Where are Arlington High School's Class of 2021 grads going to college?
After graduating from Arlington High School on Saturday, June 6, Class of 2021 graduates are headed far and wide as they pursue their academic futures across the country and the world. The Class of 2021 will be attending 135 colleges and universities, including stops in England (ESCP European Business School-London) and Canada (McGill University and Concordia University, in Montreal, as well as the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo in Ontario). The graduates who are staying domestic for their higher-learning will be spread out across 27 states. Some students will be staying close to home (Tufts University) while others will be moving across the country (University of Washington). Boston is home to 12 different colleges AHS grads will enroll in this fall: Boston University, Bunker Hill Community College, Emerson College, Emmanuel College, Mass. College of Art and Design, MCPHS, UMASS-Boston, Northeastern, Roxbury Community College, Simmons University, Suffolk University and Wentworth Institute Technology. Of course, that doesn't include the numerous schools close to Boston that AHS grads will be attending, including Boston College, Harvard, MIT, Bentley University, Brandeis University, Curry College and Salem State University. In total, 42 Massachusetts colleges and universities will see new AHS grads enrolling soon. The rest of New England will also be seeing a hearty helping of AHS grads, including Maine (University of Maine, University of New England and Colby College) New Hampshire (University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth, Plymouth State University, Saint Anselm College), Vermont (University of Vermont, Middlebury College, Castleton University), Rhode Island (University of Rhode Island, Providence College, Brown, Bryant University and Roger Williams University) and Connecticut (University of Connecticut, United States Coast Guard Academy, Fairfield University). Students will be headed to big schools, such as Arizona State University (53,000 students) and small Bennington College (660 students) and to the big city (New York University, Fordham University and The New School, all in New York City) and the rural West, (Western Colorado University, located in Gunnison, Colorado, pop. 5,300). Some students are headed to the beach (Coastal Carolina University) while others are headed towards the mountains (Utah State University). Some will be at the home of country music (Belmont University in Nashville), while others at the home of blues (Rhodes College in Memphis) and MoTown (College for Creative Studies in Detroit). Class of 2021 students will be heading to colleges you've probably heard of before (University of Notre Dame, Framingham State University, UMASS-Amherst) and some others that you might not know (Millsaps College, in Jackson, Mississippi, or Warren Wilson College, in Swannanoa, North Carolina). Students will be attending some colleges with undeniable historical merits, including Oberlin College, the first college in the United States to admit women, and renowned historically Black college Morehouse College; while other students will be attending schools that are well-known for....other reasons (University of California-Irvine, best known for its mascot, the Anteaters). While they will be spread out across the country and indeed the world, and the schools may be different, we can all count on the Class of 2021 to continue to showcase the hardworking attitude that saw them through a difficult senior year. Good luck graduates.