Below is a list of the colleges and universities where the Cate classes of 2020-2024 have matriculated. Detailed information about Cate School is available by downloading a PDF of our School Profile.
bold = top ten
| American University | 2 |
| Amherst College | 4 |
| Babson College | 3 |
| Bard College | 1 |
| Barnard College | 7 |
| Bates College | 8 |
| Binghamton College | 1 |
| Boston College | 2 |
| Boston University | 2 |
| Bowdoin College | 6 |
| Brown University | 11 |
| Bucknell University | 1 |
| California Institute of Technology | 1 |
| California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | 5 |
| California State University, Northridge | 1 |
| Carleton College | 1 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 2 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 6 |
| Catholic University of America | 1 |
| Chapman University | 1 |
| Claremont McKenna College | 4 |
| Colby College | 3 |
| Colgate University | 1 |
| Colorado College | 6 |
| Columbia University | 8 |
| Connecticut College | 1 |
| Cornell College | 5 |
| Dartmouth College | 5 |
| Davidson College | 2 |
| Duke Kunshan University | 1 |
| Duke University | 4 |
| Emory University | 4 |
| Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts | 1 |
| George Washington University | 3 |
| Georgetown University | 5 |
| Gettysburg College | 1 |
| Gonzaga University | 1 |
| Grinnell College | 1 |
| Hamilton College | 3 |
| Harvard University | 4 |
| Harvey Mudd College | 1 |
| Howard University | 1 |
| Indiana University (Bloomington) | 1 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 1 |
| Kenyon College | 3 |
| Lafayette College | 1 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 4 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Middlebury College | 5 |
| New York University | 10 |
| Northeastern University | 9 |
| Northwestern University | 3 |
| NYU Shanghai | 1 |
| Occidental College | 2 |
| Parsons School of Design at The New School | 2 |
| Pennsylvania State University | 1 |
| Pitzer College | 2 |
| Pomona College | 4 |
| Princeton University | 3 |
| Queen’s University | 2 |
| Reed College | 1 |
| Rice University | 2 |
| San Diego City College | 1 |
| Santa Barbara City College | 4 |
| Santa Clara University | 1 |
| Scripps College | 8 |
| Seton Hall University | 1 |
| Skidmore College | 1 |
| Smith College | 1 |
| Southern Methodist University | 8 |
| Stanford University | 5 |
| Syracuse University | 2 |
| The American University of Paris | 2 |
| The University of Texas, Austin | 1 |
| Trinity College | 1 |
| Tufts University | 7 |
| Tulane University | 12 |
| Union College | 2 |
| United States Military Academy at West Point | 1 |
| Universidad de Navarra | 1 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 10 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 3 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | 2 |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | 1 |
| University of Chicago | 14 |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | 2 |
| University of Florida | 1 |
| University of Iowa | 1 |
| University of Miami | 3 |
| University of Michigan | 1 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1 |
| University of Notre Dame | 3 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 7 |
| University of Portland | 1 |
| University of Richmond | 2 |
| University of San Diego | 1 |
| University of Southern California | 12 |
| University of St Andrews | 8 |
| University of the Pacific | 1 |
| University of Vermont | 1 |
| University of Virginia | 5 |
| University of Washington | 2 |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | 4 |
| Vanderbilt University | 3 |
| Vassar College | 2 |
| Villanova University | 2 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 1 |
| Wellesley College | 6 |
| Wesleyan University | 3 |
| Westmont College | 1 |
| Williams College | 2 |
| Yale University | 7 |