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Northfield Mount Hermon School Sells Northfield Campus
After consolidating campuses two campuses into one in 2005, Northfield Mount Hermon School announced the sale of its dormant Northfied campus to Hobby Lobby. The deal closed this past Monday. “…Our transaction with Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma City-based corporation with a commitment to supporting Christian missions, closed on December 14, 2009. Hobby Lobby intends to [...]
Read MoreCarnival of College Admission is Back!
AdmissionsQuest is thrilled to host this edition of the Carnival of College Admission. We first hosted way back when the Carnival was just getting started. Now look at it… it’s has exploded in size. Congrats to Mark Montgomery over at Great College Advice for building the CCA into a real powerhouse of blog posts. So, [...]
Read MoreAn Admission Director’s Perspective on Athletics
I spent 20 years of my 32+ yrs. in education coaching 12-18 yr old students in cross country and track and field. I still believe it was the happiest time of my life as there is nothing more satisfying than to see youngsters challenge themselves in sport and learn the enormous lessons that can be [...]
Read MoreMaking Lemonade
Over the summer, articles from prominent national publications have flown across my desk on almost a weekly basis, each in one way or another decrying the state of college admissions, financial aid, college affordability, college testing and more. It can be gut-wrenching, but in the spirit of being handed lemons, it’s also an opportunity to [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling Alumnus Dillon Quinn Joins the Boston College Defensive Line
Just a couple of months removed from Trinity-Pawling School, Dillon Quinn fights to learn the techniques and discipline of becoming a sound, major college defensive lineman. Boston College defensive coordinator Bill McGovern told the Boston Globe (Quinn Could Offer Eagles Raw Power): “He’s an interesting kid. Obviously, he’s physically imposing. But like any young guy [...]
Read MoreFour Year Degree Completion: Myth and Endangered Species
We published “A Post Graduate Year; what’s that?” a few years back that’s read and cited on a regular basis. Several recent studies, articles, and their statistics continue lending support and credence to the possibilities of a PG year for some students. These three articles and their statistical citations paint a picture of just how [...]
Read MoreMore Time to Research and Write While Teaching in a Boarding School- Really?
I just read Kevin Brown’s piece An Alternative Path to Teaching at Inside Higher Ed. Brown makes a short argument that recent Ph.D.’s might consider boarding school as teaching option given the dismal state of the college/university job market. While he’s right on some topics, he misses the mark on some. He’s correct that boarding [...]
Read MoreThe Economist Surveys Private Education in Britain and America
The Economist (July 2, 2009) features Staying on board: in both America and Britain recession has so far done little to dent the demand for private education- a picture of private secondary education in the current downturn. For private school people, it’s good quick read, but it comes off as too general, and not overly [...]
Read MoreReclaiming Boarding School Roots: Communal Responsibility and Frugality
Reading Tamar Lewin’s “For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings” in the New York Times, I’m struck by how many potential areas of cost savings used to be part of boarding school communities and how easily boarding schools can reassert them by making them a priority- by setting aside time for them. Make [...]
Read MoreNo Answers But Good Admission Thinking
Although geared for college admission, one recent New York Times article and a new blog on their site provide some good thinking and advice- parts of which are applicable to private school admission. The article first- “Paying in Full as the Ticket Into Colleges,” lays plain for all to see that, with tight financial aid [...]
Read MoreNCAA Division I Basketball as Family Affair: Conflict and Compromise
Playing for dad at any level has it’s ups and downs. At the University of Rhode Island, wife & mom, Cindy Baron makes the father-son/coach-player tandem of Coach Jim Baron and player Jimmy Baron work. The friction seems particularly difficult in this story as the blunt, workaholic Coach Baron is driven not to favor his [...]
Read MoreA Couple of Quick Items to Start the Day
If you haven’t checked out the Carnival of College Admission (AQ hosted an edition a couple of weeks ago), I encourage you to visit Eric Perron’s blog at Dreamstrategy where he’s hosting the 11th edition of the Carnival: Carnival of College Admission – A College Information Dream… A Dream Strategy that is! Eric featured [...]
Read MoreFresh Air Fund Camp Counselor Opportunities
Here’s a plug outside our usual area of expertise and attention. We usually don’t do this kind of piece, but we’re great fans of The Fresh Air Fund. Year in and year out they provide terrific summer opportunities to kids in need of a break from the city. The long and short- The Fresh Air [...]
Read MoreCollege Admission Carnival: AdmissionsQuest Style!
Thanks to Mark Montgomery of Great College Advice for allowing us to host this edition of the Carnival of College Admission. Welcome, all. This edition of the carnival seems to have expanded a bit. We’ve got some perspectives on on-line courses, life-long learning, and, quite timely, spending and money management during college. Like most endeavors, [...]
Read MoreA Quick Read on College Admission Craziness
It’s not boarding school admission, but it’s an interesting read about the different ways and roads to want what’s best for you kids. Lisa Belkin contributes a nice synthesis of a parent’s takes on the college admission craziness. In her post to the New York Times Motherlode column she brings together three perspectives that circle [...]
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