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Graduates at commencement ceremony

Carolina Prep students head into the world as agile thinkers, poised communicators, and gracious collaborators—engineers of authentic and fulfilling lives.

My son went on to a very competitive college after Carolina Prep, and he’s doing incredibly well — not a single blip academically. Even though classes are bigger, he has that mentorship mindset from Carolina Prep, so he’s connecting with his professors and loving his classes. I think the only thing he didn’t expect was how much he would miss it here. 

- Carolina Prep Parent

Faculty / Student Ratio 1:4
Average SAT Composite 1339
Average ACT Composite 29
Average GPA Unweighted 3.79
Average IB GPA 26.3
Average GPA Weighted 4.22

Carolina Prep students have been accepted to:

American University

Appalachian State University

Auburn University

Berklee College of Music

Boston College

Brown University

Bucknell University

California College of the Arts

Clemson University

Coastal Carolina University

College of Charleston

Culinary Institute of America

Davidson College

Duke University

Eastern Carolina University

Elon University

Florida Southern College

Georgia Tech University

Gettysburg College

Guilford College

Harvard University 

High Point University

Indiana State University

James Madison University

Lehigh College

McGill University, Canada

Muhlenberg College

New York University

Northwestern University

North Carolina State University

Oberlin College

Purdue University

Queens University of Charlotte

San José State University

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Southern Methodist University

The College of William & Mary

The New School

Tufts University

University of Alabama

University of Denver

University of Innsbruck, Austria

University of Kentucky

University of Miami

University of North Carolina at Asheville

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

University of Pennsylvania

University of Scranton

University of Virginia

Villanova University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Wake Forest University

Washington University