Bright Futures Begin Here
From the day you arrive on campus to the day you graduate, BC High's renowned counseling program is here to walk with you.
Whether it’s help selecting courses that match your motivations, support challenging situation, or finding the right words for that college essay, you will find a wealth of support here.
Our wide-breadth of resources encompass individual counseling for all grade levels, academic counseling, along with group and individual college counseling programs for juniors and seniors — run by highly qualified, distinguished school counselors in both the high school and Arrupe Division. Experts in their fields, our counselors serve to ignite curiosity, build strengths, and set students up for long-term success.
Counseling Cura Personalis
The whole person approach at BC High shines, perhaps most brightly, in these support systems. We are here, both to lend a hand to walk with and to lean on, as often as you need.
In the Arrupe Division, students are championed by advisors and counselors who ensure they are connected and thriving in their new community.
Throughout your time at BC High, our school and college counseling team shepherds your day-to-day decisions and helps you navigate life’s challenges including one of your first major decisions – Finding The Right College.
Stewardship, For Life
The school & college counseling department is wholly dedicated to your development and care. Our mission is to ensure that each student has what he needs to thrive throughout his education, and develop the skills necessary to fulfill his own unique potential
In partnership with the Heads of House, Counselors serve as trusted advisors, who know you well. They focus on practical needs on an individual basis.
BC High Counselors can help with:
Innovative Counseling Curriculum
We recognize that your needs in middle school will differ greatly from your needs in high school.
We also realize that as students, you have the ability to act as support systems for one another – whether you know it yet or not.
Our counseling curriculum provides social, personal, and academic guidance in a group setting alongside your peers. With groups organized with intention, topics are naturally relevant, designed overall to meet you exactly where you are in your journey.
Arrupe Advisory provides nurturing support for your transition to middle school and the BC High community. We help you develop the skills necessary for academic and social growth, while creating a foundation for high school and beyond through frequent lessons on adolescent topics.
Arrupe school counselors provide additional support in the following areas:
- Building self-esteem
- Developing social skills
- Establishing academic strategies for success
- Personal and family challenges
- Loss
- Grief Group
- Introverts/quiet lunch
- Anxiety/stress management programming
- Mindfulness activities
Your Junior group sessions begin the process of looking ahead to college. Here, we focus on finding potential good matches for your individual motivations and the college application process in general. Specific topics include:
- AP and Honors Applications
- College Planning Timeline
- College Search Criteria
- Course Selection
- Introduce College Essays
- Online Resources
- Standardized Testing Information
- Summer Opportunities
- Teacher Recommendations Discussion
- Junior group meetings take place once per cycle during the second semester, and are led by a school counselor.
Your Senior group sessions are wholly dedicated to helping you manage the college search and application process. Specific topics include:
- College Essay
- College Specific Supplements
- College Visits
- Common Application
- Factors in College Admissions
- Financial Aid
- Hidden Costs of College
- Interviews
- Letters of Recommendation
- Online Resources
- Sending Transcripts
- Short Answer Essay
- Standardized Testing Information
- Stress Relief / Meditation
- Transition to College
- Senior group meetings take place during the first semester, and are led by a school counselor. In addition to small group discussions, seniors meet individually with their counselor to talk about their individual college plans.
School Counseling
As a student, your aim is to definewhat success means to you, andachieve it while excelling in a demanding academic environment.
As educators, our mission is to foster those qualities that support your success within all the spheres of BC High—academic, spiritual, and co-curricular.
Swing by the Academic Resource Center, and let us help you reach your mark, both by challenging and supporting you.