COLLEGE COUNSELING

COLLEGE COUNSELING AT BMA IS DIFFERENT.

Students at Burke Mountain Academy are the beneficiaries of a well-tailored college advising program that considers their academic and athletic ambitions. As such, our advising program is very different from those of other high schools. For instance, college counseling at traditional private schools generally begins in earnest in the middle of the junior year with perhaps, some programming in the lower grades.

We believe that students in grades 9 and 10 should focus on their athletic, social, and academic development without the distraction of overt college admissions programming. Similarly, during the winter of the junior year, when students at other high schools are beginning to consider their college options, our students are intensively focused on the race season; discussions about college would put counter-productive pressure on their athletic performance. 

While the Director of College Counseling is always available to parents and students of all grades, formal advising at BMA begins in the spring of a student's junior year when they participate in a multi-day college counseling workshop. When they return to campus for their senior year, college advising is directly integrated into the schedules of all 12th graders during Trimester 1 of the English 12 class. To ensure that students have completed high-quality applications for the Early Decision/Early Action deadlines, the Director of College Counseling attends the October training camp in Europe.

College Counseling Handbook