College Counseling
Mission
The College Counseling Program at Charleston Collegiate School empowers students through individualized, collaborative guidance that honors each student’s unique path while fostering the creativity, curiosity, and confidence needed to thrive in higher education and beyond. We are committed to a student-centered approach that develops resilient leaders prepared to embrace the opportunities of tomorrow through innovative college planning, entrepreneurial thinking, and mindful decision-making.
Vision
We envision a college counseling program that cultivates joyful, lifelong learners who approach their post-secondary journey with compassion, passion, and purpose. Through our commitment to diversity, innovation, and individual growth, we will guide students to discover and pursue educational pathways that align with their values, talents, and aspirations, empowering them to become thoughtful contributors to their communities and effective leaders in an ever-evolving world.
Outcomes That Matter
Meet Jessica Hardy and discover how she brings an incredibly personalized approach to CCS College Counseling, supporting students through one of life’s biggest milestones.
Our Approach to College Counseling
We begin the college counseling journey in middle school by helping students explore their interests, develop study skills, and understand the connection between their current learning and future opportunities. Through age-appropriate activities, students begin to envision their potential paths while building the academic habits and self-awareness that will serve them throughout high school.
Freshmen focus on academic transition, course selection guidance, and beginning to explore interests through extracurricular involvement. We introduce the four-year planning process and help students understand how their choices impact future opportunities.
Sophomores engage in deeper interest exploration, preliminary standardized test preparation (PSAT), and begin researching potential career paths. We support students in taking on leadership roles and expanding their academic challenges through honors and AP coursework.
Juniors receive comprehensive support for standardized testing (SAT/ACT), college research and visits, and building their application profiles. We work closely with families to create preliminary college lists and understand the application timeline ahead.
Seniors receive guidance with applications, essays, interviews, and scholarship and financial aid. We provide ongoing support through the decision-making process, ensuring students make informed choices about their post-secondary plans.
College Guidance Nuts & Bolts
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Our school code for application purposes is 411152.
We welcome you to our campus to meet with our students beginning the last week of August. We have two convenient time slots available for college visits throughout the week:
Morning Session: 11:50 AM – 12:35 PM
Afternoon Session: 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
To schedule your visit, please use your SCOIR scheduling system, which makes booking your visit quick and convenient. If the time slots available don’t work with your travel schedule, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Our teachers are flexible and willing to allow students to miss some class time to connect with college representatives.
Our students are excited to learn about new opportunities, and I know they’ll benefit greatly from hearing directly from you about your institution. Thank you for the important work you do in helping students find their perfect college fit.
Charleston Collegiate School employs an innovative College & Career Readiness platform called SCOIR (pronounced “score”). This transformative system embodies our commitment to empowering students with the creativity, curiosity, and confidence needed to thrive in higher education by streamlining the process of requesting, processing, sending, and tracking all application-related documents while making the college search genuinely engaging and joyful.
Through Scoir’s dynamic interface, colleges come to life with immersive pictures, videos, and interactive links showcasing vibrant campus communities, enabling our students to discover educational pathways that align with their unique values, talents, and aspirations. The platform provides families with sophisticated financial calculators for thoughtful decision-making about affordability, while enhanced communication tools strengthen our collaborative guidance approach, keeping students, families, and counselors connected throughout the application process.
We’re excited that our Charleston Collegiate community has access to this powerful system, which perfectly complements our mission of developing resilient leaders who approach their post-secondary journey with compassion, passion, and purpose, preparing them to become thoughtful contributors to their communities in our ever-evolving world.
Upper School at CCS
Our upper school faculty work closely with College Counseling to build confident thinkers, capable leaders, and engaged citizens prepared for success in college and beyond.