Postgraduate Students

Were you a great student in high school? Are you interested in spending a year between high school graduation and college learning new skills, living in a boarding school environment and enhancing your academic profile for college?

Each year Deerfield accepts between 20 and 25 highly qualified high school graduates into the postgraduate program. (A student entering in grades 9-12 is not eligible for the postgraduate year.) As a postgraduate you will live in an upper-class dormitory (with juniors and seniors) and be considered a member of the Deerfield senior class. You’ll be eligible to participate in all aspects of life here at the Academy.

A postgraduate course of study normally includes an English elective, a mathematics course, and three other elective courses. Because of the breadth of course offerings at the senior level, postgraduates have considerable flexibility in their course selection, and you may elect an academic program that best meets your needs, interests, and college aspirations.

Postgraduates must follow the normal process for applying to Deerfield. If you have any questions, please contact us.