Academics

College Counseling

College Counseling at RE

Our College Counseling Office is staffed with 12 college counselors, including three essay-writing specialists and a coordinator of student-athlete college recruitment. We also have a dedicated office staff member who assists our students and college counseling team. This group helps ensure that all Ransom Everglades students matriculate to a college or university suited to their personalities and passions.

Our College Counselors

Charlotte Gould ’26

“As Ransom Everglades students, we know that it is not the diploma we are about to receive that matters. It is what we do with everything we have been given.”

Lucas Jaffee ’26

“It feels impossible to match what I have gotten out of this community: lessons, memories, experiences, mentors and friendships that will last a lifetime.”

College Counseling News

List of 6 items.

  • College Admissions Symposium

    The annual and highly anticipated College Admissions Symposium in January offers our students and their families insights on the college process from a panel of admissions deans and directors. The event follows the release of college counselor assignments, by September 1 of the junior year, and the annual returning collegiate alumni panel
    featuring recent RE graduates.

  • Standardized Testing

    Annually, a national expert addresses parents on Navigating Critical Changes in Admissions Testing. National expertise is the basis for the College Counseling Office endorsed test plan distributed to parents and students. All sophomores and juniors sit for the PSAT in October. RE provides test preparation options for students, including a free test prep boot camp at the end of the sophomore year.

  • Inside the Admissions Committee

    RE college counselors – former admissions officers at some of the most selective institutions in the United States – host an evening conversation offering an insider's vantage point. This event leverages their decades of experience to pull back the curtain on the behind-closed-door admissions committee process.

  • Individualized Application Strategy

    The spring semester of junior year is devoted to preparing students for the college application process. Through essay writing workshops, academic interest exploration, university list-building exercises, resume development, and the selection of faculty recommenders, each junior accomplishes vital foundational work alongside ongoing standardized testing. These spring activities culminate in an individualized application strategy for every RE student.
  • 2026 College Recruit Signing Day

    Athletic Recruitment

    Student athletes and families looking to navigate the college athletics landscape are provided resources through the college counseling office including individual appointments with a coordinator of student-athletic recruitment.

  • Financial Aid and Scholarships

    RE partners with Paul Martin, national expert and founder of College
    Money Method. Martin hosts five virtual meetings each year designed to introduce parents at each grade level (9-12) to college costs, financing a college education, financial aid, and scholarships. RE parents have access to a special website that includes workshop recordings and educational materials.

Timeline

List of 3 items.

  • 9th and 10th Grades

    Beginning in the ninth grade, a series of college counseling seminars for students and coffee hour programs for parents is offered to inform families about the college search and application processes. The college counseling seminars are intended to introduce 9th- and 10th-grade students to the college counseling concepts and vocabulary that will help ease them into the formal college counseling process in 11th grade.

    9th- and 10th-grade parents are encouraged to meet with a member of the college counseling team, especially for academic course planning, testing, and summer planning. Resources are available on the myCOMPASS College Counseling site and through “Class of” parent web pages.

  • 11th Grade

    Individual college counseling assignments occur by September 1 of
    the junior year. The kickoff events, Junior Parent Night and Class Meeting, occur during the first week in September and provide juniors and their parents with an in-depth road map of the 18-month process. The junior year will include frequent meetings between college counselors and students, along with parent meetings, continued class meetings, workshops and special events for parents and students.

    Juniors are provided the opportunity to meet with over 100 college admissions officers during fall visits to RE and in the spring at the AIMS College Fair, where over 200 colleges gather.

  • 12th Grade

    The College Counseling Office meets with rising seniors throughout the summer and hosts a kickoff senior meeting in August prior to the start of the academic year. Parents are invited to the much-anticipated Senior Parent Night where they learn
    about RE’s application management and individualized application strategies.

    Individual weekly meetings in August, September and October assist students in all aspects of the college application process including finalizing personal statements and supplemental essays, completing the Common Application and applying for financial aid and scholarships. Mock alumni interviews is a signature event held
    during the fall semester.

    Throughout September and October, RE welcomes more than 100 admissions officers to campus, allowing students to learn about colleges in an intimate setting.

Middle School

2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 250 6850

Upper School

3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 460 8800

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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. It is rated the top private school in Miami and among the 10 private schools in North America. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.


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