TATNALL College Preparatory Education for Age 3 to Grade 12
The School The Tatnall School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school situated on 110-acres in Greenville, Delaware, near Wilmington. Tatnall is composed of four academic divisions that enroll students from age 3 through grade 12. We are a school that respects each students’ unique intellectual, emotional, social and physical needs and gifts. Tatnall’s challenging academic curriculum encourages students to achieve and to succeed. Our state-of-theart classrooms, combined with an award-winning faculty are propelling Tatnall’s tradition of excellence into the 21st century. There are 32 members of the Upper School faculty; they hold a total of 32 advanced level degrees. The average class has 13 students. Most Tatnall students come from New Castle County, Delaware, and southeastern Pennsylvania. The school also draws from lower Delaware and neighboring New Jersey and Maryland. There are 620 students enrolled in Preschool through twelfth grade. The Upper School (grades 9-12) enrolls 241 students, of whom 41% receive need-based financial aid. The Class of 2014 has 58 members (29 boys and 29 girls). Typically, all members of a graduating class attend degreegranting four-year colleges.
1501 Barley Mill Road | Wilmington, Delaware 19807 Telephone: 302.998.2292 Fax: 302.892.4322 www.tatnall.org CEEB Code 080200
2013-2014 Profile The Community The Tatnall School is located on the western edge of the City of Wilmington, Delaware. Residents have easy access to major mid-Atlantic cities and to the resources of the University of Delaware and other area post-secondary institutions.
Academic Expectations Tatnall’s school year has three terms made up of roughly 54 days each. Final exams are given at the end of the second and third terms. Many math and foreign language classes are 45 minutes in length and meet every day. Many English, science, and history courses are 90 minutes and meet every other day. Students are expected to take at least five academic courses per term, plus a sixth elective. Students are required to complete 17 courses for graduation, including: ■■
4 years of English
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4 years of mathematics
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3 years of history
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3 years of science (two years of laboratory science)
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3 years of foreign language
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Classes in art and physical education
Science experiences for Tatnall students include classroom and laboratory work, as well as outdoor environmental field studies utilizing Tatnall’s 110-acre campus.
Tatnall offers 23 boys and girls interscholastic sports.
A comprehensive fine arts program features a world-class performing arts center.
The Curriculum
Advanced Placement and Honors Courses:
Tatnall offers a rigorous, college preparatory curriculum with Advanced Placement and honors level courses. Freshmen and sophomores have limited access to advanced courses. Due to the high level of rigor throughout our curriculum and the expectation that our students be involved and active members of our intimate school community, it is not possible to take every Advanced Placement and honors course offered. We recommend that our students hold the total number of AP/honors courses in any given year to three. Students may take more than three AP/honors courses only after extensive consultation with their academic advisor.
There are 15 Advanced Placement and 10 honors courses offered:
Art
Mathematics
Honors Art (12)
AP English Language (11,12) AP English Literature (11,12)
Algebra 2 (Honors) (9,10) Precalc and Trig (Honors) (10,11) AP AB Calculus (11,12) AP BC & Multivariable Calculus (12) AP Statistics (11,12)
Foreign Language
Science
Honors French 4 (11,12) Honors Latin 4 (11, 12) Honors Spanish 4 (11,12) AP French Language (12) AP Latin Vergil (12) AP Spanish Language (12)
Biology (Honors) (9,10) Chemistry (Honors) (10,11) Advanced Chemistry 2 (Honors) (11,12) Physics (Honors) (11,12) AP Biology (12) AP Environmental Science (10,11,12) AP Physics: Mechanics (12) AP Psychology (12)
English
History AP European History (12) AP U.S. Government & Politics (12) AP U.S. History (11)
Grading Tatnall computes weighted cumulative GPAs on a four-point scale and reports them to colleges. The GPA includes grades from all major academic subjects and honors art taken at Tatnall, but does not include grades from non-honors art, any computer, music or physical education courses or courses taken at other schools. Courses that carry an honors or AP designation on our transcript receive a 0.33 boost in GPA value when those courses are averaged into the cumulative GPA. NOTE: Class rank is not computed because of Tatnall’s selective admissions process and the small number of students in each class.
Cumulative GPAs for the Class of 2013 through June 2012 GPA Range
No. of Students
4.0 and above
9
3.67 - 3.99
10
3.33 - 3.66
8
3.00 - 3.32
13
2.67 - 2.99
8
2.33 - 2.6
5
2.32 and below
3
SAT/ACT/AP/Profile Comparison 2012-2014 (as of 9/16/2013) Graduating Class
2014*
2013
2012
52
54
60
Mean Critical Reading
585
597
573
Mean Math
595
606
604
Mean Writing
596
603
583
Number Testing ACT
21
37
28
Mean ACT Composite
26.4
26.2
24.1
National Merit Semifinalists
4
0
0
National Merit Commendation
3
4
1
National Hispanic Recognition
0
1
0
Number Testing SAT
Approximately 100% of Tatnall students take the SAT, while nationally only approximately 10% of high school students take the exam. * Class of 2014 statistics are premature. Not all SAT and/or ACT tests have been taken to date.
College Placement Classes of 2010-2013 Acceptances Adelphi University Allegheny College Alvernia University American University Amherst College Appalachian State University Arcadia University Arizona State University Auburn University Augsburg College Augustana College Averett University Bard College Belmont University Bentley University Bloomfield College Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Boston College Boston University Brandeis University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University Cabrini College California University of Pennsylvania Canisius College Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Cazenovia College Champlain College Christopher Newport University Clarkson University Clemson University Coastal Carolina University College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross Cornell University Daniel Webster College Dartmouth College Davidson College Delaware Valley College DePaul University DePauw University Dickinson College DigiPen Institute of Technology Drew University Drexel University Duke University Duquesne University East Carolina University Eckerd College Elizabethtown College Elmira College Elon University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Emerson College Emory University Fairfield University Fairleigh Dickinson University Flagler College Florida A&M University Florida Atlantic University Florida Institute of Technology Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College Frostburg State University Full Sail University Furman University George Mason University
Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Gettysburg College Goucher College Gwynedd-Mercy College Hamilton College Hampton University Haverford College High Point University Hobart & William Smith College Hofstra University Hood College Howard University Immaculata University Indiana University of Pennsylvania Ithaca College James Madison University Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College King College Kutztown University of Pennsylvania La Salle University Lafayette College Lebanon Valley College Lehigh University Liberty University Louisiana State University Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Maryland Lycoming College Lynchburg College Lynn University Marymount Manhattan College McDaniel College McGill University Merrimack College Messiah College Middlebury College Millersville University of Pennsylvania Monmouth University Moravian College Mount Holyoke College Mount Saint Mary’s University Muhlenberg College Neumann University New York Film Academy New York University North Carolina State University Northeastern University Northwestern University Norwich University Old Dominion University Pace University, New York City Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University (Honors) Point Park University Pratt Institute Princeton University Purchase College State University of New York Purdue University Queen’s University Quinnipiac University Radford University Randolph-Macon College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rice University Rider University Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology Roger Williams University Rollins College Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Saint Joseph’s University Saint Michael’s College Santa Clara University School of Visual Arts Seton Hall University Sewanee: University of the South Shenandoah University Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Skidmore College Southern Connecticut State University Southern Methodist University Southern University and A&M College Spelman College St. Lawrence University Stanford University State University of New York, Albany Stetson University Stevenson University SUNY College at Potsdam Susquehanna University Swarthmore College Syracuse University Temple University Texas Christian University The American Musical & Drama Academy The American University of Paris The Catholic University of America The George Washington University The George Washington University (Honors) The University of Akron The University of Akron (Honors) The University of Alabama The University of Arizona The University of Georgia The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of Tampa Towson University Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University United States Air Force Academy United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy University of Baltimore University of California at Santa Barbara University of Charleston University of Chicago University of Colorado at Boulder University of Connecticut University of Delaware University of Delaware (Honors) University of Florida University of Hartford University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Kansas University of Mary Washington University of Maryland University of Maryland (Honors) University of Maryland, Eastern Shore University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, Lowell University of Miami University of Michigan University of New Hampshire University of New Haven
University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina at Wilmington University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh (Honors) University of Rhode Island University of Richmond University of Rochester University of San Diego University of San Francisco University of South Carolina University of South Carolina (Honors) University of Southern California University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy) University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington University of Waterloo University of West Florida Ursinus College Valparaiso University Vanderbilt University Villanova University Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Tech Institute & State University Wake Forest University Washington & Lee University Washington College Washington University in St. Louis Wellesley College West Chester University of Pennsylvania West Virginia University Widener University Williams College Wittenberg University York College of Pennsylvania
ADMINISTRATION Headmaster: Dr. Eric G. Ruoss Head of Upper School: Sarah J. Baylin
COLLEGE COUNSELING OFFICE Director of College Counseling: Leigh O. Morgan email: lmorgan@tatnall.org Phone: (302) 892-4376 College Counselor: Meb Carroll email: mebcarroll@tatnall.org Phone: (302) 892-4414 Registrar: Dr. Susan S. Bookman email: sbookman@tatnall.org Phone: (302) 892-4291