<p>I am considering sending my D to a boarding high school this winter term or next fall and I am at a loss as to how to find a suitable school in the USA or Canada. Are there guide books that list and rank the schools?</p>
<p>A good place to start is with the National Association of Independent Schools at <a href=“http://www.nais.org%5B/url%5D”>www.nais.org</a>. My daughter attended the Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA. Walnut Hill is a wonderful school specializing in the arts with an approximately 20% international enrollment. I would be happy to answer any questions about it. Their website is <a href=“http://www.walnuthillarts.org%5B/url%5D”>www.walnuthillarts.org</a>.</p>
<p>Boardingschoolreview.com will help and there is the site that ranks them which I think is called prep review. If you’re looking for top schools, look at Andover, Exeter, St. Pauls, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Choate.</p>
<p>This winter term or next Fall?? I don’t know too many of the top schools that admit from flat feet into the winter term. Perhaps a candidate who had applied before under special circumstances. As to next fall you need to begin by scheduling your SSAT examination. <a href=“http://www.ssat.org%5B/url%5D”>www.ssat.org</a></p>
<p>TABS- The Association of Boarding Schools. <a href=“http://www.schools.com%5B/url%5D”>www.schools.com</a></p>
<p>There may not be top schools admitting at mid-year, but lots of almost-top boarding schools admit at mid-year, esp. those that aren’t on the east coast. Both my kids went to “second-rate” west coast boarding schools, and I’d recommend both schools highly.</p>
<p>My son’s school (in Hawaii) offered lots of sports, 15 APs, and a lot of ECs, including SCUBA diving every day after school, which is how I bribed my son to go there. It also offered him a chance to be the top student in a small pond, which was a wonderful experience for him. My D’s school was all-girls, which was what she needed then. She thrived as part of its very small population.</p>
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<p>Many boarding schools have kids who don’t work out, so they may fill a bed mid-year, if it is a really good fit.</p>
<p>What state? Some states have public residential high schools for highly advanced students. My son graduated from our state’s magnet residential school for math, science, and the arts. It was a great experience for him. (The price is right, too!)</p>
<p>There is an excellent school called Cushing Academy in Mass. that does admit mid-year. We looked at it for S, but he wound up somewhere else. I would highly recommend Cushing, though.</p>
<p>I would like a school in the west (USA or Canada). D is bright but not of the caliber for Andover or Choate.</p>
<p>Cate, Ojai,Thatcher,Webb…there are lots listed on boardingschoolreview.com look up CA or other western state you are interested in. Is financial aid something you desire?</p>
<p>You have now officially crossed the line…you have become annoying.</p>
<p>Google Athenian School in Danville, CA. Just randomly throwing it out there for consideration!–I noticed it is not listed on the boardingschoolreview.com site.</p>
<p>one of my daughters best friends went there- it has day students as well</p>
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<p>EK–really? What did she think? It looks like a school I would consider sending my kids to (as day students), if I had the $$$.</p>
<p>well he liked it- I have the impression it was fairly rigourous and had some great opportunities for physical challenge as well.
( they have a Wilderness experience as graduation requirement)
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<p>I have heard about this school…very small. I wonder where the kids end up for college?</p>
<p>my daughters school had 18 in graduating class- ( day school in Seattle)
students ended up all over the place- just like they do for other schools
Barnard- Occidental- Pitzer- Pepperdine- Wheaton- Williams- USMC-Reed- Uwashington- Washington USt Louis-Lee Strasburg theatre institute- Savannah college of art and design-Carleton- Macalester</p>
<p>Size didn’t seem to be a factor where students went- except possibly they had a higher acceptance rate than at other schools with larger graduating class- I know that the school D2 attended with a small graduating class, had students who if they had been in a school with 400 students, they probably would have been in the top 100, but at the small school, they could be in the top 10</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing…very interesting. I am sure it was a very close group of kids…must have been interesting when the spread on the wind.</p>