Geographic diversity at boarding schools

GMTplus7
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:32:21 +0000

The big challenge w achieving greater U.S. geographic diversity is that BS is not part of the culture outside of New England. We’re not New Englanders, so most of our friends & associates are shocked that our S is in BS and think he is in ‘reform school’.

Our int’l associates were the ones who actually put BS on our radar, and back then we had not heard of any of the famous American schools, only the UK ones.

Besides the obvious considerable cost of BS, there is also a considerable TIME commitment for out-of-region folk to travel so far to attend school, or even just to visit/interview. I now spend the bulk of my annual vacation leave on flying to DS’s school.