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.
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.
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.
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.
Information for College Representatives
Scheduling Visits
The Lawrenceville School is currently scheduling in-person college visits for fall 2024. Visits will run from September 12 through October 25 and will be scheduled at 9:45 am Monday through Friday, and at 1:00 pm on Tuesdays and Fridays. If you are interested in scheduling a time to meet with our students, please email collegecounseling@lawrenceville.org.
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 6
Bates College 5
Boston College 16
Boston University 8
Bowdoin College 5
Brown University 21
Bucknell University 13
Carnegie Mellon University 12
Case Western Reserve University 8
Claremont McKenna College 6
Colby College 13
Colgate University 11
Colorado College 5
Columbia University 11
Cornell University 22
Dartmouth College 16
Davidson College 9
Dickinson College 7
Duke University 20
Fordham University 7
Franklin and Marshall College 7
Georgetown University 42
Georgia Institute of Technology 5
Hamilton College 8
Harvard University 23
Indiana University (Bloomington) 8
Johns Hopkins University 13
Lehigh University 32
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9
Middlebury College 10
New York University 37
Northeastern University 17
Northwestern University 18
Penn State University (University Park) 8
Princeton University 36
Purdue University 9
Rutgers University (New Brunswick) 9
Southern Methodist University 16
Stanford University 12
Syracuse University 14
Trinity College 6
Tufts University 22
Tulane University of Louisiana 8
Union College 9
United States Millitary Academy at West Point 6
United States Naval Academy 5
University of California (Berkeley) 10
University of Chicago 19
University of Denver 5
University of Miami 12
University of Michigan 17
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9
University of Pennsylvania 32
University of Richmond 6
University of Southern California 15
University of St. Andrews 6
University of Texas at Austin 6
University of Virginia (Main Campus) 19
University of Wisconsin (Madison) 11
Vanderbilt University 5
Villanova University 9
Wake Forest Univeristy 17
Washington and Lee University 5
Washington University in St. Louis 9
Wesleyan University 11
William and Mary 5
Williams College 8
Yale University 18
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.