I reach out to you all as the Director of College Counseling at Berkshire School. We are genuinely excited that you have joined the Class of 2026, and we are eager to share with you all of the resources and contacts of our office.  As new families, we want to ensure that you have access to the entire college counseling staff and all of our resources over the summer and as we head into the fall....

We’ve spent the last few weeks following up with many Sixth Formers as they finalize their matriculation decisions for next September.  We are writing to ask you to confirm the information we have regarding your child’s final decision. Please check your Naviance Student page to make sure that we have the correct college or university listed....

The College Counseling Office frequently reaches out to parents and guardians to communicate ways for you to support your child’s college process, or with checklists of things for your child to do. We have developed a Family Questionnaire, in order to assist our efforts as a college counseling team. This questionnaire helps us write substantially better letters of recommendation....

We hope this email finds you all well and, like us, excited to be nearing the conclusion of the college process for the talented Class of 2025 as you ready yourselves for their well-deserved graduation from Berkshire on Friday, May 23!

We write simply with a final reminder to ensure that your child has successfully deposited at a college or university before the May 1 deadline.  Students that have already deposited at a college need to withdraw their other applications. The process for securing a student’s place next fall is straightforward.......

We hope this letter finds you well and excited to spend the upcoming break with your child. We write with a quick update on the final stages of the college process for our Sixth Formers.....