"Dublin School Blog"

Dublin School Participates in New Hampshire Primary

During presidential primary season in New Hampshire, virtually every town, or public meeting of any kind, will receive multiple visits from candidates in the run-up to the primary. (I can’t accurately remember the number of candidates that I met during my years living and teaching in Wolfeboro and Dublin. It’s a bunch.) The best part, [...]

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A Small Boarding School Plays to Its Strengths

As sub-genre, small boarding schools, offer a more communal and individual boarding experience from than their large school brethren and this certainly true of athletics. If you’ve got a student body of 140 (or less), filling rosters and competing, in large team sports can prove challenging. Try filling two reasonably competitive soccer, or lacrosse, rosters- [...]

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Top 5 Boarding School Videos

We gather and produce video year-round as part of our efforts to educate families about boarding school and to help boarding schools tell their stories. We feature them on our site and via our YouTube Boarding Schools Channel and many of our videos are linked to our AdmissionsQuestPro member school profiles and school websites. As [...]

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Getting to Know Dublin School

Community. Force me to chose a single word to describe Dublin School, I’d say ‘Community’ ranks #1 on my list. Students & faculty talked about it with great passion during my campus visit last year and Sheila Bogan, Dublin’s Director of Admission, reinforced why the school’s small boarding community makes Dublin a special place in [...]

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Rainbow Over Dublin School

An overnight rainstorm resulted in a spectacular sunrise rainbow arching over Dublin School‘s campus. Thanks to Sheila Bogan, Dublin’s Director of Admission, for sharing the photo.

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Reclaiming 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 [...]

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An Insiders View of Dublin School

As the past admission director at Dublin School, a co-ed small boarding school in Dublin, NH, I’m now forced to look differently at the school- with consultant’s eye. I now have to think about Dublin using a consultant’s critique: “Does the school do what it says it does; what kind of students will do well here; and [...]

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Dublin School Past, Present and Future: Head of School Brad Bates Shares How He Came to Dublin

I recently had the opportunity to visit with Brad Bates, Dublin School‘s new headmaster. In his answers to our questions, he shares the thoughts and experiences that drew him to the school. He talks about his first months at the school and his vision for its future. His answers paint a picture of the qualities [...]

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