College Corner Goes National
6/19/2012
What started out as a monthly column in Derryfield's parent newsletter has been gaining an ever-expanding audience over the past two years....
What started out as a monthly column in Derryfield's parent newsletter has been gaining an ever-expanding audience over the past two years. Brennan Barnard has been writing College Corner since he was hired as the Director of College Counseling in 2008, dispensing invaluable advice on the college process to Derryfield students and parents. During the 2010-2011 school year, Brennan's College Corner articles appeared as a monthly column in the Sunday Monitor called The College Try. Topics included how to keep calm during interviews, write powerful essays, and pay for college once you are accepted. But Brennan's larger goal - both in his writing and in his daily work with Derryfield families - is to help students and parents navigate the challenges of the college process while keeping a sense of balance. In fact, Derryfield's success in finding the right fit for students was highlighted in a fall 2010 Associated Press story about an increasing trend in students applying to a high number of colleges. The national attention that Brennan has brought to Derryfield's program continued this January, when he was elected to the position of Regional Council Member-At-Large for the New England Regional Assembly of the College Board. And just this June, after another banner year for Derryfield college acceptances, he authored two entries in the New York Times' college admission blog, The Choice.
Check out some of Brennan's wisdom (and the 2012 matriculation list) below:
The Choice - New York Times
June Checklist for Juniors - 6/6/2012
How to Make the Most of a College Visit - 6/11/2012
Can Less Mean More in College Application Race?
Eric Gorski, Associated Press
College Try - Sunday Monitor
College Corner
2012 College Matriculation
Bates College (2)
Bentley University
Boston University (2)
Brandeis University
Brown University
Case Western Reserve University
Colby College (2)
College of the Holy Cross
Colorado College
Cornell University
Dickinson College
Eastern Nazarene College
Emory University
Endicott College
Florida Institute of Technology
Fordham University
Gordon College
Harvard College
Johns Hopkins University
Middlebury College
Mount Allison University
New York University
Northeastern University (3)
Northwestern University
The Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Pitzer College
Quinnipiac University
Rochester Institute of Technology (2)
Roger Williams University
Saint Michael's College (2)
Sarah Lawrence College
Stanford University
St. Lawrence University (2)
Stonehill College
Syracuse University
University of Chicago
Tufts University
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of New Hampshire (3)
University of Richmond
University of Southern California
The University of Tampa
University of Vermont (2)
University of Virginia
Vassar College
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Yale University