Living the mission beyond graduation
In alignment with the core of our educational program, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School’s College Office prepares and compels our students to take care of themselves, each other, and the world as they leave ECFS and enter their respective undergraduate institutions. Working primarily one-on-one, counselors empower students to look carefully at the ways they learn best in order to choose a college that matches their educational aspirations.
The College Office is an academic department that partners with students and their families through the path of self-discovery that defines the college admissions process. It consists of four full-time college counselors who bring years of experience working in undergraduate admissions at highly selective colleges and universities. Following an informal parent program in the fall semester of junior year, the college process formally begins in the spring semester, when each junior is assigned a college counselor who will schedule a family meeting to outline the structure and resources of the College Office. In April, ECFS hosts a Junior College Symposium with over 70 college representatives for an interactive day of case studies and admissions panels. This program serves as a catalyst for the fall semester of senior year, when students officially submit their applications to colleges.
Working primarily one-on-one, counselors empower students to look carefully at the ways they learn best in order to choose a college that matches their educational aspirations.
Through individual meetings and formal class presentations, the College Office aims to provide extensive information and individualized support for each student as they navigate the college process. The office assists with researching colleges, creating college lists, essay writing, standardized testing options, early admission plans, and interview preparation. The office also provides economic assistance to help students visit colleges, finds support for standardized testing, and works with students when they apply for financial aid at the college level. Every student will have an experienced, empathetic counselor and advocate ready to assist with every aspect of the college admission process.
College destinations
The college list below represents the wide array of educational institutions our students have attended over the past five years.
College destinations for the Classes of 2018–2022
American University | Indiana University | SUNY–New Paltz |
Amherst College+ | Ithaca College* | Stony Brook University |
Babson College | Johns Hopkins University | Swarthmore College |
Baldwin Wallace University | Kenyon College+ | Syracuse University+ |
Bard College* | King’s College London | Trinity College |
Barnard College* | Lafayette College* | Trinity University |
Bates College | Lehigh University | Tufts University+ |
Bennington College | Lewis & Clark College | Tulane University+ |
Binghamton University | Macalester College* | Union College |
Boston College | Manhattan College | Universidad de Navarra |
Boston University* | Maryland Institute College of Art | University of California, Los Angeles* |
Bowdoin College* | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University of Chicago+ |
Brown University+ | McGill University | University of Colorado, Boulder* |
Bryn Mawr College | Middlebury College+ | University of Kansas |
Bucknell University | Morehouse College | University of Miami* |
Carleton College | Mount Holyoke College | University of Michigan+ |
Carnegie Mellon University | Muhlenberg College | University of New Haven |
Case Western Reserve University | Naropa University | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Claremont McKenna College+ | New York University+ | University of Oregon |
Colby College+ | Northeastern University | University of Pennsylvania+ |
Colgate University+ | Northwestern University+ | University of Pittsburgh |
College of William & Mary | Oberlin College* | University of Rhode Island |
Colorado College+ | Occidental College+ | University of Richmond |
Colorado State University | Oxford College of Emory University | University of Rochester |
Columbia University+ | Parsons School of Design | University of Scranton |
Connecticut College* | Penn State Erie, The Behrend College | University of Southampton |
Cooper Union | Pitzer College* | University of Southern California+ |
Cornell University+ | Pomona College* | University of St. Andrews |
CUNY—John Jay College | Pratt Institute | University of Texas at Austin* |
Dartmouth College+ | Princeton University* | University of Toronto |
Davidson College | Quinnipiac University | University of Vermont |
Deep Springs College | Reed College* | University of Virginia* |
Drexel University | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | University of Wisconsin—Madison* |
Duke University+ | Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) | Ursinus College |
Emerson College | Rice University | Vanderbilt University+ |
Emory University+ | Rochester Institute of Technology | Vassar College* |
George Washington University* | Rutgers University | Villanova University |
Georgetown University+ | Sarah Lawrence College | Wake Forest University+ |
Gettysburg College | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Washington and Lee University |
Goucher College | Scripps College | Washington University in St. Louis+ |
Grinnell College | Skidmore College+ | Wellesley College* |
Hamilton College+ | Smith College | Wells College |
Hampshire College | Southern Methodist University | Wesleyan University+ |
Harvard University* | Spelman College | Wheaton College (MA) |
Harvey Mudd College | St. Lawrence University | Whitman College |
Haverford College+ | Stanford University* | Whittier College |
Hobart and William Smith Colleges | SUNY-Albany | Williams College* |
Howard University | SUNY–Binghamton | Yale University+ |
Illinois Institute of Technology | SUNY–Cortland |
* denotes colleges where 5 or more students matriculated.
+ denotes colleges where 10 or more students matriculated.
100% of our students who apply are accepted to college