College Counseling

Central to our mission of preparing students for success in college, our college counseling office, staffed by Jennifer Dryfoos and Story Leonard, seeks to make the best possible match between each student and a college.  Our track record speaks for itself: Prep graduates attend a wide range of colleges and universities across the country, and occasionally around the world.

Our most popular colleges and universities in the last five years include:  University of New Mexico (9), University of San Francisco (7), Whitman (7), George Washington (6), New York University (6), University of British Columbia (5), Lewis & Clark (5), Middlebury (5), Pomona (5), Stanford (5), University of Vermont (5), Wesleyan (5), Bard (4), Barnard (4), Brown (4), University of California at Santa Cruz (4), Colorado College (4), University of Colorado (4), Tufts (4), and Vassar (4).

Students from the last five graduating classes have attended these colleges and universities:  Amherst (2), Bard (4), Barnard (4), Bates, Boston College, Boston U, Bowdoin (2), Brown (4), Bryn Mawr, Bucknell (2) Cal Arts, Cal Poly, College of Charleston, Claremont McKenna (2), Clark, Colby (3), Colgate (2), Colorado College (4), Colorado State, Columbia (2), Connecticut College (2), Cornell (2), Dartmouth (3), Duke, Earlham, Eckerd, George Washington (6), Georgetown, Goucher (2), Hamilton, Hampshire (3), Hartt School of Music, Harvard (2), Haverford, Hawaii Pacific (2), Institute of American Indian ARt, Knox (2), Lake Forest, Lewis & Clark (5), Loyola Marymount (2), Loyola/New Orleans (3), Macalester (2), Marymount (2), McGill, Menlo, Middlebury (5), Mount Holyoke, New Mexico State, New York U (6), Northeastern, Northwestern (3), Oberlin, Occidental (2), Pitzer (2), Pomona (5), Princeton (2), RPI, Richmond/London, Rollins (3), St. Andrew’s, St. John’s College, Santa Clara (3), College of Santa Fe (3), Sarah Lawrence (2), Scripps (3), Seattle U, Skidmore, Smith (2), Southwestern, Stanford (5), Texas Tech, Trinity U, Tufts (4), Tulane, University of British Columbia (5), California/Irvine, California/Santa Barbara (3), California/Santa Cruz (4), Chicago (2), Colorado/Boulder (4), Delaware, Denver (3), Kansas, Miami (3), Missouri, New Mexico (9), Oregon (3), Pennsylvania (2), Puget Sound (3), Richmond, San Diego (2), San Francisco (7), South Dakota, Southern California (3), Vermont (5), Washington, Vassar (4), Washington U, Wesleyan (5), Whitman (7), Willamette, Williams (2), and Yale (2).