The primary goals for the college process at Hopkins are threefold:

• To assist students and their families in finding a number of good college "matches" - places where students would feel challenged, happy, and satisfied. Based on nearly eight decades of experience in counseling students, in addition to frequent trips to college campuses and attendance at national and regional meetings, we work together with our students to come up with a list of college prospects.



• To help admissions officers to understand and appreciate the competitiveness of the Hopkins curriculum. This is done in several ways, including through the school profile (a document that accompanies every transcript), the school letter of support (written for each senior, detailing curriculum choices and quoting teachers' comments from term reports), and meetings with college admission representatives who visit Hopkins each fall.



• To demystify the college search and application process, and to help students understand how they fit into the world of college admission. We show students what they may do to either enhance their records or to present their records in the most meaningful way. We try to achieve a balance of careful support with a sense that this is their process; students need to become more independent and self-reliant as they make their way towards college life.