College counseling is about helping each boy understand and determine his strengths, goals, and aspirations in order to pursue admission to a college or university where he can achieve success and satisfaction.

While college preparation is emphasized throughout the Upper School program, the professionals in the College Counseling office begin meeting with boys and parents in the junior year. Working closely with the College Counseling office, and his advisors and teachers, each student is guided through a thorough, informative college admissions process. Since St. Mark’s has a very strong reputation among colleges throughout the United States, representatives from nearly 200 colleges and universities visit the campus to meet with boys and provide information about their schools each year.

St. Mark's primary goal in the college admission process is to know each boy and find the right match for him. To this end, the process is highly personalized and focuses clearly on his desires and the criteria he has established for choosing the right school.

"When we fully understand a student’s ambitions and hopes for college, we can then guide him in finding the best fit," said Veronica Guzman Pulido, Al G. Hill, Jr. ’63 Director of College Counseling. "We want to guide boys toward colleges where they will thrive and constantly grow into better men."

St. Mark’s graduates attend some of the finest colleges and universities in the world. The following list indicates where Marksmen from the Class of 2026 have enrolled and how many are attending each institution.

The University of Texas at Austin (17) Texas A&M University-College Station (8) Boston College (6) Duke University (4) Northwestern University (4) Clemson University (3) Columbia University in the City of New York (3) Stanford University (3) University of Chicago (3) Vanderbilt University (3) Washington University in St Louis (3) Amherst College (2) Claremont McKenna College (2) Cornell University (2) Georgetown University (2) Indiana University-Bloomington (2) Tulane University of Louisiana (2) University of Florida (2) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2) University of Pennsylvania (2) Wake Forest University (2) Auburn University (1) Austin Community College District (1) Brown University (1) Case Western Reserve University (1) Chapman University (1) College of Charleston (1)

Dartmouth College (1) Emory University (1) Georgia Institute of Technology (1) Harvard University (1) IE University - Madrid Campus (1) Johns Hopkins University (1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1) New York University (1) Northeastern University (1) Purdue University-Main Campus (1) Rhode Island School of Design (1) Rice University (1) Santa Clara University (1) Swarthmore College (1) United States Naval Academy (1) University of Austin (1) University of California-Davis (1) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1) University of Miami (1) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1) University of North Texas (1) University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus (1) University of Virginia-Main Campus (1) William & Mary (1) Williams College (1) Yale University (1)

Veronica Pulido Al G. Hill, Jr. ’63 Director of College Counseling 214-346-8361 PulidoV@smtexas.org