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Waring encourages its students to think of attending college not as an end in itself but as a natural consequence of their achievement and growth during their years here. We believe Waring students will continue to thrive as scholars, leaders, and community members in the next chapter of their lives and beyond.

“A community of lifelong learners,” Waring School prepares its students for the future from the moment they enter its doors. By the time they begin the college process they have already built a strong foundation of self-awareness, intellectual curiosity and maturity. Our students grow in an environment that fosters the contemplation of important questions about who they are, where their skills and passions lie, and their relationship to the community and world beyond.

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A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNERS

Scholars and Leaders Beyond Waring

Waring students, their parents, and the College Counselor formally begin the research and application process early in the winter of junior year, forming a partnership that engages them on a highly individualized, step-by-step path to good decisions. A series of large and small group meetings and individual student and family meetings continues through April of senior year in preparation for the May 1st commitment deadline. In addition, more than thirty college admissions representatives visit Waring’s campus and meet with interested students each fall.

We know our students well and take pride in our awareness of and attentiveness to the needs of the individual. Finding the right match for each is the ultimate goal, knowing that, though they have shared a common educational experience at Waring, they will be heading in a variety of directions – to small and large schools, from one end of the country to the other and beyond, to liberal arts colleges, universities, and specialty schools, including art and music conservatories. We encourage them to think of the college goal as not an end in itself but as a natural consequence of their achievement and growth during their years here. Waring students will continue to thrive as scholars, leaders and community members in the next chapter of their lives and beyond.

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THE FACTS & FIGURES OF WARING SCHOOL

In 2024-25, Waring seniors applied to 146 colleges in 32 different states across the US as well as Canada, France, the UK, Ireland, and Italy.
Over the past five years, approximately 30% of Waring alumni have matriculated into STEM programs including mechanical, biomedical, and civil engineering as well as pre-med, applied mathematics, and natural sciences.
Student to college counselor ratio is never over 30:1.

SELECT ACCEPTANCES AND MATRICULATIONS - 2021-2026 (145 graduates)

American University

3

Bard College

Barnard College

1

Bates College

3

Baylor University

Bennington College

2

Bentley University

1

Binghamton University

Boston College

4

Boston University

2

Bowdoin College

1

Brandeis University

3

Brown University

2

Bucknell University

1

Catholic University of America

Carleton College

Clark University

1

Clemson University

Colby College

Colgate University

2

College of Charleston

College of the Holy Cross

3

Colorado College

2

Colorado School of Mines

Connecticut College

Cornell University

1

Dalhousie University

Dartmouth University

Dickinson College

1

Drew University

Drexel University

Duke University

Elon University

Emerson College

4

Emory University

1

Fairfield University

Fordham University

2

Franklin & Marshall College

1

George Washington University

3

Georgia Institute of Technology

2

Grinnell College

1

Hampshire College

2

Harvard University

1

Haverford College

1

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

ITI Catholic University

1

Ithaca College

3

Kenyon College

3

Lafayette College

Loyola University Chicago

Loyola Marymount University

1

Macalester College

1

Maine Maritime Academy

Marist University

1

Marymount Manhattan College

1

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

2

McGill University

2

Michigan State University

Middlebury College

2

Mount Holyoke College

New York University

1

North Carolina State University

Northeastern University

9

Oberlin College

3

Occidental College

Pace University

Penn State University (University Park)

1

Pitzer College

2

Pratt Institute

1

Providence College

Purdue University

Queens University

Quinnipiac University

Reed College

2

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rhodes College

Rice University

Rochester Institute of Technology

1

Roger Williams University

Rose-Hullman Institute of Technology

Rutgers University

Saint Michael's College

Salve Regina University

1

Santa Clara University

1

Sarah Lawrence College

Savannah College of Art and Design

1

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Tufts University)

Scripps College

1

Simmons University

Skidmore College

3

Smith College

3

Stevens Institute of Technology

SUNY Purchase College

St. John's College (Annapolis)

St. Lawrence University

Suffolk University

1

Syracuse University

1

Temple University

1

The New School

The University of Edinburgh

Thomas Aquinas College (CA)

Trinity College

Trinity College Dublin

1

Tufts University

4

Tulane University of Louisiana

Union College

1

University of British Columbia

University College Cork

University College Dublin

1

University College London

University College Utrecht

University of California (Irvine)

University of California (San Diego)

1

University of California (Santa Barbara)

1

University of California (Santa Cruz)

University of Connecticut

University of Delaware

University of Denver

1

University of Edinburgh

University of Glasgow

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Kansas

University of Kentucky

University of Maryland

University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

4

University of Michigan

1

University of New Hampshire

University of North Carolina (Charlotte)

University of North Carolina School of the Arts

1

University of Oregon

University of Oxford

1

University of Notre Dame

University of Richmond

University of Rochester

2

University of Pittsburgh

1

University of Puget Sound

University of San Diego

1

University of St Andrews

4

University of Toronto

1

University of Vermont

5

University of Virginia

University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Vassar College

1

Villanova University

Virginia Polytechnic

Wake Forest University

Wellesley College

2

Wesleyan University

2

Wheaton College

1

Whitman College

William & Mary

Williams College

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

4

Yale University

1

Christine Trowbridge

Director of College Counseling

Christine is committed to working closely with Waring students and families to provide thoughtful, individualized support during all stages of the college search and application process. Prior to becoming an independent college counselor in 2012, she practiced law in the Boston area, where she specialized in securities law and complex commercial litigation. Christine is the mother of a recent Waring graduate and served as a parent volunteer from 2017-2023. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Tufts University, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where she was Articles Editor of the Boston University Law Review, and a Certificate in College Counseling from UC San Diego.

In her spare time – which she has more of now that both of her children are in college – she enjoys puttering in her garden, walking Crane Beach (particularly in inclement weather), reading just about anything she can get her hands on, and spending time with her husband and their three not-terribly-well-behaved dogs.