Despite the challenges of the 2020-21 school year, the Providence Day School Class of 2021 achieved numerous academic, athletic, and college acceptance successes. The 150 members of the senior class filed 1,127 applications to 247 different colleges and universities with these applications resulting in 695 acceptances.

PD students were accepted at a record 214 colleges in 38 states, the District of Columbia, the US Virgin Islands, and six foreign countries (Canada, China, England, Italy, Ireland, and Scotland), and they will attend 82 different schools in 26 states, the District of Columbia, Canada (Concordia U), Ireland (Trinity C Dublin), and Italy (Bocconi U).

Some of the more selective schools to accept PD students this year include Amherst, Bates, Boston College, Brown, Bucknell, UCLA, Carleton, Colgate, Colorado College, Columbia, Davidson, Duke, Durham (UK), Edinburgh (UK), Emory, U Florida, Furman, George Washington, Georgetown, U Georgia, Georgia Tech, Grinnell, Hampton, Holy Cross, Howard, Johns Hopkins, Kenyon, Lafayette, Lehigh, U London, Macalester, MIT, U Miami, Michigan, Morehouse, NYU, NYU Shanghai, UNC-Chapel Hill, Northeastern, Oberlin, U Penn, Pitzer, RPI, Rice, Richmond, Rochester, Scripps, Sewanee, Smith, U. Southern California, SMU, Spelman, Swarthmore, St. Andrews (UK), Stanford, U Toronto, Trinity, Trinity C (Ireland), Tulane, US Naval Academy (Annapolis), Vanderbilt, Villanova, Virginia, Wake Forest, Washington & Lee, Wash U, Wesleyan, and William & Mary.

87% of the seniors were offered merit scholarships or academic honors, and the earned scholarship amount was over $17.3 million. Of particular note are Kolby Oglesby, who was the first PD student to win the full-ride Robertson Scholarship from UNC and Duke; Luke Manna, who is PD’s 16th Morehead-Cain recipient from UNC; Christian Landis, who earned an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis; Ethan Paulk, who was named a John Jay Scholar at Columbia U; and Kevin Sangmuah, who earned a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Southern California. Additionally, Katie Beason will enroll in a combined degree program at Trinity College Dublin and Columbia University, attending each campus for two years.

There are six National Merit Finalists and 16 Commended Students in the Class of 2021. Thus far, four of the Finalists (Kareena Gor, Meera Patel, John Sarantou, and Caroline Sicard) have won National Merit Scholarships. 105 seniors have been named to the National Honor Society and 24 seniors will graduate with a Global Studies Diploma.

28 senior student-athletes have committed to play college sports, including 11 at the Division I level: Blake Barwick, lacrosse at Rollins; Sophia Buoy, volleyball at Denison; Tyler Campbell, lacrosse at Wesleyan; Eliza Cardwell, track at Amherst; Femi Cole, track at Stanford; Field Crumley, soccer at Centre; Thomas Flynn, football at UNC; Sterling Gabriel, football at Morehouse; Addison Graziano, equestrian at Emory & Henry; Morgan Hart, soccer at U Georgia; Jake Helfrich, football at U South Carolina; Mary Alice Hubbard, swimming at Sewanee; Ellie Jaffe, crew at MIT; Brandon Jones, football at Howard; Kennedy Jones, soccer at Elon; James Kurani, tennis at Washington & Lee; Christian Landis, cross country/track at US Naval Academy; Zach Lohavichan, football at Wake Forest; Aidan Lorsson, wrestling at Washington & Lee; Marc Magno, football at Wofford; Colter Nichols, cross country/track at Davidson; Katerina Peroulas, soccer at Penn; Ashlyn Richards, soccer at Sewanee; Brad Rivera, baseball at Ursinus; Ethan Robinette, lacrosse at Randolph-Macon; Taylor Sanchez, basketball at Oberlin; Gage Turner, lacrosse at Randolph-Macon; and William Wallace, football at U Puget Sound.

Learn more about Providence Day School’s Class of 2021 and College Guidance here.