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Name: Oakwood Friends School |
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Application, transcripts for current year and two previous years, 3 letters of recommendation (math, English and personal), writing sample/essay, interview, application fee. International students must also submit SLEP or TOEFL score. |
Oakwood Friends School , guided by Quaker principles, educates and strengthens young people for lives of conscience, compassion and accomplishment. Students experience a challenging curriculum within a diverse community, dedicated to nurturing the spirit, the scholar, the artist and the athlete in each person. |
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Oakwood Friends School is an educational community committed to Quakers' deep respect for the worth of each person. It seeks students who demonstrate a genuine concern for their own growth – academic, spiritual, social, and physical – and who are intent on becoming complete persons – competent, creative, responsible, and sensitive to the world and its needs for a just and moral social order. The school holds membership in the Friends Council on Education and the National Association of Independent Schools. It is chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York and accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools. The school year includes Thanksgiving, winter, and spring vacations and consists of trimesters of 11 weeks each. Grades are posted and reported to parents at midterm and at the end of each trimester, and written course evaluations are sent at the end of each term. Graduation requirements include four years of English and history, three of science, three of math, three of a foreign language, one and one-third in the arts, and one trimester each of health, Quakerism, and computer literacy. Seniors are required to take an interdisciplinary course focusing on the social sciences. Advanced Placement courses are offered in English, biology, chemistry, calculus, and foreign languages. Electives include Creative Writing, Public Speaking, Writing for College, Philosophy of Science, Greek Philosophy, Classical Sources of Classic Films, Psychology, Asian Religion, Political Advocacy, and Chaos Theory & Fractal Geometry. Satisfactory participation in team/life sports and community service is required every trimester. |
Our Academic Support Center offers support to students with mild documented learning differences or AD/HD. Classes are 2:1. The goal of the program is to provide students with a repertoire of strategies that enhance learning inside and outside the classroom. Those strategies are taught and applied through the students' content area assignments. Accommodations (e.g., computer use and extended time on tests) are available as appropriate. International students must meet a minimum proficiency in English to be admitted. Students may be required to tae additional ESL classes to improve their proficiency in English. Ninety-eight to one hundred percent of Oakwood Friends graduates continue on to colleges and universities. Graduates in the Class of 2007 are attending such institutions as Alfred, American, Bard, Boston University , Champlain College , Clark, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Cornell, Earlham, Franklin & Marshall, Guilford, McDaniel, Mitchell, Moravian, Penn State, Purdue, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Siena , State Universities of New York , Syracuse , Wells, and the Universities of Chicago, Hartford and Vermont .
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