Pine Hill alumni

Pine Hill Waldorf School has an excellent college admissions record. High schools and colleges are interested in our students because of the breadth and depth of their academic preparation and the rich variety of their experience in the arts, drama, music and extracurricular activities.

A Waldorf education is an excellent preparation for life, and many of our students go on to interesting pursuits and careers – across the spectrum of professions. The Waldorf student feels that he or she is capable of any undertaking and that every life serves an important purpose.

Some alumni comments

Here are a few testimonials from "Alumni News" gathered from recent Pine Hill graduates:

"Waldorf school was a journey of magic and wonder: I learned to look closely at the world around me, and I learned to dream beyond the limits of the universe. At the same time, I gained a solid base of knowledge and skills which allowed me to set sail into the world with confidence…"

– Ananda Kantner '85

"First, and most importantly, I am happy. A simple and blunt statement, but a good and honest indicator of success on an essential level… A solid and basic goodness was established in me through many lessons at Pine Hill. People find true happiness through passion or causes that matter."

– David Barnett '88

"I feel that Waldorf enhanced the ability to relate and communicate with people, a skill which I have found invaluable…"

– Matthew Lejeune '89

"I am living in New Mexico, working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as an Environmental Geologist. I graduated from Amherst College magna cum laude and wrote a senior honors thesis on a bunch of rocks. Life is good."

- Seth McMillan '89

A different citizen

"In the end the measure of a school lies in the graduates it produces. The Waldorf record seems pretty impressive. Consider students’ scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Despite Waldorf students’ unfamiliarity with standardized tests, their SAT scores have generally come in well above the national average, particularly on verbal measures. ‘The concepts, they’ve got,’ Kathleen O’Connor, who is the college counselor at the Washington Waldorf School, told me. ‘When they get direction on how to take multiple-choice tests, their scores soar.’

"More important, considering the limited extent to which SATs measure ability, Waldorf students seem to do well in college admissions. Graduates from the New York and Washington schools are enrolled at many of the country’s top private colleges, including Amherst, Stanford, Princeton, Swarthmore, Wellesley, and Yale."

Todd Oppenheimer, from "Schooling the Imagination," an article on Waldorf education in the September 1999 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

High schools

Pine Hill’s sister school, High Mowing, is located across the street from Pine Hill and offers an opportunity for a continuing Waldorf high school education.

Following is a list of some of the other high schools, and some colleges attended by recent Pine Hill graduates:

High schools

Bishop Guertin	Milford
Conval	Northfield Mt. Hermon
Derryfield	Phillips Andover
Dublin School	Souhegan
Hollis/Brookline	St. Paul’s
Lawrence Academy	Vermont Academy
Middlesex	Wilton/Lyndeborough

Colleges

Bowdoin	Purdue
Colby-Sawyer	Reed College
Colgate	Smith College
Columbia University	Stanford
Cornell	University of Massachusetts
Harvard	University of New Hampshire
Haverford	University of Oregon
Keene State	University of Vermont
Prescott College	Yale