During the spring of junior year, each student meets a member of the college counseling team to initiate the college planning process. After reviewing the student’s selection of senior courses, considering 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 is from July to 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, writing applications and completing 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 placement 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.
| Yale | 8 | Colby | 2 | Post-Graduate Year | 1 | ||
| Georgetown | 6 | Dartmouth | 2 | Princeton | 1 | ||
| Southern Methodist | 5 | Hamilton | 2 | Quinnipiac | 1 | ||
| U Notre Dame | 5 | Middlebury | 2 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | ||
| U Pennsylvania | 5 | U Vermont | 2 | Skidmore | 1 | ||
| Villanova | 5 | Wake Forest | 2 | SUNY Albany | 1 | ||
| Junior Hockey | 4 | Babson | 1 | Syracuse | 1 | ||
| Boston College | 3 | Berklee College of Music | 1 | U Chicago | 1 | ||
| Columbia | 3 | Bowdoin | 1 | U Colorado, Boulder | 1 | ||
| Duke | 3 | Colgate | 1 | U Connecticut | 1 | ||
| Harvard | 3 | College of the Holy Cross | 1 | U Michigan | 1 | ||
| MIT | 3 | Colorado College | 1 | U Mississippi | 1 | ||
| U North Carolina | 3 | Cornell | 1 | U Southern California | 1 | ||
| U Virginia | 3 | Lehigh | 1 | UC, Los Angeles | 1 | ||
| U Wisconsin | 3 | New York University | 1 | UC, Santa Barbara | 1 | ||
| Arizona State | 2 | New York University, Tisch | 1 | Undecided | 1 | ||
| Brown | 2 | Northeastern | 1 | ||||
| Bucknell | 2 | Ohio State | 1 |
| Georgetown University | 26 | Trinity College | 11 | George Washington University | 4 | ||
| University of Pennsylvania | 23 | Wake Forest University | 11 | Lehigh University | 4 | ||
| Yale University | 22 | Bucknell University | 10 | New York University | 4 | ||
| Duke University | 18 | Brown University | 9 | Northeastern University | 4 | ||
| Boston College | 17 | Cornell University | 7 | U.S. Naval Academy | 4 | ||
| Princeton University | 17 | University of Miami | 7 | University of Denver | 4 | ||
| Dartmouth College | 14 | University of Southern California | 7 | Washington University | 4 | ||
| Middlebury College | 14 | Colgate University | 6 | Boston University | 3 | ||
| University of Virginia | 14 | Hamilton College | 6 | Bowdoin College | 3 | ||
| University of Wisconsin | 14 | Indiana University | 6 | Elon University | 3 | ||
| University of Michigan | 13 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 6 | Sacred Heart University | 3 | ||
| University of Notre Dame | 13 | University of Connecticut | 6 | Santa Clara University | 3 | ||
| Villanova University | 13 | University of Richmond | 6 | St. Lawrence University | 3 | ||
| Junior Hockey | 12 | Amherst College | 5 | Tulane University | 3 | ||
| Southern Methodist University | 12 | Colby College | 5 | University of Vermont | 3 | ||
| University of Chicago | 12 | Columbia University | 5 | ||||
| Harvard University | 11 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 5 |
| Arizona State University | Case Western University | Rhode Island School of Design | ||
| Carnegie Mellon University | Central Connecticut State University | Rutgers University | ||
| College of William & Mary | Claremont McKenna College | Seton Hall University | ||
| Colorado College | Clemson University | Skidmore College | ||
| Denison University | College of the Holy Cross | St. Andrews University | ||
| Gap Year | College of William & Mary/St. Andrews | Stony Brook University | ||
| Hobart & William Smith Colleges | Concordia University Quebec | SUNY Albany | ||
| Northwestern University | Connecticut College | Trinity College, Dublin | ||
| Penn State University | Dickinson | Union College | ||
| Quinnipiac University | Emory | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Fordham University | University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| Stanford University | Haverford College | University of Massachusetts Amherst | ||
| Syracuse University | Howard University | University of New England | ||
| Texas Christian University | IDC Herzliya College | University of New Haven | ||
| Tufts University | Imperial College, London | University of North Dakota | ||
| University of California, Berkeley | Johns Hopkins University | University of Oregon | ||
| University of Colorado, Boulder | Louisiana State University | University of Rochester | ||
| University of Mississippi | Miami University, Ohio | Vassar College | ||
| University of Texas, Austin | New York University, Tisch | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | ||
| Babson College | Ohio State University | Washington & Lee University | ||
| Bard College | PG | Williams College | ||
| Berklee College of Music | Pace University | YIP Sweden | ||
| Binghamton University | Pepperdine University | |||
| Brigham Young University | Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute |