college counseling
Get To Know
COLLEGE COUNSELING
The college admission process can be exciting and dynamic. It can also feel hard to understand and wildly inconsistent. At Rocky Hill Country Day, the Office of College Counseling offers students and parents individual and small group meetings, use of MaiaLearning’s online platform, face-to-face contact with college admission officers, and focused special events, so that our seniors and families feel empowered and encouraged to embrace post-secondary planning, and to make informed decisions about their future.
At RHCD, finding the right college or university is about personal and individual “fit.”
“At Rocky Hill Country
Day, we create the
spaces for students to be themselves.”
JONAH O’HARA (he/his)
Director of College Counseling
johara@rockyhill.org
Get To Know
COLLEGE COUNSELING
The college admission process can be exciting and dynamic. It can also feel hard to understand and wildly inconsistent. At Rocky Hill Country Day, the Office of College Counseling offers students and parents individual and small group meetings, use of MaiaLearning’s online platform, face-to-face contact with college admission officers, and focused special events, so that our seniors and families feel empowered and encouraged to embrace post-secondary planning, and to make informed decisions about their future.
At RHCD, finding the right college or university is about personal and individual “fit.”
“At Rocky Hill Country Day, we create the spaces for students to be themselves.”
— JONAH O’HARA
35
Graduating
Class
122
Upper School
Students
12
Average Class
Size
267
N–12 Students
Admissions Officers
All Rocky Hill campus visits are booked through MaiaLearning and reminders are sent to our students. Please follow instructions as outlined in MaiaLearning’s website in order to meet a Rocky Hill student. We look forward to welcoming you to RHCD!
Our College Counseling Philosophy
The College Counseling Office seeks to make the college process educationally relevant and personally enriching. It involves considerable self-reflection as students determine the next steps in their educational journey, with our belief that student ownership of the process is paramount. We also strive to support parents as their children engage fully toward the independence ultimately required of young adults in college.
Events & Resources
College Admission Year In Preview: A Playlist
Read Brennan Barnard’s Forbes article that provides high school juniors and their supporters a monthly breakdown of what to anticipate looking forward and his hopes for them.
Shedding Daylight On Control
In College Admission
Read Rick Clark, Assistant Vice Provost and Exec.Dir. of Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech’s recent article, and discover how you control 75% of the process!
College Choice & Chowder
A cup of chowder is of far less cost and consequence than a college education. Yet many people have very strong opinions about both. Explore why the best approach, in chowder or college, is to start with questions, not answers!
