College Counseling Holds Signing Day Celebration for Senior Class

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The dress code ban against tee shirts was relaxed for seniors on Monday, May 1, for the traditional CCES College Deposit Day celebration known as Senior Signing Day.

Seniors came to school sporting big smiles and wearing tee shirts from the colleges and universities they will be attending in the fall.

The Parents Organization served a catered lunch to the students and faculty. The centerpiece of the celebration was a USA cake mapped with flags indicating where each student would be attending college.



While most flags were clustered in the Southeast, a few edged up the eastern seaboard (for example, to the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University), two were planted in the Midwest (Northwestern University), and one stood alone in the Southwest (University of Northern Arizona).

Several flags also poked out from the ocean, signifying the students who would be going to Sophia University in Japan; the University of Peoria in Johannesburg, South Africa; and the University of Kent, Canterbury, Great Britain.



According to College Counseling Director Ashley Pittman, every student in the Class of 2006 will attend college. She noted that several received prestigious scholarships: Will Kittredge and Othniel Lafitte will both go to Wofford on 1854 Scholarships; Eva Jorgensen-Graham will attend Elon with a Presidential Scholarship; Kendall Trice takes a Charter Scholarship to the University of Georgia Honors College; Virginia Cain will go to Furman University on a Hollingsworth Scholarship; and Susan Troutman will attend Furman on a basketball scholarship.

CCES students will also attend honors colleges at Clemson University and College of Charleston.

Top college choices of the Class of 2006 included Clemson University (13), Furman University (5), Rhodes College (4), the University of the South (4), Wofford College (4), Wake Forest University (3), Elon University (3), and College of Charleston (3).

National Merit Scholarship Finalist Anna Pulliam will attend the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Finalist John Freeman will attend Rhodes.

Deposit Day is the deadline by which students must send their deposit to their school of choice.



Congratulations to the Class of 2006, their parents, their teachers, and their college counselors, Ashley Pittman and Melanie Carmichael!