Affording Boarding Schools
Where to Begin when Thinking about Boarding School
If you are thinking about boarding school for your child, there are some things to consider as you start the process of choosing the one that is right for your child.
Read MoreState of Private School Enrollment: Connecticut Schools Fall 2010
The opening of school brings a spate of what I call state of the community articles in generally smaller local papers. When you’re in New England, or any other area with a boarding school and/or private day schools, these articles often mix a little boarding school angle with their mostly day school slant. We highlighted [...]
Read MoreConnecticut Private Schools Find Tuition a Family Priority in Tight Times
In “Paying for Private,” over at Connecticut Business News Journal, Connecticut boarding school and private day school administrators talk about the ways that they, and their constituent families are weathering the economic downturn. No secrets and nothing earth shattering in the piece- mostly it’s an interesting read to hear administrators’ words and voices. Schools find [...]
Read MoreNew Mexico Military Institute Sees Fifty Percent Rise in Applications
Albuquerque television station KOB produced a segment on New Mexico Military Institute‘s strong admission year. NMMI spokesman, Carl Hansen, attributes the increase to schools use of the web, in particular, social media. “The school also announced a brand new full-ride scholarship for Native American students for the upcoming school year. Officials say they have enough [...]
Read MoreWhy Should a US Family Consider a Canadian Boarding School?
Clayton Johnston, Director of Admission, Brentwood College School explores the reasons and opportunities that can make a Canadian boarding school the best option for American students. American families that choose a Canadian boarding school, Johnson argues, come at their school choices from a more adventurous angle. Canadian schools offer American students the chance to be [...]
Read MoreNew Hampton School Offers Day Student Merit Scholarship
With the school’s offering of the International Baccalaureate (IB), New Hampton will award four $5,000 merit scholarships to local day students whose prospects and achievements qualify them as “candidates to take IB classes or enroll in the school’s two-year, IB Diploma Program in their junior and senior years.” (New Hampton School Announces Ninth Grade Day [...]
Read MoreThoughts from a Boarding School Business Office
Boarding school business and financial officers work in the shadows of their academic counterparts. Often their offices are remotely located away from a school’s academic, athletic, and residential life offices reinforcing an implied separateness between the school’s educational mission and monetary realities. With the past couple of years pushing boarding school dollars & sense into [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Waiting List & Financial Aid Questions
“We’ve been wait listed; is there anything we can/should do? And, did I mention that we also need financial aid?” We’ve been individually replying to variations of these two questions several times a day for the last few weeks. However, I suspect that readers from whom we haven’t heard might benefit from having our suggestions [...]
Read MorePrep School Admission & Financial Aid Decisions Arrive in the Next Few Days
In prep school admission and financial aid, it’s good to be ready for anything. With first round admission and financial aid letters due to arrive to families in the next few days, it’s time think about perspectives, plans, and responses depending on the offers you receive from schools. It’s always best to have one’s ducks [...]
Read MorePrivate School A Special Opportunity- Not A Signifier of Social Status
Peter Baron of AdmissionsQuest forwarded an e-mail to me today from a woman wondering how open her children should be with their peers about their prep school applications and asking whether I thought the parents academic credentials carried any weight in the admissions process. The question of how open to be is a sensitive one. [...]
Read MoreSt. Andrew’s-Sewanee Announces Scholarships for Leadership, Academics & Service
St. Andrews-Sewanee School (Sewanee, TN) offers a great opportunity for highly qualified students considering a boarding school education. Under the Claiborne Scholars program, St. Andrews-Sewanee has available merit scholarships (1/2-1/4 tuition) available to new boarding 9th & 10th grade students. Qualifying students are chosen on the basis of “a strong academic record and exhibit leadership [...]
Read MoreAmerican Hebrew Academy Works to Defray Campus Visit/Interview Costs
The campus visit with its requisite school tour and interview- a boarding school a tradition and right of passage- have, like so much, come under economic and social pressure as families push against busy home, school and work schedules as well as financing a single purpose trip to visit a prospective school. Affording such a [...]
Read MoreThe Current State of Private School Financial Aid from the Research Triangle
In a “Record numbers seek financial aid from private schools,” WRAL contributor Jane Paige touches on FA themes that we’ve been reading about and covering over the past year and a half. FA applications are up; school resources are stretched. Paige does two things that make the article worthy of a quick read. She gets [...]
Read MoreFamily Sacrifice Helps Connecticut Private Schools Weather Recession
The Hartford Courant ran a piece last Thursday (Connecticut’s Private Schools Have Suffered Only A Glancing Blow From Recession) covering the relief that Connecticut schools are finding in many a family’s commitment to their best education options. Yes, enrollment is down a bit. Yes, financial aid requests are up. But, in the Courant’s sample, families [...]
Read MoreFamilies Find Benefits in Boarding Locally
Michael Birnbaum of the Washington Post published a piece last Tuesday on Washington, DC families uncovering the benefits boarding school close to home, “The Locals Live and Learn: Private School Families Say Boarding Makes Sense in Washington Region.” Such arrangements provide the independence and benefits boarding life for students and the opportunity to stay connected [...]
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