TINTON FALLS — Ranney School’s Class of 2016 has garnered an exceptional list of college acceptances, including to six of the eight Ivy League institutions.
The 78-member class was admitted into 14 of the top 25 nationally ranked universities by U.S. News & World Report’s Carnegie classification and had three female Division 1 athletic recruitments, according to a press release.
The school’s nationally acclaimed College Guidance Office provides an individualized, family-based, “right-fit” approach to college counseling. When students enter the Upper School in ninth grade, faculty and college counselors get to know the students and their families.
“We advise ninth-grade families on courses, extracurricular activity options, summer plans and standardized test preparation,” said Dr. Nick Accrocco, co-director of the College Guidance Office. “Once our students become upperclassmen, we guide them and their parents through individualized college searches, and we offer programs that help them understand what to expect at each stage of the process.”
Ranney counselors meet with students and their parents often to help them stay organized, on track and to ensure that they remain realistic and calm throughout what can be a very stressful process.
Ranney students have the added advantage of working with counselors who have previously served as college admissions officers. Accrocco previously spent nine years in the undergraduate admissions office at Vanderbilt University and served as an application reader for the University of Pennsylvania and American University’s Kogod School of Business.
