The High School Placement Office
Robert Treat Academy's High School Placement Office offers an invaluable service to students in both seventh and eighth grade. It integrates a two-year, high school preparation period into the school week, where students prepare for high school entrance exams, practice interview skills for school intervcdsviews and Open Houses, and create individualized student profiles for each high school to review.
In addition to working extensively with the students, the HSP Team works one-on-one with the parents of each eighth grader, in order to help the family apply to the appropriate day, private, Parochial, Catholic or public school for each individual student. Informational sessions are held for the parents, applications are completed, and financial aid workshops are held at RTA. Both eighth grade students and their parents participate in Robert Treat Academy's Annual Interview Day, where we host admissions directors from over forty high schools at the Academy and allows for one-on-one interviews for both the student and parent.
The High School Placement staff also maintains relationships with Heads of School and Directors of Admission at elite boarding schools scattered throughout the country, as well as prestigious private day schools in New Jersey.
Our Alumni Coordinator maintains contact with RTA graduates; visiting each student at least once a year at their high schoo and keeping in touch with students' guidance counselors in order to assess how the student is progressing.
The High School Placement Office at Robert Treat works hard to ensure that after leaving the Academy, students go on to become some of the best and brightest high school students in the country.
ABOUT THE STAFF
KAREN CORSEY VERONICA HEINLEIN WOOD
ALUMNI COORDINATOR DIRECTOR OF HIGHSCHOOL PLACEMENTAlumni Coordinator, Karen Corsey joined the staff of Robert Treat Academy as Alumni Coordinator in August 2007. She offers support for alumni/alumnae during their four years of high school and visits them at their boarding and day schools. She also assists with high school placement for the eighth graders. Ms. Corsey came to RTA from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (CTY) in Baltimore, MD where she worked as coordinator and adviser to students in the Next Generation Venture Fund scholarship program and was outreach recruiter for CTY's summer programs in Newark, NJ and other cities. She continues working with many RTA students who attend the CTY summer programs.
Ms. Corsey has been an English teacher, student advisor, admissions officer and administrator in private and public boarding and day schools in Maryland, New Hampshire, Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New Jersey, where she began her career in education. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Education from Glassboro State College in New Jersey.
Veronica Heinlein Wood serves as Director of the Academy's Office of High School Placement where she coordinates the activities related to matching our graduating students to the secondary school that best fits their needs. Ms. Heinlein also supervises the Music and Art and Physical Education Departments at the Academy.
Ms. Heinlein joined the faculty of Robert Treat Academy in 2000. Prior to that, she taught music to middle school students in Bloomfield, NJ. Ms. Heinlein holds a Master's Degree in Educational Supervision and a Bachelors Degree in Music from William Paterson University. She also has a Masters in Organ Performance from Yale University.
