Brien McMahon High School's Class of 2011 graduates have been accepted at 130 universities and colleges across the country in the fall. They have been accepted to colleges as nearby as Norwalk Community College and as far away as the University of California, Berkeley. Many will attend state schools, mainly in the Northeast and along the Eastern seaboard, though some have been accepted state universities farther west, in Michigan, Colorado and Arizona. They have been admitted to several elite colleges and universities, including Wesleyan University, Cornell University, Barnard College, Colgate University, Johns Hopkins University and Fairfield University.
Several students opted for to apply to specialty colleges. Graduate have been accepted to music colleges like Westminster Choir College, Manhattan School of Music, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the New England Conservatory. Other students were admitted to colleges that specialize in art and design, such as Pratt Institute, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the School of Visual Arts and Savannah College of Art and Design. Several technical colleges also made the list, including Florida Institute of Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology and Lincoln Technical Institute.
Below is a complete list of Class of 2011 college acceptances, provided by the Brien McMahon High School Administration.
Adelphi University
Albertus Magnus College
American University
Arcadia University
Assumption College
Barnard College
Bay State College
Berkley College
Bethune-Cookman University
Boston University
Brandeis College
Central Connecticut State University
Champlain College
Colgate University
Colorado Mountain College
Cornell University
Dean College
Delaware State University
Drexel University
Eastern Connecticut State University
Eastern University
Eckerd College
Emerson College
Endicott College
Fairfield University
Fashion Institute of Technology
Florida Institute of Technology
Franklin and Marshall College
Franklin Pierce University
George Washington University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gustavus Adolphus University
Hampshire College
Hartwick College
Hillsborough College
Hofstra University
Hope College
Housatonic Community College
Indiana University
Ithaca College
James Madison University
Johns Hopkins University
Johnson and Wales University
Keene State College
Lasalle University
Lincoln Technical Institute
Long Island University
Loyola University Maryland
Loyola University New Orleans
Manhattan College
Manhattan School of Music
Manhattanville College
Messiah College
Miami Dade College
Mount Saint Mary College
Mountain State University
New England College
New England Conservatory
New York University
Newbury College
Norwalk Community College
Ohio State University
Pace University
Pennsylvania State UniversityAltoona
Post University
Pratt Institute
Purdue University
Quinnipiac University
Ringling College of Art and Design
Roanoke College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Roger Williams University
Rutgers University
Sacred Heart University
Salem College
Salve Regina University
Sarah Lawrence
Savannah College of Art and Design
School of Visual Arts
Skidmore College
Southern Connecticut State University
St. Francis University
St. Johns University
St. Lawrence University
St. Marys College
SUNY--Albany
SUNY--College of Environmental Science and Forestry
SUNYPurchase
SUNYStony Brook
Syracuse University
Temple University
The College of New Rochelle
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
Thomas University
Tulane University
Union College
University of Alabama
University of Arizona
University of Bridgeport
University of California, Berkeley
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Hartford
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
University of MassachusettsAmherst
University of Michigan
University of New Hampshire
University of New Haven
University of North CarolinaCharlotte
University of Rhode Island
University of San Diego
University of Tampa
Wagner College
Wesleyan University
Western Connecticut State University
Western New England College
Westminster Choir College
Wooster College
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