College Acceptances

Our student body encompasses a diverse range of academic, social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and the colleges that our students choose for continuing education are equally diverse. As of 2018, 86% of Tilden Preparatory School students plan to attend a 4-year college or university, and 8% plan to attend a community college.

Over the years, Tilden students have been accepted to the following colleges:

  • Academy of Art University
  • Agnes Scott College
  • American University
  • American University of Paris
  • Amherst College
  • Augsburg College
  • Barnard College
  • Beloit College
  • Berklee College of Music
  • Birmingham-Southern College
  • Boston University
  • Brown University
  • Bryn Mawr College
  • Butler University
  • Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  • California Institute of Technology
  • California Institute of the Arts
  • California Lutheran University
  • California State University Channel Islands
  • California State University San Marcos
  • Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Clark University
  • Colby College
  • College of William And Mary
  • Deep Springs College
  • Denver University
  • Dominican University of California
  • Drew University
  • Drexel
  • Eckerd College
  • Emory University
  • Eugene Lang College
  • Evergreen College
  • Ex'pression College for Digital Arts
  • Franklin and Marshall College
  • George Brown University
  • George Washington University
  • Gonzaga University
  • Goucher College
  • Harvard University
  • Hult International Business School
  • Humboldt State University
  • Indiana University-Kelley Business School
  • Lafayette College
  • Lehigh University
  • Lewis and Clark College
  • Linfield College
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Lynn University
  • Mills College
  • Montana State University
  • Morehouse College
  • New York University
  • Newcastle University
  • Northeastern University
  • Northern Arizona University
  • Northwestern University
  • Notre Dame de Namur University
  • Oberlin College
  • Occidental College
  • Ohio State University
  • Ohio Wesleyan University
  • Pacific Northwest College of the Arts
  • Pepperdine University
  • Pomona College
  • Prairie View College
  • Princeton University
  • Purdue University
  • Reed College
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Roger Williams University
  • Saint Joseph's University
  • Saint Mary's College of California
  • San Diego State University
  • San Diego State University for Business
  • San Francisco State University
  • San Jose State University
  • Santa Clara University
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Scripps College
  • Seattle University
  • Seton Hall University
  • Simon's Rock College of Bard
  • Smith College
  • Sonoma State University
  • Southern Methodist University
  • Southwestern University
  • St. John's College
  • St. Olaf College
  • Stanford University
  • Swarthmore College
  • Syracuse University
  • Temple College
  • Texas Christian University
  • Trinity University
  • Tufts University
  • Tulane University
  • University of Aberdeen
  • University of Arizona
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of California Berkeley
  • University of California Davis
  • University of California Irvine
  • University of California Los Angeles
  • University of California Merced
  • University of California Riverside
  • University of California San Diego
  • University of California Santa Barbara
  • University of California Santa Cruz
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • University of Denver
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Kent
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Nevada
  • University of Nottingham
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Oregon
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Portland
  • University of Puget Sound
  • University of Redlands
  • University of San Diego
  • University of San Francisco
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Southern Oregon
  • University of Vermont
  • University of Washington
  • University of York
  • University of the Pacific
  • Vassar College
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Wesleyan University
  • Western Washington University
  • Whitman University
  • Whittier College
  • Willamette University
  • Yale University

“Our daughter is a proud graduate of Tilden who went on to UCSC. Tilden is an amazingly well run school brimming with talent and warmth and school spirit! The individualized teaching and daily progress reports take the load off the kids and the parents. It is both a challenging and encouraging environment and the teachers impart really useful skills for the rigors of a UC!”

Anne O'Shea, Tilden Parent