Dana Hall is an all-girls school located in the Boston suburb of Wellesley, Massachusetts. One of the unique things about the school is the location, just a five-minute walk to the town center, where there are many shops and restaurants. The town has the feel of a...
(This article has been updated in April 2021. The original post was written in June 2014.) An educational consultant’s visit to a top boarding school in America Upon first impressions, Phillips Exeter Academy shares some similarities with a university campus...
At 900 undergrads, California Institute of Technology (CalTech) is a small school, and you can easily walk across campus in just a few minutes. CalTech attracts top math and science students, who have found that passion in high school, but top grades and test scores...
By Josh Stephens and Kate Ballard-Rosa, Arborbridge For some students, choosing between the SAT and ACT is like choosing between doing the dishes and taking out the garbage. Both exams are fraught with challenges and pressures that make them anything but fun. Ideally,...
While many boarding school students choose between a school that is either co-educational or single-gender, The Webb Schools is unique in that it combines separate schools for boys and girls on a single campus. Classes in the 9th and 10th grades are separated for boys...
For students looking for a small, liberal arts environment, but who may be worried about feeling too isolated at a small school (or hesitant about the weather at many Northeastern schools), it’s definitely worth taking a look at the 5 Claremont Colleges in southern...
