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 2017-21 | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 49 |
| Haverford College | 17 |
| New York University | 16 |
| Temple University | 15 |
| Barnard College | 13 |
| Drexel University | 13 |
| Wesleyan University | 13 |
| Columbia University | 10 |
| Tufts University | 9 |
| Georgetown University | 7 |
| Middlebury College | 7 |
| Princeton University | 7 |
| University of Chicago | 7 |
| Vassar College | 7 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 6 |
| Macalester College | 6 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 6 |
| American University | 5 |
|
Boston University |
5 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 5 |
| Cornell University | 5 |
| Hamilton College | 5 |
| Kenyon College | 5 |
| Tulane University | 5 |
| University of Michigan | 5 |
| Bard College | 4 |
| Brown University | 4 |
| Connecticut College | 4 |
| Emory University | 4 |
| Franklin and Marshall College | 4 |
| McGill University | 4 |
| Northwestern University | 4 |
| Smith College | 4 |
| Stanford University | 4 |
| Syracuse University | 4 |
| The George Washington University | 4 |
| Yale University | 4 |
| Bowdoin College | 3 |
| John Hopkins University | 3 |
| Northeastern University | 3 |
| Pitzer College | 3 |
| Rice University | 3 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | 3 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | 3 |
| Swarthmore College | 3 |
| The New School | 3 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 3 |
| University of Maryland | 3 |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 3 |
| University of Southern California | 3 |
| University of Vermont | 3 |
| Williams College | 3 |
| Bates College | 2 |
| Boston College | 2 |
| Bucknell University | 2 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 2 |
| Duke University | 2 |
| Emerson College | 2 |
| Fordham University | 2 |
| Goucher College | 2 |
| Lehigh University | 2 |
| Oberlin College | 2 |
| Pennsylvania State University | 2 |
| Pratt Institute | 2 |
| Reed College | 2 |
| Saint Joseph's University | 2 |
| Scripps College | 2 |
| SUNY Stony Brook | 2 |
| University of Colorado, Boulder | 2 |
| University of St. Andrews | 2 |
| University of Virginia | 2 |
| Vanderbilt University | 2 |
| Wellesley College | 2 |
| Whittier College | 2 |
| Widener University | 2 |
| Albright College | 1 |
| Arizona State University | 1 |
| Babson College | 1 |
| Bennington College | 1 |
| Bentley University | 1 |
| Berklee College of Music | 1 |
| Boston Conservatory | 1 |
| Bryn Mawr College | 1 |
| California Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Canisius College | 1 |
| Champlain College | 1 |
| Chapman University | 1 |
| Claremont-McKenna College | 1 |
| Clarkson University | 1 |
| Colby College | 1 |
| Colgate University | 1 |
| College of William & Mary | 1 |
| Dartmouth College | 1 |
| DePaul University | 1 |
| Dickinson College | 1 |
| Drexel University, BS/MD Program | 1 |
| Earlham College | 1 |
| Eindhoven University of Technology | 1 |
| Elon University | 1 |
| Harvard University | 1 |
| High Point University | 1 |
| Howard University | 1 |
| La Salle University | 1 |
| Lafayette College | 1 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 1 |
| Loyola University New Orleans | 1 |
| Manhattan School of Music | 1 |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | 1 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Massachusetts Bay Community College | 1 |
| McDaniel College | 1 |
| Michigan State University | 1 |
| Mount Holyoke College | 1 |
| Mount St. Mary's University | 1 |
| New England Conservatory of Music | 1 |
| Pace University, NYC | 1 |
| Pomona College | 1 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 1 |
| Ryerson University | 1 |
| Savannah College Art and Design | 1 |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 1 |
| Soka University of America | 1 |
| Towson University | 1 |
| Trinity College Dublin | 1 |
| United States Naval Academy | 1 |
| University College London | 1 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 1 |
| University of California, Davis | 1 |
| University of Delaware | 1 |
| University of Edinburgh | 1 |
| University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art | 1 |
| University of Miami | 1 |
| University of North Carolina, Charlotte | 1 |
| University of Notre Dame | 1 |
| University of Pittsburgh, BS/MD Program | 1 |
| University of Rochester | 1 |
| University of Washington | 1 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute | 1 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 1 |
| West Chester University | 1 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1 |