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RLC Graduate

The following offers a portrait of a Rosseau Lake College student who joined us young and unsure, and is now a confident graduate ready to face the next challenge of life.

It is truly amazing to consider the wide-ranging depth of experience offered by RLC, as well as the level of success ensured by our highly-supportive faculty in this extraordinary learning community.
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  • Access a world-class academic program
  • Gain acceptance to the post-secondary program of your choice
  • Sit at least 20 final exams, write at least 10 major research papers, deliver presentations, seminars, and creative projects to an audience of peers and mentors
  • Complete four Discovery Week Projects, applying the curriculum to an area of personal interest
  • Develop a portfolio of work that demonstrates a full range of experiences, skills and accomplishments
  • Present a Community Talk to the entire school community
  • Gain hands-on, meaningful leadership experience as a Prefect, through local initiatives, and within a broad range of co-curricular programs
  • Develop an appreciation of the natural world and take part in key environmental stewardship initiatives
  • Build a personal connection to the land, its history, and access the Indigenous knowledge embedded within it
  • Spend in excess of 40 nights under the stars on outtrips and overnights
  • Explore hundreds of kilometers running, hiking, and skiing the trails
  • Paddle some of the most beautiful lakes and rivers in world 
  • Explore the world as an RLC Roundsquare delegate 
  • Compete as a varsity athlete
  • Perform in the annual Spring Arts Festivals
  • Forge lifelong friendships
  • Develop traits that that are key to living a live full, productive, caring lives, as formalised in the six Rosseau Roots: thoughtful, persuasive, adventurous, creative, self-aware, community-minded
  • Build the academic foundations, skills, and credentials required to thrive in significant post-secondary programs

Preparing Students For
What’s Ahead

Our students have an advantage when applying for post-secondary education. Year over year, 100% of our graduates are accepted at their top schools of choice, in Canada, the United States, and around the world.

Australian National University
Georgian College
Guelph University
McMaster University
OCAD University
Queen’s University
Ryerson University
Toronto Rotman Commerce
Trent University
University of Edinburgh
University of Ottawa
University of Texas at Austin
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
Western University
Wilfrid Laurier University

Preparing Students For
What’s Ahead

Our students have an advantage when applying for post-secondary education. 100% of our 2020 graduates were accepted at their top schools of choice. In 2020, our graduation class of 29 students received 98 offers from 24 universities and colleges across Canada and internationally. Over $100,000 in merit-based university entrance scholarships was awarded.

Australian National University
Georgian College
Guelph University
McMaster University
OCAD University
Queen’s University
Ryerson University
Toronto Rotman Commerce
Trent University
University of Edinburgh
University of Ottawa
University of Texas at Austin
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
Western University
Wilfrid Laurier University

"I stayed for a weekend the year before enrolling to try it out. I thought it was awesome then and still did six years later when I graduated. ... it is one of the best things that ever happened in my life."

—Dylan Cunningham '07
Canadian Rockies ski and climbing guide; the third skier to descend the North Face of Mount Robson; in 2020, made the first ascent of Red Beard, a 420-metre M5 WI5, in Banff National Park.

"Probably the most useful tools I learned from my time at Rosseau were independence and the confidence to go out on my own."

—KatieTsuyuki '16
Elite snowboarder, consultant, and motivational speaker; Canadian Olympic Snowboard Team in Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018

"To attend RLC felt second-nature to me. It was as though I were going to school in my own backyard, immersed in the natural world ... RLC was a place of calm, focus, and inspiration."

—Samantha Brett '04
Founder of IronOaks Environmental Management Inc., addressing resource management and sustainability; senior environmental advisor to TC Energy Corporation in Calgary, Alberta.