More Than 200 Colleges Accept Wall High Seniors

The Wall High School Class of 2011 has been accepted into 212 separate colleges and universities throughout the country.

Ivy League schools, design schools, technical institutes, religious colleges. Liberal Arts, environmental science, art and medical institutions, the Class of 2011 runs the gamut of higher education.

The list of colleges that have accepted Wall High graduating seniors -- included below -- might not be complete and does not necessarily reflect where students will ultimately go, but where they have been invited to attend, school officials said.

Rosaleen Sirchio, Wall High School principal, said about 70 percent of each graduating class goes on to a four-year college.

The school this year began the Building a Better Wall initiative, where the academic programs were stepped up to a college prep for the entire school body, Sirchio said.

"We eliminated the general level classes and moved to a college prep for all environment,'' Sirchio said. "We wanted to raise the bar to academically challenge the students in a college prep environment.''

Students also were able to try honors or Advanced Placement courses without going through the traditional testing and placement process, Sirchio said.

"We allowed the students the first marking period to determine whether or not they felt successful,'' said Kathryn Misa, the school's director of guidance.

If the student did not feel comfortable or was unable to keep up, they would be allowed to drop back down a level, Misa said.

Final exams are not yet graded, so the success of the program has yet to be evaluated, Misa said.

Wall High School College Acceptances 2011

Berkeley College of NYC

Butler University

Indiana University at Bloomington

Otterbein University

Purdue University

Calumet College of Saint Joseph

The University of Alabama

University of Louisville

University of Michigan

Albright College

The Art Institute of Philadelphia

Cedar Crest College

College of Saint Elizabeth

Columbia University

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the CUNY

Dickinson College

Duquesne University

Immaculata University

Keuka College

Marist College

Moore College of Art and Design

Mount Saint Mary College

Alvernia University

Mercer County Community College

Delaware Valley College

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Niagara University

New York University

Pace University, New York City

Parsons The New School for Design

Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Princeton University

St. Francis College

Siena College

Purchase College

University of Rochester

Wilkes University

Berklee College of Music

Endicott College

Franklin Pierce University

Harvard University

Keene State College

Middlebury College

Southern New Hampshire University

Saint Anselm College

Salve Regina University

Castleton State College

The Art Institute of Charlotte

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Western New England College

Yale University

Cabrillo College

San Diego State University

San Diego Mesa College

The University of Arizona

University of California at Los Angeles

University of San Diego

Santa Clara University

American University

Barry University

Florida Institute of Technology

Old Dominion University

Coastal Carolina Community College

Duke University

St. Andrews Presbyterian College

Florida Southern College

Florida Gulf Coast University

The George Washington University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Goucher College

Hood College

Jacksonville University

Marshall University

University of Mary Washington

University of Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University

Savannah College of Art and Design

University of Georgia

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

George Mason University

University of West Florida

Virginia Intermont College

Virginia Wesleyan College

McDaniel College

Rice University

Life University

Pennsylvania State University, Erie: The Behrend College

Delaware College of Art and Design

The King's College

Berkeley College - Middlesex Campus

New York Institute of Technology - Manhattan

The Art Institute of Charleston

Kent State University

Michigan State University

Caldwell College

Cornell University

Elizabethtown College

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Hofstra University

Ithaca College

King's College

LIM College

Marywood University

SUNY Maritime College

Stony Brook University

The University of the Arts

St. John's University - Queens

University of Pittsburgh

Wagner College

Bentley University

University of Hartford

Suffolk University

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Hawaii Pacific University

University of Colorado at Boulder

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Clemson University

College of Charleston

Elon University

Florida Atlantic University

University of Central Florida

Flagler College

Georgetown University

Lynn University

Randolph-Macon College

University of Miami

University of South Carolina

Wake Forest University

Washington College

Full Sail University

Universal Technical Institute

Arcadia University

Bucknell University

Lafayette College

La Salle University

Lehigh University

Manhattan College

New Jersey Institute of Technology

State University of New York at Albany

State University of New York at New Paltz

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

Rochester Institute of Technology

Stevens Institute of Technology

Susquehanna University

Boston College

Providence College

University of Connecticut

Arizona State University

East Carolina University

James Madison University

Salisbury University

Centenary College

Fordham University

Binghamton University

Seton Hall University

Temple University

Boston University

Northeastern University

High Point University

Kean University

William Paterson University of New Jersey

Villanova University

Roger Williams University

University of New Hampshire

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Virginia

Coastal Carolina University

Georgian Court University

Gettysburg College

Widener University

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The University of Tampa

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Fairfield University

University of New Haven

Loyola University Maryland

Saint Leo University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

West Virginia University

Drew University

Johnson & Wales University

Sacred Heart University

Drexel University

Philadelphia University

Rider University

The Catholic University of America

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison

Ramapo College of New Jersey

York College of Pennsylvania

Mount Saint Mary's University

The University of Scranton

University of Vermont

University of Delaware

Moravian College

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Rowan University

The College of New Jersey

Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Saint Joseph's University

Quinnipiac University

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Montclair State University

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

University of Rhode Island

Towson University

Monmouth University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick

Brookdale Community College