"Boarding School Mom"
Touring a School We Know Well
Editor’s Note: “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal” appears every Thursday throughout the admission season. Check-in each week to read the Boarding School Mom’s latest entry. A raw, rainy afternoon found us at our son’s school for our daughter’s interview. In some respects this was the most relaxing of the school visits as we are [...]
Read MoreThe Boarding School Mom’s Daughter Provides Admission Tips
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. Going through the admissions process is stressful, not only for the parent, but also for the child. Many parents add extra pressure and stress, but also you hear [...]
Read MoreOur Boarding School Tour Continues
Editor’s Note: “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal” appears every Thursday throughout the admission season. Check-in each week to read the Boarding School Mom’s latest entry. A lovely fall day found us in a suburban part of New England visiting two very different schools, both of which are viewed as very desirable. The outcome has [...]
Read MoreThe School Search Continued
Editor’s Note: “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal” appears every Thursday throughout the admission season. Check-in each week to read the Boarding School Mom’s latest entry. Our second school visit with our daughter was to a single-sex school relatively close to home that has the sports about which our daughter is passionate. My optimism quickly [...]
Read MorePerception vs the Reality of the Boarding School Experience
Editor’s Note: “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal” appears every Thursday throughout the admission season. Check-in each week to read the Boarding School Mom’s latest entry. Before continuing with our adventures on the boarding school trail, I want to share my experiences over the past two weekends. These examples for me put in stark contrast the reality [...]
Read MoreStarting the Boarding School Search with Our Daughter
Editor’s Note: “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal” appears every Thursday throughout the admission season. Check-in each week to read the Boarding School Mom’s latest entry. Having undergone the prep school admissions process twice with our son, we thought we knew what we were doing, but our highly focused eighth grade daughter has disabused us [...]
Read MoreOur Son Finds a School to Call Home
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. By this time we felt like professionals, our son was more confident; and we were more knowledgeable. We realized that the first impression gained in the admission office [...]
Read MoreEducational 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 [...]
Read MoreExperiences 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 [...]
Read MoreWelcome 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 [...]
Read MoreA 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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