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A-
Matriculation A-
Academics A
Extracurriculars A-
Community A+
Reviews B+
The Masters School is a coeducational, college preparatory school located on 96 wooded acres, just 35 minutes north of New York City. Students and teachers make full use of state-of-the-art campus facilities as well as one of the most exciting classrooms in the world--New York City. As a boarding and day school, this is a place of high standards, great achievement, and hard work. The curriculum is challenging. The athletic teams are competitive and accomplished. The arts program is exceptional. An engagement with the School's community service program has been a guiding principle since the School's founding in 1877.
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School Stats

Average
Current School
Tuition
$77400
Enrollment
669
International Students
12%
Faculty with Advanced Degrees
75%
Teacher-Student Ratio
1:7
Endowment
$78.5 millions
AP
14
Average SAT Score
1370
Average ACT Score
29
Class Size
14
Boarding %
30

Matriculation

(2020-2024)
Ranking University/College Students
#1 Princeton University 1 +
#2 Columbia University 1 +
#2 Harvard College 1 +
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 +
#5 Yale University 1 +
#6 Stanford University 1 +
#6 University of Chicago 1 +
#8 University of Pennsylvania 1 +
#9 Duke University 1 +
#9 Johns Hopkins University 1 +
#9 Northwestern University 1 +
LAC #2 Amherst College 1 +
#13 Dartmouth College 1 +
#14 Brown University 1 +
#14 Vanderbilt University 1 +
#14 Washington University in St. Louis 1 +
LAC #3 Swarthmore College 1 +
#17 Cornell University 1 +
#17 Rice University 1 +
#20 University of California: Los Angeles 1 +
#21 Emory University 1 +
#22 University of California: Berkeley 1 +
#23 Georgetown University 1 +
#23 University of Michigan 1 +
#25 Carnegie Mellon University 1 +
#25 University of Virginia 1 +
#27 University of Southern California 1 +
#28 New York University 1 +
#28 Tufts University 1 +
#28 Wake Forest University 1 +
LAC #6 Bowdoin College 1 +
#34 University of California: San Diego 1 +
#34 University of Rochester 1 +
#36 Boston College 1 +
#40 College of William and Mary 1 +
LAC #8 Claremont McKenna College 1 +
#42 Boston University 1 +
#42 Brandeis University 1 +
#42 Case Western Reserve University 1 +
#42 Tulane University 1 +
#42 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 +
LAC #9 Carleton College 1 +
LAC #9 Middlebury College 1 +
#49 Lehigh University 1 +
#49 Northeastern University 1 +
#49 Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1 +
#49 Purdue University 1 +
#49 Villanova University 1 +
#55 University of Miami 1 +
#57 Penn State University Park 1 +
#59 Syracuse University 1 +
#59 University of Washington 1 +
#62 Rutgers University 1 +
#63 George Washington University 1 +
LAC #13 Hamilton College 1 +
#68 Fordham University 1 +
#75 Loyola Marymount University 1 +
#79 American University 1 +
LAC #16 Haverford College 1 +
#83 Howard University 1 +
LAC #17 Barnard College 1 +
LAC #17 Colby College 1 +
LAC #17 Colgate University 1 +
LAC #17 Smith College 1 +
LAC #17 Wesleyan University 1 +
#103 Clark University 1 +
#103 Drexel University 1 +
#103 University of San Francisco 1 +
#104 University of Colorado Boulder 1 +
LAC #22 United States Air Force Academy 1 +
LAC #22 University of Richmond 1 +
LAC #22 Vassar College 1 +
Arizona State University 1 +
#117 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 +
#117 University of South Carolina: Columbia 1 +
#117 University of Vermont 1 +
LAC #25 Bates College 1 +
#127 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Newark Campus 1 +
#127 Seton Hall University 1 +
LAC #26 Colorado College 1 +
LAC #27 Macalester College 1 +
LAC #30 Bryn Mawr College 1 +
LAC #30 Kenyon College 1 +
LAC #30 Scripps College 1 +
LAC #35 College of the Holy Cross 1 +
LAC #35 Pitzer College 1 +
LAC #36 Oberlin College 1 +
LAC #38 Bucknell University 1 +
LAC #38 Franklin & Marshall College 1 +
LAC #38 Lafayette College 1 +
LAC #38 Skidmore College 1 +
LAC #42 Denison University 1 +
LAC #42 Occidental College 1 +
LAC #45 Union College 1 +
LAC #46 Trinity College 1 +
LAC #50 Connecticut College 1 +
LAC #50 Dickinson College 1 +
Babson College 1 +
Bard College 1 +
Bennington College 1 +
Bentley University 1 +
Berklee College of Music 1 +
binghamton university, state university of new york 1 +
Dakota State University 1 +
Emerson College 1 +
Flagler College 1 +
Hampton University 1 +
Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1 +
Marist College 1 +
McGill University 1 +
Muhlenberg College 1 +
Reed College 1 +
Rhode Island School of Design 1 +
SUNY College at Geneseo 1 +
University of Hartford 1 +
University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1 +
University of St. Andrews 1 +
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Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2024 2020-2023 2018-2021 2017-2020 2016-2019 Total
All schools 62 133 119 116 111
#1 Princeton University 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 11
#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 + 1 + 2
#3 Stanford University 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#3 Harvard College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#3 Yale University 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#6 University of Chicago 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 11
#7 University of Pennsylvania 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 11
#7 Johns Hopkins University 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#10 Northwestern University 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#10 Duke University 1 + 1 + 2
#12 Dartmouth College 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 11
#13 Brown University 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 11
#13 Vanderbilt University 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#15 Rice University 1 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 11
#15 Washington University in St. Louis 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#17 Cornell University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#18 Columbia University 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#20 University of California: Los Angeles 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 8
#20 University of California: Berkeley 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#22 Georgetown University 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#22 Carnegie Mellon University 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 11
#22 Emory University 1 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 11
#25 University of Virginia 1 + 1 + 2
#25 University of Southern California 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 11
#25 New York University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#25 University of Michigan 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#29 Wake Forest University 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 8
#32 Tufts University 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#34 University of California: San Diego 1 + 1
#36 University of Rochester 1 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 11
#36 Boston College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#41 Boston University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#44 Tulane University 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#44 Brandeis University 1 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 11
#44 Case Western Reserve University 1 + 1 + 2
#44 Northeastern University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#49 Purdue University 1 + 1
#49 Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 1 + 1
#51 Lehigh University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#51 Villanova University 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
#55 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#55 University of Washington 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#55 University of Miami 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#62 George Washington University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 13
#62 Syracuse University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#72 Fordham University 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 + 11
#72 American University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#75 Stevens Institute of Technology 1 + 1
#75 Loyola Marymount University 1 + 1
#83 SUNY University at Binghamton 4 + 1 + 1 + 6
#89 Howard University 1 + 4 + 5
#97 Clark University 1 + 1 + 2
#103 University of San Francisco 1 + 1
#105 Drexel University 1 + 4 + 5
#105 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 7
#117 University of South Carolina: Columbia 1 + 1
#121 University of Vermont 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#121 Arizona State University 1 + 1 + 2
#127 Seton Hall University 1 + 1
#127 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Newark Campus 1 + 1
College of William and Mary 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
Penn State University Park 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
University of Colorado Boulder 1 + 4 + 5
Rutgers University 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2020-2024 2020-2023 2018-2021 2017-2020 2016-2019 Total
All schools 36 69 66 63 64
#1 Williams College 1 + 1
#2 Amherst College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#4 Swarthmore College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#6 Bowdoin College 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 8
#6 Carleton College 1 + 1 + 2
#9 Claremont McKenna College 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#11 Middlebury College 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#13 Vassar College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#13 Smith College 1 + 4 + 5
#15 Hamilton College 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#18 Colgate University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 13
#18 Wesleyan University 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#18 University of Richmond 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 + 11
#18 United States Air Force Academy 1 + 1 + 2
#18 Barnard College 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#18 Haverford College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#24 Colby College 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 7
#25 Bates College 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 14
#27 Macalester College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5
#27 Colorado College 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 11
#30 Scripps College 1 + 1
#31 Bryn Mawr College 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 10
#31 Kenyon College 1 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 4 + 14
#33 Pitzer College 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#35 College of the Holy Cross 1 + 1
#37 Bucknell University 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#38 Union College 1 + 1
#39 Denison University 1 + 1 + 2
#39 Skidmore College 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#39 Trinity College 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 1 + 14
#39 Lafayette College 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 17
#42 Occidental College 1 + 1
#51 Dickinson College 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 14
#55 Connecticut College 1 + 1 + 1 + 3
#60 Bard College 1 + 4 + 5
Union College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4
Franklin & Marshall College 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 8
Oberlin College 1 + 4 + 5

AP Scores

(2021)
Number of students took AP test
94
Number of tests taken
196
68%
23%
Score 5
Score 4
Score 3
Other scores

Academics

AP

(14)
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
European History
French Language and Culture
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
European History
French Language and Culture
Spanish Language and Culture
Statistics
English Language and Composition
English Literature and Composition
United States History
Environmental Science
Studio Art: 2-D Design
Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
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Sports

(13)
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Fencing
Field Hockey
Golf
Baseball
Basketball
Cross Country
Fencing
Field Hockey
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Squash
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Volleyball
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Extracurricular Activities and Clubs

(38)
Anime Club
Art Club
Classics Club
Cooking Club
DAA (Dobbs Athletic Association)
Debate Club
Anime Club
Art Club
Classics Club
Cooking Club
DAA (Dobbs Athletic Association)
Debate Club
Dragon Club
Football Club
French Club
Gaming Club
Gender and Sexuality Alliance
Gold Key Society
Improv Club
International Club
Latin Club
Masterpieces (yearbook)
MISH (Masters Interested in Sharing and Helping)
Model UN
Onyx
One Love
Operation Smile
Panache (literary magazine)
REEF
SADD
Spanish Club
Touring Talent
Tower (student newspaper)
Ubuntu
49 Clinton
Cabaret Troupe
Dohters
Muse
The Naturals
Outspoken
Phoenix
Positive Rhythm
Salty Dogs
Urban Connection
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Arts

(20)
Band
Dance
Jazz
Music
Performing
String
Band
Dance
Jazz
Music
Performing
String
Theater
Art History
Ceramics
Digital Photography
Game Design
Media
Photo
Photography
Studio Art
Video
Architecture
Audio Recording
Design
Storytelling
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Basic Info

Co-ed
Boarding Grades: 9-12
Urban
IB: No
ESL: No
Year Founded: 1877
Campus Size: 96 acres
Boarding Rate: 30%
Religious Affiliation: No Religious Affiliation

Application Info

Deadline: 01/15
Other Accepted Scores: ISEE
School Code:
TOEFL: 8103
SSAT: 4948
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Frequently Ask Questions about The Masters School

Tell me a bit about The Masters School.
The Masters School is Co-ed private boarding school located in New York, US. It was founded 1877 , and currently has about 669 students, 12.00% of whom are international students.

For more official information, please visit http://www.mastersny.org.
Does The Masters School have rigorous academic requirements?
The Masters School is offering 14 AP courses.

In recent years, 68 of their students score 4 and 5 in AP exams.

The Masters School also have 75% of faculties whose degrees are master and above.
Where do The Masters School students typically go for their colleges?
In 2020-2024, some students attended Princeton University, Columbia University, Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University.
What is the application requirement for The Masters School?
Similar to most private schools in the US, The Masters School’s typical admission requirements include school transcript, recommendation letter, application essay, and interview (often optional, but highly recommended).
What is the latest tuition for The Masters School’s Co-ed student?
The total fee for The Masters School in 2024 is $77,400 which typically includes tuition, boarding fee, student management fee and a few other fees associated with managing international students.

For more information, please contact school’s admission team at admission@mastersny.org .
Where is The Masters School located?
The Masters School is located in the State of New York of USA. The closest major city is New York, which is about 19 miles away from school. Most families can choose JFK aireport to travel in and out of school.
How popular is The Masters School on FindingSchool network?
Based on FindingSchool monthly traffic data as well as onsite search record, The Masters School is among the most popular schools, within top 37 for all schools on FindingSchool.

Also The Masters School has been favorited by 930 users.
How to start with an application with The Masters School?
The first stop is to carefully review the school profile on FindingSchool to learn more about The Masters School. Most of them are directly provided by the school.

Also it is highly recommended to visit The Masters School’s official site: http://www.mastersny.org or call them at 914-479-6420.
Please share a few nearby schools that are close to The Masters School?
Yes, here are few: The Montfort Academy, EF Academy - New York and The Harvey School.

The closest major city is New York. You can find out more schools near New York here.
What is the FindingSchool rating for The Masters School?
The overall rating for The Masters School is A-.

The section ratings of The Masters School are:
A- for Matriculation
A for Academics
A- for Extracurriculum
A+ for Community
B+ for Students and Parents reviews

Nearby City

New York City, often referred to as NYC, is the most populous city in the United States with a 2020 population of 8.8 million. It is the cultural, financial, and entertainment hub of the world, renowned for its iconic landmarks like Times Square, Central Park, and the Statue of Liberty. The city is home to global institutions such as the United Nations and Wall Street. Known for its diversity and vibrant arts scene, New York City plays a crucial role in shaping international commerce, politics, and culture.

Population (2022) 8,363,710
Cost of Living Higher than average 146%
Nearby Airport JFK aireport

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