Academics
College Counseling
The college counseling program at Hockaday is as individual as each of our students. Four full-time college counselors support 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 freshman and sophomore students, we host a series of coffees throughout the year specifically designed to offer guidance and answer questions in advance of the junior year. In addition, the college counseling team will visit form meetings to speak to freshmen and sophomore students about standardized testing, planning their courses, their summer activities and other relevant topics. Many sophomores will choose to attend College Previews, one of the largest college fairs in the city.
The college counseling program becomes even more robust in the junior year, beginning with an informational meeting for all juniors and their parents. Students may meet with college representatives who visit Hockaday in the fall, they can opt to take a mock ACT on campus, they and their parents can attend workshops on topics related to college admission, such as the financial aid process, standardized testing, visual and performing arts portfolios and auditions, and collegiate athletics. In addition, college admission deans will offer their candid advice on the admission process at the annual College Deans Panel.
In the second semester of the junior year, while the counseling program continues to offer topical workshops, the college counselors begin to engage students in a process of self-reflection. Through personal interviews and anecdotes from parents, counselors learn their students’ hopes and dreams. 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 with the confidence 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.
2020 – 2021 College Profile
The college counseling program at The Hockaday School is as individual as each of our students.
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College Matriculation - Past Three Years
| Acadia University |
| American University |
| Amherst College |
| Austin College |
| Barnard College |
| Bates College |
| Belmont University |
| Boston College |
| Boston University |
| Bowdoin College |
| Brown University |
| Bryn Mawr College |
| California Institute of Technology |
| California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo |
| Carnegie Mellon University |
| Case Western Reserve University |
| Chapman University |
| Claremont McKenna College |
| Colgate University |
| Colorado State University-Fort Collins |
| Columbia University |
| Cornell University |
| Dartmouth College |
| Davidson College |
| DePaul University |
| DePauw University |
| Duke University |
| Eastfield College |
| Elon University |
| Emory University |
| Endicott College |
| Fordham University |
| George Mason University |
| George Washington University |
| Georgetown University |
| Georgia College - Milledgeville |
| Harvard College |
| Hendrix College |
| Holy Cross College |
| Indiana University-Bloomington |
| Johns Hopkins University |
| Louisiana State University |
| Loyola University Chicago |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Middlebury College |
| Mount Holyoke College |
| New York University |
| Northeastern University |
| Northwestern University |
| Norwich University |
| Oklahoma State University |
| Olin College of Engineering |
| Oxford College of Emory University |
| Pepperdine University |
| Pitzer College |
| Pomona College |
| Princeton University |
| Providence College |
| Purdue University |
| Rhodes College |
| Rice University |
| Rutgers University |
| Santa Clara University |
| Sewanee: The University of the South |
| Smith College |
| Southern Methodist University |
| Southwestern University |
| St. Edward's University |
| St. John's College |
| Stanford University |
| Syracuse University |
| Texas A&M University |
| Texas Christian University |
| The American University of Paris |
| The College of Wooster |
| The New School |
| The University of Alabama |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| The University of Texas, Arlington |
| The University of Texas, Austin |
| The University of Texas, Dallas |
| Trinity College |
| Trinity College Dublin |
| Trinity University |
| Tufts University |
| Tulane University |
| University of Arkansas |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
| University of California, Santa Cruz |
| University of Chicago |
| University of Colorado Boulder |
| University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| University of Houston |
| University of Kansas |
| University of Miami |
| University of Michigan |
| University of Missouri |
| University of North Texas |
| University of Northern Iowa |
| University of Notre Dame |
| University of Oregon |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| University of Pittsburgh |
| University of Redlands |
| University of Richmond |
| University of Rochester |
| University of San Diego |
| University of South Carolina |
| University of Southern California |
| University of St Andrews |
| University of Toronto |
| University of Tulsa |
| University of Washington |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Vanderbilt University |
| Villanova University |
| Wake Forest University |
| Washington and Lee University |
| Washington University in St Louis |
| Wellesley College |
| Wesleyan University |
| Wheaton College |
| Williams College |
| Xavier University of Louisiana |
| Yale University |
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