2012 Spring College Fair
Thursday, April 19, 2012
5:30pm—8:30pm
We invite you to attend the annual Taft School spring college fair. The entire junior class will be in attendance at the fair, and they will be at a point in the college counseling process when they are most open-minded and curious. We have already begun to work with the class of 2013 to help them shape their thinking and formulate questions about their college aspirations. In addition to Taft students, we will invite students from Chase Collegiate, Westover, The Gunnery, Trinity Pawling and local public high schools to attend.
While the fair itself will begin at 7:00pm, we will be offering a light dinner from 5:30pm—6:45pm. You are welcome to set up any time after 5:00pm. We would strongly prefer that a professional member of your admissions staff joins us; however we will also welcome alumni representatives to attend in your place should your spring visit programs conflict.
To accept our invitation, please click on the registration link below. Once your registration has been submitted, you will receive a confirmation with directions and other specifics. For your planning purposes, Choate, Hotchkiss, and other Hartford area boarding schools also host college fairs during this week. We hope to see you this spring!
Registration
Useful Links
SCHOOL CODE= 070880
The attention that Taft gives students comes into special focus during the college selection process. College counselors work with students throughout the uppermid (11th grade) and senior years to find the best match between student and college. We have four full-time college counselors on staff, who are able to devote all of their time during the class day and in the evenings to working with students and families throughout the various stages of the college search, application and selection process.
Through individual and group meetings, the counselors offer guidance on the many issues pertaining to college admissions. Parents are also involved, through meetings, personal conferences, e-mails, and a bimonthly newsletter from the college office.
More than 100 representatives of colleges visit Taft annually, giving students the opportunity to learn about them and enabling the counselors to maintain the rapport and professional understanding that marks Taft's relationship with these colleges. The excellence of our academic program leads to outstanding options for students' post secondary education.
Link to Naviance for seniors and uppermids who have been assigned logins
College Acceptances
Class of 2011 Matriculations (PDF)
Over the past five years (2007-2011) Taft students have enrolled in 179 different colleges and universities in 32 states and 6 foreign countries. During that same time period, five or more students have enrolled at the following:
Amherst (14), Bates (6), Boston College (19), Boston University (14), Bowdoin (15), Bucknell (12), Carnegie Mellon (9), Colby (12), Colorado College (14), Columbia (14), Connecticut College (12), Cornell (22), Dartmouth (10) Denison (5), Emory (6), Fairfield (6), Franklin and Marshall (7), Georgetown (24), Gettysburg (12), Hamilton - NY (9), Harvard (5), Hobart and William Smith (8), Johns Hopkins (5), Lehigh (10), Middlebury (13), Mount Holyoke (5), NYU (17), Northeastern (8), Northwestern (6), Occidential (5), Princeton (8), Reed (8), Southern Methodist (8), St. Lawrence (16), Stanford (7), Syracuse (6), George Washington (24), Trinity (26), Tufts (14), Union (5), UC Berkeley (5), University of Chicago (6), University of Colorado at Boulder (5), University of Michigan (5), U Penn (14), University of Richmond (6), University of VT (5), University of VA (8), Vanderbilt (8), Vassar (6), Villanova (8), Wake Forest (15), Wesleyan (11), Williams (9), Yale (10)
Meet the Staff
Office fax number: 860-945-7704
For College Representatives...
Please click here to read more about scheduling a visit.
Some Useful Links
In addition to Naviance, you might find the following sites helpful in your search:
Princeton Review
Peterson's
Index of American Universities
Campus Tours
College Board's My Road
Colleges That Change Lives
For online registrations and testing information:
The College Board-SAT registration
ACT registration
NCAA Eligibility Center
Financial Aid and Scholarship Information:
FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
http://studentaid.ed.gov/
http://www.fastweb.com/
http://www.finaid.org/
https://profileonline.collegeboard.com/index.jsp
http://www.scholarships.com/
Online applications:
Common Application
CollegeNET's ApplyWeb
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