"Post-Graduate Year"
Getting to Know Bridgton Academy
Chris Webb, Bridgton Academy (Bridgton, ME), Director of Admission, elucidates how the academic, social, and athletic of their post graduate population shape Bridgton’s programs. The school’s the only prep school for postgraduate young men. All of Bridgton’s students hold high school diplomas and they (and their families) have come to the decision that an extra [...]
Read MoreInsight Into High Level Prep School Basketball
Lots of us in the boarding school world have some degree of familiarity with high level prep school basketball. By this I mean teams with 2, 3 or more players whose programs include preparing to play NCAA Division 1 college basketball and possibly professional basketball. The number of outstanding college and professional players with prep [...]
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 MoreGap Year Spreads
First up- The Gap Year Comes to Canada, seems that American style gap year of work/internship/travel/community service is gaining a foothold in Canada. Two items of note in this piece: 1. Canadian universities are participating in and sanctioning gap year programs. 2. The first comment regarding the necessity of setting parental limits for their kids’ [...]
Read MoreFluidity is the Order of American Higher Education: Moving Beyond the High School Graduation-Four Year Undergraduate Model
A few years back I wrote piece about spending a post graduate year in boarding school before moving on to college- “A Post Graduate Year; what’s that?” The reasons for pursuing a PG year proved consistent among the students and families choosing an extra year of high school- graduating young, improving maturity, more academic preparation, [...]
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 MoreWorking to Overcome
Talk about perspective. Sports suffer from overuse as metaphor and insight into the model for life. But, in this story, athletics is an end not the philosophy, thinking, or means and the latter three provide the crux of the story. Kevin Laue plays basketball at Fork Union Military Academy. FUMA plays great basketball- teams [...]
Read MoreThe Athletic Post-Graduate (PG) Year
A friend of ours recently sent us an article by Rick Gosselin of The Dallas Morning News. Gosselin’s piece, “Hargrave Military Academy has prepped plenty for NFL” (published April 10, 2008) focuses on the success, meaning, and importance of Hargrave Military Academy‘s post-graduate program to high caliber athletes- many of whom have gone on to [...]
Read MoreExplaining the Gap Year
NPR ran a story by reporter Tovia Smith introducing and explaining the ‘gap year’. In simplest terms a gap year is a period (it can be a semester or a year) between high school graduation and college matriculation that a student uses to work or pursue an interest before settling into the strictures of college [...]
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