SCHOOL PROFILE 1500 W. Kennedy Rd. | Lake Forest, IL 60045 847-615-3210 | lfanet.org
School Code 142525 Lake Forest Academy is an independent, co-ed, 9th to 12th grade college-preparatory school for boarding and day students located in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest.
COLLEGE COUNSELING staff
CLASS OF 2022 JUNIOR GRADE distribution
José De Jesús | Head of School
SUBJECT
jdejesus@lfanet.org | 847- 615-3236 Andrew Poska | Dean of College Counseling aposka@lfanet.org | 847-615-3279 Mia Rogers | Assoc. Dean of College Counseling mrogers@lfanet.org | 847- 615-4798 Ben Wetherbee | Assoc. Dean of College Counseling
bwetherbee@lfanet.org | 847-615-4884
Carolyn Gorowski | Dean of Admission, College Counselor cgorowski@lfanet.org | 847-615-3288 Shannon Bradac | Registrar, College Counseling Office Manager
sbradac@lfanet.org | 847-625-3241
ACCREDITATION LFA complies with the Guide to Ethical Practice in College Admission. LFA is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and recognized by the State of lllinois.
DEMOGRAPHICS Enrollment 437 Class of 2022 124 States Represented 15 Countries Represented 40 Domestic Students of Color 36% International Students 25% Financial Aid $ 6.1 million Students to four-year colleges 100%
English 11: Global Literacies AP English Language and Composition
7 13 8 4 5 3 16 27 12 14 8
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1 1
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Conceptual Precalculus Precalculus Calculus AP Calculus AB AP Calculus BC AP Computer Science A AP Computer Science Principles AP Statistics
1 6
1 6
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1 4 3 10
2 2
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1
Biology 1 Advanced Biology Advanced Physics Biochemistry Research AP Biology AP Chemistry AP Environmental Science AP Physics C
4 11 5 1 2 2 2 6 16 7 4 4
10 3 3 4 1 3
5 3 2
4 3 1
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1 1
3 10 4 2
1 6 4 1
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1 3 3 18 10 1 2 3 2 2
4 1 4 4 19 8 10 4 4 1 1 2 2 1 7 7 7 3
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Math
Science
Social Science
World History II United States History Global Concentration: Cohort AP World History AP United States Comparative Government AP United States History Modern and Classical Languages
French IV Advanced Latin III Advanced Mandarin III Advanced Spanish III Advanced Spanish IV Advanced AP Chinese Language and Culture AP French Language and Culture AP Spanish Language and Culture
1 2 2 1
3 6 1 6 6 2 1 10
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LFA’S Grading system + Curriculum
STATISTICAL profile Class of 2021 Students*
A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C CEnglish
107
Median ACT Score 30 Median SAT (EBRW) 670 Median SAT Math 710 *95 students in the class sat for a standardized exam
23 ADVANCED PLACEMENT courses English Language | English Literature | Biology | Chemistry Environmental Science | Psychology | Physics C: Mechanics Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism | Computer Science A Computer Science Principles | Economics | Calculus AB Calculus BC | Statistics | Art History | U.S. History World History | U.S. Government and Comparative Politics Chinese Language | French Language | Spanish Language Spanish Literature | Music Theory
n After March 2020, students were remote but still received standard grades as long as they completed their coursework to their instructor’s satisfaction. Last year, the majority of students started in-person learning, but, unfortunately, many international students learned remotely. Our normal grading policy was implemented for both in-person and remote learning classes. n Due to the small class size of each graduating class, Lake Forest Academy does not rank its students. n LFA uses letter grades from A - F on an unweighted 4.0 scale. Grades A - D may have pluses and minuses. n Admission to advanced level and AP courses is decided by the appropriate department based on a student’s ability and success in previous coursework. n After exhausting current course offerings, upperclassmen may elect to pursue independent studies ranging from Software and Hardware Integration to Kinesiology. One semester of Independent Study equals a 1/4 credit. n Psychology is considered a science elective.
college acceptances 2018 - 2021 This selection demonstrates the myriad institutions our students are admitted to and institutions in bold indicate that at least one student currently attends.
Most Popular Destinations:
Arizona State University | Boston College | Boston University | Duke University | Elon University | Emory University Indiana University | Miami University (OH) | New York University | Northwestern University | Pennsylvania State University Rice University | Santa Clara University | Southern Methodist University | Tufts University | Tulane University University of California, Berkeley | University of Chicago | University of Denver | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Michigan | University of Pennsylvania | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Wake Forest University
Domestic Adelphi University Agnes Scott College Allegheny College American University Amherst College Arizona State University Augustana College Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Baylor University Bentley University Berklee College of Music Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Bradley University Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University Butler University Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Chapman University Claremont McKenna College Colby College Colgate University College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross Colorado College Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Creighton University Dartmouth College Davidson College Denison University DePauw University Drake University
Drexel University Duke University Elon University Emerson College Emory University Franklin & Marshall College Furman University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology George Washington University Gettysburg College Gonzaga University Goucher College Grinnell College Hamilton College (NY) Hampton University Harvard University Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Howard University Illinois Wesleyan University Indiana University Bloomington Ithaca College Johns Hopkins University Kalamazoo College Kenyon College Knox College Lafayette College Lake Forest College Lawrence University Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Loyola Marymount Loyola University Chicago Macalester College Marquette University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Miami University, Oxford Middlebury College New York University Notre Dame College
Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Occidental College Oregon State University Pennsylvania State University Pepperdine University Pitzer College Pomona College Pratt Institute Princeton University Providence College Purdue University Reed College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rhodes College Rice University Rochester Institute of Technology Rollins College Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Santa Clara University School of the Art Institute, Chicago Scripps College Seton Hall University Sewanee: The University of the South Skidmore College Smith College Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Southern Methodist University Spelman College Stanford University St. John’s University St. Lawrence University St. Louis University St. Norbert College St. Olaf College Swarthmore College Syracuse University
Temple University Tennessee Technological University Texas A&M University Texas Christian University The College of Wooster The Julliard School The New School The University of Tampa The University of Tennessee The University of Texas at Austin The University of Utah Trinity College (CT) Trinity University (TX) Tufts University Tulane University Union College United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy University of Buffalo, SUNY University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz University of Chicago University of Colorado, Boulder University of Dayton University of Denver University of Houston University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Iowa University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Maryland, College Park
University of Miami University of Michigan University of Missouri, Columbia University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Puget Sound University of Redlands University of Richmond University of Rochester University of San Diego University of San Francisco University of Southern California University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin, Madison Vanderbilt University Vassar College Villanova University Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Military Institute Wagner College Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College Wesleyan College Western Kentucky University Whittier College Willamette University Williams College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Xavier University Yale University
International Bocconi University (Italy) Brunel University (England) Carleton University (Canada) Durham University (England) Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (Spain) Ghent University (Belgium) Imperial College London (England) Keio University (Japan) King’s College London (England) McGill University (Canada)
Mount Allison University (Canada) NYU Shanghai (China) Queen’s University (Canada) Saint Louis University (Spain) Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) The American University of Paris (France) The American University of Rome (Italy) The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) The London School of Economics (England) The University of Edinburgh (Scotland) University College Dublin (Ireland)
University College London (England) University of Auckland (New Zealand) University of British Columbia (Canada) University of Cambridge (England) University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) University of Manitoba (Canada) University of St Andrews (Scotland) University of Toronto (Canada) University of Victoria (Canada) University of Waterloo (Canada) Western University (Canada)