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Wmq333
Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:57:13 +0000

I am a new poster but have been hovering on this site for over a year. We went through the process for the first time last year and I was clueless. We felt the same though, but got caught up in applying to the known schools. It was very stressful. We weren’t sure if we wanted her to board, which limited us to certain MA schools. Sh wanted to go to Lawrence Academy. We knew alumni, and someone that worked there. She spent a lot of time on campus when she was young, so she has always wanted to go there. I would never have thought of sending her to a boarding school, but when she said that she wanted a better education than the public school could offer, how do you say no? She was an A student with 85 ssat score. We visited and she applied to the other schools in the area, but she was always drawn to Lawrence. In the end, she was wait listed at 3 and accepted at LA. We were disappointed. No one likes rejection. I thought the other schools were better because they were talked about so much. They may be considered better, but they were not better for her. Through the process we realized that the name of the school really didn’t matter. That a private high school education was about a lot more than academics and more about what she would gain from the whole experience. She is off to a great start. She has gained confidence, and already learned some valuable life lessons. She is finding it academically challenging, but not so intense that she can’t enjoy or benefit from the experiences boarding school can offer. I have no doubt that she will be better prepared for college, but most importantly, I think she will be a much better person for going there.