In the College Office, we are focused on supporting you and your family through the journey of finding, applying, and enrolling in college.
Through individual conversations, extensive programming, and personalized connections, we meet with every student. We listen carefully to understand you and your goals, and to help cultivate a list of schools where you feel you will belong. We serve as your advocate and ally during the process, and provide guidance in understanding the diversity of options available.
Choosing a college is like picking a home—a place where you feel comfortable being completely yourself.
Halle Knutson, Occidental College
Your relationship with the College Office begins in the eighth and ninth grades, when we help you plan courses in line with your post-SSSAS goals. In tenth grade, we meet with you and your family, introduce you to SCOIR (our college search management software and strength and career exploration tool), and welcome you to college fairs and information sessions. Through one-on-one meetings in eleventh grade, we help you to discover institutions that match your goals, and provide step-by-step guidance on navigating the application process, including test prep, essay writing, and interviewing. In twelfth grade, you and your counselor check in at least weekly (sometimes daily) as you submit those college applications!
More than 50 years of combined experience.
We are experts and we’re happy to share all we know face-to-face, in monthly newsletters, and through frequent information nights, coffees, and videos on topics from standardized testing to financial aid, athletic recruiting to ROTC.
We keep abreast of the changing admissions landscape, and we have wonderful relationships with colleges and universities, who know and think highly of SSSAS graduates. Over 150 college reps visit us in a typical year to get to know our students and our school.
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Our students enroll in colleges and programs as excellent and diverse as they are—from major research universities to liberal arts colleges, service academies to art and music schools, around the country and around the world.
Ultimately, this is your college journey, but we’ll be with you every step of the way, as resources, guides, cheerleaders, and partners. Together we’ll help you find the college that will challenge you, excite you, and where you will thrive.
American University | American University of Rome | Auburn University | Bates College | Boston College | Boston University | Brown University | Bryant & Stratton College | Bucknell University | Case Western Reserve University | Charleston Southern University | Chatham University | Christopher Newport University | Clemson University | Colgate University | College of Charleston | College of the Holy Cross | College of William & Mary | Colorado Mesa University | Colorado School of Mines | Columbia University | Concordia University (Canada) | Connecticut College | Cornell University | Davidson College | Denison University | Dickinson College | Drexel University | East Carolina University | Elon University | Fordham University | Franklin & Marshall College | George Mason University | Georgetown University | Georgia Tech | Gettysburg College | Gonzaga University | Harvard University | Haverford College | High Point University | Howard University | Indiana University | James Madison University | Johns Hopkins University | Lafayette College | Lehigh University | Long Island University | Loyola Marymount University | Loyola University (MD) | Loyola University (New Orleans) | Mercer University | Merrimack College | Miami University (Ohio) | Michigan State University | Morehouse College | Mt. St. Mary’s University (MD) | New York University | Northwestern University | NOVA Community College | Oberlin College | Oklahoma City University | Oxford College @ Emory University | Pennsylvania State University | Providence College | Purdue University | Randolph-Macon College | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Rochester Institute of Technology | Savannah College of Art & Design | Sewanee: University of the South | Shaw University | Shenandoah University | Shepherd College | Skidmore College | Southern Methodist University | Spelman College | St. Francis University (PA) | Stevens Institute of Technology | Stevenson University | SUNY-Buffalo | Swarthmore College | Syracuse University | Temple University | Tennessee State University | Texas A&M University | Texas Christian University | The Ohio State University | Towson University | Trinity College (CT) | Tulane University | Union College | United States Air Force Academy | United States Naval Academy | University of Alabama | University of Arizona | University of Buffalo | University of California – Irvine | University of California – Santa Barbara | University of California – Los Angeles | University of California| – Santa Cruz | University of Chicago | University of Colorado – Boulder | University of Dayton | University of Delaware | University of Denver | University of Florida | University of Hartford | University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign | University of Kentucky | University of Lynchburg | University of Maryland – Baltimore County | University of Maryland – College Park | University of Maryland – Baltimore County | University of Miami (FL) | University of Michigan | University of Mississippi | University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill | University of Notre Dame | University of Oregon | University of Pennsylvania | University of Richmond | University of South Carolina | University of Southern California | University of Tennessee | University of Texas at Austin | University of Utah | University of Vermont | University of Virginia | University of Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin – Madison | Villanova University | Virginia Commonwealth University | Virginia Tech | Wagner University | Wake Forest University | Washington & Lee University | Washington University in St. Louis | Wesleyan University | West Virginia University | Wofford University | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Wyoming Seminary Prep/Lafayette College | Yale University
For College Admission Representatives
We'd love to have you visit us! To schedule a visit, please do so via our Scoir calendar or email Libby Weith at [email protected].