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Academics

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Choate Rosemary Hall's balanced curriculum offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of clear thinking and expression — with emphasis on individual development.

Our six academic departments all offer traditional core courses as well as a variety of electives. The comprehensive curriculum offered at Choate:

  • fosters broad exposure to all disciplines
  • allows students the opportunity to discover and pursue in depth special areas of interest

Academic Expectations

The expectation at Choate is that students — as well as faculty and staff — energetically and enthusiastically devote significant time and energy to the pursuit of learning.

The seeming tension between these two objectives — breadth and depth — is monitored in each student's schedule with the help of the adviser, dean, and, as appropriate, college counselor. Each student graduates from Choate with a program that:

  • makes sense for him or her
  • fits each student well
  • introduces each student in a comprehensive way to colleges

While grounding students in the core of each major discipline, Choate's academic program allows those with special talents and/or well-developed interests to specialize in an area of strength or passion.