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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 [...]
Our Boarding School Decision
The deposit check has been mailed and the thank you notes sent. Our daughter is delighted with the outcome, and we are so grateful to our consultant who directed us to the school which has been our daughter’s first choice all along and which we would never have found on our own.
The last step in [...]
No Answers But Good Admission Thinking
Although geared for college admission, one recent New York Times article and a new blog on their site provide some good thinking and advice- parts of which are applicable to private school admission.
The article first- “Paying in Full as the Ticket Into Colleges,” lays plain for all to see that, with tight financial aid offerings [...]
The Public Versus Private Equation: Families Work to Reach Decisions
I read a couple of articles over the past few days that, combined, provide a good pictures of the thinking, priorities and sacrifices that families are grappling with in their ‘public or private’ school decisions. With a generally more conservative outlook about future earnings and home equity gone as a banking option families are struggling [...]
Read MoreBlue Ridge Schools Publishes Affordability Plan
Blue Ridge School recently added its Affordability Plan to the school’s web site laying out their commitment to affordability.
It includes both philosophical and concrete examples of the school’s approaches and commitment. Among other items in the Affordability Plan, Blue Ridge has increased its financial aid budget by 30% over the past two years and, one [...]
Boarding School Mom’s Daughter Talks About the Wait
Editor’s Note: We’re excited to feature a post by the Boarding
School Mom’s daughter. She offers her on the ground take on the
boarding school admission process.
The applications are in, and there is little you can do but bite your nails and wait. However, the endless flow of questions is not over. This time instead of what [...]
It’s March 10th! Time for Decision Day Insights and Resources
Today’s a big day. It’s when boarding school decision & financial aid letters go out and/or arrive. You’ll learn which schools you’ve been invited to attend; which schools where the fit wasn’t quite right; and, perhaps most importantly, the size of the financial aid package.
Weighing the options, you might feel that you now have a [...]
A School Administrator Talks About Paying for Prep School
As Brian mentioned in the post before this one, late last week I sat down with two financial aid experts for a podcast that examined financial aid in an economic downturn. My guests offered sound advice for families considering financial aid options.
We’re always on the lookout for additional FA articles & resources and Rob Kennedy, [...]
A Couple of Quick Items to Start the Day
If you haven’t checked out the Carnival of College Admission (AQ hosted an edition a couple of weeks ago), I encourage you to visit Eric Perron’s blog at Dreamstrategy where he’s hosting the 11th edition of the Carnival: Carnival of College Admission – A College Information Dream… A Dream Strategy that is!
Eric featured Leo [...]
Long Serving Massachusetts and Asheville Alumnus Nears Retirement: We Learned via Twitter!
Jurist Levin Campbell retires at the end of the month after serving 40 years on Massachusetts and Federal benches. Certainly a fair minded and famously even handed judge, it’s Mr. Campbell’s relationship with Asheville School that brings this to our attention.
Asheville recently joined the Twitter conversation and they ‘tweeted’- a real time, 140 characters [...]
Boarding School Fit: It’s Complicated Matching Student & School
Editor’s Note: A recent exchange between onBoarding Schools contributor Leo G. Marshall, Director of Admission, The Webb Schools and a reader requires its own space.
Daphne, reading Leo’s post (In Defense of Childhood), wrote expressing concern that perhaps she had not structured her child’s time or pushed and programed her child harder. Achievement, it seemed was [...]
In Defense of Childhood
I recently received a call from a mother, a doctor, who wanted me to give her names of elementary schools in the area. After offering a list of public and private schools without suggesting which was best, I was then asked what I thought the best way to prepare her child for our school. [...]
Read MoreOur Boarding Schools Application Are In!
My apologies for having dropped off the internet for a few weeks. We live in that part of New England that was left without power for almost two weeks in mid-December due to a particularly vengeful ice storm. The upside was that school vacation began seven days early. The downside was that we were distracted [...]
Read MoreApplying On-line Doesn’t Mean Waiting Until the Last Minute
Tamar Lewin published a piece this past Wednesday in the New York Times covering the clog of applications in the pipes of on-line application systems.
We know from experience that a good number of families wait to submit their applications until the last possible moment. (We used to run the on-line application system that many boarding [...]
What makes Boarding Schools different from other good schools?
Twenty-two of my thirty-two years in independent schools were spent in day schools, some very good and some fairly mediocre, but all of them had good students with dedicated teachers. Their debate teams did well; the football teams reigned supreme. Most went on to colleges and parents were fairly pleased with their investment. However, it [...]
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