Academics, service lead to MPA award for Monmouth Academy’s Rhayna Poulin Poulin, the first in her family to be going to college, plans to attend Yale University in the fall. Share Monmouth Academy senior Rhayna Poulin in front of the original 1803 school house, May 5 in Monmouth. The first in her family planning to attend college, Poulin had to a make a choice other Monmouth Academy students have been compelled to decide over the last 200 years: Harvard or Yale. Poulin chose Yale University in Connecticut after interviewing the faculty at the Ivy League school. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal Her parents took her on a trip to Boston to see the school and she knew.