High School Counseling

The primary goal of The Cathedral School’s high school counseling process is to help students and their families identify a secondary school where the student will continue to grow intellectually, experience new challenges, and pursue and discover new passions. To achieve this end, we work closely with students and their parents to ensure that their next school is the “right match.”

The high school counseling process parallels the personal and intellectual development that is so central to seventh and eighth grade. These years are both academically rigorous and personally dynamic. Students discover their strengths and their interests, and their journey of self-discovery helps them identify the most appropriate next step in their academic careers.

This process of self-discovery occurs while the student is also learning how to put his/her best foot forward in the application process. Our mission statement speaks of “confident, articulate students of the world.” The proof of this statement is exemplified by our eighth graders’ high school interviews and by their personal statements on their applications.  

Beginning in the spring of seventh grade and continuing through the fall and winter of eighth grade, I meet multiple times with each student and family to help define priorities in a high school program, decide on schools to which the child will apply, and guide the family through the application and selection process. Admissions directors across the country regularly tell me that our students are not just exceptionally well-prepared, they are also kind, compassionate, well-adjusted young men and women. Our graduates attend the most selective independent day and boarding, public, and parochial schools in the nation. See below for a full list of acceptances from the Class of 2024:

Independent Day Schools Beaver Country Day School Brimmer and May School Brooklyn Friends School The Browning School Buckingham Browne & Nichols School The Calhoun School The Chapin School Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School Collegiate School The Commonwealth School The Dalton School The Dwight School Ethical Culture Fieldston School Friends Seminary Grace Church School Hackley School Horace Mann School Léman Manhattan Preparatory School The Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School Loyola School Marymount School of New York The Masters School The Nightingale-Bamford School Packer Collegiate Institute Riverdale Country School Spence School Trevor Day School Trinity School Boarding Schools Berkshire School The Ethel Walker School The Frederick Gunn School Kent School The Knox School

The Loomis Chaffee School Miss Hall's School The Stony Brook School The Taft School Westover School Diocesan Schools Chaminade High School Fordham Preparatory School Holy Trinity High School Iona Preparatory School Kellenberg Memorial High School Notre Dame School of Manhattan Regis High School St. John’s Prep St. Vincent Ferrer High School Xavier High School NYC Public Schools Bard High School Early College The Beacon School Brooklyn Latin School The Bronx High School of Science Central Park East High School The College Academy Discovery High School The Douglass STEM Institute Harvest Collegiate High School The High School of Art and Design Humanities Preparatory Academy Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics Manhattan Village Academy The New York City Lab School of Collaborative Studies The New York City Museum School  Richard R. Green School of Teaching Stuyvesant High School

Our students also go on to the world’s top colleges and universities:

American University Amherst College Barnard College Baruch College Binghamton University Boston University Brandeis University Brown University Bucknell University California Polytechnic State University California Institute of Technology Carleton College Case Western Reserve University Colgate University Columbia University Cornell University Davidson College Drexel University Emory University Fashion Institute of Technology Fordham University Franklin & Marshall College George Washington University Georgetown University Hamilton College Harvard University Howard University IMG Academy Indiana University Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lafayette College Lehigh University Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University

Middlebury College Morehouse College Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Pitzer College Pomona College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rice University Rochester Institute of Technology Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Skidmore College Smith College Spelman College Stevens Institute of Technology Temple University Tufts University Tulane University University at Buffalo University of Chicago University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of Richmond University of Rochester University of Texas Austin University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Westminster University of Wisconsin, Madison Vassar College Wake Forest University Washington University Wellesley College

Jaclyn Berney