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The Tough Decisions of the Admission Process: An Admission Director’s View
Andrew Weller, admission director at Ridley College (a coed boarding school in Ontario, Canada) publishes the blog Independent School Admission Musings. He uses the space to comment on the admission process and on topics growing out of his admission perspective. I highlight him today because I think his two most recent posts are worth a [...]
Read MoreWhat China Means to American Boarding Schools
I recently returned from a trip to China – my sixth trip in the last four years. The trip was part of the MBA for Executives Program at UVA’s Darden School of Business – a week of studying Chinese business and economics under professors of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, the first private [...]
Read MoreBoarding Schools: Don’t Rank Them, Understand Them
The fall admission season has opened and admission directors everywhere are facing the same questions – the most enduring of which is the “Where is your school ranked?” We all respond with the same mantra: There is no such thing as official rankings of U.S. independent schools, boarding or day. Our schools have not participated [...]
Read MoreNew Western Style Schools in South Korea: Competition for American & British Boarding Schools?
If you’ve been sending your children abroad because a particular educational system teaches and instills traits you seek, why not create that kind of education home? With its educational, cultural, and economic, dimensions, South Korea is addressing precisely this question. This kind of question can keep a political economist and cultural anthropologist busy for years. [...]
Read MoreSaint Andrew’s School (Boca Raton, FL) Gains IB Accreditation
Saint Andrew’s School began school this week as a fully accredited International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (DP) World School. Head of School, Dr. Ann Marie Krejcarek sees the IB’s rigor as a key to graduate’s future successes: “Answering our students’ and parents’ calls for the very best college preparatory education has led to addition of the [...]
Read MoreTABS Takes the Boarding School Fair Online
You’ve seen the banners throughout AdmissionsQuest for the past month. We’re pleased to work with TABS (The Association of Boarding Schools) in highlighting and promoting their new program of virtual Boarding School Expos this October and December. TABS has produced a modern take on the school fair. For those of you new to boarding school [...]
Read MoreStudent Video Tells the Story: Who Knew Gould Has a Skateboarding Team?
Gould Academy Skate Team member and aspiring filmmaker Pete Pontone ’10 produced a great video introduction to skateboarding at Gould. It’s noteworthy because it’s so clearly a student speaking to other students about something that he loves. It’s short on dialog and explanation; long on action with solid editing and a great track to keeping [...]
Read MoreInternational Baccaulaureate Curriculum Augments Traditional UK A-Level Exams
Saw this tidbit in an article in The Independent (UK) (Independent Schools Are Wise to Look Overseas): “European families have been attracted by private schools offering the International Baccalaureate in addition to A-levels.” While UK secondary schools and their graduates will continue to be measured by student success on A Levels (proficiency tests for university [...]
Read MoreWest Nottingham Academy: Speaking to Students through On-demand Printing
This isn’t something I’ve done before, but I was so impressed by West Nottingham Academy‘s new view book that I put together this tour. WNA has adopted a one-off custom approach to printing view books for prospective families allowing the school to tailor the book to the interests of each individual student. This custom one-off [...]
Read MoreGetting 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 [...]
Read MoreInsight 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, [...]
Read MoreA 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 [...]
Read MoreGetting 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 [...]
Read MoreBring 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 of [...]
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 [...]
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