About MA

College Placement

Marin Academy students apply to and are accepted at leading colleges and universities around the country. Over 99 percent of our graduates attend four-year colleges, about half of them out of state.

 

College Acceptances

Classes of 2006 & 2007

(Number of Matriculations in Parentheses)

American University
Bard College (7)
Beloit College
Boston College
Boston University (3)
Bowdoin College (3)
Brandeis University
Brown University
Bucknell University (2)
University of California at Berkeley (4)
University of California at Davis (6)
University of California at Los Angeles (9)
University of California at Riverside (2)
University of California at San Diego (3)
University of California at Santa Barbara (5)
University of California at Santa Cruz (6)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (3)
California State University, Los Angeles
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
University of Colorado at Boulder
Colorado College (4)
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dickinson College
Emerson College
George Washington University (3)
Georgetown University
Goucher College
Harvard University
Haverford College
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Johns Hopkins University
Lake Forest College
Linfield College
Loyola Marymount University (2)
Macalester College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
Middlebury College (4)
Mt. Holyoke College
New York University (8)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Northwestern University (3)
Oberlin College (6)
Occidental College (4)
University of Oregon
Parsons School of Design, New School University
University of Pennsylvania
Pitzer College
Pomona College
University of Puget Sound (4)
Rhode Island School of Design (3)
Rice University
University of Rochester
Santa Clara University (2)
Santa Monica College
Sarah Lawrence College (3)
Scripps College (2)
Skidmore College (4)
University of Southern California (9)
Southern Methodist University
Stanford University (13)
Trinity College, Dublin
Tufts University (4)
Tulane University (2)
Vassar College (3)
University of Vermont
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University (3)
Whitman College (5)
Williams College
Yale University


Thatcher Hall

MA at a Glance
  • 400 students
  • Grades 9-12
  • Founded in 1971
  • Students from over 80 different schools; six Bay Area counties
  • Geographic distribution:
    • East Bay – 17%
    • San Francisco – 10%
    • Sonoma/Vallejo/North Bay – 3%
    • Marin – 70%
    • For information about bus transportation from the East Bay and San Francisco, click HERE.
  • Student to faculty ratio - 9:1
  • More than two-thirds of the faculty hold advanced degrees
  • Average class size: 15
  • Six day rotating block schedule; 80-minute classes
  • 13 AP courses offered
  • Students of color comprise 27% of the student body
  • Approximately 20% of students receive financial assistance totaling more than $1,781,000