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When college prep schools boast about their students getting into prestigious colleges, the story often ends there. Athenian believes in preparing students for life, not just college. To this end, we strive to make the college search and application process into a time for reflection.
Our three full-time college counselors work collaboratively with parents, teachers and advisors to ensure that the student remains the focus. We recognize that in the current climate, college admissions can be extremely anxiety-producing, but it can also be a wonderful experience of self-discovery. We strive to facilitate the college admissions process in a way that allows students to explore their college options with an open mind and enroll at a school where they will find their place and thrive.
We offer a comprehensive college counseling program devoted to developing in our students the confidence and skills required to meet the complexities of their futures. The Athenian college counseling team offers a program that promotes self-exploration, goal-setting and portfolio building. With a 30:1 student to counselor ratio, Athenian students begin working with a counselor in the spring semester of their 10th grade year.
In an ever-changing college admission environment, we are here to stay up on the latest trends and offer sound guidance to our students, including bringing colleges to our campus to share the incredible breadth of options available (We host more than 100 college admission officers on our campus every year).
We hope the information here helps answer questions you might have whether you are considering attending Athenian or preparing to start the college process.
Thank you for your interest in visiting Athenian in Fall of 2025. We have two options available to you, both of which can be scheduled using Maia Visits.
| College Nights | |
|---|---|
| Arrival and Set-up | 5:45 PM |
| Dinner & Program | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
These evening programs typically draw 80 students/parents on average, providing an excellent opportunity to connect with more of our students and families in a meaningful way. If one of these dates is an option for you, we encourage you to join us for a College Night in lieu of a day visit. The evening will include dinner, a panel presentation, Q&A, and a college fair format to wrap up the evening. You can sign up by using Maia Visits starting in late summer.
Although we encourage you to take advantage of our college night programs, if one of these dates does not fit into your travel schedule, you are welcome to schedule a day visit (in-person or virtual).
Please only schedule a College Night OR Day Visit, not both.
If you have questions, please contact College Counseling
In the past four years, (2022-2025), Athenian graduates have most often entered the following colleges and universities:
- Barnard College (3)
- Boston University (12)
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (3)
- CSU Long Beach (3)
- Chapman University (6)
- Cornell University (4)
- Dartmouth College (3)
- Emory University (5)
- Georgetown University (3)
- Lafayette College (3)
- Lehigh University (3)
- New York University (7)
- Northeastern University (13)
- Northwestern University (3)
- Occidental College (10)
- Pitzer College (3)
- Purdue University (7)
- Rice University (3)
- Santa Clara University (10)
- Tulane University (5)
- UC Berkeley (11)
- UC Davis (12)
- UC Irvine (8)
- UCLA (14)
- UC Riverside (4)
- UC San Diego (6)
- UC Santa Cruz (5)
- University of Chicago (3)
- University of Colorado, Boulder (3)
- University of Illinois (3)
- University of Miami (3)
- University of Oregon (4)
- University of Pennsylvania (3)
- University of Southern California (8)
- University of Washington (6)
- University of Wisconsin (3)
- Washington University, St. Louis (11)
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (3)
- Yale University (4)
2 each to:
- Arizona State University
- CSU Chico
- Case Western Reserve University
- Claremont McKenna College
- George Washington University
- Indiana University
- Las Positas College
- Lewis & Clark College
- Loyola Marymount University
- Merritt College
- Middlebury College
- Reed College
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Saint Mary’s College (CA)
- San Diego State University
- Skidmore College
- Smith College
- Southern Methodist University
- Syracuse University
- University of Edinburgh (UK)
- University of Texas
- UC Santa Barbara
- University of Hawaii
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina
- University of Rochester
- Virginia Tech
1 each to:
- American University
- Amherst College
- Art Center College of Design
- Babson College, Bard College
- Baylor University
- Bentley University
- Berklee College of Music
- Boston College
- Bowdoin College
- Brandeis University
- Brigham Young University
- Brown University
- Bryn Mawr College
- Bucknell University
- Butler University
- California Institute of Technology
- CSU Monterey Bay
- CSU San Marcos
- Carleton College
- Chabot College
- Colorado School of Mines
- Columbia University
- Constructor University (Germany)
- Cuesta College
- DePaul University
- Diablo Valley College
- Dickinson College
- Elon University
- Emerson College
- Emory University-Oxford College
- Endicott College
- Hamilton College
- Harvey Mudd College
- Haverford College
- Hofstra University
- Howard University
- Ithaca College
- Kenyon College
- Lawrence University
- McGill University
- Milwaukee School of Engineering
- Morehouse College
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Northern Arizona University
- Oberlin College
- Ohio State University
- Otis College of Art & Design
- Pennsylvania State University
- Pomona College
- Pratt Institute
- Princeton University
- Quinnipiac University
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Rhodes College
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Rutgers University
- San Jose State University
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Scripps College
- Seattle University
- Sonoma State University
- Stanford University
- Swarthmore College
- Texas A&M
- The American University of Paris
- The New School
- Trinity College
- Tufts University
- University of Arizona
- University of Connecticut
- University of Denver
- University of Maryland
- University of Puget Sound
- University of Redlands
- University of San Diego
- University of the Pacific
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington & Lee University
- Wellesley College
- Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Western Washington University
- Williams College
The College Counseling team hosts a variety of events throughout the year. While some of these events are grade-level meetings just for those students and families, others are open to the entire Upper School community. We also partner with other schools and organizations to offer broad access to topics such as college athletics, financial aid, and more. Many events are virtual. To see a sampling of these events, go to our school calendar and put "college" in the search function.
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