1. Class 11 Parents’ College Night November 30, 2016
Karey L. Boals, Director of College Guidance
Elise M. Rodriguez, Director of College Guidance
Samara C. Antolini, Assistant to College Guidance

3. Partnership

4. THEN and NOW Higher Education Landscape How things have changed since you applied to college.

5. Applications
THEN
NOW
PAPER & PEN
COMMON APPLICATION

6. College List
THEN
NOW
2-3 applications
10-15 applications

7. Enrollment Numbers
THEN
NOW

8. Regular Decision and Early Decision
Marketing
THEN
NOW
Rolling Priority Regular Decision Early Decision Early Decision II Early Action Restrictive Early Action
Regular Decision and Early Decision

9. Enrollment Management
THEN
NOW
Director of Admission
Vice President of Enrollment Management, Marketing, and Communications

10. It’s rough out there, you’ve read about that
Particularly rough for girls, as there are more college bound girls
NYers, plenty of them
Last year the admit rate was 36%

11. The Junior Year
You have a slightly different handout; it’s bright green with an impt timeline.
Lot of info on my slide…
How we see your daughters?
How do we see your daughters. Class—seeing your daughters in class, very small groups that continues weekly until the end of senior year. Individual meetings start in January with your daughters. Family meetings start in April…family meetings are always done with your daughters…
by the way, we don’t split the girls, we share them….
What do we do with them this year? Get to know them, help them make decisions about standardized testing, talk about college research, interview workshop, writing workshops, really whatever they need. We concentrate heavily in individual meetings on list building, that is deciding where they will apply. We will get to that soon tonight…
Course registration—we are part of the process of course registration and will help your daughters pick senior year curriculum along with their academic advisors.
PSAT scores
Other events—christoph in January, Interschool College Night, College Alumnae Day, the Fair

12. Summer Boot Camp College Essay and Common App “Boot Camp”
August 14-16, TBD – with Chapin faculty
What will be accomplished
Common App
Near final draft of Personal Statement
Reasons to join us
Dedicated time – no sports, no rehearsals, no homework! (does not conflict with pre-season or peer retreat)
Lots of fun while accomplishing a huge task
Guest Speaker

13. Admissions Factors Transcript Grades in all subjects
Rigorous curriculum—college prep courses
Admission test scores—SAT/ACT with writing and Subject Tests or Test Optional
Extracurricular/work/volunteer activities
School recommendation (written by College Guidance and Head of School)
Teacher recommendations (2 academic teachers from Class 11 or Class 12)
Personal statement or writing sample & supplemental essays, if required
Demonstrated Interest
Interview
Hook

14. Testing ACT plus writing or SAT Take practice tests
By the end of Class 11
At least ONE full ACT plus writing or SAT
Two Subject Tests (Latin only offered in December & June)
Opportunities in Fall of Class 12
October if applying EA/ED or Rolling
September – December for Regular Decision

15. ACT/SAT Test Prep Offerings
ZINC
Small Group Classes*
COMPASS
Online Private Tutoring
13 classes, 4 practice tests
Classes held at Chapin on Fridays, 3:30-5:00 PM**
Cost: $650
Financial aid available for families who receive aid at Chapin
*Pending enrollment numbers
**Practice tests are off-site on Sundays at 9:00 AM
Private online sessions – including practice tests
Average # of sessions: 8-12
Cost: $180 per hour
Financial aid available for families who receive aid at Chapin
Submit registration forms by December 15

16. List Development
List development—the list is the protection—it is your daughter’s armor, she must be protected and she must have a range of schools.
We work on the list from January to November, it needs to be finalized in November and it’s not final until you sign it, we sign it and your daughters sign it.
Your daughters MUST want to go to every school on their list
You must be willing to send them to any school
Ms. Boals and I must feel the list gives good options….
Will apply to 8-12 SCHOOLS APPROXIMATELY
HOW DO WE GET THERE?????
Myths—concerns…we never say you can’t apply somewhere…but we will be honest…
We are going to see your daughters individually in Jan and we will start to work on lists.
they will get three version of a list.
One in late jan or early feb/the second before spring break/the third after spring break
This is not me and ms. Boals making the list. This is you, your daughter, her friends, and us making the list…
We get to know your daughters
We get to know schools
We do our best, there’s no forcing
We’re not going to put all the ivies on, they find those anyway…we’re trying to educate them, can’t just put twenty schools on they’ve heard of….we have to have a process…..
How we put schools on their lists????
They come in with schools they or you would like to explore
Who am I/another form to learn more about their interests
We meet with them and we know them so we pick others….
Start broad, if they say no CA, they might one on anyway, if they say big , they still get a small, if they say no women’s colleges, they get one….they get a range.
At first, they are in three categories, A B C…/later they will be color-coded
Your daughters first list may bear no resemblance to the final list she does in November….it’s a place to start.
So we give her the list and she goes and does research and she comes back, we make a list; and again with the 2nd list to the 3rd list, except you might have done some visits in there.

17. Naviance

18. Next Step Options
REACH (5-7 schools)
Far Reach (<25%); Realistic Reach (<35%)
POSSIBLE (3-5 schools)
(40%-60%)
OPTIMISTIC (2-3 schools)
(>75%)
Far Reach:
Realistic Reach:
Admissions Selectivity
Far Reach
Realistic Reach
Possible
Optimistic
Min of 2 Optimistic Schools/ 15 schools Max
Guidelines:
15 School Maximum
Optimistic: 2-3 schools (minimum 2 schools)
Possible: 3-5 schools
Reach: 5-7 schools
Motto: Only apply to schools you are happy to attend!

19. Far Reach – Princeton University
# of applications = 29,303
# of students admitted = 1,911
Admit rate = 6.5%
156 students admitted from NY
Over 49 countries represented in the class
59.8% of the class admitted from Public Schools
16.7% from Independent Schools
9.4% of the class had a 4.0 GPA
Less than 2.3% had below a 3.5 GPA

20. Far Reach – Northwestern University
Total # of applications = 35,099 # of applications admitted = 3,756 Admit rate = 10.7% % of class admitted in Early Decision = 50% Over 100 countries represented in the class Middle 50% SAT (CR&M) = Middle 50% ACT = 31-34

21. Realistic Reach = University of Richmond
# of applications = 10,422
# of applications admitted = 3,382
Admit rate = 32.4%
% of class admitted in Early Decision = 40%
59% of the class admitted from Public High Schools
35 countries represented in the class
Middle 50% GPA
33% of the class coming from the Mid-Atlantic - region most represented

22. Early Applications It is a step stool, not an extension ladder
The most important thing to remember about
Early Decision and selective Early Action:
It is a step stool, not an extension ladder

23. Visiting Colleges

24. Financial Aid
Ms. Boals…

25. Colleges To Which Chapin Students Have Applied (2012-2016)
Adelphi University Allegheny College American University The American University of Paris Amherst College Arizona State University The University of Arizona Babson College Bard College Barnard College Baruch College of the CUNY Bates College Bennington College Binghamton University Universita Bocconi Boston College Boston Conservatory at Berklee Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University University of Bristol Brooklyn College of the CUNY Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University Butler University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz University of Cambridge Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University University of Central Florida Chapman University College of Charleston University of Chicago City College of New York CUNY Claremont McKenna College Clark University

26. Colleges To Which Chapin Students Have Applied (2012-2016)
Clemson University Colby College Colgate University University College London University of Colorado at Boulder Colorado College Columbia College Chicago Columbia University Connecticut College University of Connecticut Cornell University Macaulay Honors College - CUNY Dartmouth College Davidson College University of Delaware Denison University University of Denver Dickinson College Drew University Drexel University Duke University Durham University University of Edinburgh Elon University Emerson College Emory University Fairfield University Florida State University University of Florida Fordham University Franklin & Marshall College George Mason University George Washington University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology The University of Georgia Gettysburg College Goucher College Grinnell College Hamilton College University of Hartford Harvard University Harvey Mudd College Haverford College University of Hawaii at Manoa High Point University

27. Colleges To Which Chapin Students Have Applied (2012-2016)
Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hofstra University College of the Holy Cross Howard University Hunter College of the CUNY University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Indiana University at Bloomington Ithaca College James Madison University John Jay College of Criminal Justice - CUNY Johns Hopkins University The Juilliard School Juniata College University of Kent University of Kentucky Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Maryland Loyola University New Orleans Lynn University Macalester College Marist College University of Mary Washington University of Maryland, College Park Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, Boston McDaniel College McGill University Miami University, Oxford University of Miami Michigan State University University of Michigan Middlebury College Muhlenberg College New England Conservatory of Music University of New Hampshire at Durham University of New Mexico University of New Orleans New York University

28. Colleges To Which Chapin Students Have Applied (2012-2016)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Northeastern University Northwestern University University of Notre Dame Oberlin College Occidental College Ohio Wesleyan University The University of Oklahoma Pace University University of the Pacific Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University Providence College University of Puget Sound Purdue University Queens College - CUNY Reed College Rhode Island School of Design Rhodes College Rice University University of Richmond Roanoke College University of Rochester Rutgers University The College of Saint Rose San Diego State University University of San Francisco Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Sewanee: The University of the South Skidmore College Smith College University of Southern California Southern Methodist University Spelman College University of St Andrews St. John's University St. Lawrence University Stanford University SUNY Albany SUNY Buffalo SUNY Cortland

29. Colleges To Which Chapin Students Have Applied (2012-2016)
SUNY Geneseo SUNY New Paltz SUNY Purchase SUNY Stony Brook University Susquehanna University Swarthmore College Syracuse University The University of Tampa Temple University The University of Texas, Austin The New School The Ohio State University University of Toronto Trinity College Trinity College Dublin Tufts University Tulane University Union College Ursinus College Vanderbilt University Vassar College University of Vermont Villanova University Virginia Commonwealth University University of Virginia Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Washington College Washington University in St. Louis University of Washington Wellesley College Wesleyan University West Virginia University Wheaton College College of William and Mary William Paterson University Williams College University of Wisconsin, Madison Yale University

30. Enjoy the process!