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Welcome to the College Counseling Web
Summit’s College Counseling Office focuses on supporting, informing and encouraging students and their families as they navigate the exciting, complex and ever-evolving world of college admissions and financial aid. We educate students and families about the nuances of admissions, advise students about appropriate and interesting college and post-secondary options that best suit their specific needs, and support and encourage students as they successfully complete the application process.
We offer The Summit community prior professional experience as college counselor, college admission and financial aid officer, as well as college support staff. This background enables the counseling staff to provide valuable and timely advice to families and to help students present their abilities, talents and experiences to the colleges and universities in the most appropriate manner. Over the course of their Summit careers, families and students receive information through specific mailings and e-mails, class-wide meetings and parent programming.
Juniors begin a series of college-related standardized testing, as well as start a self-reflective process with their counselor in preparation for college research. Students are encouraged to visit colleges during spring and summer vacations, attend on-campus and local college fairs, and meet individually with the college counselor to discuss their goals and aspirations. Students and the college counselor work together to develop a list of options for active research and consideration, while keeping an eye on the realities of their college admissions prospects.
Seniors work with the college counselor to develop final lists with an eye for fit and selectivity balance, and begin to focus on the final aspects of the application process. Over 100 college admissions officers visit The Summit annually to meet with groups of interested students and/or to conduct individual interviews. Students are encouraged to devote considerable energy to their application essays as they refine their self-presentation, and to make thoughtful decisions about the many exciting opportunities available to them in higher education. Through the middle of the senior year the college counselor and the students work in concert to create a college list that comprehensively connects to the students’ personal attributes, supports their intellectual endeavors, and will provide them with exciting options for undergraduate study.
The college process at The Summit is designed to be an extension of the overall education taking place in the classroom, on the athletic fields, in the art studio and in any venue on-campus where faculty have the opportunity to teach Summit students. Seniors leave with a sense of satisfaction for what they have accomplished while at The Summit, along with a healthy dose of enthusiasm for the possibilities in front of them in the years to come.
The buttons to the left will link you to valuable college search internet resources as well as to the calendar of college visits by college admissions officers to The Summit.
Brian Meegan
College Counselor