Independent School Admissions Musings

Recently I was visiting a junior boarding school and I had the rare privilege to surprise an applicant by handing him in person his offer of...

So what does Tebow have to do with independent school admissions? I’m not sure I know. But one can’t help but to be caught up in Tebow-fev...

So I wrote in my last post about the need to make sure we carefully steward our profession and make sure it gets the recognition that it des...

What happens if you get hit by a bus this afternoon? Or, more realistically, hit by a Volvo station wagon driven by the parent of a child t...

My last two posts were rather related—the first time I’d done that. And I’m here to tell you that I think this one is now a third in the s...

[Disclaimer: if you’ve never worked for a highly-selective school, you may find this post annoying but take it as a way of seeing that the ...

In this recent post on The Choice, Pamela Horne from Purdue University says that awarding merit aid is about helping the institution, not r...