Boarding School Marketing
Getting to Know White Mountain School
Josh Lawton, White Mountain School, Director of Admission talks about the special opportunities and experiences available to WMS students.
WMS is the only school offering outdoor certification in Wilderness First Responding and Rock and Ice Climbing under the aegis of the American Mountain Guides Association.
Fundamentally, WMS believes that its consciously small, tightly knit community provides the [...]
Insight Into the Current State of Boarding and Private School Finances
Concord Monitor writer Karen Langley published a piece in last Sunday’s paper (Private Schools Weather Downturn: Many approaches taken to cut costs) covering the state of enrollment and finances of New Hampshire private schools.
She touches on the obvious- financial aid requests are up for all schools, endowment growth and income are down.
Of note, she adds [...]
A Conversation with Asheville School’s Jonathan Hopkins
As winner of the AdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video Contest with his short “What Is Asheville School?” we wanted to hear a bit more about how Jonathan Hopkins came to Asheville School (Asheville, NC); how his short grew out of his Asheville experiences and where he wants to take his talents?
Check out Jonathan’s winning [...]
Getting to Know Eagle Hill School
Dana Harbert, Admission Director, sat down with me for a Getting to Know interview to introduce the approaches that make Eagle Hill School unique in its role as a college preparatory boarding school for students with learning differences and ADD.
Highlights from our conversation include:
-Flexible academics and approaches to learning differences.
-Strong Arts program and culture.
-Dedicated teachers [...]
Bring Life to Your Boarding School Press Releases
Editor’s Note: This post is a bit of an outlier in terms of our core audience of families and students applying to boarding schools. We’ve always enjoyed and written with boarding school admission officers & school administrators in mind. This post by Mark Murrell of Mark Interactive & Hyde School connects these two sides [...]
Read MoreAdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video Contest Semi-Finalists
As our AdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video contest comes to close with the judges now in their final deliberations, we want to feature the contest’s five semi-finalist videos for all to see.
During the next few days, we’ll present semifinalist videos, in random order, here on onBoarding Schools.
We’ll announce the winner and runners-up this Friday [...]
Getting to Know Baylor School
In this segment of our “Getting to Know” series for the IECA Speed Meeting event, I spoke with Cindy Clark, Associate Director of Admission, Baylor School (Chattanooga, TN).
Baylor, a coed day & boarding school, offers grades 6-12 with boarding beginning in 9th grade.
Our conversation touched upon a range of items- from learning about the school’s [...]
Voting’s Open for AdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video Contest!
The AdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video contest is open for voting!
Participating private school students demonstrated tremendous school spirit & video production talent in showcasing what makes their school great and why students should come.
I applaud their work. Very well done!
So now for the nitty gritty.
From November 16-December 4, the online audience will vote for [...]
Getting to Know Wolfeboro, The Summer Boarding School
I visited with Ed Cooper, Head of School, Wolfeboro, The Summer Boarding School during the Independent Educational Consultants Association’s Speed Meetings event.Mr. Cooper talks about where Wolfeboro is today & what families should know.
Read MoreA New Series: Getting to Know…
As part of participating in the Independent Educational Consultants Association’s (IECA) new Speed Meeting event, we produced a series of “Getting to Know (Insert School here)” videos that we’ll feature on our blog over the next few weeks.
A bit of background… IECA’s Speed Meetings give educational consultants seven uninterrupted minutes to talk with admission directors [...]
Tabor Academy’s The Log Blog
On recent visit to Tabor Academy’s campus we were introduced to the school’s daily publishing vehicle The Log Blog.
We love the concept.
If I were a betting soul, I’d put my money on the notion that The Log Blog represents the future of school publishing.
Take many of the routine publishing functions and voices traditionally found throughout [...]
Subiaco Academy’s Enrollment Grows
More good news from the boarding school enrollment front. We saw recently that Subiaco Academy (Subiaco, AR) opened the school year with a 7% enrollment increase. Subiaco’s Director of Admission Scott Breed explained to the Southwest Times Record (Private Schools Growing):
Subiaco is one of the least expensive boarding schools in the country, (Breed) said. Subiaco [...]
AdmissionsQuest Live from School Connections in Baltimore
Peter & I will be covering and talking to educational consultants and school admission folks over the next day and a half. If you’re unfamiliar with School Connections, the brain child of Pat Finn, it’s a combination of ’speed-dating’ and the old information swap between consultants and school.
Pat has taken the room full of tables [...]
When Market Realities and Mission Conflict
You’re a seasoned admission director, new at your current school and enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. Within a year, you have established a marketing strategy that includes the usual glossy viewbook, flash presentations, E-Newsletters, bump mailings along with the requisite round of school fairs and informal receptions. By the third year, application numbers have improved [...]
Read MoreVermont Academy Head Sean Brennan Chronicles His First 100 Days
In a nod to traditional coverage of the changes, potential, and optimism of a new President of the United States, new Vermont Academy Head of School Sean Brennan will chronicle his first one hundred days in the head’s chair through his own blog- BrennanBits.
His installments just started and his first two posts recap his convocation [...]
