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SYA faculty sparked my curiosity and taught me to be a confident learner.

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Merritt Moore IT’05

Physicist and ballerina Harvard-Westlake School ’06 Harvard University ’11 PhD candidate, Oxford University Atomic and laser physics

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SYA’s passionate and supportive teachers helped me

break out of my shell. They also helped me customize my coursework

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so I could take honors precalculus while auditing AP Calculus,

both critical to my eventual path of pursuing a PhD in physics.

Merritt Moore IT’05 graduated with honors from Harvard with a degree in physics and is a PhD candidate in atomic and laser physics at Oxford. She has danced professionally with the Boston Ballet, the Zurich Ballet and the José Mateo Ballet Theatre Company and has performed worldwide. Merritt was featured as one of Glamour magazine’s Top Ten College Women in 2010, and was awarded the Suzanne Farrell Dance Award in 2011, a Harvard Artist Development Fellowship, and a Michael von Clemm Fellowship to pursue her study of physics at Oxford. In June 2013, Merritt presented a session at TEDxOxbridge. She returns regularly to Rome to work with the ballet master she discovered in Viterbo during her year with SYA.

A DISTINGUISHED BLEND OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS SYA students benefit from the faculty professional-development opportunities we support. SYA hires faculty from top U.S. independent and public schools to teach English and math, and our international faculty have come to the United States to teach at Cornell, Harvard, Indiana, Middlebury and Yale and at top independent high schools. n

43 faculty members

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36 hold advanced degrees

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Average tenure of international faculty is 14 years (ranges from 3 to 34 years) Average student/faculty ratio is 5:1

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