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College Counseling

Belmont Hill veteran faculty member Harold Prenatt often used a metaphor to express the school’s philosophy of college counseling. “Put college-related work and concerns in a box,” he advised, “and open that box only when necessary. For the rest of your time in Belmont Hill’s Upper School, keep the boxed closed and put your time and energy into all the exciting opportunities around you.”

The metaphor perfectly conveys Belmont Hill’s philosophy and methodology of college counseling. We believe that making a good college match is the product—not the object—of a student’s experiences in Belmont Hill’s classrooms and beyond. For that reason, one of our primary goals is to help students and their parents know when to open the box and when to close it. Our materials and communications focus on identifying significant and timely college-related activities.

We also believe that college match-making is most effective when students take charge of the process. Accordingly, a second important goal of our program is the engagement and empowerment of young men in Forms V and VI, so that they can take leadership in their own college process. At its best, the college process provides young people opportunities to learn more about themselves and the wide array of today’s post-secondary possibilities.

A third goal of our program is fostering the health of our families through the increasingly stressful college process. In pursuit of this goal, our work with students and their parents includes support and awareness of the mental health of students and their families.

In Belmont Hill’s college counseling program, we try to give “thinking outside the box” a new definition: with the college process carefully compartmentalized, our boys can focus on the challenges and delights of Upper School.
               
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College Counseling Resources
Follow this link to the College Counseling Resource page. Here you will find links to testing services, the College Counseling Handbook, and a variety of other downloads and links to help you along the way. We look forward to working with you in this exciting process.

Ann Tift, Kate Stearns, and Bunny Melvoin
For College Representatives
Meet our College Counselors
Ann Tift
Administration (Entire School), College Counseling Office (Entire School)
Director of College Counseling

Catherine Stearns
College Counseling Office (Entire School), Upper School English (US), Middle School English (MS)
Senior Associate Director of College Counseling
English Department Chair

Barbara Melvoin
Administration (Entire School), College Counseling Office (Entire School)
College Counseling, Registrar, and Extracurriculars

Cynthia Richardson
College Counseling Office (Entire School), Upper School Office (Entire School)
Upper School Associate;
College Counseling Associate;
Associate Registrar
College Matriculation 2008-2012
Amherst College (8)
Babson College (8)
Bates College (7)
Boston College (15)
Boston University (2)
Bowdoin College (5)
Brown University (8)
Bucknell University (2)
California Institute of Technology
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University (2)
Claremont McKenna College (5)
Colby College (15)
Colgate University (7)
Colorado College (2)
University of Colorado – Boulder
Columbia University (3)
University of Connecticut (2)
Connecticut College (4)
Cornell University (7)
Dartmouth College (11)
Davidson College
Dickinson College
Duke University (8)
University of Edinburgh – UK
Elon University (5)
Emmanuel College
Emory University (4)
Fordham University
Franklin and Marshall College
The George Washington University (5)
Georgetown University (13)
Gettysburg College
Hamilton College (2)
Harvard College (28)
Haverford College
Hobart & William Smith Colleges (3)
College of the Holy Cross (16)
Indiana University - Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University (3)
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University - Maryland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2)
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
University of Miami (5)
Middlebury College (16)
University of New Hampshire
Northeastern University (4)
Northwestern University (8)
University of Notre Dame (2)
Occidental College
University of Pennsylvania (19)
Princeton University (6)
Providence College (2)
Regis College
University of Richmond (5)
Saint Anselm College (2)
Saint Michael’s College
University of San Diego
Skidmore College
University of South Carolina (2)
University of Southern California (6)
St. John's College - Maryland
Stanford University (3)
Syracuse University
Trinity College (11)
Tufts University (21)
Tulane University (2)
Union College
United States Military Academy (2)
Vanderbilt University (14)
Villanova University (2)
University of Virginia/Jefferson Scholar
Wake Forest University (3)
Washington University in St. Louis (5)
Washington and Lee University (3)
Wesleyan University (2)
Wheaton College - Massachusetts
The College of William & Mary (4)
Williams College (4)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale College (5)