Boarding School Parent Chance Me
Hello. We have a child applying to BS this year and can barely sleep wondering if DH and I will be accepted as BS parents. I know, I know, get a life already, but I’m dying here and need someone to look at our stats and tell us what our chances are:
SES: Upper middle class but definitely need FA. No way we can pay full freight. We drive old cars, never take vacations, haven’t seen the inside of a restaurant (without a playscape) in years, and most of our clothes are made of burlap.
LOCATION: I don’t think our state technically should be considered New England and used the parent statement to explain why.
AGE: Old enough to know that we should have started planning for this gig when kid was in utero, young enough to blend in fashionably on campus in our (burlap) sweater sets and ascots.
EMPLOYMENT: DH is an investment banker who doesn’t bring home a lot of money because of the high cost of living in our area and the fact that he is “away” at the moment contemplating his role in the 2008 meltdown. I am a stay-at-home mom because someone has to help the children with their prep school applications and keep up with CC. It’s really a full-time job. I explained this in the parent statement, too.
ECs: Golf (use two-year-old clubs and last year’s cart), fund-raising (have lettered in this sport), homeroom parent, PTA (missed presidency by a very slim margin the year DH took his “sabbatical”).
WHY WE WANT TO SEND OUR KIDS TO BS: We feel that our children would benefit from being exposed to others bound for Ivy League schools as well as poor children. We think that boarding school really makes a kid think about how nice he might have had it at home and, maybe if he had behaved just a little bit better, his room would not be advertised for rent.
Sorry for the length and all this detail and thanks for reading this far. I know we probably don’t have a great chance of getting an Andover or Exeter sticker for our SUVs, but we’ll settle for Choate or even Deerfield.
Please, what do you think? Be honest. Will chance you back.