"school trips"
Our 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 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 [...]
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