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About NMH
NMH Fast Facts
Founded
1879
Location
Gill, Massachusetts
Grades
9–12 and postgraduate year
Enrollment, 2007–08
- 612 students
- 473 boarders 473, 139 day students
- 330 boys, 282 girls
- students of color: 31%
- international students: 19%
- geographic distribution: 30 states, 25 countries
Tuition 2008–09
- boarding $41,700
- day $29,300
Financial aid
$5.5 million awarded to 40 percent of students in 2007 –08
Academics
- 95 full-time faculty with an average of 24 years’ experience; 63% hold advanced degrees
- student-teacher ratio 7:1
- average class size 14
- 170 major courses
- advancement placement courses in each department (20 AP courses in total)
- three major courses each semester, for six a year
Cocurriculars
- 110 cocurricular options
- choices include SAT prep, dance, community service, and many others
Athletics
- More than 60 teams compete interscholastically in 18 sports for boys and 15 sports for girls, plus coed golf, swimming, and alpine skiing
- Fitness center; training room; two gyms; six-lane pool; 13 playing fields; ice rink; eight-lane, all-weather track;15 tennis courts; nine-hole golf course; boathouse
Arts
- Two dance companies, ten music groups, four major theater productions a year, student gallery shows
- Brand-new arts center open in fall 2008: 63,000-square-foot, $29 million, state-of-the-art facility
Distinctive Programs
- Center for International Education: study abroad in six countries
- Work program: students devote four to five hours per week to work in support of the NMH community
- Farm program: on-campus working farm with student participation
- Outreach: numerous opportunities for community service
- Multicultural education: program includes multicultural educator, affinity groups, awareness training, special events
- Sustainability: schoolwide commitment to environmentalism
College Matriculation
Among the most selective, most attended (ten or more NMH matriculants in the last five years) colleges and universities are these:
| Bates (10) |
Northwestern (10) |
| Boston University (41) |
Oberlin (14) |
| Bowdoin (11) |
Purdue (16) |
| Brown (18) |
Rochester Institute of Technology (15) |
| Cornell (29) |
Trinity College (12) |
| Carnegie Mellon (13) |
Tufts (23) |
| Georgetown (15) |
US Naval Academy (20) |
| George Washington University (30) |
University of Chicago (13) |
| Johns Hopkins (12) |
University of Southern California (15) |
| Mount Holyoke (20) |
University of Vermont (30) |
| New York University (28) |
Wesleyan (20)
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Resources
- 1,100 acres, with biking, skiing, and running trails
- campus wired to high-speed network; students access virtual desktops from any Internet-connected computer
- online library system has 70,000+ volumes, plus computers, printers, and advanced multimedia labs
Alumni
- More than 25,000 alumni around the world
- NMH alums include US ambassador Frederick Cook ’68, Olympic gold medal-winner Frank Shorter ’65, singer Natalie Cole ’68, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Sheehan ’54, actresses Uma Thurman ’88 and Laura Linney ’82 , and child rights activist Kimmie Weeks ’02.
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