College Counseling at AWS | Boarding School in Seattle WA

College Counseling at a Glance

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Grade 9: Laying the groundwork for a successful high school experience
- Select the most challenging courses appropriate to you.
- Explore extra-curricular activities such as sports teams, school activities or volunteer opportunities outside campus.
- With guidance and encouragement from faculty, develop a love for reading and writing.
- With guidance and encouragement from the 9th Grade Dean, focus on issues of wellness, study skills and time management.
- With your Academic Coach/ Advisor and the Director of College Guidance, evaluate your interests, activities, and strengths to set ambitious goals for the next school year.
Grade 10: Beginning to think seriously about college
- Continue to focus on appropriately rigorous academics and good study habits.
- Take the PSAT a year early, for practice.
- With support and encouragement from faculty, get involved in the life of the school and consider opportunities for leadership.
- With your parents, attend the sophomore International Baccalaureate & College Counseling night.
- With guidance from Academic Coach/ Advisor, identify and explore an area of interest and use the Spring Showcase as an opportunity to share it with the rest of the school.
- If you are interested in playing a sport in college, meet with Annie Wright’s Athletic Director to map out a plan for recruitment.
- With faculty guidance and support, evaluate your interests, activities, and strengths to set ambitious goals for the next school year and plan for an enriching summer.
Grade 11: Entering the heart of Annie Wright's college counseling
- Excel, with faculty guidance and support, at appropriately rigorous academic coursework. In addition to earning the AWS Diploma, students can pursue the full IB Diploma or IB Course Candidacy.
- Step into leadership roles in activities where you can make the most impact.
- Take the PSAT in October (scores will be submitted to the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for consideration) and a practice ACT.
- Work with your college counselor to create a customized plan for standardized testing in the spring and summer of junior year.
- Visit several college campuses and attend information sessions during several day trips in the spring with the junior class.
- Meet with college admissions officers that visit campus in the fall. (Some 75 colleges and universities visit the Annie Wright campus to meet with our students. Another 120 schools attend our independent school fall fair hosted in conjunction with Charles Wright Academy.)
- Start regular meetings with your college counselor to build a strong relationship and get individual advice on how to shape a tentative list of colleges.
- Participate in a 2-day case study and panel event with visiting college admission deans (this event is co-hosted with Charles Wright Academy).
- Together with your parents, meet with your college counselor to create a customized strategy for your college applications that meets your academic, financial and career goals.
- After a two-week essay-writing workshop in English class, write multiple college essay drafts before leaving for summer break.
- With the help of your college counselor, identify teachers for letters of recommendation, work through NCAA eligibility questions, shape a tentative list of schools and finalize summer enrichment opportunities.
Grade 12: Choosing a college
- Continue academically rigorous coursework throughout senior year, as your counselor will keep colleges updated on any exemplary performance.
- Register to take your final SAT and/or ACT exam.
- Meet with college admissions officers that visit campus in the fall, and when feasible, meet for an interview as part of your application. (Some 75 colleges and universities visit the Annie Wright campus to meet with our students. Another 120 schools attended our independent school fall fair hosted in conjunction with Charles Wright Academy.)
- Attend College Week, where you will: finalize the application list, review deadlines, workshop your activities list and resume, meet with an assigned essay advisor to fine-tune application essays, and meet with your counselor for a final review of all applications. (The vast majority of seniors are done with their applications after College Week.)
- Work with your teachers and college counselor to make sure all recommendation letters and applications materials are submitted on time.
- Make any final trips to visit colleges.
- Take any IB tests, as the vast majority of Annie Wright students score well enough on IB test to earn credit at colleges and universities.

College Acceptances

Graduates from 2018-2021 were accepted into the 4-year colleges listed below. 100% of Annie Wright students applying to U.S. colleges were accepted into four-year schools. Art schools are in italics and non-U.S. schools have an asterisk.

Aberystwyth University*

Agnes Scott College

Allegheny College

American University

Amherst College

Arizona State University

Art Center College of Design

Babson College

Bard College

Barnard College

Bates College

Baylor University

Beloit College

Bentley University

Berklee College of Music

Boise State University

Boston College

Boston University

Bowdoin College

Brandeis University

Brown University

Brunel University London*

Bryn Mawr College

Bucknell University

California College of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

California Lutheran University

California Polytechnic State University (San
Luis Obispo)

California State University (Long Beach)

California State University (Northridge)

Carleton College

Carnegie Mellon University

Carroll College

Carthage College

Case Western Reserve University

Central Washington University

Centre College

Chaminade University of Honolulu

Chapman University

Claremont McKenna College

Clark Atlanta University

Clark University

Clemson University

Coe College

Colby College

Colgate University

College of Charleston

Colorado College

Colorado School of Mines

Colorado State University (Fort Collins)

Columbia College (Chicago)

Concordia University (Irvine)

Connecticut College

Cornish College of the Arts

Dartmouth College

Davenport University

DePaul University

Dickinson College

DigiPen Institute of Technology

Drew University

Drexel University

Earlham College

Eastern Washington University

Eckerd College

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

(Daytona Beach)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
(Prescott)

Emerson College

Emory University

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The
New School

Fashion Institute of Technology

Florida Atlantic University

Florida State University

Fordham University

Franklin University Switzerland*

George Washington University

Georgetown University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia State University

Gettysburg College

Goldsmiths, University of London*

Gonzaga University

Goucher College

Grand Canyon University

Green Mountain College

Grinnell College

Hamilton College

Hampton University

Haverford College

Hawaii Pacific University

High Point University

Hofstra University

Hollins University

Howard University

Hult International Business School

Indiana University (Bloomington)

Ithaca College

James Madison University

Johns Hopkins University

Juniata College

Kenyon College

Knox College

La Sierra University

Lafayette College

Lake Forest College

Lawrence University

Leeds Beckett University*

Lehigh University

Lewis & Clark College

Linfield University

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University New Orleans

Macalester College

Manhattan College

Marist College

Maryland Institute College of Art

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

McDaniel College

McGill University*

McKendree University

Menlo College

Mercer University

Mercyhurst University

Michigan State University

Middlebury College

Mills College

Monash University*

Montana State University

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Saint Mary’s University

Muhlenberg College

Nagoya University*

New College of Florida

New York University

Northeastern University

Northwestern University

NYU Shanghai*

Oberlin College

Occidental College

Oregon State University

Otis College of Art and Design

Pace University (New York City)

Pacific Lutheran University

Pacific Northwest College of Art

Pacific University

Parsons School of Design at The New School

Peninsula College

Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University (Shreyer Honors College)

Pepperdine University

Pitzer College

Pomona College

Portland State University

Pratt Institute

Princeton University

Purdue University

Quest University*

Reed College

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rhodes College

Rice University

Rochester Institute of Technology

Roger Williams University

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Saint Anselm College

Saint Joseph’s University

Saint Martin’s University

Salve Regina University

San Diego State University

San Francisco State University

Santa Clara University

Sarah Lawrence College

Savannah College of Art and Design

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of Visual Arts

Scripps College

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle University

Seton Hall University

Sewanee: The University of the South

Simmons University

Skidmore College

Smith College

Southern Methodist University

Southern University and A&M College

St. John’s College (Annapolis)

St. John’s College (Santa Fe)

St. John’s University (New York)

St. Mary’s College of Maryland

St. Lawrence University

St. Olaf College

Stony Brook University

Suffolk University

SUNY College at Geneseo

SUNY University at Buffalo

Syracuse University

Texas A&M University

Texas Christian University

The American University of Paris*

The College of Idaho

The College of Wooster

The Evergreen State College

The Ohio State University

The University of Alabama

The University of Edinburgh*

The University of Montana

The University of Sheffield*

Trinity College

Tulane University of Louisiana

Union College

University of Alaska Fairbanks

University of Arizona

University of Birmingham*

University of Bristol*

University of British Columbia*

University of California (Berkeley)

University of California (Davis)

University of California (Irvine)

University of California (Los Angeles)

University of California (Riverside)

University of California (San Diego)

University of California (Santa Barbara)

University of California (Santa Cruz)

University of Central Florida

University of Chicago

University of Cincinnati

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Denver

University of Connecticut

University of Delaware

University of Denver

University of Florida

University of Georgia

University of Glasgow*

University of Hartford

University of Hawaii at Manoa

University of Idaho

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Iowa

University of La Verne

University of Maryland (Baltimore County)

University of Maryland (College Park)

University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

University of Massachusetts (Boston)

University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth)

University of Melbourne*

University of Miami

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

University of Nevada (Las Vegas)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

University of North Florida

University of Notre Dame

University of Oregon

University of Pennsylvania

University of Portland

University of Puget Sound

University of Redlands

University of Richmond

University of Rochester

University of San Diego

University of San Francisco

University of South Carolina

University of South Florida

University of Southern California

University of Sussex*

University of the Pacific

University of the Sciences

University of Toronto*

University of Utah

University of Vermont

University of Victoria*

University of Virginia

University of Washington (Bothell)

University of Washington (Seattle)

University of Washington (Tacoma)

University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire)

University of Wisconsin (Madison)

University of Wyoming

Utica College

Vanderbilt University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Wagner College

Waseda University*

Washington State University

Washington University in St Louis

Wellesley College

Wesleyan College

Western Washington University

Wheaton College

Whitman College

Whittier College

Whitworth University

Willamette University

William and Mary

Williams College

Wittenberg University

Xavier University of Louisiana

Yale University

Yale-NUS College*

For College Admission Professionals

We welcome you to visit our campus and meet our Juniors and Seniors this fall from September 12th to November 15th. All sessions are in person after academic hours, but when students are still required and/or encouraged to be on campus. We use SCOIR for scheduling. Please contact the Director of College Counseling, Scottie Hill (scottie_hill@aw.org) with any questions, or requests for virtual meetings.