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Application Season Has Begun for
SEEDS Scholars

Scholars and Young Scholars Research Selective Schools 

For the past two months, SEEDS' Scholars and Young Scholars have spent Saturdays honing their academic skills and preparing for admission to selective middle and high schools across the country.

SEEDS scholars at the Annual Placement Fair.

On September 14, SEEDS Scholars and their families visited three boarding schools: George School (Newtown, Pennsylvania), The Taft School (Watertown, Connecticut) and Westminster School (Simsbury, Connecticut). 

These trips provide the opportunity to experience yet another school environment and boarding school campus. At each school, partners host Scholars with a welcome session, campus tour and a student panel, often comprised of SEEDS graduates currently attending that school. Visits such as these allow families to learn even more about academics and campus life at the schools to which they will apply. 

Just a few weeks later, Scholars and Young Scholars met representatives from nearly 90 selective middle and high schools at SEEDS' Annual Placement School Fair. One-hundred and twenty SEEDS families spent the day exploring the application school process to selective schools, participating in interview and financial aid workshops, and listening to alumni and admissions panels. Topics discussed in the admissions panel included: The Admissions Process (with SEEDS Trustee and Dwight-Englewood's Director of Learning & Teaching Annex, Sherronda Brown), Diversity on Campus, Joining a New School Community, Life Beyond the Classroom, and Single-Gender Education.

Scholars and Young Scholars also took part in Mock Interviews to

Rebeka Zambrano (Young Scholars '14) and volunteer Patti Kent at Mock Interviews.

prepare for success at the schools to which they are applying. A warm thanks to the more than 60 volunteers who interviewed Scholars and their families at Dwight-Englewood, The Pingry School and Seton Hall Prep and Young Scholars and their families at Newark Academy. 

Over the next several weeks, Scholars and Young Scholars will be wrapping up their applications. Before mid-November, each student will submit applications to six to nine schools.

CPP Scholars Prepare College Applications 

CPP Senior Hilda Agyekum and her brother meet with mentor and SEEDS Trustee Janene Edlin.

In addition to the work our Scholars and Young Scholars have been completing for selective school admissions, College Preparatory Program (CPP) seniors have been actively researching colleges and universities with their mentors as they prepare for the college application process. CPP seniors, along with their parents and mentors, kicked off the application season with a meeting on October 5. With the help of their mentors and SEEDS' Placement team, each CPP senior will apply to nine to 12 schools this year.

Over the past several weeks, representatives from Allegheny College, Bowdoin College, Rider University, Tufts University and Washington University in St. Louis have visited CPP Saturday Academy to meet with scholars in tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades. Upcoming information sessions include visits from: Haverford College, Juniata College, Colgate University, Drew University and Albright College. (Visit our CPP calendar for additional program details.)

Eight seniors had the opportunity to attend "A Day in the Life of a College Student" at Rowan University last month. In addition, 12 scholars have been accepted to fly-in programs at Allegheny College, Colgate University, Connecticut College, Denison University, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College or George Washington University.