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Branching out    
WalGradFinalSongS-1_1.JPGIn the past decade (2000 - 2010), many graduates of the Waldorf School of Lexington have chosen to continue Waldorf education with our neighbor and good friend, the Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay, in nearby Belmont.
 
Additionally, our graduates have enrolled in the following independent secondary schools:
  • Arlington Catholic High School  
  • Beaver Country Day School
  • Belmont Hill School                      
  • Boston University Academy
  • Cambridge School of Weston      
  • Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall
  • Comonwealth School
  • Concord Academy
  • Cushing Academy
  • High Mowing School
  • Holderness School
  • Lawrence Academy
  • Lexington Christian Academy
  • Milton Academy
  • Miss Porter's School
  • Nobles & Greenough School
  • Our Lady of Nazareth Academy
  • Phillips Academy Andover
  • St. John's Prep
  • The Newman School
  • Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs
  • Worcester Academy

Public high schools in the area our graduates have attended  include Acton-Boxborough, Arlington, Bedford, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Concord-Carlisle, Lexington, Lincoln-Sudbury, Milford, Newton (North), Wayland, Weston, Wilmington, Winchester.

   

 
College Enrollment    

Students who graduated from Eighth Grade at the Waldorf School of Lexington between 1999 and 2006 have since enrolled in the following colleges and universities:

  • Allegheny College
  • American University
  • Bard College
  • Boston University
  • Brandeis University
  • Bryn Mawr College
  • Clark University
  • College of the Atlantic
  • Columbia University
  • Connecticut College
  • Eastman School of Music
  • Eastern Washington University
  • Emory University
  • George Washington University
  • Grinnell College
  • Hampshire College
  • Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music
  • Ithaca College
  • Lesley College
  • Lewis & Clark College
  • Macalester College
  • Merrimack College
  • Miama International School of Design
  • Mount Holyoke
  • Mount Ida College
  • Museum of Fine Arts School
  • New School for Liberal Arts
  • New York University
  • North Carolina School for the Arts
  • Northeastern University
  • Northwestern University
  • Oberlin College
  • Occidental College
  • Parsons School of Design
  • Princeton University
  • Rice University
  • Ringling School of Art & Design
  • Rochester Polytechnic Institute
  • St. Michael's College
  • St. Olaf College
  • St. Regis College (Nursing)
  • Scripps University
  • Skidmore College
  • Smith College
  • Southern Methodist University
  • Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Suffolk University
  • Swarthmore College
  • Tufts University
  • Tulane University
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Hartford
  • University of Hungary
  • University of King's College, Halifax
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Lowell
  • University of New Hampshire
  • University of Tampa
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Vermont
  • Vassar College
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Warren Wilson College
  • Wellesley College
  • Wesleyan College
  • Wheaton College
  • Williams College
  • Yale University

  
Survey of Waldorf graduates about college experiences and early professional lives:
 
94% attend college
47% major in humanities
42% major in math/sciences 
51% pursue advanced degrees 
89% are highly satisfied in their career choice
 
 
"By the time they reach us at the college and university level, these students are grounded broadly and deeply and have a remarkable enthusiasm for learning. Such students possess the eye of the discoverer, and the compassionate heart of the reformer which, when joined to a task, can change the planet."

Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Amherst College

 
 
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