ThumbprinTFinding Your College

The truth is that there is no perfect college.  That’s a myth.  Instead there are many excellent schools where each student can pursue their passions, make connections, graduate in four years, and either matriculate to graduate school or compete in the job market. 

Over the past four years, 100 percent of Casady graduates have been accepted to college, at a total of 250 colleges and universities (220 private/50 public).  Ivies like Dartmouth and Penn, to BCS bowl winners like TCU and Ohio State. From single-gender schools like Wellesley and Hampden-Sydney, to small, liberal arts colleges like Pomona College and Rhodes College.

Currently, the Class of 2011 has been admitted to 94 percent of the colleges they have applied to as a class. And our graduates’ merit scholarships have risen from $500,000 to $3.6 million. 

As a whole, Casady students are discovering that each of them have a thumbprint that matches what colleges are looking for. 

So what school, you might wonder, did Molly end up choosing? Just ask Molly’s dad.  He sports a Longhorn baseball cap on weekends.  Except, of course, on the first weekend in October. 

Molly faces a dilemma. May 1st, deposit day for college, looms on the horizon.

Back in September, Molly feared she wouldn’t get into any of her top schools. Now she is cursed with a bright triad of choices.  From the University of Michigan and its top East Asian program; to Austin College and its innovative Language House; to UT-Austin with its live music scene, 50,000 students, and sorority central. 

The last option, of course, makes Molly’s dad cringe at the thought of wearing burnt orange.  But every college choice for Molly shimmers with possibility. Which school, though, is THE ONE for her? 

In those moments, Casady college counselors like to remind students like Molly and her parents that we’re not chasing a trophy, we’re making a match.

At Casady School, our mission involves partnering with families like Molly’s to discern the best college fit.  Sometimes fit includes admissibility.  Can the student get in? Other times fit involves affordability.  Can the family pay the sticker price? And other times, like in Molly’s case, fit involves pursuing a passion to study Mandarin Chinese and rush as a Theta.

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Early Decision Acceptances for Casady’s Class of 2011:Boston University

Pomona College

Sewanee: The University of the South

St. Olaf College

Washington University in St. Louis

Vanderbilt University

Josh BottomlyDirector of College Counseling

Casady School admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin.