An Introduction to College Counseling at International Schools: Part I
An Introduction to College Counseling at International Schools: Part I
Cory Zimmerman, Singapore American School
January 22, 2025
As a college counselor working at an international school and a product of one myself, here is a balanced (but ultimately subjective) description that might demystify (or even attract some of you to) the international school world.

Some personal background
I grew up in the US, France, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, and the UK before repatriating to the US for university. I have worked as a Teach for Americacorps member teaching high school English in North Carolina; an admissions officer at Washington University in St. Louis; and a college counselor at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, Taipei American School in Taiwan, and now Singapore American School, which also happens to be one of my boyhood schools. I moved to international school college counseling in 2017. I had cherished my relationship with my college counselor in high school, so I relished the opportunity to provide that same support to third culture kids like I was, at the precipice of making a huge decision on where to attend university.