College Guidance
The College Guidance program is an integral part of The Dwight School. From grades 9-12, students are prepared to make informed, well-reasoned, and realistic choices about their futures. In the spring of the junior year and again in the fall of the senior year, the college guidance team meets individually with students and their parents. The counselors provide a strategy for each student that includes an individualized list of colleges that best suit their academic and extracurricular profile, a schedule of tests, and suggestions for college visits.
Dwight faculty and administration believe that the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, taken in grades 11 and 12, is the best preparation for college as well as lifelong learning. Colleges seek students from Dwight because they are well prepared and have had the chance to develop a “special spark of genius.”
While all Dwight students take International Baccalaureate certificates in selected subjects, today over eighty percent of the senior class take the full Diploma Program. International students are encouraged to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). Recent IB Diploma graduates have:
- Often earned between half a year and a full year of college credit for their IB exam scores
- Averaged 600 on the verbal SAT and 605 on the Math SAT
- Been accepted to over 200 national and international colleges and universities and attended over 60 top-tier schools including Princeton, Harvard, Duke, The Julliard School, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, Brown, Cornell, Yale, Dartmouth, and Oxford University. Click here for a full list of Dwight college acceptances from 2002-2008.
- Graduated Valedictorian at McGill in 2005
Henry Adams wrote, ‘A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.’ The Dwight community unifies a rich mosaic of American and international families, teachers, alumni, and global neighbors. Each is a unique and separate wave, but taken together, they make up an ocean.