Below is a partial list of the secondary schools that our students have attended as we have helped them map their college journeys.

SELECTED PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Choate Rosemary Hall (CT)
Hotchkiss School  (NH)
Phillips Andover  (MA)
Lawrenceville School (NJ)
Cate School (CA)
Holderness School (NH)
Northfield Mount Herman School (MA)
Germantown Friends School (PA)
Moses Brown School (RI)
Emma Willard School (NY)
Cushing Academy (MA)
Lawrence Academy (MA)
Brentwood School (BC, Canada)
Fountain Valley School (CO)
Bishop Fenwick HS (MA)
St. John’s Prep (MA)
Mid-Pacific Institute (HI)
Saint Thomas Academy (MN)
Colorado Academy (CO)
Kent Denver School (CO)
International School of San Francisco (CA)
Signature School (IN)
Prospect Hill Academy (MA)
Interlochen Arts Academy (MI)
Judge Memorial HS (UT)
Xavier HS (WI)
Harrow School (UK)
Woldingham School (UK)
Chinese International Schools (Hong Kong)
Shanghai American School (PRC)
Geelong Grammar Schools (Australia)
Anglo-Chinese School (Singapore)
Beijing 101 Secondary School (PRC)
American School of Muscat (Oman)

SELECTED USA PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS

We have worked with students attending some of the most competitive high schools in the country, many of whom have pursued Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) curricula.  We have worked with students who hail from just about every state in the country (we’re working to add Alaska and South Dakota!).  Below is just a sampling of the great schools where our students have attended.

NEW YORK

Scarsdale HS
Stuyvesant HS
Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women

MASSACHUSETTS

Lexington HS
Belmont HS
Hingham HS
Burlington HS
Ipswich HS
Needham HS
Bedford HS
Melrose HS
Somerville HS

CALIFORNIA

Pacific Palisades HS
Palos Verdes Peninsula HS
Westview HS
Cerritos HS
Woodcreek HS
Redlands East Valley HS
Rancho Cotate HS (CA)

NEW JERSEY

Ridgewood HS
Westfield HS
Cranford HS (NJ)
Metuchen HS (NJ)
Rumson / Fairhaven HS (NJ)

ILLINOIS

Buffalo Grove HS

COLORADO

Cherry Creek HS
Fairview HS
Boulder HS
Denver East
George Washington
Cheyenne Mountain HS
For more Colorado Schools, click here

MISSOURI

Clayton HS

MAINE

Yarmouth HS

UTAH

Snow Canyon HS

WYOMING

Laramie HS

NEBRASKA

Hastings HS
Scotch Plains Fairwood HS

TENNESSEE

Tullahoma HS

INDIANA

Indiana Academy for Science, Math, and Humanities
Munster HS

NORTH DAKOTA

West Fargo HS

PENNSYLVANIA

Lancaster HS

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Newmarket HS

DELAWARE

Cape Henlopen HS

SOUTH CAROLINA

JL Mann HS

TEXAS

Kempner High School

NEW MEXICO

Maya Gold

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When I was on a tour of Connecticut colleges recently, I asked a representative of the University of Bridgeport to identify the three most important aspects of her campus.  This is what she said.

College Consultant

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I gleaned some “crunchy nuggets” of information to share about the school. Here they are.

• SHU was begun in 1963 as a commuter school. Now it is primarily residential college with 3,400 full-time undergraduates and about 1,000 part-timers. The campus also serves 1,400 graduate students.
• Former GE CEO Jack Welch gave a bunch of money to the business school. It’s now named for him.
• Despite its small size, SHU offers NCAA Division I competition in 32 different sports. Including bowling. Basketball is the most popular spectator sport.
• SHU offers a bunch of different pre-professional majors: pre-Dental, pre-Law, pre-Optometry, pre-Osteopathic, pre-Pharmacy, pre-Physician’s Assistant, and pre-Veterinary. Health education is big, obviously, and nursing is offered. Business is also big.
• Community service seems to be an important aspect of student life here. Perhaps it’s a part of the religious focus here. Or perhaps it’s something in the water.
• Students vary in their religiosity on campus. If you want to focus on your faith, you certainly can. But not everyone chooses to focus. Plus there are students who come from different faiths. Nine credits in religious studies are required, but that requirement is flexible and includes some philosophy. So the requirement is not about Catholicism, but about faith as an integral aspect of life. That said, it’s a Catholic institution—if that is uncomfortable for you, perhaps there are better choices.
• SHU offers bingo once a week. Bingo. Prizes range from airline tickets to computer printers.
• Big Red, the Pioneer , is the mascot. He’s been on the scene for only three years.
• Sororities and fraternities are on the rise. Historically, about 5% of students have been Greek. But a bunch of national organizations have come onto campus, so the proportion of students going Greek has gone way up, and will likely continue to rise.
• Freshman year is very structured because of the common core that all students are required to take. Once you move to sophomore year, curricular choices become broader. Students who like the common core recognize that the requirements allow (and expect) that students will take subjects that are completely new to them. Thus students may very well change majors upon completing the core.

Mark Montgomery
College Consultant

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