 | The college counseling program at The Hockaday School is as individual as each of our students. Four full-time college counselors support our students and their parents, meeting with them regularly throughout the college research and application process. Our goal is for each student to find and be admitted to colleges that meet her personal interests, ensuring the most successful college career possible.
While the formal college counseling process begins in the junior year, we know families have questions throughout the Upper School years. To best serve parents of younger students, we host a series of coffees throughout the year specifically designed to offer guidance and answer questions in advance of the junior year.
When the junior year arrives, parents and students are introduced to the college process and encouraged to begin by attending College Previews, one of the largest college fairs in the city, and by learning from the many college representatives who visit Hockaday throughout the fall.
In the second semester of the junior year, counselors engage students in a process of self-reflection. Through personal interviews and anecdotes from parents, counselors begin to learn what students’ hopes and dreams are. The college research process, while guided by the college counselors, is primarily driven by the student’s growing awareness of her own interests and strengths and is conducted with the goal of finding colleges that are a good match for the student as an individual.
By the time the college application season arrives in the fall of the senior year, students have been educated about every element of that process and can prepare their applications confident that they are presenting themselves as personally as possible to colleges which they are eager to attend. When decisions are returned, our college admission list is always as varied as our student body. Once more, at this last stage of the process, the college counselors listen to and guide students toward their final decision. Each year we watch our bright young women go on to begin their brilliant lives at the colleges of their choice.
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| | In the past three years, Hockaday students have attended colleges including: American University
Amherst College
Auburn University
Babson College
Baylor University
Belmont University
Birmingham-Southern College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bryant University
Bucknell University
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Claremont McKenna College
Clemson University
Colgate University
College of Charleston
College of William & Mary
Columbia University
Connecticut College
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Drexel University
Duke University
Eckerd College
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Georgetown University
Hampshire College
Harding University
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
Hendrix College
Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo De Mexico
Johns Hopkins University
Lehigh University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College
Manhattan College
McGill University
Middlebury College
Midwestern State University
New York University
North Carolina State University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Occidental College
Ohio Northern University
Oxford College of Emery University
Parsons The New School for Design
Pepperdine University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Princeton University
Purdue University
Reed College
Rhodes College
Rice University
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Rollins College
Saint Louis University
Santa Clara University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Scripps College
Sewanee: The University of the South
Smith College
Southern Methodist University
St. Edward's University
St. Mary's University of San Antonio
Stanford Univeristy
Swarthmore College
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University, Galveston
Texas Christian University
Texas Tech University
The Catholic University of American
The George Washington University
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of Scranton
The University of Texas, Austin
The University of Texas, San Antonio
The University of Texas, Tyler
Trinity University
Tufts University
Tulane University
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Delaware
University of Georgia
University of Houston
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Mississippi
University of Missouri Columbia
University of Notre Dame
University of Oklahoma
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
University of Texas
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
Washington University
Yale University |
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