College Matriculation
GFS students go on to attend a variety of colleges and universities. During the period of 2016-20, the most popular schools chosen by GFS graduates were University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Haverford College, Drexel University, and New York University.
Below is a complete listing of the schools most recently chosen by our graduates. Our College Counseling 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 2016-20 | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 48 |
| Temple University | 17 |
| Haverford College | 16 |
| Drexel University | 15 |
| New York University | 15 |
| Barnard College | 13 |
| Wesleyan University | 10 |
| Brown University | 8 |
| Princeton University | 8 |
| Tufts University | 8 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 8 |
| Columbia University | 7 |
| Skidmore College | 7 |
| Tulane University | 7 |
| Vassar College | 7 |
| Boston University | 6 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 6 |
| Macalester College | 6 |
| Yale University | 6 |
| Cornell University | 5 |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 5 |
| Georgetown University | 5 |
| Hamilton College | 5 |
| Kenyon College | 5 |
| Middlebury College | 5 |
| Smith College | 5 |
| American University | 4 |
| Emory University | 4 |
| George Washington University | 4 |
| McGill University | 4 |
| Northeastern University | 4 |
| Northwestern University | 4 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | 4 |
| Stanford University | 4 |
| University of Chicago | 4 |
| University of Michigan | 4 |
| Bowdoin College | 3 |
| Fordham University | 3 |
| Pitzer College | 3 |
| Reed College | 3 |
| Rice University | 3 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | 3 |
| Swarthmore College | 3 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 3 |
| University of Vermont | 3 |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | 3 |
| Babson College | 2 |
| Bard College | 2 |
| Bates College | 2 |
| Boston College | 2 |
| Bryn Mawr College | 2 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 2 |
| College of William and Mary | 2 |
| Connectictut College | 2 |
| Dartmouth College | 2 |
| Dickinson College | 2 |
| Emerson College | 2 |
| Goucher College | 2 |
| Hampshire College | 2 |
| Harvard University | 2 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 2 |
| Lehigh University | 2 |
| Pennsylvania State University | 2 |
| Rhode Island School of Art & Design | 2 |
| Scripps College | 2 |
| SUNY Stony Brook | 2 |
| Syracuse University | 2 |
| The New School (All Divisions) | 2 |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | 2 |
| University of Edinburgh | 2 |
| University of Miami | 2 |
| University of Southern California | 2 |
| Ursinus College | 2 |
| Vanderbilt University | 2 |
| Wellesley College | 2 |
| Whittier College | 2 |
| Widener University | 2 |
| Williams College | 2 |
| Albright College | 1 |
| Arizona State University | 1 |
| Bentley University | 1 |
| Berklee College of Music | 1 |
| Boston Conservatory at Berklee | 1 |
| California Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Canisius College | 1 |
| Carleton College | 1 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| Champlain College | 1 |
| Chapman University | 1 |
| Clarkson University | 1 |
| Colby College | 1 |
| Colgate University | 1 |
| College of Wooster | 1 |
| Columbia-Juilliard Program | 1 |
| Duke University | 1 |
| Earlham College | 1 |
| Eckerd College | 1 |
| Elon University | 1 |
| High Point University | 1 |
| Howard University | 1 |
| La Salle University | 1 |
| Lafayette College | 1 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | 1 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Mount Holyoke College | 1 |
| Mount St. Mary's University | 1 |
| NYU Abu Dhabi | 1 |
| Oberlin College | 1 |
| Pace University, NYC | 1 |
| Pomona College | 1 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| Ryerson University | 1 |
| Saint Joseph's University | 1 |
| Salisbury University | 1 |
| Savannah College Art and Design | 1 |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 1 |
| Sciences Po/Columbia University | 1 |
| Soka University of America | 1 |
| Texas State University | 1 |
| Trinity College | 1 |
| Trinity College Dublin | 1 |
| United States Naval Academy | 1 |
| University College London | 1 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 1 |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 1 |
| University of North Carolina, Charlotte | 1 |
| University of Notre Dame | 1 |
| University of Rochester | 1 |
| University of St. Andrews | 1 |
| University of Texas, Austin | 1 |
| University of Washington | 1 |
| Virginia Tech | 1 |
| Wake Forest University | 1 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 2 |
| West Chester University | 1 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 |