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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 | 5:15 PM |
| Dinner & Program | 5:30 PM - 8:30 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, (2023-2026), Athenian graduates have most often entered the following colleges and universities:
- Barnard College (3)
- Boston University (12)
- Chapman University (4)
- Cornell University (4)
- Dartmouth College (3)
- Diablo Valley College (3)
- Emory University (5)
- Georgetown University (3)
- Lehigh University (4)
- Loyola Marymount University (3)
- New York University (10)
- Northeastern University (10)
- Northwestern University (4)
- Occidental College (12)
- Pitzer College (2)
- Purdue University (9)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (3)
- San Diego State University (5)
- Santa Clara University (12)
- Scripps College (3)
- St. Mary’s College CA (3)
- Tulane University (5)
- University of California, Berkeley (13)
- University of California, Davis (10)
- University of California, Irvine (8)
- University of California, Los Angeles (4)
- University of California, Riverside (5)
- University of California, San Diego (3)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (6)
- University of Colorado, Boulder (3)
- University of Miami (FL) (3)
- University of Michigan (5)
- University of Pennsylvania (4)
- University of Southern California (11)
- University of Washington (6)
- University of Wisconsin (4)
- Washington University, St. Louis (11)
- Yale University (3)
2 each to:
- California State University, Chico (2)
- California State University, Long Beach (2)
- Case Western Reserve University (2)
- George Washington University (2)
- Harvey Mudd College (2)
- Haverford College (2)
- Indiana University (2)
- Las Positas College (2)
- Lewis and Clark College (2)
- Ohio State University (2)
- Oregon State University (2)
- Pitzer College (2)
- Pomona College (2)
- Rice University (2)
- San Jose State University (2)
- Skidmore College (2)
- Smith College (2)
- Southern Methodist University (2)
- Swarthmore College (2)
- Tufts University (2)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (2)
- University of Chicago (2)
- University of Edinburgh (UK) (2)
- University of Hawaii, Manoa (2)
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2)
- University of Oregon (2)
- University of Rochester (2)
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2)
1 each to:
- American University (1)
- Amherst College (1)
- Arizona State University (1)
- Art Center College of Design (1)
- Babson College (1)
- Bentley College (1)
- Berkeley City College (1)
- Boston College (1)
- Bowdoin College (1)
- Brandeis College (1)
- Brigham Young University (1)
- Brown University (1)
- Bryn Mawr College (1)
- Bucknell University (1)
- California Polytechnic Institute at SLO (1)
- California State University, Monterey Bay (1)
- Carleton College (1)
- Chabot College (1)
- Claremont McKenna College (1)
- Colorado School of Mines (1)
- Columbia University (1)
- Constructor University (Germany) (1)
- Cuesta College (1)
- Dickinson College (1)
- Elon University (1)
- Emerson College (1)
- Emory University - Oxford College (1)
- Endicott College (1)
- Hamilton College (1)
- Hofstra University (1)
- Johns Hopkins University (1)
- Kenyon College (1)
- Lafayette College (1)
- Lawrence University (1)
- Marist University (1)
- Merritt College (1)
- Middlebury College (1)
- Milwaukee School of Engineering (1)
- Morehouse College (1)
- New Jersey Institute of Technology (1)
- Northern Arizona University (1)
- Oberlin College (1)
- Otis College of Art & Design (1)
- Pepperdine University (1)
- Princeton University (1)
- Quinnipiac University (1)
- Reed College (1)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1)
- Rhode Island School of Design (1)
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1)
- Seattle University (1)
- Sophia University (Japan) (1)
- Stanford University (1)
- Steven’s Institute of Technology (1)
- Syracuse University (1)
- Texas A&M (1)
- The New School (1)
- The University of British Columbia (CAN) (1)
- The University of Texas at Austin (1)
- Trinity College (1)
- University of Arizona (1)
- University of Connecticut (1)
- University of Denver (1)
- University of Maryland (1)
- University of Puget Sound (1)
- University of Redlands (1)
- University of San Francisco (1)
- University of the Pacific (1)
- Vassar College (1)
- Virginia Tech (1)
- Washington & Lee University (1)
- Wellesley College (1)
- Wentworth Institute of Technology (1)
- Wesleyan University (1)
- Williams College (1)
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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