College Placement

Preparing Students For Success in College...and Beyond

The goal of St. Andrew’s-Sewanee is to place students at colleges that are appropriate for their interests and needs. The full-time College Counselor works closely with students and parents beginning in the middle of the junior year. More than forty colleges and universities visit the campus each year, offering students the opportunity to attend information sessions and to interview by appointment. Students also attend national college fairs held in the area. Seniors are encouraged to arrange visits and private interviews on campuses of their choice after consultation and preparation with the College Counselor. Testing required by colleges begins in the sophomore year with the PSAT and is followed by the SAT and/or ACT in the junior and senior years.

• Typically, 99% enroll in colleges and universities, and 66% are accepted by first-choice colleges.
• Each year, our seniors are accepted into some of the country’s most selective institutions, including Amherst, the Art Institute of Chicago, Brown, Carleton, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, George Washington University, Middlebury, NYU, Northwestern, Oberlin, Pomona, Purdue, Washington University, Wesleyan, and West Point,
• In recent years graduates have enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, Auburn, Birmingham-Southern, Brown, Claremont-McKenna, Colorado College, Cornell, Davidson, DePauw, Dickinson, Georgia Tech, Hampden-Sydney, Harvard, Indiana University, Lafayette, Lewis and Clark, MIT, Michigan State, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, NYU, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhodes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Sewanee, Syracuse, University of Georgia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Richmond, University of Tennessee, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, Washington University and West Point.