College Counseling

FAMILY CONNECTION

In many ways, the college application process really mirrors the Kent experience. It is student-centered, balanced, thoughtful and thorough. You'll start getting ready for college admission as soon as you start at Kent. Our rigorous college preparatory curriculum is a big part of your preparation, but there are other elements as well. For example, we push you to continually strengthen your independent study habits, and there are many great opportunities to take on leadership positions and define multiple roles for yourself in the community. Every aspect of the Kent experience contributes to making you a strong college candidate. In fact, among college admission officers, Kent students have a reputation for being particularly self-assured, with a strong work ethic and a zest for learning.

When you reach the fifth form (your junior year), your college search becomes more formal and guided. During the winter term, you will enroll in a College Seminar, a seven-week overview of the college application process. You will also begin regular individual meetings with one of four college counselors who will guide you in the college selection process. You will continue to work closely with your college counselor to explore your many interests, both academic and extracurricular, as a means to discover the best possible college match for you.

Your College Counselor will also spend time with your parents and keep them involved in the process through a series of conversations, workshops and newsletters.

In addition to weekly classes and individual meetings, you and your family will use an innovative web-based management tool which will help you manage this complex process and provide you with a wealth of support and information about colleges and universities. This program allows you and your parents to conduct extensive college searches, review five years of Kent college admission data, store confidential academic and personal information and manage your college process electronically from anywhere in the world.

As a result of these many meetings, information gathering and reflection, the college counselors will come to know you very well, help you develop a balanced college list and will advocate strongly on your behalf throughout the application process. Your faculty advisor, along with your college advisor and the Studies Office, will monitor your class selection to ensure you’re taking maximum advantage of the opportunities at Kent to position yourself competitively, and there are professional SAT prep classes held right on campus. Workshops about college admission and a college fair are major events during your fourth and fifth form Parents' Weekends, and every fall more than a hundred college admission officers come to campus so you can meet with them in person.

These are just some of the respected colleges and universities to which Kent students have recently been offered admission:

American University Amherst College Babson College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Bentley University Binghamton University Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Claremont McKenna College Clark University Clemson University Colby College Colgate University College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross College of William and Mary Colorado College Columbia University Columbia University, Columbia College Columbia University-School of Engineering and Applied Science Concordia University Connecticut College Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Denison University Dickinson College Duke University Elon University Emerson College Emory University Fairfield University Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College Furman University Georgetown University George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology Gettysburg College Grinnell College

Hamilton College - NY Harvard University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Holy Cross College Howard University Ithaca College Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lake Forest College Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Loyola College in Maryland Loyola Marymount University Macalester College Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University Middlebury College Mount Holyoke College New York University Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Ohio Wesleyan University Parsons School of Design, New School University Pennsylvania State University, University Park Pepperdine University Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University Providence College Queen's University Quinnipiac University Reed College Rhode Island School of Design Rhodes College Roanoke College Sacred Heart University Saint Michael's College Santa Clara University Sewanee: The University of the South Skidmore College Smith College Southern Methodist University St. Lawrence University Stanford University Swarthmore College

Syracuse University The University of Texas, Austin Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University Union College United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy University of California at Berkeley University of Chicago University of Colorado at Boulder University of Connecticut University of Delaware University of Denver University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Maryland, College Park University of Miami University of Michigan University of New Hampshire University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Richmond University of Rochester University of Southern California University of St. Andrews (Scotland) University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington Vanderbilt University Vassar College Villanova University Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Wesleyan University Wheaton College Williams College Yale University