Life After Buxton
Yes, there is such a thing!
As much as we don’t want it to happen, eventually our students need to move on. Like with everything else at Buxton, we strive to make this process as positive and personalized as possible.
During junior year, students pick a dedicated college advisor to help them through the admissions process. All college advisors also work in tandem with each other to learn from and leverage the experience of the entire faculty in the college admissions process. In the late fall, each college advisor presents the entire faculty with the final lists of college choices for their advisees, and the faculty develops a plan for the best possible outcomes.
College Placement
Our students tend to continue their education at colleges and universities that mirror Buxton: small and academically rigorous institutions that value both the personal experience and the individualized curriculum.
And these colleges and universities know Buxton. Their admissions officers are well-versed in our rigorous academic standards, our artistic and creative mindsets, and the caliber of students we teach. We also stay in close contact with our alumni, who often serve as guides and mentors throughout the process on a whole and as advocates for the schools that they themselves chose.

Recent institutions selected by our students include:
- Alfred University
- Amherst College
- Bard College
- Barnard College
- Bennington College
- Berklee College of Music
- Brooklyn College
- Bryant University
- Bryn Mawr College
- Carleton College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Case Western University
- Clark University
- Colby-Sawyer College
- College of the Atlantic
- College of Wooster
- Corcoran College of Art
- Cornell University
- Emerson College
- Emory University
- Evergreen State College
- Farleigh Dickinson University
- Gettysburg College
- Glasgow School of Art
- Goldsmiths (U.K)
- Hamilton College
- Hampshire College
- Haverford College
- Indiana University
- Ithaca College
- Johnson & Wales College
- Kenyon College
- Lewis & Clark College
- Macalester College
- McGill University
- Middlebury College
- Morehouse College
- Mount Holyoke College
- New York University
- Oberlin College
- Occidental College
- Pitzer College
- Pomona College
- Pratt Institute of Art
- Reed College
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Roger Williams University
- Rutgers University
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Savannah College of Art and Design
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
- School of Visual Arts
- Scripps College
- Skidmore College
- Smith College
- Spelman College
- St. Lawrence University
- Swarthmore College
- Syracuse University
- Trent University-Canada
- Tulane University
- Tyler School of Art
- University of the Arts
- University of CA- Santa Cruz
- University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- University of the Netherlands
- University of the Pacific
- University of Vermont
- Vassar College
- Wellesley College
- Wells College
- Wesleyan University
- Wheaton College
- Whittier College
- Williams College
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Yale

