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Enrollment/Re-Enrollment 2010-11

Bishop Brown Scholarship

St. Martin’s prepares its students for admission to college through a rigorous program of prescribed course work. Beginning in the junior year, all students work with the college counselor, who provides advice and assistance to students throughout the college admission process.

Standardized testing is an important aspect of that admission process. All St. Martin’s students take the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT) during their freshman, sophomore and junior years. The tests are given at St. Martin’s during the fall semester each year. For freshmen and sophomores, the tests are for practice in working with the testing format. The junior-year PSAT score also serves as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Students with exceptionally high scores may be eligible for a National Merit Scholarship.

The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT I) and American College Test (ACT) are required for admission to most colleges. St. Martin’s specifies that juniors take the SAT I and ACT during the spring semester of the junior year. Many colleges also require that candidates for admission take College Board Subject Tests (SAT II). The SAT II tests are offered by the same testing company that authors the SAT test.

Students complete another cycle of admission testing in the fall semester of the senior year. Seniors are not eligible for the PSAT, but they use the fall test dates to take a second SAT I and another ACT. Many seniors also take another set of SAT II tests. The testing cycle for seniors ends with the January testing date in the 12th-grade year.

During the fall of each academic year, a large number of college representatives visit the St. Martin’s campus. Through the college counseling office, juniors and seniors meet with these representatives in order to gain perspective on possible college destinations. The college counselor also forwards student records to colleges, completes secondary school reports required by colleges and guides seniors through the college application process. The ultimate aim is to help seniors gain admission to several schools and thereby create a choice of appropriate college destinations. For college admission purposes, St. Martin’s does not provide student rank.

Class of 2009 College Acceptances:

Adelphi University
The University of Alabama
American University
The University of Arizona
The University of the Arts
Auburn University
Barton College
Bates College
Baylor University
Birmingham-Southern College
Boston University
Brandeis University
University of California at Davis
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Santa Barbara
University of California at Santa Cruz
Case Western Reserve University
College of Charleston
University of Chicago
Clark University
Clemson University
University of Colorado at Boulder
Colorado State University
Cornell University
Dickinson College
Earlham College
Eckerd College
Elon University
The Evergreen State College
Florida State University
Franklin and Marshall College
The George Washington University
University of Georgia
Guilford College
Hampshire College
Harvard University
Hiram College
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hofstra University
Indiana University at Bloomington
The University of Iowa
Ithaca College
James Madison University
Kalamazoo College
Lafayette College
Lewis & Clark College
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Tech University
University of Louisiana
Loyola University New Orleans
Lynchburg College
Lynn University
Macalester College
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Miami
University of Michigan
Middlebury College
Millsaps College
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Mississippi College
University of Mississippi
University of New Orleans
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of Northern Colorado
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Oberlin College
Occidental College
The Ohio State University
University of Oklahoma
University of Pittsburgh
Princeton University
University of Puget Sound
Purdue University
Quinnipiac University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhodes College
University of Richmond
Rocky Mountain College
Rollins College
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
Santa Clara University
Savannah College of Art and Design
Sewanee: The University of the South
Shenandoah University
Skidmore College
University of South Carolina
Southeastern Louisiana University
University of Southern California
Southern Methodist University
Spring Hill College
St. Edward's University
Syracuse University
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Texas Christian University
Transylvania University
Trinity University
Tulane University
Vanderbilt University
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wofford College
Yale University