Admission Accomplished 2017

Congratulations to the Class of 2017 on their exciting admission results and enrollment decisions!

Earlier this month, we created our annual bulletin board to visually represent where the senior class will be headed next fall.

Below you will find the list of colleges where our seniors were admitted. If the school is listed in bold that indicates at least one student plans to enroll for the Fall. Please note, this list is based on self-reported results in Naviance. There remain students who have not updated their accounts, so there may be additional schools that are not shown here.

Adelphi University

Allegheny College

American University

Amherst College

Arizona State University

Babson College

Bard College

Barnard College

Barry University

Baruch College of the CUNY

Bates College

Baylor University

Bennington College

Binghamton University

Borough of Manhattan Community College of the CUNY

Boston College

Boston University

Bowdoin College

Brandeis University

Brooklyn College of the CUNY

Bryn Mawr College

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Case Western Reserve University

Champlain College

City College of New York CUNY

City University of New York

Claremont McKenna College

Clark University

Clarkson University

Colgate University

College of New Rochelle

College of Staten Island - CUNY

Connecticut College

Cornell University

CUNY-Macaulay Honors College

Davidson College

Drew University

Drexel University

Elon University

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

Emerson College

Emory University

Fairfield University

Fordham University

Franklin & Marshall College

George Mason University

Georgetown University

Gettysburg College

Goucher College

Grinnell College

Hamilton College - NY

Hampshire College

Hawaii Pacific University

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hofstra University

Hunter College of the CUNY

Indiana University at Bloomington

Iona College

Ithaca College

John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the CUNY

Lafayette College

Lawrence University

Lehigh University

Lehman College of the CUNY

Lewis & Clark College

Long Island University, Post

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola University Maryland

Macalester College

Manhattan College

Marquette University

McDaniel College

McGill University

Michigan State University

Mount Holyoke College

New York City College of Technology

New York University

Northeastern University

NYU Shanghai

Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences

Occidental College

Oxford College of Emory University

Pace University, New York City

Pennsylvania State University

Pratt Institute

Purchase College State University of New York

Purdue University

Queens College of the CUNY

Quinnipiac University

Reed College

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rice University

Rochester Institute of Technology

Roger Williams University

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Saint Louis University

San Diego State University

San Francisco State University

Sarah Lawrence College

Scripps College

Siena College

Skidmore College

Smith College

Southern Connecticut State University

St. John's University - Queens Campus

St. Lawrence University

State University of New York at Albany

State University of New York at New Paltz

Stevens Institute of Technology

Stony Brook University

SUNY Buffalo State College

SUNY College at Cortland

SUNY College at Geneseo

SUNY College at Oneonta

SUNY Oswego

SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Syracuse University

Temple University

The College of New Jersey

The George Washington University

The Ohio State University

The University of Arizona

The University of Edinburgh

The University of Scranton

The University of Texas, Austin

Tufts University

Tulane University

Union College (New York)

University at Buffalo The State University of New York

University College Dublin

University of British Columbia

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, San Diego

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Connecticut

University of Delaware

University of Florida

University of Hartford

University of Maine

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

University of Massachusetts, Boston

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

University of Miami

University of Michigan

University of New Hampshire at Durham

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of Puget Sound

University of Richmond

University of Rochester

University of South Carolina

University of Southern California

University of St Andrews

University of Toronto Undergraduate Only

University of Vermont

University of Virginia

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Ursinus College

Vassar College

Villanova University

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

Wesleyan University

Wheaton College MA

Williams College

Day 3 - Ohio Six Tour - Denison and Kenyon

Kenyon College

I apologize for the delay in getting this post up. Traveling home after a long day of tours and then returning to work resulted in things being a little behind schedule.

Our final day of the Ohio Six tour included visits to Denison University and Kenyon College.

Denison College

My impression of Denison is that it is a wonderful and vibrant place that is also nimble enough to make changes when they are needed. Case in point, they have launched 7 new majors recently, 5 within just the past year. These include relevant modern day interdisciplinary majors like: Data Analytics, Non Fiction Writing, and Financial Economics. They also just broke ground on a new performing arts center, a gift from Michael Eisner, of Disney fame (and also Denison Class of 1964). As part of our information session, a quote was shared that Andrew Delbanco made about the purpose of college being to help people become reflective citizen. Denison sees this as its mission and they seem to be doing a very nice job. For some context, the Robin Williams character in Dead Poets Society was based on a real life Denison professor.

Denison is small - the average class size is under 18 and the entire campus has about 2,250 students. It is a relationships based school, with strong career services, and an ideal location with a small town that is situated only about half an hour from a major metropolitan area (Columbus). Maybe more than any school in recent memory, Denison's President, Adam Weinberg, is fully integrated into campus life for both faculty and students. Our tour guide sends him texts. He has memorized the student body and can address most of them by first name. Another panelist emailed him to talk about his career path and a face to face meeting was arranged.

They admitted that the decisions garnered by Denison don't always make sense. They aren't solely driven by test scores or GPA. Instead, they say they are seeking the kind of students you'd want your own kids to date or be friends with. They do have Early Decision and the odds of admission are significantly higher through this path (as is true at many schools, so not a huge surprise there).

The physical campus is situated on a hill, so if you aren't a person who enjoys walking uphill, that might be a detractor. But otherwise, for students seeking a dynamic and friendly small liberal arts college, this is one to investigate.

Middle Path at Kenyon

Our final stop on the tour was Kenyon College. Kenyon is a good home for quirky kids who don't necessarily stick to just one 'subgroup' socially. Their fraternity brothers are also artists. Their athletes might also be in the orchestra. Those who are not intellectually curious need not apply and yet those who constantly obsess to get perfect grades will probably not be happy here either because grade grubbing isn't looked upon highly. This helps the applicant pool be self selecting and they are perfectly fine with that. Many of their overlap peer schools are located on the East Coast.  In fact, when I myself was walking around the campus physical plant reminded me very much of Middlebury in Vermont - expansive quads with mainly historic academic and residential buildings. There is also a dirt walkway called the middle path going down the center of campus connected the school to the nearby small town (with a post office, bookstore, and food establishments).

Only about 11-12% of students at Kenyon are from Ohio, so their is a national presence on campus. Their flagship program is often considered to be English/Writing but, as with most super high quality liberal arts schools, I'm not sure you can really go wrong in any discipline.

Thank you so much to the Ohio Six for hosting me (and my other school counselor colleagues). I learned so much and will now be able to better advise my students about this Ohio college options.