"Boarding School Applications"
Steady Application Numbers- Increased Aid Applications: Confirmation of what we’ve been hearing
Admission professionals have been telling us the same story throughout the school year. Applications and inquiries are steady. Financial aid requests are up.
Using interviews at a few schools and with the National Association of Independent Schools, the New York Daily News ran a piece (Private schools see more financial aid requests during recession – [...]
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 MoreInterim 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 [...]
Our 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 [...]
Holidays Are A Good Time to Work On Private School Applications
With the break from school and the slower routine, the end of year holidays provide a great time to make sure your ducks are in a row with respect to the private school application process. This is an overview of where you might expect to be if you’re on an ideal application calendar. If you’re [...]
Read MoreOctober ‘08: Time to Check the Boarding School Admission Calendar
We thought it might be a good time to take a quick look at- ideally- where you’d like to be if you’re applying to a boarding school for Fall 2009. Keep in mind that this is an ideal calendar. If you start later, the process is the same; you just go through the steps in [...]
Read MoreYour boarding school application: good judgment required
The admission office is a special audience- with whom you may never have communicated before and with whom you may never communicate again. Yet, you need to present the best possible picture of yourself and the admission committee must get to know you as well they can in a short period. How? Well to a [...]
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