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College Counseling

Offering Support Throughout the College Process

From a student's first PSAT to the first college acceptance letter, our college counseling office is here to support and empower students through the anxieties, questions, and strategies of the college process.

Beginning in the winter of the junior year, our college office works directly with students and their families to ensure that the college search and application process is what it needs to be: organized, reflective, thoughtful, focused and driven by, and centered around the student.

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  • 100%

    College attendance 

  • 40+

    Combined years of experience

  • One

    Personalized approach designed to help you discover your path

The College Office

In an age in which admissions statistics and application "strategies" make national news headlines, anxiety unnecessarily dominates this age-old process of applying to college. We in the College Office have worked in college admissions for many years, and what we have learned is that it all works out. For more than 20 years, Ms. Magaziner Mills has worked with U.S. and international students seeking admission to universities in America, England, Scotland, Canada, Japan, Spain, Australia and elsewhere; for the four years prior to that, as a college admissions officer, she read and reviewed thousands of applications and essays. Mr. Hudson also began his career as a college admissions officer and has since worked with hundreds of students in college counseling at independent schools. Mr. Dickson has extensive experience in both college counseling and teaching math at independent day and boarding schools in the U.S. and abroad, and he has directed a summer college counseling program for many years. Along with Ms. Linda Stratton, who brings decades of work in independent schools, they are each student's strongest supporters, devil's advocates, and personal red-tape artists. The office strives to find for each student the college or university that represents the perfect match.

College Matriculations

St. Albans graduates from the Classes of 2022-2026 have attended the following colleges and universities:
University of Alabama
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Auburn University
Bard College
Bates College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brigham Young University
University of British Columbia
Brown University
Bucknell University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
College of Charleston
University of Chicago
Claremont McKenna College
Clemson University
Colby College
Colgate University
University of Colorado
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
University of Dayton
Denison University
University of Denver
Dickinson College
Duke University
Eastern Arizona College
Elizabeth City State University
Elon University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Emory University
University of Florida
Franklin and Marshall College
Franklin Pierce University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
University of Houston
Howard University
Indiana University
James Madison University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Lehigh University 
Macalester College
University of Maine
University of Maryland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
University of Miami
University of Michigan
Michigan State University
Middlebury College
University of Mississippi
Morehouse College
Mount St. Mary's University
The New School
New York University
University of North Carolina
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame
Oberlin College
University of Oregon
Oregon State University
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Purdue University
University of Richmond
Rutgers University
Sewanee: University of the South
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
Southern Methodist University
University of St. Andrews
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
University of Texas
Texas Tech University
University of Toronto
Trinity College
Tufts University
Tulane University
United States Air Force Academy
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wake Forest University
Washington & Lee University
Wesleyan University
Whittier College
College of William & Mary
Williams College
University of Wisconsin
Yale University

For College Admissions Representatives:

We welcome college admissions representatives to campus each fall to meet with our Form VI students. Our appointment calendar is available on Scoir. Other questions may be directed to our office at (202) 537-5660 or lstratton@stalbansschool.org.

Meet Our College Counseling Staff:

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  • Photo of Nikki Magaziner Mills

    Nikki "Nikki" Magaziner Mills 

    Director, College Counseling; Upper School English
    (202) 537-6447
  • Photo of Timothy Hudson

    Timothy "Tim" Hudson 

    Associate Director, College Counseling; Upper School History
    (202) 537-6598
  • Photo of Linda Stratton

    Linda "Linda" Stratton 

    College Coordinator
    (202) 537-5660
  • Photo of Bowman Dickson

    Bowman "Bowman" Dickson 

    Assistant Director, College Counseling; Upper School Mathematics; Athletics
    (202) 537-6417
Located in Washington D.C., St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.