Graduation may be months away, but for some Montclair High School seniors, their potential future plans are already underway.
Each year, high school seniors around the nation are notified of their early acceptance by colleges and universities to which they applied in the fall.
To date, six students have been accepted to Ivy League schools including Brown (2), Columbia, Cornell (2), and U. Penn. Admits into other extremely selective colleges include Bard (2), Binghamton, Boston College (2), Brandeis, Bucknell, Carleton, University of Chicago, Duke, Georgetown (2), George Washington, Hamilton (2), Michigan (4), Mt. Holyoke (2), NYU, Oberlin (3), Rutgers (40), Sarah Lawrence, Spelman, Syracuse (3), Tufts, Tulane (9), Union, Vassar, William and Mary and U. Wisconsin, Madison (3).
Following is a listing of colleges to which MHS students have been accepted. The numbers of students, if more than one, are listed in parentheses.
| College |
| Albright College |
| American University |
| Arcadia University |
| The University of Arizona |
| Bard College (2) |
| Binghamton University |
| Bishop's University |
| Boston College (2) |
| Brandeis University |
| Brown University (2) |
| Bucknell University |
| Carleton College |
| The Catholic University of America |
| College of Charleston |
| University of Chicago |
| University of Colorado at Boulder (2) |
| Colorado State University |
| Columbia University |
| Cornell University (2) |
| The Culinary Institute of America |
| Drew University (2) |
| Drexel University (9) |
| Duke University |
| Durham University |
| Elon University |
| Emerson College (3) |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University (2) |
| Felician College (2) |
| Fordham University (3) |
| Gannon University |
| The George Washington University |
| Georgetown University (2) |
| Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Gettysburg College |
| Guilford College |
| Hamilton College - NY (2) |
| Hampton University |
| University of Hartford (3) |
| Hofstra University |
| Howard University (2) |
| Indiana University at Bloomington (6) |
| Ithaca College (4) |
| Johnson & Wales University (2) |
| King's College |
| Lynchburg College |
| Lynn University |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst (3) |
| Michigan State University (2) |
| University of Michigan (4) |
| Misericordia University |
| Mount Holyoke College (2) |
| New England College |
| University of New Hampshire (3) |
| New Jersey City University |
| New York University |
| University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Northeastern University (2) |
| Oberlin College (3) |
| The Ohio State University |
| Ohio University |
| Ohio Wesleyan University |
| Pennsylvania State University, University Park (4) |
| University of Pennsylvania |
| University of Pittsburgh (5) |
| Pratt Institute |
| Purdue University |
| University of Rhode Island (2) |
| Rider University |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| Rutgers, Camden |
| Rutgers, New Brunswick (39) |
| Rutgers, Newark (2) |
| College of Saint Elizabeth |
| Sarah Lawrence College |
| Savannah College of Art and Design |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2) |
| Seton Hall University |
| Spelman College |
| State University of New York at New Paltz |
| SUNY Maritime College |
| Susquehanna University |
| Syracuse University (3) |
| The University of Tampa (2) |
| Temple University (7) |
| Tufts University |
| Tulane University (9) |
| Union College |
| Ursinus College |
| Vassar College |
| University of Vermont (16) |
| Virginia Commonwealth University |
| West Virginia University |
| Widener University (2) |
| College of William and Mary |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison (3) |