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 2025 have enrolled and how many are attending each institution.

The University of Texas at Austin (8) Brown University (7) Southern Methodist University (6) Texas A & M University-College Station (6) Boston College (4) Columbia University in the City of New York (4) Vanderbilt University (4) New York University (3) Auburn University (2) Austin Community College (2) Case Western Reserve University (2) Cornell University (2) Duke University (2) Harvard University (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2) Northwestern University (2) Stanford University (2) Texas Tech University (2) The Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus (2) Arizona State University (1) Bucknell University (1) Claremont McKenna College (1) Colby College (1) Dartmouth College (1) Davidson College (1) Emory University (1) Grinnell College (1) Johns Hopkins University (1)

Northeastern University (1) Orange Coast College (1) Princeton University (1) Rice University (1) Saint Louis University (1) Santa Clara University (1) Stephen F. Austin State University (1) Stevens Institute of Technology (1) Syracuse University (1) Texas Christian University (1) University of California-Irvine (1) University of California-San Diego (1) University of Chicago (1) University of Miami (1) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1) University of Notre Dame (1) University of Oxford (1) University of Pennsylvania (1) University of Pittsburgh (1) University of Rochester (1) University of Southern California (1) University of St Andrews (1) University of Virginia (1) University of Wisconsin-Madison (1) Villanova University (1) Washington University in St Louis (1) Williams College (1)

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