The excitement of college counseling at UNIS is that the world is our campus. Each year our students apply to and enroll at universities in 10 or more countries outside of the United States. Admissions officers treasure applications from UNIS because our students bring a unique sense of maturity and broad outlook to their campuses. Moreover, tooled with the knowledge and skills from their International Baccalaureate preparation, they adapt easily to the rigor of college academics. Each year college admissions results bring distinction to our students and their families and to us as a community. Nearly 100% of the students in the classes of 2004-2008 have matriculated at four-year colleges. For the 126 students in the Class of 2008, 61% of the applications resulted in offers of admission. 21 students were admitted to all of the colleges to which they applied, 11 admitted to all but one, 8 were admitted to all but two and 10 were admitted to all but three colleges. The stellar record of acceptances at the most selective colleges in the United States validates the positive response to our students’ applications. Each year between 75% - 85% enroll at colleges in the United States. The following is a sampling of some of the US admissions rates (representing 4 or more applications to the college). Amherst admitted 75% of our applications (14% national average); Barnard – 67% (28% national); Brown – 29% (14% national); Columbia – 17% (10% national); Cornell – 40% (20% national); Dartmouth – 30% (13% national); Duke – 83% (21% national); MIT – 50% (10% national); Stanford – 33% (10% national); University of Virginia – 50% (34% national); Wellesley – 60% (35% national); Williams – 40% (16% national)
Colleges at which five or more students have enrolled during the past five years are: McGill (28), George Washington (17), Cornell (15), Boston University (13), New York University (12), University of Virginia (11), Brown (10), Duke (10), Barnard (9), Columbia (9), University of Edinburgh (9), Emory (8), University of Chicago (7), Dickinson (7), Northeastern (7), Vassar (7), Bard (6), Fordham (6), Oberlin (6), Wellesley (6), Carnegie Mellon (5), University of Maastricht (5), University of Richmond (5), St. Andrews (5), Stanford (5), Tufts (5), Bryn Mawr (4), Hunter (4), Connecticut College (4), Dartmouth (4), Lehigh (4), Muhlenberg (4), University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (4), Parsons School of Design (4), Sarah Lawrence (4), School of Visual Arts (4), Syracuse (4), William & Mary (4), Yale (5).