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About Sem


Sem Girls Soar

Download our 2008 College Handbook

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Buffalo Seminary is dedicated to providing its students with the tools necessary to be well-grounded in all the traditional disciplines so they are free to pursue any future course of study they choose. As illustrated by our students' test results and college acceptances, they have taken full advantage of the school's resources and succeeded in their pursuit of excellence. Sem girls truly soar!

 

Scholastic Assessment Testing
Class of 2008 (through June 2007)

 SAT I: Reasoning Tests

Critical Reasoning

Math

Writing

Range

5

2

8

700-800

17

14

13

600-699

13

20

15

500-599

7

7

6

400-499

1

0

1

Below 400


SAT II: Subject Tests

Subject

Mean Score

No. of

MI

558

4

M2

664

5

UH

642

19

FR

675

2

CH

490

1

BY

698

13

LR

641

14

WH

710

1

Advanced Placement 
It is Buffalo Seminary’s policy that the reporting of Advanced Placement scores on official transcripts is left to the discretion of each senior.  In the spring of 2007, 73 sophomores, juniors and seniors sat for 140 exams in the following subjects: English Literature/Composition, English Language/Composition, U.S. History, European History, U.S. Government & Politics, Art History, French Language, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Spanish Language, Biology, Physics C.   The overall distribution of scores was:

5-29      4-33      3-41      2-28      1-9
 
21%      24%     29%      20%       6%

 

COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES

Over a five-year period from 2002-2006, students of Buffalo Seminary have  matriculated at the following colleges:

 

 
 

Agnes Scott
American
Baldwin Wallace
Barnard
Bates
Berklee    
Boston College (2)
Bowdoin
Bryn Mawr
Canisius (9)
Case Western Reserve
Clark (MA) 
Colby
Coll. of Charleston
Coll. of the Holy Cross (2)
Coll. of William & Mary
Columbia  
Cornell (3)
D’Youville 
Davidson (3)
Denison (4)
DePaul (2)
Dickinson 
Eckerd
Edinboro U. (PA)  
Elmira (2)
Elon (3)
Emerson
F.I.T. 
Fordham (2)
G. Washington U. (5)
Hamilton
Hampshire

 

Hollins
Hobart Wm. Smith (3)
Ithaca
James Madison 
John Carroll  
Lake Forest 
Loyola (IL) (4)
Loyola (MD (3)  
Lynn
M.I.T. (2)
Marietta (2)
McGill      
Mercyhurst
Michigan State (2)
Middlebury (2)
Morgan State
Nazareth
New York U.
Niagara (3)
Ohio Wesleyan (2)
Point Park
Princeton
Queen’s
R.I. School of Design
Rice
R.I.T.   
St. Bonaventure (4)
St. John Fisher (2)
St. Joseph’s  
St. Lawrence (4)
St. Michael’s (2)
Sarah Lawrence
Savannah Coll. Of Art & Design

 

Skidmore
Smith (2)        
SUNY     Buffalo (13)
             Buffalo St. (4)
             Fredonia (2)
             Geneseo (2)
             Oswego (2)
Swarthmore
Syracuse (3)
Temple  
Trinity (CT) (4)
Tufts
Tulane (2)
U. Chicago
U. Dayton (2)
U. Miami (2)
U. Michigan
U. North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
U. Notre Dame (2)
U. Pennsylvania 
U. Pittsburgh (3)
U. Richmond
U. Rochester
U. San Francisco
U. Sciences Philadelphia
U. Toronto (2)
U. Vermont
Union 
Wash. & Jefferson
Wellesley
Westmont
Wittenberg (2)
Yale(3)

 

 

 



 


 
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