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Educational Consultant Helps with an Admission Speed-Bump

Editor’s Note: “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal” will move to a regular Thursday publication schedule. Check-in each week to read the Boarding School Mom’s latest entry. One of the benefits of working with a consultant is that she was able to provide feedback from the interviews. Some of this was positive, but from others [...]

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Experiences with Our Son

Our son attended a small, private, K-8, day school in our rural area. There were twelve kids in his graduating class. He had had the opportunity to sit in on a history class and have a tour of one, highly-competitive, boarding school in seventh grade and was sure that’s where he wanted to go. His [...]

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Welcome to My Boarding School Admission Journal

As the parent of two children, a tenth grader who has gone through the admissions process twice (more on that in my next post) and an eighth grader who is in the process of applying to boarding school, and having visited 16 schools in the last two years; I was excited to be asked by [...]

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A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal

We’re excited to welcome a new blogger and series to onBoarding Schools. The title, “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal,” will be written by a parent who’s currently going through the school search process. This great new voice- rich with perspective and insight- will be a regular feature of onBoardingSchools during the 2008-2009 school year. [...]

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