Early Engagement: Embarking on Your College Search Journey
7 practical tips for those who find themselves at the beginning stages of their college exploration journey.
School Enrollment
Why Fit Is Important In The Private School Search Process
When you start to look at schools, everyone talks about “FIT”. “FIT” is very important! You need to find the right “FIT”! Make sure the school is a good “FIT” for your child!
5 Tips for Applying to Private School
By Laura Perillo, Oak Knoll School of The Holy Child 5 Tips for Applying to Private School After Covid: With COVID-19 still lingering about, the routine of going to school this year has been anything but normal, adding more layers of confusion to an already tumultuous 2020. If you’re lucky, your child’s school has reopened …
What Every Family Should Know Before Applying to Private School
Written by Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child The temperatures are cooler, there’s snow on the ground, the holidays are behind us and you’re thinking you missed out on applying to private school, right? WRONG! The reality is that families search for schools all year-’round. In the fall, some families find themselves so busy getting …
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How to get to know independent schools when you can’t visit
We understand that the campus visit is one of the most valuable experiences for families exploring independent schools. Walking around, seeing the spaces, observing students in action and gathering an overall feel is an important part of the decision process. With that said, just because campuses may be closed to visitors, that doesn’t mean that …
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Calming Activities to Destress: For Elementary Schoolers
by Wendy Taylor Finding a sense of calm is likely difficult for kids right now, no matter their age. Our world as we know it has halted. It’s been replaced by what seems like one long, continuous day where there are few happenings that distinguish today from yesterday. It is disconcerting, to say the least. For …
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How to Submit a Late Application to Private Schools
Written by Liz Yee, Director of Admissions at Lowell School As the school year comes to a close, are you worried that your child’s school just isn’t the perfect fit? Not sure when your young child would be ready for school? Moving to a new school district, or to the United States from out of …
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Building a Strong Partnership Between School and Home
By: Gretchen Herbst, Director of Admission and Financial Aid Congressional School, Falls Church, VA After 15 years of working in independent school admission, if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it is the importance of a strong parent-school partnership. I am lucky to work in a school where everyone knows one another by name. Small classes …
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Reasons people send their children to private school
By G. Ruga, Editor, Paying for Private School: Tips and tricks for sending your child to private school Recently on a message board I occasionally read, a parent was wondering if they should send their child to private school. So she asked the parents of other private school children if her child would feel poor compared to …
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How Many Private Schools Should I Apply To?
by Liz Yee, Director of Admission, Lowell School Time has flown by—your child is growing up fast, and now you’re looking at schools. (Side note: how did your baby get big enough to go to school?) In addition to feeling like time is slipping through your hands like grains of sand, you’re dipping your toe …