Where The Frosh Rush Home From for Holidays

Thousands of college students from Tredyffrin and Easttown are home for the holidays, eating turkey, doing laundry, borrowing car keys and catching up with old friends this weekend.  

What schools will they be coming home to visit from?  

According to the recently published Conestoga High School Profile "in a typical year, more than 75% of Conestoga graduates attend colleges listed in The Best 378 Colleges, a publication of the Princeton Review."

This year's crop of returning home freshmen:

• 90%of the Conestoga Class of 2013 are attending four year colleges. 
• 5% are attending two year colleges. 
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The colleges and universities with the most students from the Conestoga Class of 2013 are:

• Pennsylvania State University (87)
• University of Pittsburgh (26)
• West Chester University (24) and Temple University (24)
• Drexel University (18)
• Delaware County Comm. College (13)
• Saint Joseph's University (10)

Here is the full list of Conestoga High School's class of 2013 college choices as reported in the Conestoga High School profile:

Alvernia University (2); AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts; American University (4); Amherst College; Antioch College; Arcadia University; Arizona State University; Augsburg College; Bard College; Barnard College (2); Baylor University; Belmont University (2); Bloomsburg University (3); Boston College (2); Boston University (4); Bowdoin College; Brandeis University; Brigham Young University (2); Brown University; Bryant University; Bucknell University (4); Butler University; Cabrini College; California University of Pennsylvania; Carleton College; Carnegie Mellon University (6); Chestnut Hill College; Christopher Newport University; Coastal Carolina University (2); Colgate University; College of Charleston (2); College of William and Mary (2); Columbia University (3); Cornell University (3); Dartmouth College (5); Delaware County Comm. College (13); DeSales University; Drexel University (18); Duquesne University (2);

Elon University (2); Fairfield University; Florida State University; Fordham University (3); Franklin and Marshall College (5); George Washington University (6); Georgetown University (4); Gettysburg College (4)

Gordon College; Hampton University; Harcum College; Harvard College (3); High Point University; Hobart and William Smith Colleges (3); Immaculata University

Ithaca College (3); Jacksonville University; James Madison University (2); Johnson & Wales University; Juniata College; Kenyon College; Kutztown University (4); Lafayette College (3); Lehigh University (7); Louisiana State University; Marywood University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; McGill University; Miami University; Oxford (3); Michigan State University; Monmouth University; Montgomery County Comm. College (5); Morehouse College; Mount Holyoke College; Muhlenberg College; New York University (5); Northeastern University (7); Northwestern University; Old Dominion University (2); Pennsylvania State University (87)

Philadelphia University; Pomona College; Princeton University (2); Providence College; Quinnipiac University; Rochester Institute of Technology (4); Sacred Heart University

Saint Joseph's University (10); Santa Fe College School of Visual Arts; Shippensburg University (5); St. John's University; Stevenson University (3); SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Susquehanna University; Syracuse University (4); Temple University (24); The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina

The Ohio State University; Towson University (3); Tufts University (2);United States Military Academy (2); United States Naval Academy (2); University of Alabama (4); University of British Columbia; University of California at Berkeley (4); University of Cincinnati

University of Colorado at Boulder (5); University of Connecticut (2); University of Delaware (5); University of Georgia

University of Hartford; University of Illinois; University of Kentucky; University of Maine; University of Massachusetts; University of Miami (2); University of Michigan (4)

University of Minnesota (2); University of Missouri; University of New Hampshire (3); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2)

University of Notre Dame (2); University of Pennsylvania (5); University of Pittsburgh (26); University of Rhode Island; University of Richmond; University of Rochester; University of San Francisco; University of South Carolina (8); University of South Florida; University of Southern California; University of St. Andrews, SCT (2); University of Texas

University of the Arts (2); University of Toronto; University of Vermont; University of Virginia; University of Wisconsin (2); Ursinus College; Vanderbilt University (2); Villanova University (5); Virginia Commonwealth; University Virginia; Polytechnic Institute and State University (3)

Wake Forest University (2); Washington and Lee University; Washington College; Washington University in St. Louis (2); West Chester University (24)

West Virginia University (6); Western State Colorado University (2); Wheaton College MA; Widener University; Williams College (2); Yale University