College Counseling

College Counseling

The goal of the College Counseling Office is to support, inform, and encourage students and their families as they navigate the exciting, complex, and ever-changing process of college admissions.

Over the course of their Lawrenceville careers, families and students receive information through grade-specific newsletters, class-wide meetings, Parent Weekend programming, publications such as college counseling guides, and other communications designed to maximize a student’s Lawrenceville experience.

Download the Underformer's Guide to College Counseling

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Lawrenceville’s college counseling program is designed to be an extension of the active learning that takes place each day in the classroom around the Harkness table, in the Houses, on the athletic fields, and throughout campus. Lawrenceville’s college counselors offer decades of professional experience both as secondary school counselors and as college admissions officers. This degree of experience from both sides of the admission process enables the college counseling staff to provide valuable and timely advice to families as the process unfolds and to help students effectively present their abilities, talents, and experiences to the colleges.
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Junior Year

As juniors, or Fourth Formers, students begin a series of college-related standardized testing and launch a self-reflective process with their dedicated counselor in preparation for college research. Students visit colleges during spring and summer, attend on-campus college fairs with more than 100 colleges represented, and meet individually with college counselors to discuss their goals and aspirations. Students and their college counselors work together to develop a list of college options for active research and consideration while gaining an understanding of the current landscape and aligning their strengths and interests with the most appropriate selections.
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Senior Year

In their senior year, Fifth Form students work with their college counselors to develop final lists with an eye for fit and selectivity and begin to focus on the final details of the application process.
 
 
Fall Term
College admissions counselors visit the School to meet with groups of interested students and/or to conduct individual interviews during the fall term, while counselors work closely with Fifth Formers on their essays in order to refine their self-presentation.
Winter Term

College counselors and students then work in concert through November and December to finalize a college list that comprehensively connects to students’ personal attributes, supports their intellectual endeavors, and provides them with exciting options for their undergraduate study.

Spring Term

When the college search concludes in the spring, Fifth Formers leave Lawrenceville with a sense of satisfaction for what they have accomplished, a healthy dose of enthusiasm for advanced study and community engagement in college, and the individual resources necessary to have an enriching experience in colleges and universities around the world.

Our Graduates

This list represents institutions where five or more Lawrentians have matriculated in the last five years. Each year Fifth Form students receive guidance and apply with success to a diverse and broad range of colleges and universities, including HBCUs, U.S. Service Academies, competitive merit-award programs such as the Jefferson and Morehead-Cain Foundation, institutions that award significant merit and need-based financial aid, well as international universities in the U.K., the Pacific Rim, Australia, and Canada.

 

Amherst College 6
Babson College 9
Barnard College 5
Boston College 18
Boston University 14
Bowdoin College 9
Brown University 26
Bucknell University 14
Carnegie Mellon University 13
Case Western Reserve University 8
Clemson University 5
Colby College 8
Colgate University 8
College of the Holy Cross 6
Columbia University 28
Cornell University 42
Dartmouth College 8
Davidson College 8
Dickinson College 7
Duke University 20
Fordham University 7
Franklin and Marshall College 5
Georgetown University 30
Hamilton College 9
Harvard University 25
Indiana University (Bloomington) 8
Johns Hopkins University 14
Lafayette College 5
Lehigh University 18
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7
Middlebry College 11
New York University 41
Northeastern University 19
Northwestern University 16
Oberlin College 5
Penn State University 6
Princeton University 32
Purdue University 8
Rice University 5
Rutgers University 9
Southern Methodist University 13
Stanford University 14
Syracuse University 19
Trinity College 7
Tufts University 21
Tulane University 5
Union College 8
United States Naval Academy 5
University of California (Berkeley) 8
University of Chicago 21
University of Colorado (Boulder) 5
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) 6
University of Miami 12
University of Michigan 19
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) 10
University of Pennsylvania 36
University of Richmond 7
University of Southern California 12
University of St. Andrews 8
University of Texas 10
University of Virginia 11
University of Wisconsin 10
Vanderbilt University 7
Villanova University 10
Wake Forest University 16
Washington University in St. Louis 10
Wesleyan University 5
William and Mary 8
Williams College 8
Yale University 13

College Counseling Transfer Student Request

Please fill out the following to have your credentials sent to colleges to apply for transfer student status.

IMPORTANT: Please allow 5-7 business days for your request to be processed. Be sure to submit your request well in advance of transfer application deadlines.

For questions, please call the College Counseling Office at (609) 895-2042.