Our College Guidance Approach

Ilan High School is a College Preparatory School which offers advanced college placement and honors classes. Our students achieve their college and career coal. College counseling is a highly individualized experience at Ilan High School. It is designed to encourage each student to explore her own strengths and to apply and gain admissions to the best colleges where they will thrive.

Our students have been accepted to the following schools:
Barnard ~ Baruch College ~ Binghamton ~ Brandeis University ~ Eugene Lang College ~ Brooklyn College ~ Fashion Institute of Technology ~ Goucher College ~ Hunter College ~ John Jay School of Criminal Justice ~ Long Island University ~ Marymount College ~ Monmouth University ~ Muhlenberg College ~ New York Institute of Technology ~ New York University ~ Northeastern University ~ Pace University ~ Penn State University ~ Pratt Institute ~ Princeton University ~ Rutgers Honors College ~ SUNY Ramapo College ~ Touro College ~ University of Hartford ~ University of Maryland Honors College ~ Yeshiva University ~
What do colleges and universities look for while making admissions decision.
  • Academic Transcript
  • ACT and/or SAT
  • Extracurricular Activities
  • High School GPA
  • Interviews
  • Letters of Recommendation
  • Personal essays.
SAT vs ACT

The ACT exams measures students knowledge of material learned. While the SAT  predicts what a student is capable of learning. Both are standardized entrance exams used by most establishments to make admissions decisions.