Experience Commonwealth

My first impression of Commonwealth was that it did feel uncommon. All the marketing told me that it was different from the public high school I would have gone to, and then I got here and I was like, No, this is actually different; the people here really care.

The classes have exposed me to the fact that each field and subfield of study is so vast, and I’m realizing how many different things I could study. The teachers here are all so passionate about their specialties that what we hear in class is beyond what we could ever learn from just reading a textbook, and those snippets are often the most interesting of all. Having an animated teacher truly makes learning the material much more exciting. 

Commonwealth has encouraged me to think about what I want in life. I love learning, and this school has made that love even stronger. 

If you enjoy academic challenges and are looking for a tight community, I think Commonwealth is definitely the school for you...I would not be intimidated by academic rigor; I would embrace it.

My Commonwealth experience has allowed me to see the world from lots of different perspectives and meet people who both know exactly what they want to do and people who are still figuring it out, which is totally okay. Personally, I’m not really sure what I want to do in the future—whether I’m a “STEM person” or a “humanities person” or both. I think through being at Commonwealth, I’ve realized that it’s okay not to know and that you don’t need to box yourself into one category. 

Commonwealth is full of curiosity and academic possibility. You can take high-level classes and explore subjects in great detail. My teachers support my thinking analytically and wanting to get to the bottom of questions. And when you leave the classroom, you take all of your knowledge with you and then can apply it to different situations in the outside world.