Looking Ahead: Preparing for College and Life

Looking Ahead: Preparing for College and Life

Incredible Things Happen When Children Love to Learn

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Education That Sticks.

Calhoun’s curriculum is a strong foundation for meaningful intellectual growth. The breadth of academic opportunities—from advanced seminars to independent studies—challenges students to dig deeper, think outside the box and unlock their own potential.

Calhoun’s Upper School

Upper School students complete required courses in English, math, science, social studies, world languages, the arts and physical education.

From there, they can choose from a wide range of advanced electives that read more like what you would see in a college catalog than on a high school course list.

A sampling of our elective offerings…

• Experimental Probability and Statistics • Bioethics • Documentary Storytelling • Advanced Music Theory • Punishment, Politics & Culture Capstone Experiences Junior Workshop

A seven-week independent project in which eleventh graders are challenged to create something new or innovative.

Senior Work

A closely-mentored, six-week internship for twelfth graders in the professional environment of their choice.

Calhoun By the Numbers

103

Zip codes represented in our student body

82%

Early Action college acceptance rate in 2017

57

Service organizations with whom we volunteer

130+

Upper School courses offered

Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s Changemakers.

The Calhoun experience is the start of incredible things for our students, who use opportunities here at school to make an impact on their community and the world beyond.

A jazz musician gives back Lincoln Hart ’17 Harvard University ‘21 Lincoln drew upon his love of music to help children around the city. Through his Community Action class and, later, an independent study, he created a rap-based language arts curriculum that he brought to underserved public school children. An accomplished jazz musician, Lincoln was also Varsity soccer captain and volunteered as an advocate for restorative justice at the Harlem Youth Court.

A scientist forges connections Delsa Lopez ’17 Williams College ‘21 Delsa used her talents in science and storytelling to impact others. For Senior Work, she taught K-12 science at the American Museum of Natural History. As well as excelling in advanced biology and anatomy classes, Delsa was a gifted theater makeup artist. She embraced community service, serving hundreds of hours as a volunteer tour guide at the Poets House.

A budding programmer leaves his mark Zak Wegweiser ’17 Brown University ‘21 Zak harnessed his passion for STEM to make a difference at Calhoun: for his Junior Workshop, he designed a class-scheduling software that is now used school-wide. In addition to pursuing advanced science classes, Zak captained the Varsity basketball team and was a Peer Leader.

As a senior, he attended Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and developed apps for small businesses.

Class of 2017 College Matriculations American University Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Bowdoin College Brown University Chapman University Colgate University Colorado College Connecticut College Dartmouth College Emory University Fairfield University Harvard University Haverford College Ithaca College Johns Hopkins University Lafayette College Lehigh University Loyola University New Orleans

New York University Northwestern University Princeton University Rhodes College Skidmore College Swarthmore College Syracuse University The George Washington University The New School - Eugene Lang College Trinity College Tulane University University of Chicago University of Miami University of Oregon University of Pennsylvania University of Rochester University of Southern California Wesleyan University Wheaton College Massachusetts Williams College

“ Calhoun taught me to be a critical thinker, which is something I’ve carried with me through college and beyond” – Max Marcus ‘07