Boarding School "Fit" Assessment

psparent
Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:31:32 +0000

If it is a top boarding school, I agree, don’t try to distinguish between them when making a final selection based on college stats or test scores. They ALL are going to have a great college counselling program, excellent matriculation statistics, tons of amazing classes with a small number of students, etc. I do think that each school has a “feel” to it, and that the visits/tours give you a good sense of that. If she felt most comfortable at Choate then that should be a finalist - but have her apply to a few others as well and you can make the choice on revisit day. Also have her read through the course catalog and get a sense of the classes and what is emphasized. We did not like the way one school really pushed AP classes, for example. Another school had a lot of really interesting social science classes that you’d normally not see outside of college.