Clover Street Chronicles: That's a Wrap!!!

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

That's a Wrap!!!

As you may have noticed from pictures on our blog and Instagram, we've spent a lot of time visiting high schools over the last eight months or so. Elizabeth is very interested in attending boarding school and has completely driven this process herself. We started researching and visiting schools in earnest last spring and with each visit, the school either stayed on the list or was crossed off. In the end, she interviewed at 5* different boarding schools, ranging between 25 minutes and 2 1/2 hours away. She also spent a good part of her summer studying for the SSAT exam (memorizing vocabulary words, math equations, etc.), which she took in mid-October. In November, she took entrance exams for two local Catholic schools on back to back Saturdays (she applied to both schools as well). On December 23rd, she finally finished all of her applications. In addition to the exams and interviews, she had to write responses to 32 short answer, long answer, short essay and long essay questions, all of which had character restrictions and some of which were incredibly maddening. We are impressed with all of her hard work and we really hope that she has a lot of choices come March 10th (the day all of the boarding schools release their admissions decisions).
Huge thank you to our friends, who helped out with Emily when we needed it (and will help us again in the spring if we have revisit opportunities), and kudos to Lee, who really took on the burden of school visits, editing essays and reaching out to former classmates and teachers who are now teaching at many of these schools. It truly takes a village.