On April 6, 7, and 9, prospective students explored campus, sat in on classes, and heard from current students about their memories and experiences at Milton Academy. Revisit Days, organized by the Admissions Office, aim to give accepted students a chance to visit campus and try to imagine themselves attending the school.

Planning for Revisit Days began in the fall, when the Admissions Office selected dates and reserved campus spaces. Keeping religious observances and other events in mind, the office ultimately selected Monday and Tuesday for boarding students and Thursday for day students. Throughout the year, the office continued smoothing out details of each Revisit Day—including how much merchandise to order or which students would be involved—in order to ensure the quality of the families’ experience.

Each day began with registration in Straus Library. Orange and Blue Key Head Tour Guides helped to greet families as they stepped onto campus. Afterwards, families received a brief welcome from Head of School Alixe Callen and Head Monitors Patrycja Pogorzelska ’26 and Nehemiah Sanon ’26 in Straus Library, before proceeding to different panels facilitated by current parents and students at Milton Academy. Boarders visited one class and took a dorm tour, while day students and their families then went to sit in on two academic classes.

The families also attended a luncheon in the Robert Saltonstall Gymnasium, where faculty sat with prospective parents and current students sat with prospective students. Admission Coordinator Nina Panarese noted that the office tries to “sit [visiting students] at a table with similarly aged kids or kids that have similar interests, if possible.” Following lunch, visiting students and faculty filed into King Theater to get a sense of the Performing Arts Department by watching student performances, which Associate Director of Admission Lori Dow organized. To conclude the day, families walked around the Athletics, Arts, and Activities Shoparound in the Athletics and Convocation Center, stopping by tables that matched their interests, which could range from Poetry and Creative Writing Club to Softball.

Both Associate Dean of Admission Pamela Pleasants and Dean of Enrollment and Financial Aid Paul Rebuck emphasized revisiting student finding a school where they felt comfortable in the community they saw around them. Rebuck explained, “Our hope is that those who arrive with an existing passion see where that passion might play out in their Milton experience.” Timothy Baelee ’29 experienced just that in his Revisit Day in 2025: “I really loved the Miltones performance…it was what led me to audition for and join the Miltones.”

For Ella Cocchi ’29, Revisit Day was the day that “sealed the deal” for enrollment. “I think that [Milton does] a good job of making people feel welcome,” she commented, recalling that “every person I talked to was extremely kind.” Naomi Nurenberg ’29 recalled that “it was very clear that Milton was trying to interest and include the [revisiting] students in lots of different opportunities.” Both statements echo what Rebuck named as one of the main purposes of Revisit Days: to “provide an energy, a feel, a sense of the community.” Baelee’s impression of Milton was “a feeling of diversity and versatility from the community,” particularly because he observed students with contrasting interests still “staying together as one big community.”

Milton Academy students’ engagement in multiple disciplines also stood out to Baelee. He noticed that, at other schools, “people were always only doing one ‘medium.’” Milton, on the other hand, appeared as “a school where you can juggle being a lot of different things instead of locking yourself into one category.”

Nurenberg noted that a drawback of Revisit Day is that it “presents [only] the best of an institution,” making it “a slightly less complex or nuanced experience than if you had just a normal class day.” While Cocchi agreed, calling the event a day where the school “[puts] on a show,” she also noted that, out of all the Revisit Days she attended during the decision-making process, “[Milton] provided the most accurate example” of a typical school day. In the future, Baelee hopes to see “some more opportunities for the people revisiting to truly see what Milton’s community is like.”

“We know it’s still going to be kind of performative,” Pleasants stated openly. “But we hope [prospective students] can get the gist of who we are.”