Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

Congratulations Class of 2023!

Arthur Smith Advising students in the high school class of 2023 have done an amazing job!!  Thanks to great help from my fellow counselors Kevin Myles and Eve Glasergreen, our students have been admitted to more than 200 different colleges and universities, succeeding in the face of remote learning during their first two years of high school, as well as countless upheavals and changes in the college admissions process over the past few years.

The range of admit offers across these 200+ institutions is impressive.

Some highlights include admission to the most selective universities in the United States, with acceptances to each of these terrific institutions: Stanford, Cornell, MIT, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Yale, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Georgetown, Washington University, Emory, Rice, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Southern California, and the University of Chicago.

My students were admitted to some of the nation’s best public universities, including Michigan, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, Virginia, Texas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Purdue, Washington, Florida, Georgia, UC-Irvine, UC San Diego, Maryland, Virginia Tech, NC State, and Wisconsin-Madison.

Some of the country’s most prestigious private colleges and universities are also represented on the list, including Tufts, Boston College, Rochester, Northeastern, Boston University, Wake Forest, Ithaca College, Lehigh, Syracuse, and Tulane.

In addition, my students were admitted to several outstanding liberal arts colleges, including Williams, Wellesley, Pomona, Bard, Vassar, Trinity, Colgate, Macalester, Wesleyan, Reed, Bucknell, Lafayette, and Richmond.

This was a particularly demanding admissions cycle. Test optional and test blind admissions policies, a rising number of total applicants (many of whom applied to a large number of different schools), and the difficulties admissions committees faced in evaluating transcripts impacted by remote learning were among many factors that came together to make this a challenging landscape.

I’m proud of my students for presenting stand out applications defined by resumes and essays that highlighted the unique attributes they will bring to these amazing colleges and universities. A huge part of the process is identifying the best list of schools for each individual student and given the diversity of institutions represented on this list it is clear our cohort took to heart the task of seeking out an array of schools that they were excited about. In providing the guidance to help our students achieve their goals, we work hard to get to help each student present their story, but the attributes that were evident in every student’s record were resilience and commitment to their dreams!

It was an honor to work with each of these students. Congratulations and best wishes to Arthur Smith Advising students in the class of 2023!

Acceptances for the High School Class of 2023:

American University

Appalachian State University

Assumption University

Bard College

Bethany College

Boston College

Boston University

Brandeis University

Bridgewater State University

Brown University

Bryant University

Bucknell University

California Polytechnic University (Pomona)

California Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo)

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western University

Catholic University

Chapman University

Clarkson University

Clemson University

Colgate University

College of New Jersey

College of William & Mary

Colorado School of Mines

Connecticut College

Connecticut State University

Cornell University

Curry College

Dartmouth College

DePaul University

Drake University

Drexel University

Duke University

Duquesne University

Eastern Carolina University

Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Michigan University

East Stroudsburg University

Eckerd College

EDHEC Business School

Em Lyon Business School

Emmanuel College

Elon University

Emory University

Emory University (Oxford College)

Fairfield University

Florida Atlantic University

Florida Institute of Technology

Florida State University

Fordham University

Furman University

George Mason University

Georgetown University

George Washington University

Georgia Tech

Gettysburg College

High Point University

Hobart and William Smith

Illinois State University

Illinois Wesleyan University

Ithaca College

James Madison

Kalamazoo College

Kenyon College

Knox College

Kutztown University

Lafayette College

Lehigh University

Lewis & Clark College

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola University Chicago

McGill University

Macalaster College

Marist College

Marquette University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Merrimack College

Miami University (Ohio)

Michigan State

Monmouth University

Montana State

Moravian College

Morehouse College

New York University

North Carolina State

Northeastern University

Northern Illinois University

Northwestern University

Ohio State University

Old Dominion University

Oregon State

Pace University

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Penn State

Pepperdine University

Pomona College

Providence College

Purdue University

Quinnipiac University

Ramapo College of New Jersey

Reed College

Regis College

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rice University

Rochester Institute of Technology

Roanoke College

Rose Hulman Institute

Rutgers University

St. Lawrence University

San Diego State

San Jose State

Santa Clara University

Sarah Lawrence College

Savannah College of Art and Design

Seton Hall

Stanford University

State University of New York at Albany

State University of New York at Binghamton

State University of New York at Buffalo

State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

State University of New York at Cortland

State University of New York at Geneseo

State University of New York at New Paltz

State University of New York at Oneonta

State University of New York at Plattsburgh

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Stonehill College

Syracuse University

Temple University

Texas A&M

Towson University

Tufts University

Tulane University

Union College

University of Akron

University of Alabama

University of British Columbia

University of California - Berkeley

University of California - Davis

University of California - Irvine

University of California - Los Angeles

University of California - Merced

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 Colorado

University of Connecticut

University of Delaware

University of Florida

University of Georgia

University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

University of Indiana

University of Maine

University of Maryland

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

University of Massachusetts-Lowell

University of Memphis

University of Miami

University of Michigan

University of New Hampshire

University of New Haven

University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

University of Notre Dame

University of Oregon

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rhode Island

University of Rochester

University of San Francisco

University of Scranton

University of South Carolina

University of Southern California

University of St Andrews

University of Tennessee

University of Texas - Austin

University of Texas - Dallas

University of Toronto

University of Utah

University of Vermont

University of Virginia

University of Washington

University of Washington - Bothell

University of West Virginia

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Valdosta State University

Valparaiso University

Vanderbilt University

Vassar College

Villanova University

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest University

Washington & Lee University

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

West Chester University

Wesleyan University

Western Carolina University

Whitman College

Williams College

Wofford College

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Yale University

York University

 

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