college counseling
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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
Points of Pride
Our Mission
Inspiring each other to
discover our full selves and
use our wisdom for good –
drives all that we do.
Class of 2023
Our students mature into
individuals prepared with the
tools they need for life beyond
RHCD!
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.
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“Our Upper School curriculum fosters opportunities for failure, adjustment, and student growth. Advanced college-level courses challenge students who are at the top of their field, exposing our graduates to the rigors of college/university-bound careers, internships, and entrepreneurial work.”
Brady Wheatley,
Head of Upper School
“At the forefront of our Athletic Department’s philosophy is to develop student leaders, on and off the court. At Rocky Hill, we offer an annual Leadership Academy, which is typically multiple consecutive days and where the students assume the role of a facilitator!”
Megan Williams,
Director of Athletics and Physical Education
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The Rocky Hill Way
Founded in 1934, Rocky Hill Country Day is a private Nursery – Grade 12 school located in East Greenwich Rhode Island along the beautiful shores of Narragansett Bay.
Serving students across 34 Rhode Island communities, Rocky Hill’s extensive waterfront campus provides a living classroom where students can think expansively, try new things, and achieve wider possibilities.
Learning
→ Social Emotional Learning
→ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Belonging
→ Health and Wellness
→ 9th Grade Seminar has an additional focus on first-year transition and media literacy.
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!
