Helping high-potential youth gain access to the nation's most selective colleges and universities.
College Counseling
The 2012 Schuler Scholar Program Matriculation List has been released. To see the complete list along with thoughts on the process, click here.
Schuler College Counselors and program staff provide extensive college counseling services to scholars and their families. In an effort to expose scholars and parents to selective colleges, scholars tour colleges starting the beginning of their sophomore year and will visit roughly 20 institutions before their senior year. In addition, during the summer after sophomore year, every scholar is required to attend a 2-4 week summer college program. Schuler College Counselors meet regularly with each scholar and family to discuss schools that best match the scholar’s interests and academic ability. Scholars enroll in an 8 week ACT/SAT test prep course and participate in after-school college counseling courses culminating in a three day “College Admissions Boot Camp” that takes place over the summer after junior year. The College Counseling staff also facilitates sessions on the financial aid process and the transition to university life.
Schuler Scholars matriculate to private, competitive colleges and universities. Typical Schuler colleges enroll fewer than 10,000 undergraduate students and offer a liberal arts education. The SSP uses the Barron’s rating system and the Princeton Review ranking system to determine the best fit schools for Schuler Scholars. SSP schools fall in one of four categories: The Most Competitive (includes the Ivies, Stanford and the top liberal arts colleges), Highly Competitive, Very Competitive and Competitive.
In 2011, 63% of Schuler Scholars matriculated to schools that are Most Competitive, with 30% and 7% matriculating to Highly Competitive and Very Competitive schools respectively. The average selectivity (Princeton Review) of Schuler colleges has increased from 87 to 95 since 2007.
For a complete 2009-2012 matriculation summary, click here.
College admissions representatives interested in meeting Schuler Scholars at one or more partnership school(s), please contact Demisha Lee at demisha@schulerprogram.org.
Summer college program directors interested in partnering with the Schuler Scholar Program, please contact Kim Michelson at kim@schulerprogram.org.
For a list of summer programs with which the Schuler Scholar Program currently has partnerships, click here.
Scholars with the Bowdoin College mascot
College Scholars at a college reunion event
Alicia Adams: The First Schuler Scholar to Enroll in Medical School
11/03/2011
This fall Alicia Adams began her medical studies at Rush University in Chicago and was awarded the National Health Service Corps Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship was awarded this year to 250 students with a demonstrated commitment to providing high quality primary care in underserved communities.
When Alicia first started at Brown University, she had no intentions of pursuing a career in medicine. For years, she saw family members and friends dread their medical visits because they were uninsured or publicly insured and were treated poorly by their doctors. She had no desire to join a profession in which her community was so disappointed.… Read more