<p>I’m pretty sure it was sponsored by PEA, based on the wording of questions and comparison set.</p>
<p>Is it a student or a parent survey?</p>
<p>I was asked to be surveyed by some organization. I don’t know all the details because my mom answered the phone. supposedly, they are going to call back tomorrow because my mom wanted to check the legitness of the survey . Is it the same one you are talking about? I hearx it was on hgh school education. should I do it?</p>
<p>I think I got a parent survey…they called my cell and asked for the parent of SevenDaughter. If they had wanted to speak to her, they would have called at home, I think. At first I was reluctant, but went along.</p>
<p>The questions seemed very legit and they didn’t ask for any identifying info (alleviating my phishing fear). One of the questions was about the Harkness Table system of class instruction, which made me think it was definitely legit.</p>
<p>Call comes from Utah.</p>
<p>I never got anything like this. Has anyone else besides SevenDad and beatlesforever heard anything about this?</p>
<p>@ifax: Note that with marketing surveys they often do an nth-select for their contact list (meaning they only call every n-th person on their list).</p>
<p>Also note that we requested info/interviewed from PEA but decided not to apply, so they may be trying to understand why people DON’T choose to apply to Exeter.</p>
<p>During my daughter’s school search, we requested materials from a wide range of schools. Two of the schools she did not apply to sent email surveys.</p>
<p>@SevenDad,
Oh that makes sense. I was a little worried there for a minute, but now I see why it makes sense. Thanks.</p>
<p>It was legit. It was from Exeter. Essentially seeing whether their Harkness-table style of education was a turn-off or turn-on vs. lecture style to people who registered interest but didn’t apply. Also surveyed whether you were interested in “global education.” I said I was interested in good education, but the colleges to which PE grads want to go are interested in “global” this and that so always best, from a PC perspective, to care about “diversity” and “global” and “multiculturalism” and the usual blah blah that kids have to deal with from the unreconstructed 60’s crowd. Thank goodness the first baby-boomers have turned 65, as this means that they will all be dying off soon. Oh, did I digress?</p>
<p>@kellybbk: Are you a parent or a student or somehow involved with the survey?</p>
<p>It was funny, because I asked upfront who the sponsor was but they said they could not say…“because it might bias me”. But then for a prompt or two, where you were supposed to list schools, the interviewer asked “Like Exeter?”</p>
<p>Then they went into Harkness spiel and that really tipped the hand of sponsor.</p>
<p>It is fairly common for schools to hire consulting firms to gauge it’s image and what’s important to those both inside and outside the school. All schools are interested in how others perceive them and what families think are the most important things to look for.<br>
Most are just trying to be responsive.</p>
<p>Last year, I was sent several surveys from schools that my son either declined or to which he ended up not applying. It is helpful to the schools to participate in the surveys honestly.</p>