Congratulations to the Class of 2026!
Congratulations to the Class of 2026!
Arthur Smith Advising students in the high school Class of 2026 have done a fantastic job in a very challenging college admissions landscape! I’m extremely proud of their efforts, which have resulted in our students receiving offers from more than 250 different colleges and universities around the world!
These terrific accomplishments would not have been possible without my remarkable team of counselors, who helped guide our students to extremely impressive college admissions results. These offers included multiple acceptances from every Ivy League institution and a truly remarkable and diverse group of distinguished colleges and universities.
Some highlights include admissions offers to the most selective universities in the world, including 45 different students accepted to the group informally known as the “Ivy Plus” consortium, which includes the eight institutions that comprise the Ivy League (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale) as well as Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Our students also earned offers from such prestigious private research institutionslike Boston University, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Georgetown, Harvey Mudd, Northeastern, NYU, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Rice, Rochester, Tufts, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Washington University, and the University of Southern California.
The very top liberal arts colleges in the U.S., including Bard, Bucknell, Carleton College, Colgate, Connecticut College, Kenyon, Lafayette, Macalester, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Pitzer, Trinity College, the United States Military Academy, Vassar, Wesleyan, and Williams also extended offers to our students.
In addition, our students were successful with some of the nation’s best public universities, including Michigan, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, Virginia, Texas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Washington, Florida, Georgia, UC-Irvine, UC San Diego, Maryland, Virginia Tech, the College of William & Mary, NC State, and Wisconsin-Madison among many others.
Finally, many prestigious international universities are also represented on the list, including St. Andrew’s, University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, King’s College London, London School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Queen’s, University of Toronto, and McGill University.
Our students worked hard to achieve these results! Their applications stood out because they prioritized excellence in the classroom, they were thoughtful in producing essays that stood out by demonstrating meaningful personal attributes, and they developed compelling resumes that emphasized their unique capabilities and goals. Above all, I’m very pleased with how each student in our Class of 2026 compiled a final college list that included a broad array of institutions that fit their needs so that they had multiple exciting options to choose from.
The college application process gets more competitive and demanding each year. I’m grateful to each student and each family for their trust in us to guide and coach them to achieve their goals. Each one of our students should be proud of the work they put in to get to this stage and to earn the opportunities in front of them.
Congratulations and best wishes to Arthur Smith Advising students in the Class of 2026!
Acceptances for the High School Class of 2026:
American University
Appalachian State
Arizona State
Auburn University
Austin College
Babson College
Bard College
Baylor University
Beloit College
Bentley University
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Buffalo St.
Butler University
California Polytechnic State University (Pomona)
California Polytechnic State University (SLO)
California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Monterey Bay
California State University, San Jose
California State University, San Marcos
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western University
Catholic University
Chapman University
City University of New York - Baruch
City University of New York - Brooklyn
Claremont McKenna College
Clemson University
Coastal Carolina University
Colgate University
College of Charleston
College of New Jersey
College of William & Mary
Colorado Mesa University
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Connecticut College
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
DePaul University
Drake University
Drexel University
Duke University
Elon University
Emory University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida Institute of Technology
Florida State University
Fordham University
Franklin & Marshall College
Furman University
George Mason University
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Georgia Tech
Goucher College
Hartwick College
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
Hawaii Pacific University
High Point University
Hobart and William Smith
Hofstra University
IE University
Imperial College London
Ithaca College
James Madison University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Kings College London
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
LeMoyne College
London School of Economics
Long Island University
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola University (Chicago)
Loyola University (Maryland)
McGill University
McMaster University
Macalaster College
MacEwan University
Marist College
Marquette University
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miami University (Ohio)
Michigan State
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Muhlenberg College
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology
New York University
North Carolina State University
Northeastern University
Northern Arizona University
Northern Illinois University
Northwestern University
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Oregon State University
Oxford College at Emory University
Pace University
Penn State University
Penn State University - Altoona
Penn State University - Behrend
Penn State University - Erie
Penn State University - Harrisburg
Pitzer College
Princeton University
Providence College
Purdue University
Purdue University (Ft. Wayne)
Queen's University
Randolph-Macon College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rice University
Richard Bland College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University - Camden
Rutgers University - Newark
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
St. Bonaventure University
St. John's University
St. Lawrence University
San Diego State University
San Jose State University
Santa Clara University
Seton Hall University
Siena College
Southwestern University
Stanford University
State University of New York at Albany
State University of New York at Binghamton
State University of New York at Buffalo
State University of New York at Cortland
State University of New York at Geneseo
State University of New York at New Paltz
State University of New York at Oneonta
State University of New York at Purchase
State University of New York at Old Westbury
State University of New York at Stony Brook
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Stevens Institute of Technology
Syracuse University
Temple University
Texas A&M
Toronto Metropolitan University
Trinity College
Trinity University
Tufts University
Tulane University
Union College
United States Military Academy
University College London
University of Alabama
University of Alberta
University of Amsterdam
University of Arizona
University of Calgary
University of California - Berkeley
University of California - Davis
University of California - Irvine
University of California - Los Angeles
University of California - Merced
University of California - Riverside
University of California - San Diego
University of California - Santa Barbara
University of California - Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut - Hartford
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Edinburgh
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois (Chicago)
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Indiana
University of Iowa
University of Kentucky
University of Maine
University of Manchester
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
University of Massachusetts - Boston
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts - Lowell
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Mississippi
University of Missouri
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
University of New Hampshire
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
University of North Carolina - Greensboro
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Ottawa
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh - Bradford
University of Rhode Island
University of Rochester
University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
University of San Diego
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
University of Southern Maine
University of South Florida
University of San Francisco
University of Tennessee
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Warwick
University of Washington
University of Washington - Bothell
University of Wisconsin
University of Wyoming
Ursinus College
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest University
Washington & Lee University
Washington University (St. Louis)
Wesleyan University
West Chester University
Western Washington
West Virginia University
Wheaton College (MA)
Whittier College
Williams College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Xavier University
Yale University
York University