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Boarding School Tours: An Important Way Educational Consultants Stay Connected
We write a fair amount and answer a lot of e-mail about educational consulting- what is it and is it worth it? Our answer begins with, “well it’s more complicated than that, but, if you have a situation that warrants professional consultation, then by all means consider a consultant.” Professional evaluation can prove invaluable. One [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Visit, Thoughts and Resources
Writing about Matilda Battersby’s article, “How to get past the spin at school open days” in The Independent (Looking Beneath the Gloss of Your Prep School Visit) jogged my brain circuits into remembering that we’ve written articles covering the school visit, interview and a host of other admission topics over the years that families might [...]
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 MoreKents Hill School Students Explain Why Kents Hill
Just before Christmas, I visited Kents Hill School to sit down with Pete Hodgin to talk about his use of social media in his economics and history courses for AQ’s Boarding School Podcast series. I encourage you to give the two part episode a listen if you haven’t had a chance- (Valuing Social Media in [...]
Read MoreKents Hill School Slideshow
Right before Christmas I visited Kents Hill School to record a podcast and shoot a series of short video interviews with students. Both will be available soon, but in the meantime, I whipped together a slideshow of the photos I took while touring campus. The school, by the way, is set on a beautiful piece [...]
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 MoreTouring 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 MoreA Consultant Visits Two Western MA Boarding Schools
I had the pleasure of participating on a tour of two Western MA boarding schools & an ‘early college’ program (more on that below). As I did with my Ojai Valley boarding school trip, I typed up my visit notes to provide you with my impressions of each school. I hope you find them helpful. [...]
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 MoreMy Tour of Proctor Academy
I visited Proctor Academy this afternoon to meet with Chuck Will and learn more about his popular blog, Chuck’s Corner. We recorded a podcast interview that goes into a good bit of detail about the origins of the blog and how it has evolved over the years. I’ll post it to the site in the [...]
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