May 18, 2012 T h e P h i l l i p i a n News A7

Students’ Opinions on Attending a Top College Changed

WINTER 2012 GRADE POINT AVERAGE

STAFF REPORT

More people believe that attending Andover has de-creased their chances of at-tending a ‘top college’ than those who believe it increased their chances, according to State of the Academy. Last year’s survey yielded the op-posite result.

37.8 percent of surveyed students said that Andover increased their chances of at-tending a top college, while 45 percent of students answered with this response last year.

Sean Logan, Director of College Counselling, said, “If you’re coming to Ando-ver to increase your chances of getting into college, that’s the wrong reason to come to Andover... Andover’s an in-credibly unique experience... I’ve probably visited three, four hundred high schools in my life, this is a pretty unique place with a pretty unique experience, so that’s why you should attend Andover.”

He continued, “The top places where our kids go is a very good list of schools, but there’s no guarantee that you’re going to go there and

coming here depends on how you take advantage of the op-portunities and depends on what you do. So, I hear a lot about ‘should I have stayed at home and gotten bet-ter grades,’ you could be the number one kid in your pub-lic high school and still not get into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or you could come here and not be the number one kid but in the top 20 percent and still not get into Princeton too, but they’re completely different experiences.”

Surveyed females spend an average of 4.6 hours each day on work, while surveyed males spend an average of 4.1 hours . Surveyed Uppers work the most at 4.84 hours per day, followed by Juniors, Lowers and Seniors at 4.42, 4.14 and 4.08 hours per days, respectively.

The most common round-ed Winter 2012 GPA was 5.0 overall. 34.2 percent of students answered that they achieved this GPA. This was the most common GPA for all classes except for Juniors, 27.1 percent of which achieved a 5.5 GPA, followed by a 5.0 at 24.8 percent.

The results show that sur-

veyed females earned an av-erage rounded Winter 2012 GPA of 4.97, compared to an average of 4.88 in surveyed males. The average Winter 2012 GPA for all surveyed stu-dents was 4.93.

65.1 percent of students reported that they received an honors GPA in the winter term.

There were no significant differences in answers to questions regarding grading disparities between this year and last year.

48.8 percent of surveyed students said that the Eng-lish department is the most difficult department in terms of grading, aligning with last year’s results.

Answers to the question asking which subject re-quired the most time were less agreed upon, as respons-es that History and Science required the most time were nearly equal at 26.9 and 25.6 percent, respectively.

88.2 percent of surveyed students answered that their workload was not spread evenly among their class-es, showing no significant change from last year.

WINTER 2012 GPA BY GENDER

WINTER 2012 GPA BY CLASS YEAR

WORKLOAD PER NIGHT

AVERAGE WORKLOAD PER NIGHT BY CLASS YEAR

HOW DO YOU THINK ATTENDING ANDOVER AFFECTS YOUR CHANCES OF ATTENDING A “TOP COLLEGE?”

WHICH SUBJECT DO YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME ON?

State of the AcademyAcademics

AVERAGE WORKLOAD PER NIGHT BY GENDER

Male Female

4.1hours

4.6hours

ARE THERE GRADING DISPARITIES BETWEEN TEACHERS OF THE SAME SUBJECT?

2.0%

ARE THERE GRADING DISPARITIES BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS AT ANDOVER?

No

Yes, to a permissable degree Yes, to an unfair degree

33.1% 64.8%

Yes, to a permissable degree Yes, to an unfair degree

53.5% 36.9% 9.6%

155148

106

67 61

15 147 4

English

History

Math

Science

Language

Art

RelP

hil

Music

Theatre

Increased chances37.4%

46.8%

15.4%

Decreased chances

Did not change chances

2015 2014 2013 2012

4.424.14

4.85

4.08

Hou

rs

2012

4.98

2013

4.95

2014

4.90

2015

4.87Overall

4.93

8.0%

17.1%

30.1%26.1%

11.3%7.4%

6 7 or more43 52 or fewerhours

MaleFemale

6.05.55.04.543.53.0 or lower

32.5%35.7%

25.4%

18.7%

10.5%9.9%

2.4%0.9%1.0%1.5%

25.4%32.5%

7.9%5.4%

Out of 637 responses

6.05.55.04.543.53.0 or lower

34.2%

21.8%

10.2%

1.6%1.3%

24.2%

6.8%%

Out of 637 responses

Overall Average

4.93

WHAT IS THE MOST DIFFICULT DEPARTMENTIN TERMS OF GRADING?

Out of 574 responses

English ArtMusicLanguage

RelPhilMath

ScienceHistory

Theatre1511212834

61

133

280

No

Out of 637 responses

Out

of 6

37 r

espo

nses

Out

of 6

37 r

espo

nses

Out of 577 responses