College Counseling

Kate Lucas '16, Attending Trinity College

Coming from SSSAS, where I loved the culture of service, learning about different backgrounds and experiences, I was drawn to a mission-driven college where I have the opportunity to engage with the values of service diversity, interreligious understanding, justice and more. Finding a college with a culture that fits your personal beliefs is the best way to find balance in your life.

Bespoke College Counseling

Making a “good fit” between students and colleges is the key to good college counseling. At SSSAS, we take it a step further, helping students make custom fits. Our team creates this personalized experience because we get to know our students the same way we know colleges and the search process—very, very well.

Your relationship with the College Office begins in the eighth and ninth grades, when we help you plan courses in line with your post-SSSAS goals. In tenth grade, we meet with you and your family, introduce you to SCOIR (our college search management software and its interest inventory), and welcome you to college fairs and information sessions.

Starting in eleventh grade, you’re paired with one of our three dedicated college counselors (also the junior class deans). Through one-on-one meetings and regular contact, they help you to discover and research varied institutions to suit your needs and to navigate the application process, including test prep, essay writing, and interviewing. In twelfth grade, you and your counselor check in at least weekly (sometimes daily).

We don’t expect families to know about college admissions. With over 50 years combined experience, we’re the experts, and we’re happy to share all we know face-to-face, in our monthly newsletter, and through frequent information nights, coffees, and videos on topics from athletic recruiting to ROTC, standardized testing to financial aid. We keep abreast of the changing admissions landscape and have great relationships with many colleges, who know and think highly of SSSAS graduates. Over 150+ college reps visit us in a typical year.

Results don’t lie. Our students enroll in colleges and programs as excellent and diverse as they are—from major research universities to liberal arts colleges, service academies to art and music schools, around the country and around the world. Ultimately, you will own your college search, but we’ll be with you every step of the way, as resources, guides, cheerleaders, and partners. Together we’ll help you find the college that will challenge, excite, and fit you to a T.

Class of 2021 College Fast Facts

Meet the College Counseling Team

List of 3 members.

Dr. Michael Carter

Director of College Counseling

(703) 212-2773
Mr. Tim Doyle

Associate Director of College Counseling

(703) 212-2772
Ms. Elizabeth Weith

Associate Director of College Counseling

703-212-2939

For College Admission Representatives
We'd love to have you visit us! To schedule a visit, please do so via our Scoir calendar or email Libby Weith at eweith@sssas.org.

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Colleges & Universities Our Graduates Attend

In the past five years, our graduates have enrolled in the following colleges and universities:

Alvernia University
American University (5)
Amherst College
Auburn University (4)
Babson College
Barton College
Bates College (2)
Boston College (5)
Boston University (2)
Brown University (3)
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University (6)
Butler University
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University (2)
Catholic University of America (3)
Charleston Southern University
Christopher Newport University (5)
Clemson University (2)
Colgate University (3)
College of Charleston (5)
Colorado College (4)
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Connecticut College (2)
Cornell University (2)
Creighton University
Dartmouth College (2)
Davidson College (3)
Delaware State University
Denison University (8)
DePaul University
Dickinson College (2)
Drexel University (4)
Duke University
Duquesne University
East Carolina University
East Tennessee State University
Elon University (7)
Emerson College (2)
Farmingdale State College
Fordham University (3)
Franklin & Marshall College (2)
Furman University (7)
George Mason University (4)
George Washington University
Georgetown University (8)
Georgia Institute of Technology (3)
Gettysburg College (3)
Hamilton College (5)
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampton University
Harvard University (2)
High Point University (7)
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Indiana University
James Madison University (9)
Johns Hopkins University (2)
Kenyon College (5)
Lafayette College (4)
Lehigh University (3)
Loyola University Maryland (4)
Macalester College
Marquette University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
Mercer University
Miami University (5)
Middlebury College
Mississippi State University
Morehouse College (2)
New York University (6)
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University (2)
Northeastern University (3)
Northwestern University (3)
Oberlin College
Occidental College (2)
Pennsylvania State University (6)
Pepperdine University
Pitzer College
Princeton University (5)
Providence College
Purdue University
Queen's University
Radford University (2)
Randolph College
Randolph-Macon College
Reed College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2)
Rhodes College (8)
Rochester Institute of Technology (2)
Saint Joseph's University
Salisbury University (2)
San Diego State University
Savannah College of Art and Design
Seton Hall University
Sewanee: The University of the South (4)
Shenandoah University
Southern Methodist University
Spelman College (3)
St John's College (Annapolis)
St John's University
St. Thomas Aquinas College
Stanford University (2)
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University (7)
Temple University (3)
Texas Christian University (6)
The American University of Paris
The University of Alabama (12)
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Tennessee (2)
The University of Texas at Austin
Towson University (2)
Trinity College (4)
Trinity University
Tufts University (2)
Tulane University (10)
United States Air Force Academy (3)
United States Coast Guard Academy
United States Military Academy (2)
United States Naval Academy (3)
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley (4)
University of California, Davis (2)
University of California, Los Angeles (2)
University of California, Santa Barbara (3)
University of Chicago (4)
University of Colorado Boulder (4)
University of Delaware (5)
University of Denver (5)
University of Florida
University of Georgia (4)
University of Mary Washington
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (3)
University of Maryland (5)
University of Miami (2)
University of Michigan (5)
University of Mississippi (3)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (3)
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of Notre Dame (4)
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania (4)
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond (3)
University of Rochester
University of San Diego
University of South Carolina (8)
University of Southern California (5)
University of St Andrews (4)
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Virginia (36)
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University (5)
Villanova University (2)
Virginia Commonwealth University (8)
Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (24)
Wake Forest University (3)
Washington and Lee University (7)
Washington College
Wesleyan University (3)
West Virginia University
William and Mary (24)
Williams College (2)
Winthrop University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University (2)