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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our child's boarding school loves to talk about the advantage of maturity and readiness for living independently, time management etc. in college admissions.[/quote] This is absolutely true. My twins both went to boarding school and were miles ahead of their college freshman cohort who didn’t. However , as far as a “ hook,” not as helpful as I would have liked. Neither one got into top choices ( tho both are happy/succeeding—— and yes they did ea/ed. Could have been just really bad years ( entered college 2022and 2023) but also there s the unusual factor of who they were competing with (from their boarding school) who were $$$$$, well-known. One of kids just didn’t have a chance! And he had too grades top recs, co- captain of two varsity teams ( but not recruitable[/quote]
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