"boarding school admission"
Parents and Schools Working to Maintain Private School Opportunities
Diana Costello has written a snapshot of the school and family sides of the private school admission process in the lower Hudson River Valley for the Journal News and LoHud.com (“Parents still paying up for private schools“).
She chronicles the thinking and decisions of families as administrators work to keep their schools full and parents [...]
Ross School Offers Merit Scholarships
File this under the ‘fantastic opportunity’ category.
Ross School in Bridgehampton, NY “is offering $20,000 annual Merit Scholarships for students in grades 5-11 who demonstrate academic achievement and exceptional promise” in a number of areas.
Have a demonstrated talent for the Arts, Athletics, Community Service, Math, Media, Music (Jazz), Science, or Theater? This may be [...]
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 MoreCommunity Consequences as Parents and Students Shift from Private to Public Schools
Rinker Buck of the Hartford Courant wrote an interesting piece this week, “Enrollment Shift Could Burden Farmington Valley Towns” in which he lays out the linkages between public and private school enrollment in private school dense areas. Looking at Hartford and its surrounding area, its private school density and the changing fortunes of private school [...]
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 [...]
Our Boarding School Wait is Over
Although the official notification date is today, March 10, two acceptance letters arrived on the 9th to our great relief. The Director of Admissions for our son’s school called to let us know that our daughter is on the waiting list, which was such a gracious thing to do. At 12:05 this morning we received [...]
Read MoreBoarding 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 [...]
Waiting for Our Admission Decision
Well, we are counting the hours and wondering how soon letters mailed from various parts of the country on March 10th will arrive in our corner of New England. Our consultant has shared that she is hearing positive comments from her contacts at the schools at which we’ve applied. However our daughter is getting a [...]
Read MoreIt’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 [...]
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 MoreFive Cool Things to Know About Westover School
Today I’m taking folks at Westover School,
a girls boarding school in Middlebury, CT, through my social media
workshop. As with each workshop, my desire is to be both theoretical
and practical. One goal the workshop is to collaborate with the school
to produce a finished blog post (missing accomplished!).
As homework, my Westover friends sent a list of five [...]
Interim Grades & Your Boarding School Application
Your boarding school application file is complete. Everything
is in- application, application fee, recommendations, and transcripts
and, after the admission office has given your application the once
through, you get the call or note asking for interim grades.
In bluntest terms, the admission office/committee wants more
information behind their decision and it means they
have questions or
concerns. Maybe they see a [...]
Colleges Begin Offering Online Interviews
The Washington Post ran a piece highlighting the rise of online interviews in the admission process.
The online interview isn’t well-established and still faces some technology hurtles. Not all families have the technology readily available and admission office staffs need some convincing and prodding to learn new ways of communicating with applicants.
The web interview certainly [...]
Boarding School Admission Test Scores and Their Place in the Selection Process
Editor’s Note: We’re thrilled to welcome Leo Marshall as a contributor to onBoarding Schools. Leo is the Director of Admission and Financial Aid at The Webb Schools in Claremont, CA- a coed, boarding school offering grades 9-12.
It seems inevitable at the end of any presentation about our school that we face questions about test [...]
