College Matriculation
GFS students go on to attend an impressive range of prestigious colleges and universities. During the period 2013-17, the most popular schools chosen by GFS graduates were University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, Brown University, Drexel University, New York University, and Yale 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 2013-2017 | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 48 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 17 |
| Temple University | 16 |
| Brown University | 14 |
| Drexel University | 14 |
| New York University | 13 |
| Yale University | 11 |
| Wesleyan University | 9 |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | 8 |
| Haverford College | 8 |
| Skidmore College | 8 |
| Tulane University | 8 |
| Boston University | 7 |
| University of Vermont | 7 |
| Barnard College | 6 |
| Emory University | 6 |
| George Washington University | 6 |
| Kenyon College | 6 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 5 |
| Cornell University | 5 |
| Earlham College | 5 |
| Hampshire College | 5 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 5 |
| Northwestern University | 5 |
| Stanford University | 5 |
| University of Chicago | 4 |
| College of William and Mary | 4 |
| Columbia University | 4 |
| Franklin and Marshall College | 4 |
| Harvard University | 4 |
| Middlebury College | 4 |
| Oberlin College | 4 |
| Princeton University | 4 |
| Tufts University | 4 |
| Vassar College | 4 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 4 |
| American University | 3 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 3 |
| Hamilton College | 3 |
| McGill University | 3 |
| Northeastern University | 3 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | 3 |
| Swarthmore College | 3 |
| Ursinus College | 3 |
| Wellesley College | 3 |
| Amherst College | 2 |
| Bard College | 2 |
| Bowdoin College | 2 |
| Brandeis University | 2 |
| Bryn Mawr College | 2 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 2 |
| Colby College | 2 |
| College of Wooster | 2 |
| Colorado College | 2 |
| Dartmouth College | 2 |
| University of Edinburgh | 2 |
| Elizabethtown College | 2 |
| Emerson College | 2 |
| Fordham University | 2 |
| Gap Year | 2 |
| Georgetown University | 2 |
| Howard University | 2 |
| Macalester College | 2 |
| The New School | 2 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2 |
| Pitzer College | 2 |
| University of Redlands | 2 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 2 |
| Saint Joseph's University | 2 |
| Smith College | 2 |
| University of Southern California | 2 |
| Syracuse University | 2 |
| Whittier College | 2 |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | 2 |
| University of Arizona | 1 |
| Auburn University | 1 |
| Babson College | 1 |
| Bates College | 1 |
| Berklee College of Music | 1 |
| Bucknell University | 1 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | 1 |
| Cambridge University | 1 |
| Carleton College | 1 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 1 |
| Chestnut Hill College | 1 |
| University of Cincinnati | 1 |
| Colgate University | 1 |
| Columbia University/Juilliard School | 1 |
| Davidson College | 1 |
| University of Delaware | 1 |
| Dickinson College | 1 |
| Drew University | 1 |
| East Stroudsburg University | 1 |
| George Mason University | 1 |
| Goucher College | 1 |
| Harvey Mudd College | 1 |
| Ithaca College | 1 |
| La Salle University | 1 |
| Loyola University of New Orleans | 1 |
| Marymount Manhattan College | 1 |
| University of Miami | 1 |
| University of Michigan | 1 |
| Michigan State University | 1 |
| New York University, Abu Dhabi | 1 |
| Occidental College | 1 |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | 1 |
| Pace University, New York City | 1 |
| Parsons, The New School for Design | 1 |
| Pennsylvania State University, University Park | 1 |
| Pennsylvania State University, Abington | 1 |
| Philadelphia University | 1 |
| Pratt Institute | 1 |
| Reed College | 1 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 1 |
| Rice University | 1 |
| Ryerson University | 1 |
| University of San Francisco | 1 |
| Savannah College of Art and Design | 1 |
| Sciences Po/Columbia University | 1 |
| Spelman College | 1 |
| University of Tampa | 1 |
| The University of Texas, Austin | 1 |
| University of the Arts | 1 |
| Trinity College | 1 |
| Tyler School of Art Temple University | 1 |
| United States Naval Academy | 1 |
| University College London | 1 |
| University of Virginia | 1 |
| Virginia Tech | 1 |
| Wake Forest University | 1 |
| West Chester University of PA | 1 |
| Williams College | 1 |