College Counseling

Welcome to the Out-of-Door Academy's College Counseling website.  As counselors, our goal is to guide students and famlies through the difficult task of preparing for higher education. Our four-year developmental college counseling program aims to acculturate and assimilate students to the college admissions and college counseling processes. This process will begin in a student's freshman academic year and will continue developmentally through a student's senior year. Our aim is to slowly introduce to the students the terms, guidelines/timelines, nuances, and informational programs at age and grade appropriate times. We will prepare students in such a manner that their college application process is concluding early in their senior academic year and not just beginning then, which is often the case at other secondary institutions.

Additionally, our intent is to counsel students to matriculate at the most holistically appropriate college or university, not necessarily the most selective college or university in which they are admitted.

For further information about our college counseling program, and to find many additional helpful resources, we invite you to explore our college counseling website.

Joe Runge, Director

(941) 554-5990

Michael Salmon, Associate Director