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Private 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.
Some children [...]
Student Produced Video Introduces The Hun School
Thanks to The Hun School for sharing this video of their October 2009 open house.
This quick student produced capsule of an admission open house provides families who couldn’t attend with an intro to Hun- from academics, faculty and family connections, and great Hun opportunities.
I love that Hun allowed one of its students to document the [...]
A Vignette For Frustrated Parents
When I wore the dean of students hat at a boarding school in NH, I spent a good chunk of my time talking to parents about how their kids were doing and feeling.
From parents, the communication was often concern that their students weren’t listening, growing, and or assuming responsibilities as fast, or to as large an [...]
American Hebrew Academy Works to Defray Campus Visit/Interview Costs
The campus visit with its requisite school tour and interview- a boarding school a tradition and right of passage- have, like so much, come under economic and social pressure as families push against busy home, school and work schedules as well as financing a single purpose trip to visit a prospective school.
Affording such a trip- [...]
Being Rejected
Being rejected is hard. However the rejection is couched, whether in flowery language, or via George Clooney characters, or with brave reassurances about the competition, the climate, etc., we are ultimately being told that we are not wanted, not needed or not good enough.
It’s been happening a lot lately. With our struggling economy [...]
Worcester Academy Strengthens Its Mission & Commitment to Its Neighborhood
As an urban boarding school, Worcester Academy recently completed a deal adding that rarest of urban commodities- 4 acres of land to the school’s campus.
Combined with an earlier purchase, Worcester now holds 10 acres of space for future use.
The combined land acquisitions represent a 75% size increase beyond Worcester’s main campus. The new space will [...]
A Conversation with Asheville School’s Jonathan Hopkins
As winner of the AdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video Contest with his short “What Is Asheville School?” we wanted to hear a bit more about how Jonathan Hopkins came to Asheville School (Asheville, NC); how his short grew out of his Asheville experiences and where he wants to take his talents?
Check out Jonathan’s winning [...]
MIT’s Women’s Technology Program: Summer Engineering Studies for High School Girls
It’s never too early to begin looking at summer opportunities and this is especially true if you’re a budding female scientist.
We recently read about MIT’s Women’s Technology Program – dedicated to helping girls explore engineering at the high school level.
The program works to “spark high school girls’ interest in the future study of engineering and [...]
An Educational Consultant’s Impressions of Middlesex School
A truly beautiful campus in Concord, Massachusetts, Middlesex School centers around an open quad with beautiful brick buildings. I was fortunate to visit on an inviting, snow covered day (not the pleasant summer shot to the right).
It’s exam week and I saw countless student groups studying together.
The library seemed full to capacity. Informal [...]
Boarding School’s All-Inclusive Approach
Returning back from my travels across the country and now meeting prospective families during campus visits, I am truly amazed at how impressive this next generation of student really is.
We have some great future leaders amongst us. And, for many of the families I have met with over the last couple of months, the [...]
Hyde School Singer/Songwriter Program
I’m short on details but this just came across my desk and it sounds great.
Hyde School offers a Singer/Songwriter Workshop “for Hyde students looking to perfect their musical craft. Whether it be writing, producing, or singing, students get hands-on training from industry experts.”
Part of the program takes place in Nashville during which students work with [...]
Supporting the Green Schools Alliance
This week Jeremy McGeorge & I attended a fund raiser for the Green Schools Alliance, a project of Global Environmental Options: GEO.
The truly inspiring event was hosted in New York City at the Green Depot (an innovative supplier of environmentally friendly and sustainable building products.) The gala was framed by shelves of products [...]
An Educational Consultant Visits Eagle Hill School
Eagle Hill School (Hardwick, MA) educates eighth through twelfth grade students with learning (dis)abilities, including Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Faculty are committed to providing an intimate and individualized course of study for each student within a traditional boarding school setting. I found the community to be both encouraging and supportive, honoring the individual, valuing learning [...]
Read MoreThe Pathway to a US University Can Go Through Canada
A few weeks ago I returned to Canada after spending 2 1/2 weeks in Asia, representing Sedbergh School at boarding school fairs in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City.
This was an excellent opportunity for a school like ours to speak with and recruit some great students from these areas.
Since the fairs were [...]
Leaving the Cocoon of Private Schools for Marine Corp OCS
Some schools and some families have a history of and live with an understanding of military service.
I’ve had classmates and students go on to a service academy or officer candidate school and known some students who enlisted after high school graduation. But, by and large, military service seems to go largely misunderstood and unpromoted in [...]
