The university selection process is part of an on-going guidance program that starts from a student's entrance until he or she graduates. Dwight International, together with its partners, The Dwight School/Anglo-American School, New York City and North London International School, United Kingdom has a college guidance team of highly experienced counselors. The consortium's success in placing students at leading universities is demonstrated by the attached list of acceptances.

The University Guidance program is an integral part of The Dwight Schools. From grades 9-12, students are prepared to make informed, well-reasoned, and realistic choices about their futures. In the spring of grade 11 and again in the fall of the grade 12 year, the college guidance team meets individually with students and their parents. The counselors provide a strategy for each student that includes an individualized list of universities that best suit their academic and extracurricular profile, a schedule of tests, and suggestions for college visits.

Dwight faculty and administration believe that the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, taken in grades 11 and 12, is the best preparation for college as well as lifelong learning. Colleges seek students from Dwight because they are well prepared and have had the chance to develop a “special spark of genius.”

While all Dwight students take International Baccalaureate certificates in selected subjects, today over eighty percent of the senior class take the full Diploma Program. International students are encouraged to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). Recent IB Diploma graduates have:

  • Often earned between half a year and a full year of college credit for their IB exam scores
  • Averaged 600 on the verbal SAT and 605 on the Math SAT
  • Been accepted to over 200 national and international colleges and universities and attended over 60 top-tier schools including Princeton, Harvard, Duke, The Julliard School, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, Brown, Cornell, Yale, Dartmouth, and Oxford University. Click here for a full list of Dwight college acceptances from 2002-2008.
  • Graduated Valedictorian at McGill in 2005

The IB advantage

The IB maintains a directory of universities that take IB diploma graduates. Currently there are 2545 universities from 75 countries in the directory, but many other universities also admit IB Diploma holders. Please always check with the university directory .

In fact, many universities prefer students who have taken the IB and most universities give varying amounts of first year university credit to students who have completed the IB diploma. In addition to granting first year credit, many universities also offer scholarships for recipients of the IB diploma (for a list of these universities click here)