The Taft School - Concordia International School Shanghai

The Taft School profile continuedCURRICULUM: Honors and Advanced Placement level courses are available invirtually every discipline at Taft. The school offers 30 different AP-level courses aswell as opportunities for independent study in each discipline.HIGHEST COURSES AVAILABLE: The highest course(s) available in eachdiscipline are as follows:Arts – AP Art History, AP Studio Art, AP Music TheoryClassics – AP Latin (Virgil)English – AP Sr. EnglishGlobal Studies – AP PsychologyHistory – AP World Hist., AP European Hist., AP American Govt.,AP Comparative Govt.Languages – AP Chinese Lang., Post-AP French Lit., AP Spanish Lit.Mathematics – Multivariable Calculus and Linear AlgebraScience – AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics COFF-CAMPUS STUDY PROGRAMS: Taft offers off-campus study opportunitiesto The Maine Coast Program; The Mountain School in Vermont; The Island Schoolin the Bahamas; The Rocky Mountain Semester in Colorado; and to China, France,Italy and Spain with School Year Abroad.Please note: Grades from these programs are not used in our GPA calculation.MEMBERSHIPS: National Association of Independent Schools, National andNew England Associations of College Admission Counseling, and the CollegeEntrance Examination Board.COLLEGE MATRICULATION RECORDOver the past five years (2008 to 2012) Taft students have enrolled in 176different colleges and universities in 31 states and 6 foreign countries. Duringthat same period, five or more students have enrolled at the following:Amherst, 18Bates, 8Boston College, 16Boston Univ., 10Bowdoin, 12Bucknell, 15Carnegie Mellon, 9Colby, 13Colgate, 13Colorado College, 10Columbia, 12Connecticut College, 13Cornell, 18Dartmouth, 8Denison, 6Duke, 5Emory, 7Fairfield, 6Franklin & Marshall, 11George Washington, 27Georgetown, 29Gettysburg, 15Hamilton, 6Hobart & William Smith, 7Johns Hopkins, 5Lehigh, 12Middlebury, 15NYU, 13Northeastern, 6Northwestern, 5Notre Dame, 5Occidental, 5Princeton, 11Reed, 7Southern Methodist, 10St. Lawrence, 13Stanford, 7Syracuse, 5Trinity, 27Tufts, 17Union, 6Univ. of Chicago, 5Univ. of Colorado, 6Univ. of Michigan, 6Univ. of Penn, 11Univ. of Richmond, 7USC, 5St. Andrews (Scotland), 6Univ. of VT, 6Univ. of VA, 11Vanderbilt, 8Vassar, 5Villanova, 9Wake Forest, 17Wesleyan, 15Wheaton (MA), 5Williams, 6Yale, 12TESTING PROFILECLASS OF 2012SAT REASONING TESTCR Math WritingMean 630 650 64875%ile 690 700 72025%ile 570 590 590ACT EN MA RE SC CPMean 28.6 27.9 27.8 26.4 27.575%ile 33 30 32 30 3125%ile 25 26 24 24 25SAT SUBJECT TESTSMiddle 50% Mean #TestedBiology – Ecology570–680 636 17Biology – Molecular610–720 652 34Chemistry570–670 626 60Chinese with Listening720–800 773 3English Literature540–700 616 69French620–720 663 10French with Listening560–660 603 3Latin560–690 634 7Math Level I570–650 616 79Math Level II620–760 686 59Physics560–700 644 31Spanish610–760 696 14Spanish with Listening620–770 723 4U.S. History600–730 663 42AP RESULTS•263 Taft students took a total of672 AP exams.•66% resulted in scores of 4 or 5.•88% resulted in scores of 3 or higher.NATIONAL MERIT COMPETITIONClass of 2012 (170 members)•1 National Merit Semifinalist•12 Commended Scholars•2 National Achievement ScholarsClass of 2013 (166)•3 National Merit Semifinalists•12 Commended Scholarso o o110 Woodbury Road • Watertown, Connecticut 06795 • www.TaftSchool.org •860-945-7777 • FAX 860-945-7704 • SAT/ACT School Code: 070880