New Student Profile

Over 1,000 boys and girls completed the application process at Milton last year, and members of the Admission Committee read each of those folders three or four times as they selected a class of 150 new students.  One hundred of these students are joining Milton as boarders and 50 as day students.

As a group, their academic credentials were consistently outstanding.  Their teachers described them with phrases such as “has a contagious enthusiasm for learning,” “an independent thinker who consistently reaches for a deeper understanding,” “a mentor to younger students, always leading by example with humility and kindness,” “has that rare ability to truly be himself while at the same time garnering the respect and affection of those around him,” and “she makes teaching look easy.” 

These students are distinct, interesting and opinionated individuals.  Their backgrounds and interests are rich, varied and intriguing.  One student has played at Carnegie Hall.  Another is not only is an accomplished athlete, but also has his own commercial clamming business in the summer.  One performed the lead in Macbeth on a broken ankle, which occurred during the performance and another spent the summer handing out toothbrushes and educating children about dental hygiene in a small African village.

These students are from 20 states and 11 countries—places as geographically and culturally diverse as New England and the Rocky Mountains, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.  At least 21 languages are spoken in their homes, including Portuguese, Arabic, Mandarin, Greek and Japanese.

They come from the high-rises of Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of Boston.  Their hometowns stretch around the globe from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Bakersfield, California; from Kuala Lumpur to Montreal to right here in Milton, Massachusetts.  They hail from Rochester, Minnesota as well as Rochester, New York; from Littleton, Massachusetts and Littleton, Colorado; Brooklin, Maine and Brooklyn, New York.

They are the children of an equally diverse group of parents.  A fire fighter, an author, an elementary school teacher, and an airline pilot all have children in this class.  So do a college professor, an architect, a nurse, an innkeeper and an opera singer. 

These students’ activities and talents are both eclectic and varied.  They are surfers who play lacrosse, lacrosse players who write poetry, and poets who play the trombone.  They arrive here as an impressive, compelling group of individuals who, over the next few years, will identify, pursue and accomplish their personal goals.

Paul Rebuck
Dean of Admission