Our Alumni Are Special

Center alumni are not hard to spot. They are kind, bright leaders who are prepared for, and find joy in, navigating the world.

The CEE Alumni Council is made up of a diverse group of adult Center graduates who gather to collaborate in support of CEE. Whether it’s creating care packages for college freshmen, helping a Center class make sandwiches for the hungry, or participating in our annual Gala or Alumni Poker Night, there are many exciting ways to stay connected and involved with The Center. The Alumni Council meets 4-5 times a year on campus and participates in committees such as Networking, Annual Fund, Events, and the Community Service Award program.

Great care and thought goes into guiding and supporting each child during the many transitions they make at The Center. After incredible growth and learning, the last major transition a Center student makes is preparing to leave and enter secondary school. We want the secondary school admissions and selection process to thoughtfully support a child’s experience in separating from The Center, saying goodbye, and eventually entering into a new learning environment. The Center provides expertise and resources to guide this transition. The Director of Student Placement, working in conjunction with the Head of School, leads the student outplacement process starting in the spring of the child’s 5th grade year.

While the secondary school admissions process has universal requirements like application questions, interviews, grades, and standardized testing, The Center takes a highly individualized, tailored approach to working with each family within the graduating class.

In the most recent admissions season, over 90% of Center families earned placement into their school of choice. For the last five years, The Center has placed all of our 6th grade students in at least one secondary school. We are proud that all families in 2019-20 demonstrating financial need were offered placement with a financial aid grant.

Secondary School Placement List The Center Matriculation from 2015-2019 (in alphabetical order) Archer School Brentwood School Buckley School Campbell Hall Cathedral Chapel Crossroads School Flintridge Preparatory School Girls Academic Leadership Academy Harvard-Westlake School Immaculate Heart Marlborough School Milken Community Schools Oakwood School Pilgrim School Polytechnic School Wildwood School Windward School Viewpoint School

College Placement of Alumni College matriculation of Center alumni 2015-2019 American University in Rome Amherst College Barnard College Boston University Bowdoin College Brown University California State Channel Islands Carnegie Mellon University Casper College Chapman University Colgate University Cornell University Dartmouth College Duke University Emerson College Emory University Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising George Washington University Georgetown University Grinnell College Harvard University Indiana University Institute of Chicago Kenyon College Loyola Marymount University Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University Middlebury College The New School New York University Northwestern University Oberlin College Pitzer College Pratt Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sarah Lawrence College Southern Methodist University St. John’s College Stanford University Stevenson Institute of Technology Texas Christian University Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University University of California Berkeley University of California Los Angeles University of California Riverside University of California Santa Barbara University of California Santa Cruz University of Chicago University of Colorado, Boulder University of Connecticut University of Miami University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of Redlands University of San Diego University of Southern California University of Texas University of Wisconsin Madison Vanderbilt University Vassar College Washington University in St. Louis Williams College Yale University