College Counseling

Doane Academy’s College Counseling Mission is simply to provide our students with the best college counseling to maximize their educational and scholarship potential.

Individual attention is a hallmark of the program as we seek to help students and their parents navigate a complex and stressful period through collaboration of the school, parents, and student. In the spring of the junior year and the fall of the senior year, students’ academic schedules include Career and College Prep I and II ( pdf) respectively. The course, taught by our College Counselor, Elizabeth Drumwright, offers assistance with every aspect of the college admissions process, including a free SAT preparation course. Strengths of the course also include the college essay, college rep visits to Doane, interviewing skills, and generation of self-marketing materials.

In line with Doane Academy’s mission to create a culture where students are encouraged and inspired to stretch and explore their full and unique potential, we understand colleges, just like people, gravitate to students with an abundance of what writer D. H. Lawrence coined, "life force." Students who are dynamos of energy and spirit, who fully develop their whole selves, and who actively pursue an interest with passion, simply leap off the page of an application and onto an acceptance list.

In the last two years, our graduating classes of 21 and 23 respectively, leapt onto acceptance lists at 200 of the nation’s best colleges and universities, earning $4.5 million in merit scholarships.

For more information regarding our College Counseling program please contact Elizabeth Drumwright at 609.386.3500 x52 or edrumwright@doaneacademy.org