Last Friday, the senior class gathered to celebrate their college admission accomplishments and announce where they plan to enroll in our annual Admission Accomplished event. It was a morning full of positive buzz and energy and I share the excitement with our students!
We did things a little differently this year, allowing students to submit a personalized picture for a slide show that is now running in the lobby on our new digital screen (posted outside the Principal's office where the old bulletin board used to be). For the past few years, we had done a paper map posted on the bulletin board with students writing their name on a 8.5in x 2 in slip of paper to share with the community where students planned to enroll. This year, with the removal of the bulletin board, the DOE's change with the cell phone policy, and the school's BYOD internet initiative, we took a risk and tried this new version to allow for increased student creativity and ownership of this event that simultaneously embraces technology in our every changing world. Students submitted a wide variety of slides and I've had a great time looking at how many different ways students opted to share their decisions. The old paper map has been replaced with digital slides with dots indicating on a map where students plan to enroll. There is also a paper list divided by geographical region that is up next to the screen for those who don't want to wait for the slideshow to run its course. The paper map version of Admission Accomplished always posed a challenge for regions with high concentrations of students, where stickers would cover up entire cities (or states) making it very hard to decipher the locations they were trying to represent. The idea with the slides was to give every student an equitable chance to share their enrollment choice (and use a little creativity along the way). I know change can be hard, but I thank those students who were upset with the change for coming to talk to me about it directly. Coping with change is a really important life skill for college (and beyond)!
As with every year, some students opt not to participate in the public announcement of where they are going to attend school in the fall. There are many reasons why a person might opt out and I respect their decision. I never force anyone to broadcast their enrollment choice. However, I know how curious everyone is to hear where the Class of 2015 has been admitted and where they are going so please enjoy the list below that lists all the colleges where this class was admitted.
College names in bold indicate that at least one student plans to enroll there next fall.
| Adelphi University |
| Alfred University |
| Allegheny College |
| American University |
| Arcadia University |
| Babson College |
| Bard College |
| Baruch College of the CUNY |
| Bates College |
| Binghamton University |
| Borough of Manhattan Community College of the CUNY |
| Boston College |
| Boston University |
| Brandeis University |
| Brooklyn College of the CUNY |
| Bryant University |
| Bryn Mawr College |
| Bucknell University |
| California State University, Fresno |
| California State University, Long Beach |
| California State University, Sacramento |
| Champlain College |
| Chapman University |
| City College of New York CUNY |
| Clark University |
| Clarkson University |
| College of Staten Island |
| Columbia University |
| Cornell University |
| CUNY - New York City Technical College |
| CUNY-Macaulay Honors College |
| DePauw University |
| Dickinson College |
| Drew University |
| Drexel University |
| Earlham College |
| Eckerd College |
| Elon University |
| Emerson College |
| Emory University |
| Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts |
| Fairfield University |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| Florida Institute of Technology |
| Florida State University |
| Fordham University |
| Franklin University Switzerland |
| George Mason University |
| Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Goucher College |
| Grinnell College |
| Guttman Community College |
| Hamilton College - NY |
| Hampshire College |
| Hunter College of the CUNY |
| Indiana University at Bloomington |
| Iowa State University |
| Ithaca College |
| James Madison University |
| John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the CUNY |
| Johns Hopkins University |
| Johnson & Wales University |
| Juniata College |
| Kenyon College |
| Lafayette College |
| Lehigh University |
| Lehman College of the CUNY |
| Lewis & Clark College |
| Loyola University Chicago |
| Lynn University |
| Manhattan College |
| Maryland Institute College of Art |
| Miami University, Oxford |
| Michigan State University |
| Monmouth University |
| Mount Holyoke College |
| Muhlenberg College |
| New York City College of Technology |
| New York Institute of Technology - Manhattan |
| New York Institute of Technology - Old Westbury |
| New York University |
| North Carolina State University |
| Northeastern University |
| Northwestern University |
| Oberlin College |
| Occidental College |
| Pace University, New York City |
| Paul Smith's College |
| Pennsylvania State University, Erie: The Behrend College |
| Pennsylvania State University, University Park |
| Purchase College State University of New York |
| Purdue University |
| Queens College of the CUNY |
| Quinnipiac University |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Rice University |
| Ringling College of Art and Design |
| Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| Saint Louis University |
| San Francisco State University |
| Savannah College of Art and Design |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Shenandoah University |
| Sheridan College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning |
| Siena College |
| Simmons College |
| Skidmore College |
| Smith College |
| St. John's University - Queens Campus |
| State University of New York at Albany |
| State University of New York at New Paltz |
| Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Stony Brook University |
| SUNY College at Brockport |
| SUNY College at Cortland |
| SUNY College at Geneseo |
| SUNY College at Oneonta |
| SUNY College at Potsdam |
| SUNY Fredonia |
| SUNY Oswego |
| SUNY Polytechnic Institute |
| Swarthmore College |
| Syracuse University |
| Temple University |
| The College of Wooster |
| The George Washington University |
| The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute |
| The Ohio State University |
| The University of Alabama |
| The University of Arizona |
| The University of Iowa |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| The University of Scranton |
| The University of Tampa |
| Towson University |
| Tufts University |
| Tulane University |
| Union College |
| University at Buffalo The State University of New York |
| 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 California, Santa Cruz |
| University of Chicago |
| University of Colorado at Boulder |
| University of Connecticut |
| University of Delaware |
| University of Hartford |
| University of Hawaii at Hilo |
| University of Illinois at Chicago |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| University of Kentucky |
| University of Maine |
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| University of Maryland, College Park |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| University of Miami |
| University of Michigan |
| University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| University of New England |
| University of New Hampshire |
| University of New Haven |
| University of North Carolina at Wilmington |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| University of Pittsburgh |
| University of Puget Sound |
| University of Rhode Island |
| University of Richmond |
| University of Rochester |
| University of San Francisco |
| University of South Florida, Tampa |
| University of Southern California |
| University of St. Andrews |
| University of Vermont |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Vassar College |
| Villanova University |
| Virginia Tech |
| Warren Wilson College |
| Waseda University- Japan |
| Washington University in St. Louis |
| Wellesley College |
| West Virginia University |
| Wheaton College MA |
| York College of the CUNY Here here for the Class of 2015!! |
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