You're Accepted!

In a year in which colleges and universities were reporting historically low acceptance rates, over two-thirds of NMH students were accepted at their first or second choice schools.

NMH students received 60 acceptance letters to what U.S. News and World Report ranks as the "Top 50 Colleges" and 130 acceptances to the report's "Top 50 Universities." Those numbers don’t include Canadian schools, which mail their decisions in mid-April, or many state institutions, which also mail acceptance letters later in the year.

With those exceptions in mind, the admissions office is happy to report that four NMH students have been accepted to Harvard, six to Cornell, eight to Tufts, and 14 to New York University. There were also multiple acceptance letters from Stanford University, the University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, and Boston College. Seniors and postgraduates were accepted to Princeton, Yale, MIT, the Frank Olin Institute of Technology, Williams and Wesleyan. Barnard, Colgate, Wellesley, Kenyon, and Carleton also offered admission to NMH students.

NMH seniors and postgraduates also received a record number of letters indicating that they were waitlisted for a school, an increase that is part of a national trend. The class of 2010 averaged 6.5 applications per student, with an acceptance rate of more than 58 percent. Every single NMH senior and postgraduate received one or more letters of admission. Nearly half the class applied using some kind of early admission strategy – a strategy that seems to have paid off handsomely.