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NH Boarding School Student Earns Perfect Score
Boe Vachiraprasith (New Hampton School ’11) correctly answered every question on this year’s American Invitational Math Examination. Approximately 10,000 sit for the AIME annually with fewer than two handfuls earning a perfect score in any year. Of Vachiraprasith, New Hampton math department chair, Justin Freeman says: “Boe is in a very select group of high [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Questions for First Time Parents
Parents interested in boarding school for their child often have many questions especially if this is their first experience with boarding schools. Baylor, a leading boarding school Chattanooga, answers some of the questions first time parents may have.
Read MorePrivate School A Special Opportunity- Not A Signifier of Social Status
Peter Baron of AdmissionsQuest forwarded an e-mail to me today from a woman wondering how open her children should be with their peers about their prep school applications and asking whether I thought the parents academic credentials carried any weight in the admissions process. The question of how open to be is a sensitive one. [...]
Read MoreA Tour of The Ethel Walker School
Last month I visited The Ethel Walker School campus for a tour. Lead by my tour guide, a four year student at EWS, we visited the ins and outs of the campus, gained insight through her experiences & perspectives, and learned about some great Ethel Walker traditions. Chelsea shows viewers a girls boarding school that [...]
Read MoreOur First Year
After writing frequently last year about our daughter’s search for a boarding school, it seemed timely now to post an entry about how her first year is progressing. Our daughter, now 14, looked at a number of schools last year, both in New England within driving distance of home and in California. The California school [...]
Read MoreSims 3 & the Boarding School Mom
Now that we have had several months to play the hit video game of the summer, Sims 3, the reviews are in. And the critics are raving (at least at our house). With homework, after-school sports, and all the drama of middle school, we’re too busy for computer games these days, but somehow my Sixth [...]
Read MoreonBoarding Schools Just Got a Little Bit Bigger!
Last year our readership grew immeasurably through the contributions of the Boarding School Mom, Marylou Marcus, Tom O’Dell and Leo Marshall. This year we’re thrilled to announce that the lineup gets even bigger by expanding our coverage with the addition of voices and views from members of the boarding school community. A fantastic stable of [...]
Read MoreOur 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 [...]
Read MoreOur 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 [...]
Read MoreWaiting for Boarding School 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 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 MoreOur Boarding School Tour Takes Us to California
Both our educational consultant and the head of our daughter’s school encouraged us to visit a certain school in California. Initially it seemed crazy to us to consider a school so far away when we live surrounded by the country’s great preparatory schools. However there were some cultural sites we wished to visit, and a [...]
Read MoreThe Real Work Begins
There are a couple of final school visits to share with you, but as time is running short in the admissions process, today I want to move to the real work of the process- the applications. We met with our educational consultant at the beginning of last week to winnow the list of schools visited [...]
Read MoreOur First Boarding School Visiting Day
In our three years of interviewing, we just went to our first open house/visiting day and wished we had attended more. Our day at this pretty, well-kept girls’ school began with a warm welcome by the admissions staff and breakfast in the dining hall. From the beginning I knew I would like the school as [...]
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