What do graduates take away from the Mountain School?

Farm. Food. Forest. Future.

How does life in Vermont prepare you to make an impact on the world?

  • More Opportunities

    As a Mountain School student you’ll visit colleges like UVM, Dartmouth and Middlebury. You’ll get personal attention from professional college counselors and small group workshops on personal essay writing and compiling your holistic application.

    Learn More About the College Process at TMS

  • Greater Perspective

    Your time here will give you a chance to know yourself, others and the world through nature. Complement the perspective you know well from home with a unique, future-oriented lens of seeing the world.

    More is possible for you than you initially thought.

    Read Sample Essays Written By TMS Graduates

  • Deeper Connection

    Almost every single Mountain School student gets a letter of recommendation from a teacher who knew them—not just in the classroom, but in the dorm, on the farm, on the side of a mountain.

    And once you make it to your dream school, you’ll spot other students wearing a Mountain School sweatshirt and make instant connections that help you navigate your new community.

    See College Outcomes from the Last Five Years

  • “100 days at The Mountain School living, working, and studying with peers, a 300 acre farm, and amazing faculty and staff turned me into a young man. I left TMS with an appreciation for service and the confidence in myself to take risks and get the job done, whether it was building a barn at TMS or later working on global health and economic development in 20+ countries. Middlebury, the US Department of State, Harvard, the Gates Foundation, even my marriage --I got engaged at TMS at my 10-year reunion!-- I owe them all to a path I started in Vershire in Fall of 1997 when I was 16.”

    Josh Drake, F97’, Advisor to the world’s largest philanthropy; former US diplomat