Please suggest a New England Prep School for my son

EarlyMTNester
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:07:09 +0000

A significant percentage of the PG slots at most boarding schools are reserved for students who are bringing a special skill or talent to the school, often in the athletic realm, such as providing them with a left tackle for the football team. If your son has a special talent, you might look in that direction to gain admittance. There are also schools, often military academies, that offer PG programs as a way to get a student’s grades up to gain college eligibility. But, that does not appear to be your issue. For kids like yours, community college or junior college may be a better way to start college because they can handle the work and the community/junior colleges do a much better job of staying on top of the students to make sure they do. After a year or two they can transfer to a flagship institution and receive his degree from there. Another option would be to plan for a gap year where he is not in school at all, but using the time to mature and gain life experience.