Admissions

College Matriculation

GFS students go on to attend an impressive range of prestigious colleges and universities. During the period 2008-2012, the most popular schools chosen by GFS graduates were the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Temple University, The George Washington University, Brown University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Wesleyan University, The University of Pittsburgh, Trinity College and Franklin and Marshall College. Below is a complete listing of the schools most recently chosen by our graduates. Our College Guidance Program provides each student and his or her parents with close and careful advising through the college selection, application and admissions process, beginning in the spring of 11th grade.

College Choices 2008-2012
University of Pennsylvania 55
Temple University 13
University of Pittsburgh 12
Brown University 11
The George Washington University 11
New York University 11
Trinity College 11
University of Delaware 8
Drexel University 8
Tulane University 8
Wesleyan University 8
Yale University 8
Columbia University 7
Franklin and Marshall College 7
Oberlin College 7
Stanford University 7
College of Charleston 6
Dickinson College 6
University of Chicago 5
Emory University 5
Princeton University 5
Skidmore College 5
Tufts University 5
Bowdoin College 4
Colorado College 4
Duke University 4
Haverford College 4
Johns Hopkins University 4
Kenyon College 4
Syracuse University 4
Vanderbilt University 4
University of Vermont 4
University of Wisconsin, Madison 4
Amherst College 3
Barnard College 3
Bates College 3
Boston University 3
Carleton College 3
Carnegie Mellon University 3
Earlham College 3
Emerson College 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3
University of Miami 3
University of Michigan 3
Vassar College 3
University of Virginia 3
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania 3
American University 2
Arcadia University 2
Bard College 2
Brandeis University 2
University of Colorado at Boulder 2
Cornell University 2
Dartmouth College 2
Davidson College 2
Eckerd College 2
Fordham University 2
Grinnell College 2
Guilford College 2
Hampshire College 2
Hampton University 2
Harvard University 2
Hobart and William Smith Colleges 2
Lehigh University 2
Macalester College 2
McGill University (Canada) 2
Middlebury College 2
Morehouse College 2
Rochester Institute of Technology 2
University of St. Andrews (Scotland) 2
Washington College 2
College of William and Mary 2
The College of Wooster 2
Albright College 1
Allegheny College 1
Berklee College of Music 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Bucknell University 1
University of California at Berkeley 1
Chestnut Hill College 1
Colby College 1
Community College of Philadelphia 1
Connecticut College 1
University of Edinburgh (Scotland) 1
Elizabethtown College 1
Elon University 1
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts 1
Georgetown University 1
Hamilton College- NY 1
Hofstra University 1
Howard University 1
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) 1
Indiana University of PA 1
Ithaca College 1
James Madison University 1
John Cabot University 1
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 1
University of Louisville 1
Manor College 1
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania 1
University of Missouri, Columbia 1
Moravian College 1
Mount Holyoke College 1
New England Conservatory of Music 1
Northwestern University 1
Occidental College 1
Pepperdine University 1
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg 1
Polytechnic Institute of NYU 1
Purdue University 1
Quinnipiac University 1
Randolph Macon College 1
University of Rhode Island 1
Rhodes College 1
University of Richmond 1
Santa Clara University 1
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1
St. John's College, Santa Fe 1
St. Joseph's University 1
St. Olaf College 1
SUNY-Binghamton 1
Susquehanna University 1
Ursinus College 1
Washington University, St. Louis 1
Wellesley College1
Wheaton College, Illinois 1
Williams College1