Wilbraham & Monson Academy

Wilbraham and Monson Academy is a beautiful and safe place to go to school. It has many opportunities for students to participate in. The specialty program is CEEF (Center of Entrepreneurship, Economics and Finance), if you are interested in business, WMA is the place for you!

My experience here at WMA has been very positive. The course work is challenging and there are a variety of extra curricular activities. There is a diverse student body with 30% international students. I have become a more focussed and organized student, now preparing to become a prefect in to dorm! I am taking 3 APs and classes in economics. College counseling took us to Boston College for a campus visit and I will take my SAT on campus this spring.

WMA is a rare co-educational boarding school for grades 6-12. The school spans over 1.6 square kilometers and is located in the heart of Wilbraham, a small town in Western Massachusetts. Western Massachusetts is also the second most important educational hub in the state, apart from Boston, and is approximately 1.5 hours away from Boston.
The school has a new dormitory for girls, backing onto the school's forest, which can be used for hiking, cycling, and environmental exploration. The school also preserves its earliest building from 1825. The library was completed in 2020, and there are future plans to renovate and build a new dining hall and more girls' dormitories.
The school offers a rich variety of sports, even including a shooting team (the firing range is in the basement of Fisk Hall).
The school features a Center for Business and Global Studies, offering specialized business courses including leadership, finance, and entrepreneurial studies. It boasts the only Bloomberg Terminal system among middle and high schools in the U.S., with 16 computers in its trading center.
To foster the development of STEM programs, WMA launched its Design and Fabrication Space in 2020. It includes digital printing, cutting, and fabrication areas with 3D printers, 3D scanners, and laser cutters; a machine shop equipped with lathes and milling machines; a wood and composites workshop; computer-aided design and programming stations; and textile and photography design studios, among other areas. Students can use the equipment in the iLab at any time with a teacher's consent.
The two students admitted last year were highly valued by their teachers and secured many opportunities for activities and on-campus presentations.

1. More and more good teachers are leaving.
2. Every year, a large number of students transfer out of WMA, and many Korean students have transferred out. The school has a very strong crackdown on Asian students because they want to maintain a white market, so they strongly favor white day students.
3. The school imposes mandatory and inhumane requirements on boarding students, such as having to turn off lights and sleep by 10:30 PM, and not being allowed to study. Dorm supervisors will confiscate devices.
4. The school management is very strict with Chinese students' dress code, while turning a blind eye to American students.
5. The school almost prohibits Chinese students from creating clubs on campus and does not provide opportunities for leadership development.
6. The quality of teachers' classes can be said to be even worse than that of a very ordinary day school in Massachusetts.
7. International students' annual tuition is over 70,000 USD, the food in the cafeteria is very poor, and there's an additional 5,000 USD international student fee for which the school provides no explanation regarding its purpose.
8. The principal and school management have an extremely stubborn white mindset and do not accept any changes.

Do not come to this school under any circumstances; you will regret it for a lifetime.