College Counseling
Discovery. Connection. Action. In our college counseling office, you’ll find support through all three of these core steps in the college process.
Throughout our 30-month college counseling program, our team encourages thorough self-reflection. What courses do you enjoy the most? Do you hope to be recruited for athletics, or do you want to shine on stage? How will you prepare for standardized tests? And, most importantly, what are you looking for in your college experience?
We’re here to share our knowledge of the college landscape with students and their families. We carefully individualize the process and keep it developmentally appropriate. And we are always advocates for our students as we help them become the strongest college applicants they can be.
College Counseling Team
Kate Boyle Ramsdell
Director of College Counseling
AT KPMS SINCE 1998
Kate Boyle Ramsdell joined the Nobles community as a teaching fellow in the Admissions and English departments in 1998 and began her work in the College Counseling Office two years later. Beyond her current role as director of college counseling, she has served as an advisor, dorm parent, English teacher, interim dean of students, coach and a Class I dean. During a portion of her sabbatical in 2010, Kate worked at African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. She also served on the Board of Trustees at the Meadowbrook School of Weston. An avid road-tripper, Kate aims to tour all 50 flagship state universities; so far, she has seen almost two dozen, and her 4 and 6 ½ -year old sons can say they’ve visited seven, though she does not advise starting the college process quite that early. A graduate of Williams College, Kate studied as a fellow at Columbia’s Klingenstein Summer Institute and earned her MA from Tufts University, where her thesis examined Nobles’ admission practices through various lenses.
Kate Boyle Ramsdell
Director of College Counseling
AT KPMS SINCE 1998
Kate Boyle Ramsdell joined the Nobles community as a teaching fellow in the Admissions and English departments in 1998 and began her work in the College Counseling Office two years later. Beyond her current role as director of college counseling, she has served as an advisor, dorm parent, English teacher, interim dean of students, coach and a Class I dean. During a portion of her sabbatical in 2010, Kate worked at African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. She also served on the Board of Trustees at the Meadowbrook School of Weston. An avid road-tripper, Kate aims to tour all 50 flagship state universities; so far, she has seen almost two dozen, and her 4 and 6 ½ -year old sons can say they’ve visited seven, though she does not advise starting the college process quite that early. A graduate of Williams College, Kate studied as a fellow at Columbia’s Klingenstein Summer Institute and earned her MA from Tufts University, where her thesis examined Nobles’ admission practices through various lenses.
Kate Boyle Ramsdell
Director of College Counseling
AT KPMS SINCE 1998
Kate Boyle Ramsdell joined the Nobles community as a teaching fellow in the Admissions and English departments in 1998 and began her work in the College Counseling Office two years later. Beyond her current role as director of college counseling, she has served as an advisor, dorm parent, English teacher, interim dean of students, coach and a Class I dean. During a portion of her sabbatical in 2010, Kate worked at African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. She also served on the Board of Trustees at the Meadowbrook School of Weston. An avid road-tripper, Kate aims to tour all 50 flagship state universities; so far, she has seen almost two dozen, and her 4 and 6 ½ -year old sons can say they’ve visited seven, though she does not advise starting the college process quite that early. A graduate of Williams College, Kate studied as a fellow at Columbia’s Klingenstein Summer Institute and earned her MA from Tufts University, where her thesis examined Nobles’ admission practices through various lenses.