courses to juniors 

and seniors: Introduction to Economics, 

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and 

Applied Microeconomics. Similarly, the 

Science Department has replaced the yearlong 

Environmental Science course with the 

following trimester-length courses: Ecology, 

Human Populations and Impact, Energy and 

Sustainability, Water: A Limited Resource, and 

Sustainable Agriculture. 

As of the 2011 _ 12 academic year, 

interdisciplinary courses are oVered as term 

electives for seniors. These courses approach 

subject matter across a range of disciplines: 

The Model T and the American Industrial 

Revolution, The Economics and Statistics of 

Human Behavior, Darwinism and Society, and 

Oil in Water: Topics in Environmental Law. 

Students who have demonstrated special 

aptitude and interest in history or art can be 

chosen to serve as instructional assistants in 

those departments for course credit. Under close 

teacher supervision, instructional assistants help 

both the teacher and students in their courses 

and work to broaden and deepen their own 

knowledge of the discipline. 

Advanced Courses 

The following courses work at an accelerated pace and go beyond normal 

curricular requirements. At the upper-class level, such courses are comparable 

to introductory oVerings at the college level. 

English 

English III Adv. Seminar 

Satire 

Shakespeare 

AP Senior Seminar 

in Literature 

Independent Study 

Arabic 


Chinese 

Chinese II Adv. 

Chinese III Adv. 

Chinese IV Adv. 

AP Chinese V 

French 

French II Adv. 

French III Adv. 

AP French IV Language 

French V Literature Adv. 

French VI Adv. 


Latin 

Latin III Adv. 

AP Latin 


Spanish 

Spanish II Adv. 

Spanish III Adv. 

AP Spanish IV Language 

Spanish V Literature Adv. 


History and Social Science 

AP United States History 

American Civil War 

Globalization 

AP Economics 

AP European History 


Instruction Assistant 

Islam in the Middle East 

The Presidential Election 

AP United States Government 

& Politics 

AP Comparative Government 

& Politics 

Mathematics 

Geometry Adv. 

Algebra II Adv. 

Precalculus Adv. 

Precalculus / Calculus Adv. 

Advanced Statistics: 

Global Issues 

AP Statistics 

AP Calculus AB 

AP Calculus BC 

Multivariable Calculus 

Linear Algebra 


Science 

Biology I Adv. 

Biology II Adv.: Microbiology 

Biology II Adv.: Molecular Biology 

Biology II Adv.: Genetics 

Biology II Adv.: Anatomy 

& Physiology 

Biology II Adv.: Evolutionary 

Biology 

AP Environmental Science 

Chemistry I Adv. 

AP Chemistry II 

Physics I Adv. 

AP Physics II 


Philosophy, Psychology and Religion 


Art 

AP Art Seminar 


Music 

AP Music Theory 


Theater 

Adv. Acting for Comedy 

Technical Theater II 

Independent Study

Grading and Ranking Policies 

The grading system, A–F, also includes a pass/fail option in one course for seniors taking 

five courses. Loomis ChaVee does not rank its students. 

Junior Year Unweighted Cumulative Grade Point 

Average Distribution for Class of 2o12 

(does not include postgraduates) 

3.7 & above 23 

3.3 to 3.7 74 

3.0 to 3.3 50 

2.7 to 3.o 3o 

2.3 to 2.7 20 

2.3 & below 2 

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 

Testing 

The middle 50 percent of the students in 

the Class of 2011 scored in the following 

range on the SAT: 

Critical Reading 590-700* 

Mathematics 610-720 

Writing 590-700* 

*includes TOEFL-eligible students 

In the past five years, Loomis ChaVee has 

graduated 39 National Merit finalists and 

101 National Merit Commended Scholars. 

In 2011, 255 students were administered 

504 AP exams, 87 percent of which were 

awarded the three highest grades of 3, 4, 

and 5 

STATEMENT ON DISCIPLINE 

The purpose of the disciplinary system at Loomis 

Chaffee is to preserve order, protect individual rights, 

and promote the general welfare of our community. 

Philosophically, we are a two chance school and 

firmly believe that adolescents can and do learn 

from their mistakes, particularly when supported and 

surrounded by the most influential adults in their 

lives — namely, their parents, advisers, teachers, 

coaches, counselors and deans. 

We rely on our disciplinary system to emphasize to 

students and parents that a student has violated the 

high standards of our community while at the same 

time recognizing that instances of poor judgment 

and making mistakes is a normal part of adolescent 

development. Disciplinary action also serves as an 

opportunity for the family to gain a perspective on 

Indicates number of students 

SAT Subject Test Mean 

Class of 2011 

Biology-Ecology 618 

Biology-Molecular 622 

Chemistry 648 

Chinese Listening 685 

French 617 

French Listening 743 

Latin 539 

Literature 613 

Math I 616 

Math II 695 

Physics 681 

Spanish 646 

Spanish Listening 640 

U.S. History 630 

World History 610 

the student’s behavior, to scrutinize the student’s 

goals and objectives, and to encourage the student 

to commit fully to the school’s standards. We strive 

to use such an instance as a “teachable moment” 

that will be a milestone in a student’s growth and 

maturation. When a student egregiously violates 

the standards of our community, or when a student 

repeatedly violates the same rule within our 

community, that student is required to withdraw 

from school. 

We encourage and expect students to answer 

questions from colleges about their disciplinary 

history honestly and to share their responses 

with their college counselor. We welcome any 

questions from colleges regarding a student’s 

disciplinary history. 

OF SPECIAL NOTE 

The Kravis Center for Excellence 

in Teaching was established in 2010 

to serve Loomis ChaVee teachers in 

their pursuit of teaching excellence. 

The KCET and its staV serve the 

faculty as a proactive source of both 

ongoing professional development 

as well as pedagogical research based 

here at Loomis ChaVee and applied 

to our classrooms directly, and hosted 

symposia this past year in topics as 

varied as writing eVective college 

recommendations to biotechnology 

education. 

The Loomis ChaVee School has a 

long history of energy conservation 

and environmental responsibility. 

The campus composting program 

reclaims, on average, 20,000 pounds of 

food per year. For 2011, seven Loomis 

ChaVee students have been designated 

“Environmental Proctors,” providing 

them with an opportunity to become 

leaders in community sustainability and 

environmental stewardship eVorts. 

Student interest in doing work to 

support the members of our military is 

flourishing on campus. Several Loomis 

ChaVee organizations — Operation 

Soldier Relief, LC Conservatives, 

and S.O.S. (Save Our Soldiers) — are 

engaged in eVorts to reach out to 

American soldiers serving overseas. 

Operation Soldier Relief was founded 

by a member of the Class of 2011 

and organized monthly fundraisers to 

provide care packages throughout the 

year to a local Windsor soldier serving 

in Afghanistan. 

Each year, the Loomis ChaVee 

community welcomes outstanding 

speakers to campus on a variety of 

timely topics under the auspices 

of the Hubbard Speakers Series. 

The 2010 _ 11 series focused on issues 

of identity and featured documentary 

film director Jennilyn Merten, 

Discovery Channel Time Warp host JeV 

Lieberman, psychologist and former 

NBA basketball star John Amaechi, 

writer and parenting expert Rosalind 

Wiseman, and acclaimed novelist Chris 

Abani.

Class of 2o11 College Matriculations 

The Class of 2o11 applied to 265 colleges and universities and matriculated to 93 institutions. 

American University 1 

Bard College 1 

Barnard College 2 

Bates College 3 

Bentley University 3 

Boston College 1 

Boston University 3 

Brown University 4 

BuValo State College of SUNY 1 

Carnegie Mellon University 2 

Case Western Reserve University 1 

Champlain College 1 

Claremont McKenna College 1 

Colby College 2 

Colgate University 5 

College of Charleston 1 

College of the Atlantic 1 

College of the Holy Cross 1 

College of New Jersey 1 

Colorado College 1 

Columbia University 1 

Connecticut College 4 

Cornell University 4 

Dartmouth College 3 

Denison University 1 

DePaul University 1 

Drexel University 1 

Duke University 1 

Earlham College 1 

École Hotelière de Lausanne 1 

Elon University 2 

Emerson College 1 

Franklin & Marshall College 3 

Georgetown University 5 

Georgia Institute of Technology 1 

George Washington University 5 

Gettysburg College 1 

Hamilton College 5 

Hampshire College 1 

Harvard University 2 

Hobart and William Smith 

Colleges 1 

Howard University 1 

Iona College 1 

Johns Hopkins University 4 

Lafayette College 2 

Lehigh University 2 

Maryland Institute College of Art 1 

Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology 1 

McGill University 1 

Middlebury College 2 

Mount Holyoke College 1 

Muhlenberg College 1 

New York University 2 

Northeastern University 2 

Northwestern University 3 

Polytechnic Institute of NYU 1 

Princeton University 1 

Providence College 1 

Reed College 1 

Roanoke College 1 

Rochester Institute of Technology 1 

Roger Williams University 1 

Rutgers, the State University 

of New Jersey 1 

Smith College 1 

Southern Methodist University 1 

St. Lawrence University 4 

Swarthmore College 1 

Syracuse University 7 

Trinity College 7 

Tufts University 3 

Union College 4 

United States Military Academy 1 

University of California 

at Los Angeles 1 

University of Chicago 2 

University of Connecticut 2 

University of Denver 1 

University of Illinois, Urbana 1 

University of Massachusetts, 

Amherst 1 

University of Miami 1 

University of Mississippi 1 

University of North Carolina, 

Wilmington 1 

University of Notre Dame 1 

University of Pennsylvania 1 

University of Vermont 2 

University of Virginia 1 

Vassar College 1 

Villanova University 4 

Wake Forest University 2 

Washington University 

in St. Louis 4 

Wellesley College 2 

Wesleyan University 3 

Williams College 2 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2 

Over the past five years, four or more Loomis Chaffee students have matriculated 

to the following institutions: 

Amherst College 

Barnard College 

Bates College 

Bentley University 

Boston College 

Boston University 

Bowdoin College 

Brown University 

Bryn Mawr College 

Bucknell University 

Carnegie Mellon University 

Colby College 

Colgate University 

College of the Holy Cross 

College of William & Mary 

Colorado College 

Columbia University 

Connecticut College 

Cornell University 

Dartmouth College 

Dickinson College 

Drexel University 

Duke University 

Elon University 

Endicott College 

Fairfield University 

Franklin and Marshall College 

Georgetown University 

George Washington University 

Gettysburg College 

Hamilton College 

Harvard University 

Haverford University 

Hobart and William Smith Colleges 

Johns Hopkins University 

Kenyon College 

Lafayette College 

Lehigh University 

Loyola University Maryland 

Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology 

McGill University 

Miami University, Oxford 

Middlebury College 

Mount Holyoke College 

New York University 

Northeastern University 

Northwestern University 

Princeton University 

Providence College 

Quinnipiac University 

Roger Williams University 

Skidmore College 

Smith College 

St. Lawrence University 

Susquehanna University 

Syracuse University 

Trinity College 

Tufts University 

Tulane University 

Union College 

University of Connecticut 

University of Illinois 

University of Miami 

University of North Carolina 

at Chapel Hill 

University of Pennsylvania 

University of Rochester 

University of St. Andrews (Scotland) 

University of Vermont 

Vassar College 

Villanova University 

Washington & Lee University 

Washington University in St. Louis 

Wellesley College 

Wesleyan University 

Wheaton College 

Williams College 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

Yale University

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