<p>If you are starting the process at this point, and you live overseas, I would recommend a consultant. Here is a thread from last year about consultants: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/382512-has-anyone-used-professional-consultant-boarding-school-process.html?highlight=consultant[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/382512-has-anyone-used-professional-consultant-boarding-school-process.html?highlight=consultant</a>. You will see a variety of opinions about the usefulness of consultants.</p>
<p>You can search for local consultants on this site: [Educational</a> Consultants - IECAonline.com | Home](<a href=“http://www.educationalconsulting.org/]Educational”>http://www.educationalconsulting.org/).</p>
<p>This year is a very strange year. Educational consultants are in the business of matching family to school. I would think that a good educational consultant could recommend a school that you might not have on your radar screen. He or she might also know of schools which are disposed to be lenient about application deadlines this year. </p>
<p>The one bit of advice I could give you, is to look at schools in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area. Parents like to have their children within a 2 hour radius of home (gross overgeneralization!). With the ongoing troubles on Wall Street, good schools within 2 hours of New York city may be very worried indeed.</p>