College Counseling

Overview

College Counseling

Sacramento Country Day School provides unparalleled one-to-one college counseling to each student in our High School. Our two highly respected college counselors have a combined 20 years in the field, both in high school and college admissions. This breadth of experience and Country Day’s respected academic preparation make us a “known quantity” across the country. Selective colleges know that Country Day graduates are well prepared to succeed in college and beyond.

With an average senior class of 38 students, our two counselors thus serve 19 students each – a ratio unmatched in any school in the Sacramento area.

100 percent of Country Day graduates attend four-year institutions of higher learning, including schools in the University of California system along with many of the nation’s most well known and widely respected colleges and universities. 

General information

College Acceptances and Destinations

Each year, 100% of our graduates are accepted to top colleges and universities in the nation and internationally and thrive in a wide variety of fields. 

Read about Country Day alumni here

General information

Our College Counselors

​Jane Bauman began teaching High School English in 2003 after working in the admissions office at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was in charge of international undergraduate admissions. Since becoming director of college counseling in 2012, she has toured colleges and universities across the country and NYU Abu Dhabi. She earned her bachelor’s degree in French literature from UC Santa Cruz and her master’s from Georgetown University.

 

Chris Kuipers is the associate director of college counseling at  Country Day. Previously, he worked in selective college admissions for five years, serving as an admissions officer at  Stanford University and Amherst College. In both positions, he read and evaluated over one thousand applications from high school seniors annually.