College Counseling

College Guidance at Martin Saints Develops Spiritual and Practical Skills 

Planning for college requires and develops both practical and spiritual skills. From the very beginning of the college application process, Martin Saints creates a culture of discernment. We help students develop their academic and career interests in the context of prayer.

Martin Saints is not a "feeder" for just one type of college. For example, a family’s circumstances and a student’s vocation can appropriately lead to a public university or to a private college, to a large Catholic university or to a small Catholic liberal arts college. Some public institutions have wonderful and vibrant Catholic chaplaincies; some Catholic colleges are less committed to Catholic fidelity than others. That’s why each situation requires discernment. We believe if you're wise and astute about it, faithful and fruitful Catholic life is possible at a range of institutions. Each type of college will have its own potential and its own pitfall, its own strengths and challenges, that must be discerned wisely and carefully.

In order to enable discernment, Martin Saints offers our students college and career counseling, support for standardized testing and admissions exams, and guidance about application strategy. We also arm our students with testimonies from adults who attended various universities and colleges. Especially in this day and age, the college environment can create real challenges to faith, but also opportunities to deepen and grow in faith, and so families need to be alert to the campus spiritual context.

With the information and strategies provided to our students and their families, students begin to discern what their lives might look like after they graduate from Martin Saints.  Ultimately, our goal is to help our students be in the world, but not of it - to be fully alive!