College Counseling and Placement

The college choices of Winsor graduates reflect the academic strength of the girls and the school. Throughout the college search, Winsor’s College Counseling Office offers information, structure and support to juniors and seniors and their families.

Individualized Guidance

College counselors take a personalized approach, meeting individually with each student and family.

Group informational evenings help to minimize the uncertainty that some­times surrounds the college selection process. The office also publishes a detailed handbook for families and students that presents a “roadmap” for the process. Homeroom meetings provide added opportunities for college counselors to update students.  

The college process can be an enriching time to learn more about "yourself, your goals and your strengths."

Connections to Colleges

Winsor’s experienced college counselors maintain close contact with college admission officers, who routinely visit Winsor throughout the year. These visits allow girls to get a clearer sense of what schools offer. College catalogs, videos, financial aid information and testing materials are also available in the office.

Wise, Informed Decisions

Winsor expects students will use the skills they develop here to facilitate the college process. We encourage students to be engaged actively in their college searches, reflect carefully about their goals and aspirations, and make wise, informed decisions.

As well as Winsor prepares young women for college, the school’s ultimate purpose is to prepare them for life. The school’s counselors—and teachers—encourage girls to keep that perspective. 

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College Counseling FAQ's

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College Placements 2007-2011

In the last five years, Winsor graduates have most often entered the following colleges and universities:

  1. Harvard University – 24
  2. Boston College – 15
  3. tie Vanderbilt University – 11
    Yale University – 11
  4. tie Brown University – 9
    Dartmouth College – 9
    The George Washington University – 9
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 8
  6. tie Columbia University – 7
    Duke University – 7
    Georgetown University – 7
    University of Pennsylvania – 7
    Wesleyan University – 7
  7. tie New York University – 6
    Northwestern University – 6
  8. tie Amherst College – 5
    Carleton College – 5
    Johns Hopkins University – 5
    Princeton University – 5
    Stanford University – 5
    Swarthmore College – 5
    Trinity College– 5
    Tufts University – 5

Winsor graduates have also entered many other leading schools. Click here to view full list of colleges attended by Winsor graduates in recent years.

4 each to: Colgate University, Davidson College, University of Southern California, Washington University in St. Louis

3 each to: Bates College, Boston University, Colby College, Cornell University, Middlebury College, Oberlin College, Tulane University, Williams College

2 each to:Barnard College, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, Earlham College, Hamilton College, Howard University, Lehigh University, Macalester College, Syracuse University, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wellesley College

1 each to: Bard College, Bentley University, Bryn Mawr College, California Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, Claremont McKenna College, College of Charleston, College of the Holy Cross, College of William and Mary, The College of Wooster, Colorado College, Connecticut College, Drexel University, Elon University, Fordham University, Hampshire College, Haverford College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Kenyon College, The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, Northeastern University, The Ohio State University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Reed College, Rice University, Roanoke College, Skidmore College, Spelman College, Trinity College Dublin, Union College, United States Naval Academy, University of Bristol, University of California at Berkeley, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Edinburgh, University of Miami, University of Michigan, University of Redlands, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), University of Washington, Vassar College