New Student Profile

Nearly 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 155 new students.  Ninety-eight of these students are joining Milton as boarders and 57 as day students.

As a group, their academic credentials were consistently outstanding.  Their teachers described them with phrases such as “funny, compassionate and thoughtful, she will brighten any teacher’s day,” “his personality and attitude make our school a better place,” “she is always true to herself and her values,” “an independent thinker who consistently reaches for a deeper understanding,” and “he is a top student, leader in the school and, most importantly, a wonderful human being.”

These students are distinct, interesting and opinionated individuals.  Their backgrounds and interests are rich, varied and intriguing.  One student has grown up living in a dorm on the MIT campus.  Another has three siblings, each born on a different continent, and has attended schools in five different countries.  A third has helped a sheep to give birth.  One student was named after a Nobel Prize-winning poet, and another can solve a Rubik’s Cube in one minute and 14 seconds.

These students are from 17 states and 13 countries—places as geographically and culturally diverse as New England and the Rocky Mountains, Albania, Japan and Thailand.  At least 21 languages are spoken in their homes, including German and Vietnamese, Lithuanian, Greek and Japanese.

They come from the high-rises of Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of Boston.  Their hometowns stretch around the globe from Princeton, New Jersey to Phoenix, Arizona; from Mumbai, India to Kingston, Jamaica, to right here in Milton, Massachusetts.

They are the children of an equally diverse group of parents.  A surgeon, a carpenter, a scientist and a fashion designer all have children in this class.  So do a police officer, a cattle rancher, a minister, an author and a bus driver.

These students’ activities and talents are both eclectic and varied.  They are software programmers who love to dance, dancers who play lacrosse, lacrosse players who write poetry, and poets who play ice hockey.  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