Dd12 has been planning to attend a local high school next year for which we have turned in a school of choice application. I'm fairly confident that she'll get in.
Having participated in academic talent search, she also seems to be on the mailing list for a lot of private schools throughout the country who would like her to apply there. She usually expresses no interest. She recently got some info from the Phillips Exeter Academy in NH, though, and wants to apply.
It is an expensive private boarding school about an hour outside of Boston. They are offering full scholarships for kids who meet their admission reqs and whose families make less than $75K/year, which we do. I must admit that it looks like it offers a lot of very cool stuff, but the idea of sending a child who will be just shy of 13 off to boarding school 2,000 miles from home is a bit daunting.
If she seriously wants to apply, she's going to need to start working on this b/c she'd need to go to the nearest big city (1 hr/away) to take a private school entrance exam, get her school to fill out an application/recommendation form, do the student application and essays, etc. This is all due by January. The application fee is $50, which isn't the end of the world if it is wasted, but I really don't want to put a bunch of time into this if we aren't going to seriously consider it.
She has two friends at school who both said they want to apply too when dd told them about it. Both are very bright girls. Whether their parents agree with them applying is another issue and I don't know their families to ask.
Would you even consider something like this?
