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| CSW seeks intellectual, motivated and curious students who possess imagination, energy and a willingness to take risks. Our students take a particularly active role in their learning and explore a wide range of academic and personal interests. Teachers at CSW set high expectations for their students, and the Module System curriculum is designed to encourage and bolster a student’s commitment to independent thinking and intellectual challenge.
CSW looks for a student body that is racially, culturally and geographically diverse. We enroll students from 45 Massachusetts communities, nine states and eight countries. We carefully weigh a student’s transcript, application essay, letters of recommendation, test scores and extracurricular activities. These tools, along with the personal interview, help us to determine how a prospective student can benefit from, and contribute to, CSW. |
The Insider's Guide to CSW Quick Facts
- Founded: 1886 by Arthur Gilman, founder of Radcliffe College
- 330 students in grades 9 through 12
- Boarding students: 25 percent
- Students from 14 states and 10 countries
- More than 300 classes offered each year
- Student to teacher ratio is 6 to 1
- Average class size is 14
- 70 percent of faculty hold advanced degrees
- 65-acre wooded campus located 12 miles from Boston
- Four dormitories housing 20 to 25 students each
- Wireless Internet access in all academic buildings and dormitories
- Award-winning performing arts center with multiple classroom, rehearsal and performance spaces
- State-of-the-art multimedia foreign language lab
- “Green” science/art building with 6 laboratory classrooms, office and conference space, and two display galleries
- Visual arts facility with five studios, darkroom, and digital photography/filmmaking/multimedia lab
- Specialized English language classes for international students
- Annual for-credit trips abroad led by CSW faculty
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| “What does student empowerment look like? This is what student empowerment looks like. It looks like students taking responsibility for ourselves, our education, and the community we learn and live in. It looks like an environment, in which we are so known and valued that as diversity committee members, we can create a day devoted to discussing race or gender, we can curate an art show in the installation room, we can write, direct, and produce a play, we can assist in teaching a class. We can serve as full voting members on the Board of Trustees. As empowered students, we can make connections – real connections – with faculty, staff, each other, and the administration to create one of the most far out and fabulous educations I know."
Jesse McGleughlin
Excerpt Commencement Address |
Office of Admissions
The Cambridge School of Weston
45 Georgian Road
Weston, MA 02493
tel: 781-642-8650
fax: 781-398-8344
admissions@csw.org
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| January 11, 2012 -- Workshops for Prospective Students (snow date of January 12)
On Wednesday, January 11, applicants for the 2012-2013 academic year may attend a sample class led by CSW faculty. Available classes include dance, English, history, math, science, theatre, and visual art--and you'll have to choose just one! Parents are welcome, and will have the opportunity to hear from representatives of several CSW departments. This event will last from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Workshops fill up quickly and an RSVP is required, so call us soon at 781-642-8650 to reserve your spot!
Winter Campus Visits -- Booking into January
All applicants must have an admissions interview by January 31, and we're booking into January now. If you are unable to visit in person, please ask about the possibility of of speaking with a counselor by phone or Skype. Please call 781-642-8650 soon to schedule your interview! |
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