As Seen On
A list is just the beginning.
Every school name below represents a real student. A child who walked into an interview knowing exactly who they were, who wrote an application essay that sounded like themselves, who was ready not just to get in, but to thrive once they arrived.
This is what character-centered admissions consulting produces. Not a shortcut, not a script, but a student who’s genuinely prepared for the environment they’re entering. That’s why families across the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and beyond have trusted Cardinal Education for more than 20 years. If you see a school on this list where you want your child to belong, let’s talk.
Private School Acceptances
Bay Area – San Francisco
- Convent & Stuart Hall
- Drew School
- French American International School
- International High School
- Jewish Community High School of the Bay
- Lick-Wilmerding High School
- Mercy High School (San Francisco)
- Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts
- San Francisco Day School
- San Francisco University High School
- San Francisco Waldorf School
- Sterne School
- Stuart Hall High School
- The Bay School of San Francisco
- The Hamlin School
- Urban School of San Francisco
Bay Area – Peninsula
- Avenues: The World School – SV
- Bowman School
- Castilleja School
- Keys School
- Los Altos Christian Schools
- Menlo School
- Mid-Peninsula High School
- Mountain View Academy
- Notre Dame Belmont
- Odyssey School
- Peninsula School for Boys
- Pinewood School
- Sacred Heart Preparatory (Atherton)
- Sacred Heart Schools Atherton
- Saint Francis High School (Mountain View)
- Sand Hill School
- Silicon Valley International School
- Stanford Online High School
- Stratford Preparatory High School
- The Girls’ Middle School
- The Harker School
- The Nueva School
- Waldorf School of the Peninsula
- Woodland School
- Woodside International School
- Woodside Priory School
Bay Area – East Bay
- Berkeley Rose Waldorf School
- East Bay School For Boys
- Head-Royce School
- North Bridge Academy
- Redwood Day
- The Athenian School
- The Berkeley School
- The Challenger School
- The College Preparatory School
- The Crowden School
Bay Area – South Bay
- Archbishop Mitty High School
- BASIS Independent High School
- Bellarmine College Preparatory
- Notre Dame High School
Bay Area – North Bay
- Marin Academy
- San Domenico School
- The Branson School
Los Angeles Area
- Chadwick School
- Harvard-Westlake School
- Junipero Serra High School
- La Salle College Preparatory
- Loyola High School of Los Angeles
- Polytechnic School
- St. Francis High School
Monterey & Central Coast
- Stevenson School
- Chartwell School
Boarding & U.S. Private School Acceptances
College Acceptances
Ivy League Acceptances
- Brown University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Harvard University
- Princeton University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale University
Top Liberal Arts Colleges
Northeast
- Amherst College
- Barnard College
- Bates College
- Bowdoin College
- Colgate College
- Franklin & Marshall College
- Haverford College
- Middlebury College
- Mount Holyoke College
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Smith College
- Swarthmore College
- Trinity College
- Vassar College
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
Midwest
- Macalester College
- Oberlin College
- Whitman College
- Willamette College
West Coast
- Pomona College
- Reed College
- Scripps College
- Washington & Lee University
UC & Public Universities
California
- Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
- UC Berkeley
- UC Davis
- UCLA
- UC Riverside
- UC San Diego
- UC Santa Barbara
- UC Santa Cruz
West Coast
- University of Oregon, Eugene
- University of Washington
Midwest
- University of Michigan
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
South & Southwest
- University of Virginia
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Texas A&M University
- University of Arizona
Other U.S. Colleges
West Coast
- Chapman University
- Claremont McKenna College
- Loyola Marymount University
- Occidental College
- Pepperdine
- Pitzer College
- Pomona College
- Santa Clara University
- Stanford University
- University of the Pacific
- University of Redlands
- University of San Diego
- University of San Francisco
- University of Southern California (USC)
East Coast & Northeast
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Brandeis University
- Bucknell University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- College of William and Mary
- Colorado College
- Connecticut College
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Fordham University
- Georgetown University
- George Washington University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lehigh University
- New York University
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Rice University
- Tufts University
- University of Chicago
- University of Rochester
- Wake Forest University
- Washington University in St. Louis
Midwest
- Northwestern University
- University of Chicago
- Washington University in St. Louis
South & Southwest
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Rice University
- Southern Methodist University
- Texas Christian University
- Tulane University
- Vanderbilt University
- Wake Forest University
Your child’s name could be on this list.
Spaces are limited each admission cycle. If you’re ready to start or just want to understand what the process looks like, we’d like to hear from you.
Let’s talk about where your child is headed.
We work with a limited number of families each year so every student gets our full attention, not a template. The best first step is a conversation.