College Counseling
College Counseling and Academic Guidance
Shalhevet’s College Counseling program integrates the unique pedagogy of the school with the college application process. We do not simply measure the success of a college application by a letter of admission from a prestigious college. We encourage students to take ownership of the process and recognize that this is a time of great maturity and personal growth. We look to help each student find the best fit in a potential college – academically, socially and Jewishly.
Throughout high school, with emphasis on junior and senior year, we help students explore and identify their priorities and values, and teach them crucial research, time management and decision making skills, ensuring our graduates grow into responsible young adults once they arrive on the campus of their choice. We support this by helping students to assess their goals and investigate universities that best meet their individual needs.
College Counseling begins informally as students transition to the rigor of high school coursework and become comfortable with the challenges entailed. We work closely with students to guide them academically throughout high school, choosing appropriate courses and teaching them how to strive for balance in their lives, academically and co-curricularly. In their junior year, students begin to meet formally with Ms. Aviva Walls and Ms. Lisa Gruenbaum, who guide students through the college process step-by-step. Aviva and Lisa also meet with students and parents individually and in small groups to answer questions about the college application process and to discuss plans and goals post-high school.
For more information, feel free to contact our counselors:
Ms. Aviva Walls
Director of College Counseling and Academic Guidance
a.walls@shalhevet.org
Ms. Lisa Gruenbaum
Associate Director of College Counseling and Academic Guidance
Colleges to which Shalhevet students have been admitted:
American University
Arizona State University
Babson College
Bard College
Bar-Ilan University
Barnard College
Beloit College
Binghamton University
Boston University
Bradley University
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
California Lutheran University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
California State University, Channel Islands
California State University, Monterey Bay
California State University, Northridge
California State University, San Bernardino
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Chapman University
Claremont McKenna College
Clark University
Colorado School of Mines
Columbia College Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
DePaul University
Drexel University
Duke University
Emerson College
Emory University
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles
Franklin and Marshall College
Goucher College
Hampshire College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hofstra University
Indiana University at Bloomington
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
Ithaca College
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Johns Hopkins University
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Los Angeles Valley College
Loyola Marymount University
Marquette University
Marymount Manhattan College
McGill University
Michigan State University
Mount Holyoke College
Muhlenberg College
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Otis College of Art and Design
Pace University
Parsons New School for Design
Pepperdine University
Pitzer College
Pratt Institute
Princeton University
Reed College
Rice University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rutgers University
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco University
Santa Clara University
Santa Monica College
Sarah Lawrence College
Savannah College of Art and Design
School of Visual Arts
Scripps College
Simon Fraser University
Skidmore College
Smith College
Southern California Institute of Architecture
St. John’s College
Stony Brook University
Suffolk University
Syracuse University
The George Washington University
The University of Arizona
Trinity University
Tufts University
Tulane University
Union College
University of Birmingham
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Davis
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Los Angeles
University of California at Merced
University of California at Riverside
University of California at San Diego
University of California at Santa Barbara
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University of Connecticut
University of Denver
University of Edinburgh
University of Exeter
University of Glasgow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Missouri
University of Oregon
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Redlands
University of Rochester
University of San Diego
University of Southern California
University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
University of the Pacific
University of Toronto
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Vancouver Island University
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Yale University
Yeshiva University
York University