The Dalton School | College Counseling

Launched by a Junior College Night program in early January, the college counseling process begins for juniors at the beginning of second semester.

Juniors meet with an assigned counselor who works with each student individually throughout the college process, from exploration and initial planning through application and decision. Following an initial conference with their child's counselor early in the second semester, parents may arrange additional meetings with the counselor throughout the college planning and application process. During the course of the cycle, other evening programs are offered to students and parents, including a special presentation on financial aid and a major spring college fair. The Dalton College Counseling Office employs a team concept in supporting each student's college planning and admissions process, involving parents, House Advisors, and faculty.

In addition to individual college counseling and conferences with both student and parents, regular group counseling meetings will involve all juniors during the second semester of eleventh grade through the fall of senior year. After students complete a thorough self-assessment and sample college application, individual and group meetings introduce them to topics such as college exploration, essay writing, campus visits, applications, financial aid, and early admissions programs. Together, the student and counselor will develop a broad list of colleges to consider by end of junior year and narrow the list down to an appropriate group of colleges by early fall of senior year.

Contact

List of 6 members.

Will Hummel

Director of College Counseling

Pomona College - B.A.
Maungsai "Sai" Somboon

Associate Director of College Counseling

Harvard Graduate School of Education - Ed. M.
The Ohio State University - M.F.A.
Franklin and Marshall College - B.A.
Shane Trujillo

Associate Director of College Counseling and DEI Coordinator for Parent & Caregiver Programming

Vassar College - B.A.
Harvard University - M.Ed
Andrea Velasquez

Associate Director of College Counseling

Loyola Marymount University - B.A.
Loyola Marymount University - M.A.
Samara Antolini

Assistant Director of College Counseling

Hofstra University - B.A.
St. John's University - M.B.A.
Melissa Soleimani

College Office Coordinator

Brandeis University - B.A.
Boston College - M.A.

College enrollment figures for the five classes are:

American University	1	Elon University	2	Pitzer College	3	University of Arizona	1
Amherst College	6	Emory University	11	Pomona College	6	University of California, Davis	1
Bard College Berlin	1	Franklin & Marshall College	1	Pratt Institute	1	University of California, Los Angeles	2
Barnard College	2	Georgetown University	10	Princeton University	15	University of California, Berkeley	1
Bates College	2	Georgia Institute of Technology	1	Purdue University	1	University of Chicago	18
Bennington College	1	Grinnell College	4	Quinnipiac University	1	University of Miami	3
Binghamton University	2	Hamilton College	14	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	2	University of Michigan	8
Boston College	6	Hampshire College	1	Rhode Island School of Design	1	University of Notre Dame	2
Boston University	2	Harvard College	35	Rider University	1	University of Pennsylvania	19
Bowdoin College	8	Haverford College	3	Rochester Institute of Technology	3	University of Pittsburgh	1
Brandeis University	1	Hunter College of the CUNY	1	Sarah Lawrence College	1	University of Puget Sound	1
Brown University	32	Indiana University at Bloomington	1	School of the Art Institute of Chicago	1	University of Richmond	2
Bucknell University	2	Johns Hopkins University	5	Scripps College	1	University of Southern California	2
Carleton College	3	Kenyon College	6	Skidmore College	4	University of St Andrews	6
Carnegie Mellon University	5	Lehigh University	3	Southern Methodist University	1	University of Vermont	1
Case Western Reserve University	1	Loyola Marymount University	1	Stanford University	7	University of Virginia	1
Chapman University	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4	Swarthmore College	4	University of Wisconsin at Madison	3
Colby College	4	Miami University, Oxford	2	Syracuse University	4	Vanderbilt University	3
Colgate University	4	Middlebury College	6	The American University of Paris	1	Vassar College	4
Colorado College	2	Minerva Schools at KGI	1	The Cooper Union for the Adv. of Sci. & Art	1	Wake Forest University	1
Columbia University	20	Muhlenberg College	1	The George Washington University	1	Washington University in St Louis	17
Connecticut College	1	New York University	12	The New School	1	Wellesley College	1
Cornell University	39	Northeastern University	3	The University of Edinburgh	1	Wesleyan University	18
Dartmouth College	12	Northwestern University	17	The University of Texas at Austin	1	Williams College	7
Dickinson College	2	Oberlin College	3	Trinity College	1	Yale University	22
Duke University	11	Occidental College	3	Tufts University	16
Durham University	1	Parsons School of Design	1	Tulane University of Louisiana	3