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ADMISSIONS & COLLEGE ADVISING

DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS A Welcome to the World

The Academies’ orientation acquaints new students with classmates, residential staff and programs, via our returning student leaders, who introduce new students to Culver’s traditions and the Culver way of life.

The Global Studies Institute

The Global Studies Institute’s fundamental mission is to challenge Culver students to become knowledgeable and conscientious citizens of the world. The GSI provides them with the unprecedented opportunity to communicate across cultures and oceans with thinkers, scholars, and leaders from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds.

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur was founded to provide Culver students with a deeper understanding of creativity and innovation in the marketplace. Through interaction with successful entrepreneurs, field trips to exciting destinations, and challenging competitions, students gain a greater appreciation for the magic of the entrepreneurial spirit.

Spiritual Life

Culver seeks to nurture the spiritual life. Attendance at one of the weekly religious observances is required – a Roman Catholic Mass, a Protestant service, a Muslim or Jewish prayer service, or a simple period of silent reflection and personal meditation.

Equitation

For more than 100 years, horsemanship has been a distinguished tradition. The Black Horse Troop (CMA) has appeared in 15 Presidential Inaugural parades and the Equestriennes (CGA) in six. Culver’s jumping and polo teams are consistently competitive at the national level. With more than 80 horses, Culver offers comprehensive instruction in beginning, intermediate, and advanced equitation, as well as in stable management.

Classes are held outdoors and in the newly renovated Vaughn Equestrian Center, one of the country’s largest riding and stable complexes.

Center for Character Excellence

The study of positive psychology, for the Culver student, involves well-being, contentment, satisfaction, optimism, and happiness as it pertains to the classroom, the living units, the athletic fields, and the stage. The Center for Character Excellence also is an active support and resource for CMA’s and CGA’s individual leadership programs. The staff, comprised of faculty from the various disciplines, provides curricula training and symposiums designed to build strengths and resilience within the community.

Opportunities Abroad

Culver offers several programs that expose students to foreign countries and cultures.

• Through Spring Break in Mission, students contribute to community service projects in such locales as Croatia, China, Ireland, Mexico, and South Africa.

• Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Language for summer study in France, Germany, Mexico, and Spain.

• English-Speaking Union scholars for select seniors who defer their first year of college to attend a private school in the United Kingdom.

The Admissions Counselors select applicants

capable of pursuing a rigorous college-preparatory program and becoming effective and responsible citizens and leaders. To be considered for admission, we require an application, essays, interview, four evaluations, official grade transcripts for the past two years, and the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT). All International students are required to complete the TOEFL IBT and the SSAT. Campus visits are strongly encouraged in the fall.

Please refer to the Open House dates on our website. Individual tours are arranged by appointment.

We encourage families to complete the application process by early January to avoid wait lists which occur as early as March.

Scholarships and Financial Assistance

Culver offers the Batten, Duchossois, Roberts, Huffington, and Jud Little scholarships, all of which are merit-based scholarships.

Culver offers a need-based financial aid program to assist highly capable and motivated students to attend. The process is extremely competitive with only one in four financial aid applicants, who have been admitted, receiving an award.

A 10-month tuition payment plan and an educational loan program are available.

The philosophy of the College Advising Office centers upon a partnership between the student, parents, teachers, and the college adviser. The guiding principle and primary outcome is for each student to have college options that match his or her abilities, interests, and financial situation.

C O L L E G E

P R E P A R AT O R Y

B O A R D I N G

S C H O O L

In the junior year, individual college advisers work closely with students in clarifying an initial college list and in working through the college application process. A required guidance class focuses on standardized test strategies/preparation and registration, curriculum discussions, career options, academic progress, and on selecting courses for the senior year. A full-time staff assists students in the selection of colleges. Culver seniors have a significant variety of college options and each year are accepted into many of America’s best colleges and universities: • Amherst • Boston College • Brown • Carnegie Mellon • Cornell • Dartmouth • Davidson • Duke • Emory • Georgetown • Harvard • Johns Hopkins • MIT • Northwestern • Princeton • Rice • Stanford • Tufts • University of California-Berkeley

• UCLA • University of Chicago • University of Colorado • University of Michigan • UNC-Chapel Hill • University of Notre Dame • University of Pennsylvania • University of Southern California • Vanderbilt • Villanova • U.S. Air Force Academy • U.S. Military Academy • U.S. Naval Academy • Washington University • Wellesley • Yale

Culver is located 2½ hours north of Indianapolis and 2½ hours southeast of Chicago.

Culver is in the Eastern Standard Time zone.

For directions, please visit the Academies’ website at culver.org.

Applications and inquiries may be directed to culver.org/requestinfo

CULVER ACADEMIES Office of Admissions, 1300 Academy Road, Culver, Indiana 46511-1291 (574) 842-7000 | (800) 528-5837 | www.culver.org

LEADERSHIP | EXCELLENCE | TRADITION

educates its students for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing and nurturing the whole individual

– mind, spirit, and body –

through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.

Culver is committed to intellectual growth through a

demanding curriculum that prepares students for success in higher education.

Culver’s curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, writing, research, artistic expression, and foreign language proficiency through innovative teaching methods and technologically rich classrooms – all of this via an “extended learning time” schedule designed to support the Academies mission with a focus on wellness and community, teaching and learning, and flexibility and regularity.

Our faculty is comprised of over 90 educators, all of whom hold baccalaureate degrees with over 80 percent holding advanced degrees. The average student to teacher ratio is 9:1, and the average class size is 14 students.

Vaughn Equestrian Center

Main Barracks

Gignilliat Hall

Sally Port

The Academic Quad

Culver Academies is a college-preparatory

boarding school for boys and girls grades nine through twelve. Located in Culver, Indiana, the Academies offer a leadership and character-based education interwoven with a challenging academic regimen.

The Academies are comprised of Culver Military Academy (CMA), founded in 1894, and Culver Girls Academy (CGA), founded in 1971. Culver’s military system teaches the boys self-discipline, responsibility, and leadership.

Based upon the prefect system, the girls are taught similar values through a democratic, self-rule approach.

The Academies have an annual enrollment of 790 students representing approximately 25 countries and 40 states.

Approximately 20 percent of our student body is comprised of students from countries such as Canada, China, Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, India, South Africa and Taiwan. Culver has more than 21,000 alumni representing all 50 states and 56 countries.

EXTRACURRICULAR

LEADERSHIP

ACADEMICS Faculty are recruited from national searches for their excellent credentials and their commitment to active participation in boarding school life. Each year, up to 13 recent college graduates join the faculty as interns for a year of teaching, coaching and residential supervision.

To graduate young people of imagination, integrity, and vision, Culver provides students with the tools needed to make sense of an increasingly complex world – classroom methodologies which call upon students to lead discussion groups, individual and group presentations, and cooperative learning opportunities.

Culver teaches that the qualities of the good civic or business leader, a critical mind and a strong moral compass among them, are also those of the successful student.

C

ulver’s leadership mission accentuates the importance of public service and commitment to others. It teaches students to value the communal good on a small scale – the club, the team, the living unit – to understand and appreciate the views of others, and to explore and find common ground.

Students learn that effective and successful leaders take an interest in the individuals with whom they work, recognizing that loyalty and respect do not come with title or rank, and that good leaders set high standards and establish challenging goals. Providing the background for this unique education are qualified and committed teachers, mentors, coaches, and role models who emphasize consistent standards and values and furnish the encouragement, counsel, and personal attention young people need to mature.

The leadership curriculum, for both boys and girls, explores the core values of effective leadership – good communication and listening skills, group dynamics, consensus building, decision making, goal setting, negotiation, motivation, and ethics. The leadership systems are designed to provide leadership opportunities and experiences that help students develop into both selfconfident, capable leaders and knowledgeable, involved followers.

The Culver military system is a lifestyle that encourages pride in oneself, the living unit, the Corps of Cadets, and Culver. It prepares boys for success by teaching principles of leadership – integrity, discipline, manners, respect – and the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. And it develops traits and characteristics necessary to become a successful person – self-confidence, discipline, commitment, responsibility, ethical behavior, and hard work. Cadets are assigned to one of four units: the infantry, artillery, troop, or band, and participate in the New Cadet System, a one-year program designed to develop students into capable members of the Corps of Cadets through a structured regimen of duties and responsibilities.

The Culver prefect system reveals to girls the existence of their own leadership potential by developing confidence, habits of self-discipline, accountability, and the core virtues central to the whole. Following the leaders before them, girls undergo leadership training and are elected or appointed to a position of responsibility. They ensure regulations are implemented, goals are reached, and that the entire group is involved and engaged. As they accomplish leadership responsibilities, girls continue to learn as they model high personal standards of behavior.

Our students have the opportunity to join any

of the more than 40 clubs, more than a dozen instrumental and vocal performance groups, and 55 sports teams. All of these activities at Culver are about spirit, sportsmanship, fitness, competition, skill, fun, exercise, conditioning, and most important, participation.

Culver encourages all students to be involved in an athletic activity or performing art and offers extensive opportunities to stay physically fit and to live a healthy lifestyle.

There is interscholastic competition at the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity levels; club and leisure-time sports, plus a host of intramurals and other activities including: Equestriennes, Dancevision, Drama Club, Speech Team, Green Life, culture and language clubs.

The 1,800-acre campus includes two ice rinks and facilities for boys and girls hockey teams; a fitness center with an indoor track, weight and cardiovascular machines; a recreation/athletic center with an indoor pool and diving tank, two varsity gyms, tennis courts, fencing, wrestling, weight rooms, plus courts for handball, racquetball, or squash.

The Academies are located on the north shore of Indiana’s second-largest natural lake, a venue for sailing and crew. Outdoor facilities include football, soccer, rugby, and lacrosse fields, an all-weather track, baseball and softball diamonds, a nine-hole golf course, a fully outfitted crew shed, a skeet shooting range, and a 15-court tennis complex. The Steinbrenner Performing Arts Center is home to the recently renovated 1,500-seat Eppley Auditorium, the 175-seat Eilleen Dicke Theatre, and a new dance studio.

educates its students for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing and nurturing the whole individual

– mind, spirit, and body –

through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.

Culver is committed to intellectual growth through a

demanding curriculum that prepares students for success in higher education.

Culver’s curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, writing, research, artistic expression, and foreign language proficiency through innovative teaching methods and technologically rich classrooms – all of this via an “extended learning time” schedule designed to support the Academies mission with a focus on wellness and community, teaching and learning, and flexibility and regularity.

Our faculty is comprised of over 90 educators, all of whom hold baccalaureate degrees with over 80 percent holding advanced degrees. The average student to teacher ratio is 9:1, and the average class size is 14 students.

Vaughn Equestrian Center

Main Barracks

Gignilliat Hall

Sally Port

The Academic Quad

Culver Academies is a college-preparatory

boarding school for boys and girls grades nine through twelve. Located in Culver, Indiana, the Academies offer a leadership and character-based education interwoven with a challenging academic regimen.

The Academies are comprised of Culver Military Academy (CMA), founded in 1894, and Culver Girls Academy (CGA), founded in 1971. Culver’s military system teaches the boys self-discipline, responsibility, and leadership.

Based upon the prefect system, the girls are taught similar values through a democratic, self-rule approach.

The Academies have an annual enrollment of 790 students representing approximately 25 countries and 40 states.

Approximately 20 percent of our student body is comprised of students from countries such as Canada, China, Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, India, South Africa and Taiwan. Culver has more than 21,000 alumni representing all 50 states and 56 countries.

EXTRACURRICULAR

LEADERSHIP

ACADEMICS Faculty are recruited from national searches for their excellent credentials and their commitment to active participation in boarding school life. Each year, up to 13 recent college graduates join the faculty as interns for a year of teaching, coaching and residential supervision.

To graduate young people of imagination, integrity, and vision, Culver provides students with the tools needed to make sense of an increasingly complex world – classroom methodologies which call upon students to lead discussion groups, individual and group presentations, and cooperative learning opportunities.

Culver teaches that the qualities of the good civic or business leader, a critical mind and a strong moral compass among them, are also those of the successful student.

C

ulver’s leadership mission accentuates the importance of public service and commitment to others. It teaches students to value the communal good on a small scale – the club, the team, the living unit – to understand and appreciate the views of others, and to explore and find common ground.

Students learn that effective and successful leaders take an interest in the individuals with whom they work, recognizing that loyalty and respect do not come with title or rank, and that good leaders set high standards and establish challenging goals. Providing the background for this unique education are qualified and committed teachers, mentors, coaches, and role models who emphasize consistent standards and values and furnish the encouragement, counsel, and personal attention young people need to mature.

The leadership curriculum, for both boys and girls, explores the core values of effective leadership – good communication and listening skills, group dynamics, consensus building, decision making, goal setting, negotiation, motivation, and ethics. The leadership systems are designed to provide leadership opportunities and experiences that help students develop into both selfconfident, capable leaders and knowledgeable, involved followers.

The Culver military system is a lifestyle that encourages pride in oneself, the living unit, the Corps of Cadets, and Culver. It prepares boys for success by teaching principles of leadership – integrity, discipline, manners, respect – and the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. And it develops traits and characteristics necessary to become a successful person – self-confidence, discipline, commitment, responsibility, ethical behavior, and hard work. Cadets are assigned to one of four units: the infantry, artillery, troop, or band, and participate in the New Cadet System, a one-year program designed to develop students into capable members of the Corps of Cadets through a structured regimen of duties and responsibilities.

The Culver prefect system reveals to girls the existence of their own leadership potential by developing confidence, habits of self-discipline, accountability, and the core virtues central to the whole. Following the leaders before them, girls undergo leadership training and are elected or appointed to a position of responsibility. They ensure regulations are implemented, goals are reached, and that the entire group is involved and engaged. As they accomplish leadership responsibilities, girls continue to learn as they model high personal standards of behavior.

Our students have the opportunity to join any

of the more than 40 clubs, more than a dozen instrumental and vocal performance groups, and 55 sports teams. All of these activities at Culver are about spirit, sportsmanship, fitness, competition, skill, fun, exercise, conditioning, and most important, participation.

Culver encourages all students to be involved in an athletic activity or performing art and offers extensive opportunities to stay physically fit and to live a healthy lifestyle.

There is interscholastic competition at the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity levels; club and leisure-time sports, plus a host of intramurals and other activities including: Equestriennes, Dancevision, Drama Club, Speech Team, Green Life, culture and language clubs.

The 1,800-acre campus includes two ice rinks and facilities for boys and girls hockey teams; a fitness center with an indoor track, weight and cardiovascular machines; a recreation/athletic center with an indoor pool and diving tank, two varsity gyms, tennis courts, fencing, wrestling, weight rooms, plus courts for handball, racquetball, or squash.

The Academies are located on the north shore of Indiana’s second-largest natural lake, a venue for sailing and crew. Outdoor facilities include football, soccer, rugby, and lacrosse fields, an all-weather track, baseball and softball diamonds, a nine-hole golf course, a fully outfitted crew shed, a skeet shooting range, and a 15-court tennis complex. The Steinbrenner Performing Arts Center is home to the recently renovated 1,500-seat Eppley Auditorium, the 175-seat Eilleen Dicke Theatre, and a new dance studio.

educates its students for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing and nurturing the whole individual

– mind, spirit, and body –

through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.

Culver is committed to intellectual growth through a

demanding curriculum that prepares students for success in higher education.

Culver’s curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, writing, research, artistic expression, and foreign language proficiency through innovative teaching methods and technologically rich classrooms – all of this via an “extended learning time” schedule designed to support the Academies mission with a focus on wellness and community, teaching and learning, and flexibility and regularity.

Our faculty is comprised of over 90 educators, all of whom hold baccalaureate degrees with over 80 percent holding advanced degrees. The average student to teacher ratio is 9:1, and the average class size is 14 students.

Vaughn Equestrian Center

Main Barracks

Gignilliat Hall

Sally Port

The Academic Quad

Culver Academies is a college-preparatory

boarding school for boys and girls grades nine through twelve. Located in Culver, Indiana, the Academies offer a leadership and character-based education interwoven with a challenging academic regimen.

The Academies are comprised of Culver Military Academy (CMA), founded in 1894, and Culver Girls Academy (CGA), founded in 1971. Culver’s military system teaches the boys self-discipline, responsibility, and leadership.

Based upon the prefect system, the girls are taught similar values through a democratic, self-rule approach.

The Academies have an annual enrollment of 790 students representing approximately 25 countries and 40 states.

Approximately 20 percent of our student body is comprised of students from countries such as Canada, China, Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, India, South Africa and Taiwan. Culver has more than 21,000 alumni representing all 50 states and 56 countries.

EXTRACURRICULAR

LEADERSHIP

ACADEMICS Faculty are recruited from national searches for their excellent credentials and their commitment to active participation in boarding school life. Each year, up to 13 recent college graduates join the faculty as interns for a year of teaching, coaching and residential supervision.

To graduate young people of imagination, integrity, and vision, Culver provides students with the tools needed to make sense of an increasingly complex world – classroom methodologies which call upon students to lead discussion groups, individual and group presentations, and cooperative learning opportunities.

Culver teaches that the qualities of the good civic or business leader, a critical mind and a strong moral compass among them, are also those of the successful student.

C

ulver’s leadership mission accentuates the importance of public service and commitment to others. It teaches students to value the communal good on a small scale – the club, the team, the living unit – to understand and appreciate the views of others, and to explore and find common ground.

Students learn that effective and successful leaders take an interest in the individuals with whom they work, recognizing that loyalty and respect do not come with title or rank, and that good leaders set high standards and establish challenging goals. Providing the background for this unique education are qualified and committed teachers, mentors, coaches, and role models who emphasize consistent standards and values and furnish the encouragement, counsel, and personal attention young people need to mature.

The leadership curriculum, for both boys and girls, explores the core values of effective leadership – good communication and listening skills, group dynamics, consensus building, decision making, goal setting, negotiation, motivation, and ethics. The leadership systems are designed to provide leadership opportunities and experiences that help students develop into both selfconfident, capable leaders and knowledgeable, involved followers.

The Culver military system is a lifestyle that encourages pride in oneself, the living unit, the Corps of Cadets, and Culver. It prepares boys for success by teaching principles of leadership – integrity, discipline, manners, respect – and the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. And it develops traits and characteristics necessary to become a successful person – self-confidence, discipline, commitment, responsibility, ethical behavior, and hard work. Cadets are assigned to one of four units: the infantry, artillery, troop, or band, and participate in the New Cadet System, a one-year program designed to develop students into capable members of the Corps of Cadets through a structured regimen of duties and responsibilities.

The Culver prefect system reveals to girls the existence of their own leadership potential by developing confidence, habits of self-discipline, accountability, and the core virtues central to the whole. Following the leaders before them, girls undergo leadership training and are elected or appointed to a position of responsibility. They ensure regulations are implemented, goals are reached, and that the entire group is involved and engaged. As they accomplish leadership responsibilities, girls continue to learn as they model high personal standards of behavior.

Our students have the opportunity to join any

of the more than 40 clubs, more than a dozen instrumental and vocal performance groups, and 55 sports teams. All of these activities at Culver are about spirit, sportsmanship, fitness, competition, skill, fun, exercise, conditioning, and most important, participation.

Culver encourages all students to be involved in an athletic activity or performing art and offers extensive opportunities to stay physically fit and to live a healthy lifestyle.

There is interscholastic competition at the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity levels; club and leisure-time sports, plus a host of intramurals and other activities including: Equestriennes, Dancevision, Drama Club, Speech Team, Green Life, culture and language clubs.

The 1,800-acre campus includes two ice rinks and facilities for boys and girls hockey teams; a fitness center with an indoor track, weight and cardiovascular machines; a recreation/athletic center with an indoor pool and diving tank, two varsity gyms, tennis courts, fencing, wrestling, weight rooms, plus courts for handball, racquetball, or squash.

The Academies are located on the north shore of Indiana’s second-largest natural lake, a venue for sailing and crew. Outdoor facilities include football, soccer, rugby, and lacrosse fields, an all-weather track, baseball and softball diamonds, a nine-hole golf course, a fully outfitted crew shed, a skeet shooting range, and a 15-court tennis complex. The Steinbrenner Performing Arts Center is home to the recently renovated 1,500-seat Eppley Auditorium, the 175-seat Eilleen Dicke Theatre, and a new dance studio.

educates its students for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing and nurturing the whole individual

– mind, spirit, and body –

through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character.

Culver is committed to intellectual growth through a

demanding curriculum that prepares students for success in higher education.

Culver’s curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, writing, research, artistic expression, and foreign language proficiency through innovative teaching methods and technologically rich classrooms – all of this via an “extended learning time” schedule designed to support the Academies mission with a focus on wellness and community, teaching and learning, and flexibility and regularity.

Our faculty is comprised of over 90 educators, all of whom hold baccalaureate degrees with over 80 percent holding advanced degrees. The average student to teacher ratio is 9:1, and the average class size is 14 students.

Vaughn Equestrian Center

Main Barracks

Gignilliat Hall

Sally Port

The Academic Quad

Culver Academies is a college-preparatory

boarding school for boys and girls grades nine through twelve. Located in Culver, Indiana, the Academies offer a leadership and character-based education interwoven with a challenging academic regimen.

The Academies are comprised of Culver Military Academy (CMA), founded in 1894, and Culver Girls Academy (CGA), founded in 1971. Culver’s military system teaches the boys self-discipline, responsibility, and leadership.

Based upon the prefect system, the girls are taught similar values through a democratic, self-rule approach.

The Academies have an annual enrollment of 790 students representing approximately 25 countries and 40 states.

Approximately 20 percent of our student body is comprised of students from countries such as Canada, China, Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, India, South Africa and Taiwan. Culver has more than 21,000 alumni representing all 50 states and 56 countries.

EXTRACURRICULAR

LEADERSHIP

ACADEMICS Faculty are recruited from national searches for their excellent credentials and their commitment to active participation in boarding school life. Each year, up to 13 recent college graduates join the faculty as interns for a year of teaching, coaching and residential supervision.

To graduate young people of imagination, integrity, and vision, Culver provides students with the tools needed to make sense of an increasingly complex world – classroom methodologies which call upon students to lead discussion groups, individual and group presentations, and cooperative learning opportunities.

Culver teaches that the qualities of the good civic or business leader, a critical mind and a strong moral compass among them, are also those of the successful student.

C

ulver’s leadership mission accentuates the importance of public service and commitment to others. It teaches students to value the communal good on a small scale – the club, the team, the living unit – to understand and appreciate the views of others, and to explore and find common ground.

Students learn that effective and successful leaders take an interest in the individuals with whom they work, recognizing that loyalty and respect do not come with title or rank, and that good leaders set high standards and establish challenging goals. Providing the background for this unique education are qualified and committed teachers, mentors, coaches, and role models who emphasize consistent standards and values and furnish the encouragement, counsel, and personal attention young people need to mature.

The leadership curriculum, for both boys and girls, explores the core values of effective leadership – good communication and listening skills, group dynamics, consensus building, decision making, goal setting, negotiation, motivation, and ethics. The leadership systems are designed to provide leadership opportunities and experiences that help students develop into both selfconfident, capable leaders and knowledgeable, involved followers.

The Culver military system is a lifestyle that encourages pride in oneself, the living unit, the Corps of Cadets, and Culver. It prepares boys for success by teaching principles of leadership – integrity, discipline, manners, respect – and the classical virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. And it develops traits and characteristics necessary to become a successful person – self-confidence, discipline, commitment, responsibility, ethical behavior, and hard work. Cadets are assigned to one of four units: the infantry, artillery, troop, or band, and participate in the New Cadet System, a one-year program designed to develop students into capable members of the Corps of Cadets through a structured regimen of duties and responsibilities.

The Culver prefect system reveals to girls the existence of their own leadership potential by developing confidence, habits of self-discipline, accountability, and the core virtues central to the whole. Following the leaders before them, girls undergo leadership training and are elected or appointed to a position of responsibility. They ensure regulations are implemented, goals are reached, and that the entire group is involved and engaged. As they accomplish leadership responsibilities, girls continue to learn as they model high personal standards of behavior.

Our students have the opportunity to join any

of the more than 40 clubs, more than a dozen instrumental and vocal performance groups, and 55 sports teams. All of these activities at Culver are about spirit, sportsmanship, fitness, competition, skill, fun, exercise, conditioning, and most important, participation.

Culver encourages all students to be involved in an athletic activity or performing art and offers extensive opportunities to stay physically fit and to live a healthy lifestyle.

There is interscholastic competition at the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity levels; club and leisure-time sports, plus a host of intramurals and other activities including: Equestriennes, Dancevision, Drama Club, Speech Team, Green Life, culture and language clubs.

The 1,800-acre campus includes two ice rinks and facilities for boys and girls hockey teams; a fitness center with an indoor track, weight and cardiovascular machines; a recreation/athletic center with an indoor pool and diving tank, two varsity gyms, tennis courts, fencing, wrestling, weight rooms, plus courts for handball, racquetball, or squash.

The Academies are located on the north shore of Indiana’s second-largest natural lake, a venue for sailing and crew. Outdoor facilities include football, soccer, rugby, and lacrosse fields, an all-weather track, baseball and softball diamonds, a nine-hole golf course, a fully outfitted crew shed, a skeet shooting range, and a 15-court tennis complex. The Steinbrenner Performing Arts Center is home to the recently renovated 1,500-seat Eppley Auditorium, the 175-seat Eilleen Dicke Theatre, and a new dance studio.

ADMISSIONS & COLLEGE ADVISING

DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS A Welcome to the World

The Academies’ orientation acquaints new students with classmates, residential staff and programs, via our returning student leaders, who introduce new students to Culver’s traditions and the Culver way of life.

The Global Studies Institute

The Global Studies Institute’s fundamental mission is to challenge Culver students to become knowledgeable and conscientious citizens of the world. The GSI provides them with the unprecedented opportunity to communicate across cultures and oceans with thinkers, scholars, and leaders from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds.

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur was founded to provide Culver students with a deeper understanding of creativity and innovation in the marketplace. Through interaction with successful entrepreneurs, field trips to exciting destinations, and challenging competitions, students gain a greater appreciation for the magic of the entrepreneurial spirit.

Spiritual Life

Culver seeks to nurture the spiritual life. Attendance at one of the weekly religious observances is required – a Roman Catholic Mass, a Protestant service, a Muslim or Jewish prayer service, or a simple period of silent reflection and personal meditation.

Equitation

For more than 100 years, horsemanship has been a distinguished tradition. The Black Horse Troop (CMA) has appeared in 15 Presidential Inaugural parades and the Equestriennes (CGA) in six. Culver’s jumping and polo teams are consistently competitive at the national level. With more than 80 horses, Culver offers comprehensive instruction in beginning, intermediate, and advanced equitation, as well as in stable management.

Classes are held outdoors and in the newly renovated Vaughn Equestrian Center, one of the country’s largest riding and stable complexes.

Center for Character Excellence

The study of positive psychology, for the Culver student, involves well-being, contentment, satisfaction, optimism, and happiness as it pertains to the classroom, the living units, the athletic fields, and the stage. The Center for Character Excellence also is an active support and resource for CMA’s and CGA’s individual leadership programs. The staff, comprised of faculty from the various disciplines, provides curricula training and symposiums designed to build strengths and resilience within the community.

Opportunities Abroad

Culver offers several programs that expose students to foreign countries and cultures.

• Through Spring Break in Mission, students contribute to community service projects in such locales as Croatia, China, Ireland, Mexico, and South Africa.

• Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Language for summer study in France, Germany, Mexico, and Spain.

• English-Speaking Union scholars for select seniors who defer their first year of college to attend a private school in the United Kingdom.

The Admissions Counselors select applicants

capable of pursuing a rigorous college-preparatory program and becoming effective and responsible citizens and leaders. To be considered for admission, we require an application, essays, interview, four evaluations, official grade transcripts for the past two years, and the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT). All International students are required to complete the TOEFL IBT and the SSAT. Campus visits are strongly encouraged in the fall.

Please refer to the Open House dates on our website. Individual tours are arranged by appointment.

We encourage families to complete the application process by early January to avoid wait lists which occur as early as March.

Scholarships and Financial Assistance

Culver offers the Batten, Duchossois, Roberts, Huffington, and Jud Little scholarships, all of which are merit-based scholarships.

Culver offers a need-based financial aid program to assist highly capable and motivated students to attend. The process is extremely competitive with only one in four financial aid applicants, who have been admitted, receiving an award.

A 10-month tuition payment plan and an educational loan program are available.

The philosophy of the College Advising Office centers upon a partnership between the student, parents, teachers, and the college adviser. The guiding principle and primary outcome is for each student to have college options that match his or her abilities, interests, and financial situation.

C O L L E G E

P R E P A R AT O R Y

B O A R D I N G

S C H O O L

In the junior year, individual college advisers work closely with students in clarifying an initial college list and in working through the college application process. A required guidance class focuses on standardized test strategies/preparation and registration, curriculum discussions, career options, academic progress, and on selecting courses for the senior year. A full-time staff assists students in the selection of colleges. Culver seniors have a significant variety of college options and each year are accepted into many of America’s best colleges and universities: • Amherst • Boston College • Brown • Carnegie Mellon • Cornell • Dartmouth • Davidson • Duke • Emory • Georgetown • Harvard • Johns Hopkins • MIT • Northwestern • Princeton • Rice • Stanford • Tufts • University of California-Berkeley

• UCLA • University of Chicago • University of Colorado • University of Michigan • UNC-Chapel Hill • University of Notre Dame • University of Pennsylvania • University of Southern California • Vanderbilt • Villanova • U.S. Air Force Academy • U.S. Military Academy • U.S. Naval Academy • Washington University • Wellesley • Yale

Culver is located 2½ hours north of Indianapolis and 2½ hours southeast of Chicago.

Culver is in the Eastern Standard Time zone.

For directions, please visit the Academies’ website at culver.org.

Applications and inquiries may be directed to culver.org/requestinfo

CULVER ACADEMIES Office of Admissions, 1300 Academy Road, Culver, Indiana 46511-1291 (574) 842-7000 | (800) 528-5837 | www.culver.org

LEADERSHIP | EXCELLENCE | TRADITION

ADMISSIONS & COLLEGE ADVISING

DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS A Welcome to the World

The Academies’ orientation acquaints new students with classmates, residential staff and programs, via our returning student leaders, who introduce new students to Culver’s traditions and the Culver way of life.

The Global Studies Institute

The Global Studies Institute’s fundamental mission is to challenge Culver students to become knowledgeable and conscientious citizens of the world. The GSI provides them with the unprecedented opportunity to communicate across cultures and oceans with thinkers, scholars, and leaders from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds.

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur was founded to provide Culver students with a deeper understanding of creativity and innovation in the marketplace. Through interaction with successful entrepreneurs, field trips to exciting destinations, and challenging competitions, students gain a greater appreciation for the magic of the entrepreneurial spirit.

Spiritual Life

Culver seeks to nurture the spiritual life. Attendance at one of the weekly religious observances is required – a Roman Catholic Mass, a Protestant service, a Muslim or Jewish prayer service, or a simple period of silent reflection and personal meditation.

Equitation

For more than 100 years, horsemanship has been a distinguished tradition. The Black Horse Troop (CMA) has appeared in 15 Presidential Inaugural parades and the Equestriennes (CGA) in six. Culver’s jumping and polo teams are consistently competitive at the national level. With more than 80 horses, Culver offers comprehensive instruction in beginning, intermediate, and advanced equitation, as well as in stable management.

Classes are held outdoors and in the newly renovated Vaughn Equestrian Center, one of the country’s largest riding and stable complexes.

Center for Character Excellence

The study of positive psychology, for the Culver student, involves well-being, contentment, satisfaction, optimism, and happiness as it pertains to the classroom, the living units, the athletic fields, and the stage. The Center for Character Excellence also is an active support and resource for CMA’s and CGA’s individual leadership programs. The staff, comprised of faculty from the various disciplines, provides curricula training and symposiums designed to build strengths and resilience within the community.

Opportunities Abroad

Culver offers several programs that expose students to foreign countries and cultures.

• Through Spring Break in Mission, students contribute to community service projects in such locales as Croatia, China, Ireland, Mexico, and South Africa.

• Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Language for summer study in France, Germany, Mexico, and Spain.

• English-Speaking Union scholars for select seniors who defer their first year of college to attend a private school in the United Kingdom.

The Admissions Counselors select applicants

capable of pursuing a rigorous college-preparatory program and becoming effective and responsible citizens and leaders. To be considered for admission, we require an application, essays, interview, four evaluations, official grade transcripts for the past two years, and the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT). All International students are required to complete the TOEFL IBT and the SSAT. Campus visits are strongly encouraged in the fall.

Please refer to the Open House dates on our website. Individual tours are arranged by appointment.

We encourage families to complete the application process by early January to avoid wait lists which occur as early as March.

Scholarships and Financial Assistance

Culver offers the Batten, Duchossois, Roberts, Huffington, and Jud Little scholarships, all of which are merit-based scholarships.

Culver offers a need-based financial aid program to assist highly capable and motivated students to attend. The process is extremely competitive with only one in four financial aid applicants, who have been admitted, receiving an award.

A 10-month tuition payment plan and an educational loan program are available.

The philosophy of the College Advising Office centers upon a partnership between the student, parents, teachers, and the college adviser. The guiding principle and primary outcome is for each student to have college options that match his or her abilities, interests, and financial situation.

C O L L E G E

P R E P A R AT O R Y

B O A R D I N G

S C H O O L

In the junior year, individual college advisers work closely with students in clarifying an initial college list and in working through the college application process. A required guidance class focuses on standardized test strategies/preparation and registration, curriculum discussions, career options, academic progress, and on selecting courses for the senior year. A full-time staff assists students in the selection of colleges. Culver seniors have a significant variety of college options and each year are accepted into many of America’s best colleges and universities: • Amherst • Boston College • Brown • Carnegie Mellon • Cornell • Dartmouth • Davidson • Duke • Emory • Georgetown • Harvard • Johns Hopkins • MIT • Northwestern • Princeton • Rice • Stanford • Tufts • University of California-Berkeley

• UCLA • University of Chicago • University of Colorado • University of Michigan • UNC-Chapel Hill • University of Notre Dame • University of Pennsylvania • University of Southern California • Vanderbilt • Villanova • U.S. Air Force Academy • U.S. Military Academy • U.S. Naval Academy • Washington University • Wellesley • Yale

Culver is located 2½ hours north of Indianapolis and 2½ hours southeast of Chicago.

Culver is in the Eastern Standard Time zone.

For directions, please visit the Academies’ website at culver.org.

Applications and inquiries may be directed to culver.org/requestinfo

CULVER ACADEMIES Office of Admissions, 1300 Academy Road, Culver, Indiana 46511-1291 (574) 842-7000 | (800) 528-5837 | www.culver.org

LEADERSHIP | EXCELLENCE | TRADITION

ADMISSIONS & COLLEGE ADVISING

DISTINCTIVE PROGRAMS A Welcome to the World

The Academies’ orientation acquaints new students with classmates, residential staff and programs, via our returning student leaders, who introduce new students to Culver’s traditions and the Culver way of life.

The Global Studies Institute

The Global Studies Institute’s fundamental mission is to challenge Culver students to become knowledgeable and conscientious citizens of the world. The GSI provides them with the unprecedented opportunity to communicate across cultures and oceans with thinkers, scholars, and leaders from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds.

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur

The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur was founded to provide Culver students with a deeper understanding of creativity and innovation in the marketplace. Through interaction with successful entrepreneurs, field trips to exciting destinations, and challenging competitions, students gain a greater appreciation for the magic of the entrepreneurial spirit.

Spiritual Life

Culver seeks to nurture the spiritual life. Attendance at one of the weekly religious observances is required – a Roman Catholic Mass, a Protestant service, a Muslim or Jewish prayer service, or a simple period of silent reflection and personal meditation.

Equitation

For more than 100 years, horsemanship has been a distinguished tradition. The Black Horse Troop (CMA) has appeared in 15 Presidential Inaugural parades and the Equestriennes (CGA) in six. Culver’s jumping and polo teams are consistently competitive at the national level. With more than 80 horses, Culver offers comprehensive instruction in beginning, intermediate, and advanced equitation, as well as in stable management.

Classes are held outdoors and in the newly renovated Vaughn Equestrian Center, one of the country’s largest riding and stable complexes.

Center for Character Excellence

The study of positive psychology, for the Culver student, involves well-being, contentment, satisfaction, optimism, and happiness as it pertains to the classroom, the living units, the athletic fields, and the stage. The Center for Character Excellence also is an active support and resource for CMA’s and CGA’s individual leadership programs. The staff, comprised of faculty from the various disciplines, provides curricula training and symposiums designed to build strengths and resilience within the community.

Opportunities Abroad

Culver offers several programs that expose students to foreign countries and cultures.

• Through Spring Break in Mission, students contribute to community service projects in such locales as Croatia, China, Ireland, Mexico, and South Africa.

• Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Language for summer study in France, Germany, Mexico, and Spain.

• English-Speaking Union scholars for select seniors who defer their first year of college to attend a private school in the United Kingdom.

The Admissions Counselors select applicants

capable of pursuing a rigorous college-preparatory program and becoming effective and responsible citizens and leaders. To be considered for admission, we require an application, essays, interview, four evaluations, official grade transcripts for the past two years, and the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT). All International students are required to complete the TOEFL IBT and the SSAT. Campus visits are strongly encouraged in the fall.

Please refer to the Open House dates on our website. Individual tours are arranged by appointment.

We encourage families to complete the application process by early January to avoid wait lists which occur as early as March.

Scholarships and Financial Assistance

Culver offers the Batten, Duchossois, Roberts, Huffington, and Jud Little scholarships, all of which are merit-based scholarships.

Culver offers a need-based financial aid program to assist highly capable and motivated students to attend. The process is extremely competitive with only one in four financial aid applicants, who have been admitted, receiving an award.

A 10-month tuition payment plan and an educational loan program are available.

The philosophy of the College Advising Office centers upon a partnership between the student, parents, teachers, and the college adviser. The guiding principle and primary outcome is for each student to have college options that match his or her abilities, interests, and financial situation.

C O L L E G E

P R E P A R AT O R Y

B O A R D I N G

S C H O O L

In the junior year, individual college advisers work closely with students in clarifying an initial college list and in working through the college application process. A required guidance class focuses on standardized test strategies/preparation and registration, curriculum discussions, career options, academic progress, and on selecting courses for the senior year. A full-time staff assists students in the selection of colleges. Culver seniors have a significant variety of college options and each year are accepted into many of America’s best colleges and universities: • Amherst • Boston College • Brown • Carnegie Mellon • Cornell • Dartmouth • Davidson • Duke • Emory • Georgetown • Harvard • Johns Hopkins • MIT • Northwestern • Princeton • Rice • Stanford • Tufts • University of California-Berkeley

• UCLA • University of Chicago • University of Colorado • University of Michigan • UNC-Chapel Hill • University of Notre Dame • University of Pennsylvania • University of Southern California • Vanderbilt • Villanova • U.S. Air Force Academy • U.S. Military Academy • U.S. Naval Academy • Washington University • Wellesley • Yale

Culver is located 2½ hours north of Indianapolis and 2½ hours southeast of Chicago.

Culver is in the Eastern Standard Time zone.

For directions, please visit the Academies’ website at culver.org.

Applications and inquiries may be directed to culver.org/requestinfo

CULVER ACADEMIES Office of Admissions, 1300 Academy Road, Culver, Indiana 46511-1291 (574) 842-7000 | (800) 528-5837 | www.culver.org

LEADERSHIP | EXCELLENCE | TRADITION