Colorado Academy College Counseling Office

Ran into my constituent Annalise Agelopoulos in the Capitol.

I nominated her to West Point, where she is now a third year cadet. She is the first female cadet from Colorado Academy ever!

Congratulations to Class of 2024 Scholarship Recipients! | Colorado Academy News Each year, many Colorado Academy Seniors are awarded merit scholarships by the institutions to which they apply. In most cases, their awards are not based on additional scholarship applications but solely on the basis of their application for admission. In addition, some students apply for outside s...

This week we welcomed Alex C. to the team! 🎉 Feels so good to be back ☀️ ⛰️ 👨‍🎓

Some humor for this hot summer day:

Cut for Time: College Admissions - SNL A college admissions board (Sandra Oh, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Heidi Gardner, Chris Redd) decides which candidates to admit. ...

https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/summer-2024/what-students-are-saying-about-the-college-process/

NAIS - What Students Are Saying About the College Process This article appeared as "Worth the Weight?" in the Summer 2024 issue of Independent School. My child is planning to apply early deicsion; we just don't know where yet. How do you think we should strategize? Did you see the group of colleges for last year's graduating class? Why aren't we seeing mo....

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/realestate/best-cities-college-graduates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

What’s the Best City for New College Graduates? A recent study ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities based on median rents, job opportunities and social metrics.

Recap! Congrats, Class of 2024!!!

Awesome for Mari ‘19!! ❤️🤍🖤

Congratulations to CA alumna and standout soccer player Mari Annest '19, who will play professionally for Austrian soccer club ! Colorado Academy Alumni Association

Excited for our beloved Josh!!! ❤️🤍🖤

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Thank you, Seniors! A few of our future college students-athletes shared wisdom with younger students during today’s lunch & learn!

Glitter, glue, joy, and Seniors making their College Stars!! 2024

Our spring signing for future student-athletes! Congrats!!

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The 64 Prettiest College Campuses in America Did your alma mater make the list?

Today’s singing telegram! Thank you, Chanteurs! 🎶

“Decisions for Donuts” today! Sara’s genius idea from years ago — 🍩🍩🍩 Come by and we will update your Maia Learning college outcomes together!

We are so thrilled for these student athletes—congratulations!

And we’re off and running! The opening assembly last week and the Club Fair today. Let’s make it a great year, CA!

Seniors have been hard at work decorating their stars to put on our college map. We are so proud of the Class of 2023!

We are proud of these five seniors who have made the commitment to serve in the military.

Honoring Seniors Who Want to Serve | Colorado Academy News We are all so proud of our Seniors for their tremendous work this year. By now, all have their college acceptances in hand, and by May 1, all will have made their choice of where they will attend. We hope that these students will make the most of their next four years. Every Senior deserves commenda...

We are so proud of our student-athletes going on to play at the collegiate level!

Senior Student-Athletes Celebrate Collegiate Commitments | Colorado Academy News On April 26, the bleachers in Colorado Academy’s main gymnasium were overflowing with family members, teammates, teachers, coaches, and friends who gathered to congratulate nine Senior athletes on signing commitments to play Division I and Division III collegiate sports. Three other Seniors had al...

We are excited to welcome 33 college representatives and CA and Kent juniors and their families to campus tonight (despite the snow!)

The College Office loves to meet as a team. Cathy and David are quite the height difference!

Happy November 1st! Seniors are celebrating in the College Office with cookies and “I Applied To College” stickers. We are proud of you!

We hosted countless college representatives this week—it was wonderful to see so many colleagues from across the country and world. And we got a double rainbow on campus to close out the week!

We are happy to be able to host many of our college representatives in person this year, especially when we have gorgeous fall days like this. Our University of Denver rep, Shanna Pomager, visited yesterday--her 22nd year of visiting CA!

"Yet the troubling reality is that a great many parents are fundamentally failing to prepare young people to be caring, ethical community members and citizens. That’s true in part because of the degree to which parents have elevated achievement and demoted concern for others as the primary goal of child-raising."

How To Be an Ethical Parent in the College Admissions Process — Making Caring Common Parents and other primary caregivers shape their children’s moral development in myriad ways. They also often influence every phase of the college preparation, search, and admissions process. Yet the troubling reality is that a great many parents are fundamentally failing to prepare young people t...

The College Office is off and running - we had a great first day of the 2021-2022 school year. Exciting things are in store for the Class of 2022!

Breaking news in Colorado: "Colorado public colleges and universities do not have to require incoming freshmen to submit SAT or ACT results after Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colorado) signed HB 21-1067 into law Tuesday."

Colorado public colleges, universities can opt-out of SAT and ACT test requirements Advocates, including CU Boulder, say the goal is to encourage a wider and more diverse applicant pool for getting into college.