During the spring of junior year, each student is invited to meet with a member of the college counseling team to initiate the college planning process. After reviewing the student’s selection of senior courses, confirming his testing plans, and discussing his personal questionnaire, the counselor and student begin to generate a list of potential colleges to pursue.
This initial college list serves as a foundation for the college search, but it is updated, added to, and changed throughout the process. In many cases, this initial list is quite large and will require further clarification of preferences on the student’s part.
After careful research and more discussion, the student begins to plan campus visits. The optimum time for visiting and interviewing is in late August or early September. Once school has begun, seniors are granted college visiting days as needed.
The final list, indicating where each student will apply, will be generated following another meeting with each senior in the early fall.
Students then begin organizing application requirements for each school and writing applications and essays. Our philosophy is to let a student be in charge of his own process and to encourage him to use the advice of the guidance office as often as needed. It is crucial that parents guard against taking over the process.
Since much of the application process occurs at home, parents are encouraged to monitor their son’s progress and to alert us immediately if they see any significant signs of procrastination.
Involvement of the college counselors will continue until late spring, when every student has made a final decision. The College Placement Office prides itself on being supportive of our students every step of the way.
| Boston College | 8 | Bard College | 1 | Pepperdine University | 1 | ||
| Georgetown University | 8 | Binghamton University | 1 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 | ||
| Dartmouth College | 4 | Bowdoin College | 1 | Rutgers University | 1 | ||
| Middlebury College | 4 | Brown University | 1 | Sacred Heart University | 1 | ||
| University of Chicago | 4 | Carnegie Mellon University | 1 | Southern Methodist University | 1 | ||
| University Notre Dame | 4 | Claremont McKenna College | 1 | Trinity College | 1 | ||
| University Wisconsin | 4 | Clemson University | 1 | Tufts University | 1 | ||
| Villanova University | 4 | Colorado College | 1 | Tulane University | 1 | ||
| Yale University | 4 | Concordia University | 1 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | ||
| Princeton University | 3 | Cornell University | 1 | University of Denver | 1 | ||
| University of Michigan | 3 | Denison University | 1 | University of New England | 1 | ||
| University of Pennsylvania | 3 | Duke University | 1 | University of New Haven | 1 | ||
| University Virginia | 3 | Elon University | 1 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 1 | ||
| Wake Forest University | 3 | Hamilton College | 1 | University of Richmond | 1 | ||
| Colgate University | 2 | Lehigh University | 1 | University of St. Andrews | 1 | ||
| Harvard University | 2 | Louisiana State University | 1 | U.S. Naval Academy | 1 | ||
| Indiana University, Kelley School | 2 | Miami University | 1 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | 1 | ||
| Santa Clara University | 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | William & Mary | 1 | ||
| University of Connecticut | 2 | Northwestern University | 1 | YIP Sweden | 1 | ||
| University of Texas | 2 | New York University | 1 | ||||
| Amherst College | 1 | Pace University | 1 |
| Georgetown University | 23 | Junior Hockey | 9 | George Washington University | 4 | ||
| University of Pennsylvania | 22 | University of Richmond | 9 | Hamilton College | 4 | ||
| Boston College | 19 | University of Southern California | 9 | Northwestern University | 4 | ||
| Duke University | 19 | University of Notre Dame | 8 | U.S. Naval Academy | 4 | ||
| Princeton University | 18 | Villanova University | 8 | Boston University | 3 | ||
| Yale University | 18 | Washington University | 8 | Colby College | 3 | ||
| University of Virginia | 16 | Colgate University | 7 | William & Mary | 3 | ||
| Dartmouth College | 15 | Cornell University | 7 | Elon University | 3 | ||
| Middlebury College | 14 | University of Connecticut | 7 | Lehigh University | 3 | ||
| University of Chicago | 13 | University of Miami | 7 | Northeastern University | 3 | ||
| University of Michigan | 13 | Amherst College | 6 | Sacred Heart University | 3 | ||
| Trinity College | 12 | Indiana University | 6 | St. Lawrence University | 3 | ||
| Wake Forest University | 12 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5 | Tulane University | 3 | ||
| University of Wisconsin | 11 | New York University | 5 | University of California, Berkeley | 3 | ||
| Bucknell University | 10 | Santa Clara University | 5 | University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | ||
| Southern Methodist University | 10 | Stanford University | 5 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 3 | ||
| Brown University | 9 | University of Denver | 5 | ||||
| Harvard University | 9 | Williams College | 5 |
| Berklee College of Music | Hobart & William Smith Colleges | Texas Christian University | ||
| Brigham Young University | IDC Herzliya College | Union College | ||
| Carleton College | Imperial College, London | University of Massachusetts Amherst | ||
| Case Western University | Johns Hopkins University | University of Mississippi (Honors College) | ||
| Central Connecticut State University | Long Island University, Post | University of North Dakota | ||
| Columbia University | Penn State University | University of Oregon | ||
| Davidson College | Purdue University | University of Rochester | ||
| Denison University | Quinnipiac University | University of Vermont | ||
| Dickinson College | Rhode Island School of Design | Vassar College | ||
| Emory University | Rhodes College | Wagner College | ||
| Fordham University | Seton Hall University | Washington & Lee University | ||
| Gap Year | Stony Brook University | Washington College | ||
| Haverford College | Syracuse University | William & Mary/St. Andrews | ||
| Howard University | Trinity College, Dublin |
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