College Counseling

It’s as much about the journey as the outcome. Fostering a collaborative experience for students and families while nurturing individual potential is at the core of the college counseling office.

Ravenscroft’s four-year college counseling program equips students with the skills and confidence to make an informed decision. Counselors encourage students to look at a broad range of colleges in order to find schools that best match students’ desires and capabilities. Our three full-time college counselors get to know students well and provide individualized attention to each Upper School student and their parents. The close partnership provides support and guidance, helping students make confident and informed decisions.

Four-year Program
College Acceptances in the Class of 2016/17
Colleges That Visited Ravenscroft in 2016/17

Four-year Program

Over the four-year relationship, the college counseling team provides guidance, support and resources for students from discovery and research to selecting a school that best matches the student’s desires and capabilities. Our four-year program provides grade-level appropriate programs and resources for students and families.

Through college nights tailored to freshmen through seniors, students gain insights from Ravenscroft’s college counselors and deans of college admissions into the college search and admission processes.
Regular small group student programs give students the additional time and space to ask questions and learn more from college counselors about the college application process. Freshmen complete a self-assessment in Naviance online research and planning tool, helping them reflect upon and identify their interests and goals. Junior-year seminars focus on the admissions process, resume development, essay writing and interviewing.
One-on-one meetings are held with students and families on an as-needed basis. The college counseling office also provides college essay support in conjunction with the English department, a comprehensive letter of recommendation for each senior and one-on-one interview practice for scholarship and admission interviews.
Special topic presentations throughout the year include Financing College where a financial expert shares information on financing options and the Annual College Alumni Forum where a panel of Ravenscroft college-age alumni answer questions from current students.

College Acceptances in the Class of 2016/17

Arizona State University	Northwestern University
Auburn University	Pace University
Boston College	Purdue University
Campbell University	Randolph College
Centre College	Reed College
Chinese Language Institute (Guilin, China)	Roanoke College
Christopher Newport University	Savannah College of Art and Design
Claremont McKenna College	The College of Wooster
Clarkson University	Trinity College Dublin
Clemson University	UNC at Asheville
College of William and Mary	UNC at Chapel Hill
Duke University	UNC at Chapel Hll
East Carolina University	UNC at Charlotte
Elon University	UNC at Wilmington
Emory University	University of Alabama
Fordham University	University of California, Los Angeles
Furman University	University of California, Santa Barbara
Guilford College	University of Kansas
Hampden-Sydney College	University of Minnesota
High Point University	University of Mississippi
Houston Baptist University	University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Howard University	University of Oxford, UK
Lehigh University	University of Richmond
Liberty University	University of South Carolina
Long Island University, Post	University of Virginia
McGill University	Villanova University
Meredith College	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
New York University	Wake Forest University
North Carolina Central University	Washington and Lee University
North Carolina State University	West Virginia Wesleyan College

Colleges That Visited Ravenscroft in 2016/17

American University

Appalachian State University

Arcadia University

Auburn University

Bates College

Belmont Abbey College

Birmingham-Southern College

Boston College

Boston University

Bryant University

Bucknell University

California Institute of Technology

Campbell University

Carleton College

Case Western Reserve University

Catawba College

Centre College

Champlain College

Clemson University

Colby-Sawyer College

Colgate University

College of Charleston

College of the Holy Cross

College of William and Mary

Connecticut College

Davidson College

Dickinson College

Drew University

Duke University

Durham University

Earlham College

East Carolina University

Eastern University

Eckerd College

Elon University

Emory University

Florida Southern College

Fordham University

Franklin University Switzerland

Furman University

George Mason University

Georgetown University

Georgia Southern University

Gettysburg College

Goucher College

Grinnell College

Guilford College

Hampden-Sydney College

Haverford College

High Point University

Hofstra University

Hollins University

Johns Hopkins University

Kalamazoo College

Lafayette College

Lenoir-Rhyne University

Long Island University

Loyola University Maryland

Lynchburg College

Lynn University

Macalester College

Marquette University

Mary Baldwin University

Mercer University

Meredith College

Merrimack College

Miami University, Oxford

Mount Holyoke College

New York University

North Carolina State University

Northeastern University

Northwestern University

Occidental College

Pace University, New York City

Princeton University

Providence College

Queens University of Charlotte

Randolph-Macon College

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rhodes College

Rider University

Ringling College of Art and Design

Roanoke College

Saint Joseph's University

Salem College

Samford University

Savannah College of Art and Design

Sewanee: The University of the South

Southern Methodist University

St. John's College

St. Lawrence University

Syracuse University

Texas Christian University

The American University of Paris

The Catholic University of America

The College of Wooster

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

The George Washington University

The Ohio State University

The University of Alabama

The University of Alabama in Huntsville

The University of Georgia

The University of Manchester

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Trinity College

Trinity College Dublin

Tufts University

United States Coast Guard Academy

University College Dublin

University of California, Berkeley

University of Chicago

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Glasgow

University of Mary Washington

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Miami

University of New Hampshire at Durham

University of Notre Dame

University of Richmond

University of Rochester

University of South Carolina

University of Southern California

University of St Andrews

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

University of Vermont

Ursinus College

Vanderbilt University

Vassar College

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Military Institute ROTC

Virginia Tech

Washington and Lee University

Washington College

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

Williams College

Wittenberg University

Wofford College

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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