Harvard University
North Shore Country Day is a college preparatory school with a program that prepares our students for attendance at a four-year college or university.
We believe the college search process is developmental. It helps students mature their skills as writers, communicators and thinkers, while developing a greater understanding of themselves and their abilities, and moves them forward into the world with a well-founded sense of confidence.
While the college search is a collaborative process, students are firmly in the driver’s seat with college counselors and parents playing critical but supporting roles. The students who see their college search process as being the most successful are those who have taken full advantage of the four-year North Shore experience, academically and co-curricularly, and engaged with their college counselors in a thorough and exacting college search process.
Those who capitalize on the North Shore experience and present themselves to colleges honestly and confidently rather than “package” themselves, have the greatest level of success in securing admission to the college(s) they identify as being the best matches to their plans and goals.
The College Counseling Office is first and foremost a “counseling” office. Counselors come to know the students with whom they work very well, particularly when students reciprocate and invest in their relationships with the counselors. The work with each student is distinct, individualized and focused on providing guidance relative to each student’s needs, talents and aspirations.
BY THE NUMBERS
52 to 2
Student to College Counselor Ratio
100%
Percentage of Seniors who Apply to Colleges and Universities and Receive Offers of Admission
140
Number of Colleges Offering Admission to Class of 2024 in 31 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, China, Ireland and the United Kingdom
121
College Admissions Representatives Who Visited NSCD in 2023-24
Signature Programs
With a student to college counselor ratio of about 52 to 2, we help students identify and apply to colleges and universities that best match their needs and aspirations.
Meet Recent Graduates
Hamilton College
Syracuse University
University of Illinois
University of Connecticut
Yale University
College Matriculation for 2020-2024 NSCD Graduates
American University
Amherst College
Babson College
Barnard College
Bates College
Beloit College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Carthage College
Champlain College
Chapman University
Claremont McKenna College
Clark University
Clemson University
Colby College
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
Colorado College
Davidson College
Denison University
DePaul University
Dickinson College
Dominican University
Duke University
Durham University
Elon University
Emory University
Eugene Lang College at The New School
The George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gettysburg College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
High Point University
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Howard University
Illinois State University
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Knox College
Lake Forest College
Lawrence University
Lehigh University
Loyola University Chicago
Macalester College
Marquette University
McGill University
Miami University
Michigan State University
Middlebury College
Montana State University
North Park University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
Rice University
Richmond American University London
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Santa Clara University
Sarah Lawrence College
Skidmore College
Southern Methodist University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Syracuse University
Temple University
Texas Christian University
Trinity College
Tulane University
Union College
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Denver
The University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of San Diego
University of Southern California
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Vanderbilt University
Virginia State University
Wake Forest University
Washington University in St. Louis
Western Michigan University
Yale University
Our College Counseling Department
Kristen Kaczynski
Matthew Mettille
Candice Sayles
Juniors Get a Taste of College Life During Annual “Bus O’ Fun” Trip
These students, accompanied by college counselors Matt Mettille and Kristen Kaczynski, visited 14 college campuses across the Mid-Atlantic region in five days.
Five Things Every Family Should Know As They Begin the College Search Process
Through our years of college counseling experience, it’s become clear that the mid-point of junior year is the ideal time to dive into the process.