College Counseling

Nightingale's college counselors provide highly individualized guidance through the college admissions process. Long before the start of the formal admissions process, however, our Upper School leadership team develops relationships with students and works with them on course selection as early as ninth grade. Throughout their Nightingale years, students are encouraged to challenge themselves in the classroom, to develop passion and expertise in their extracurricular interests, and to search for ways to contribute to the good of their community.

By the time the process of identifying prospective colleges begins officially in the junior year, students and their college counselors will have worked together for several years. Individual and small group meetings with students and parents focus on understanding the application process, researching colleges, writing essays, preparing for college interviews, and engaging in honest self-assessment.

College Matriculation: Class of 2011

Barnard College
Bates College (3)
Brown University
Bucknell University
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College (2)
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Fordham University
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Kenyon College (2)
Lafayette College (3)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College
New York University
Northwestern University (2)
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Parsons, The New School for Design
SUNY New Paltz
University of Pennsylvania (2)
University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
Skidmore College
Vassar College
University of Vermont
Villanova University
Wake Forest University
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
The College of William and Mary
Yale University

Number of students attending colleges and universities listed below, 2006–2011
Representative sample

10
Brown University

8
Kenyon College

7
Duke University, University of Pennsylvania

6
Columbia University, Vanderbilt University

5
Harvard University, Oberlin College, Yale University

4
Bates College, Dartmouth College, Haverford College, Northwestern University, Williams College

3
Cornell University, Davidson College, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Lafayette College, Macalester College, University of Michigan, New York University, University of St. Andrews (UK), Vassar College, Washington University in St. Louis

2
Amherst College, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury College, Princeton University, Rhode Island School of Design, Stanford University

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