Blogs

We are excited to launch our new newsletter, where we update you on the dynamic admissions landscape, and invite you to explore the only directory providing thorough and unbiased boarding school data...
It is no secret that Covid and other factors have disrupted the secondary school admissions landscape. Schools, both boarding and day, have grown increasingly more selective. This can be a tough reality...
Boston-area schools have long been considered among the best in the country, attracting a large number of applicants every year, as well as our hometown’s designation at The Athens of America. In...
Welcome to this wonderful group of 5 Midwestern boarding schools! Some terrific options for students of all types.Lake Forest AcademyWestern Reserve AcademyInterlochen Arts AcademyCulver AcademiesCranbrook Schools
Congrats to our Top Ten Most Viewed Schools this summer on the Owl Boarding School Guide! Tabor Academy Cushing Academy Millbrook School Choate Rosemary Hall Perkiomen School Brooks School Deerfield Academy Eaglebrook...
The OWL Boarding Guide welcomes the members of the Boarding School Consortium! Check out the individual pages of these distinctive schools, all located in the Mid-Atlantic. We enjoyed seeing these schools recently...
For years, we’ve sent students to these amazing schools and look forward to continuing our relationship with them. We are proud to have all fifteen of them included in our Owl Boarding...
Highlighted in The Owl Boarding School Guide is this group of 12 special schools that recently hosted us for individual meetings to provide campus updates and share admissions trends! 
We’re so pleased to add and highlight a special group of nurturing, supportive schools known as The Small Boarding School Association! In our school planning world, the SBSA schools are roughly equivalent...
Invariably I begin Zoom calls with my shelter-at-home high school juniors with some variation of, “How is online schooling treating you?” With few exceptions, my kids, particularly those enrolled at boarding schools...
Demystifying the Boarding School Experience “Why would I send my child to boarding school?” “Boarding schools are for…troubled kids.” We hear these concerns expressed frequently by families we work with. And recently...
A Yankee Recipe For Success David Brooks recently wrote a column, “Putting Grit in its Place,” in which he references the current fascination with this formative four-letter word.  He initially defines grit...
For the record, I grew up a free-lunch kid from a public school in NJ.  I had no idea about boarding schools other than to suspect that if someone was “sent” there,...
Evolution often holds true for education: Health concerns surrounding coronavirus have led the most selective colleges and boarding schools to cancel or limit campus visits, while slightly less selective schools, as well...
The arrival of spring brings the onset of warmer weather, reimagined hopes, and new opportunities. And just as spring signifies the start of the second season of the calendar year, it also...