Effective University Prep: 3 Elements Parents Should Look for in a Private High School

While university might still be a long way away for your child, it’s important to make sure that their high school experience helps prepare them for a bright academic future. High school is a time for students to develop crucial study habits, explore interests, find their passion and build their confidence. The right private school can help nurture them throughout that journey, helping them build skills that will support the transition to university. At LCS, we do our utmost to prepare our students for university success. From our small class sizes and dedicated instructors, to our expert university guidance counsellors - we support our students throughout the entire university application process. We have a 100% university placement rate, with 80% of our graduates attending their top university of choice. If you’re looking for the right private school for your child and want to know which elements to consider when making…

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Seeking Russian Agents? Here’s a good one.

The waters required to navigate while applying to an independent school, especially for an international student can be tricky. You can hear horror stories about bad agents and then really great stories about agents who really help their clients find, apply, enrol and even travel to see schools. This past Fall I travelled to Ukraine and Russia with an agency called IQ Consultancy. We have worked with other agents in Russia and Ukraine to be clear, so this is not a unique endorsement of IQ Consultancy. On this trip, we travelled to Kiev, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Ufa, and Moscow and met with many families. In Russia, for the most part since the collapse of the Soviet Union, we are dealing with the first generation of students studying abroad and families traveling more widely than the borders of their former state. Many of the students I met spoke English quite well, however,…

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All types are needed in boarding

I was asked today at lunch, "What type of students do you attract?" I answered, "no one particular type". The person asking wasn't asking about personality type but it got me thinking again... I have been a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) practitioner since 1993 and love that it can be applied to almost every interaction I have with people. Some of the most interesting have been observing my colleagues speak about students I know or have interviewed myself. The interaction almost always goes better when the interviewer and student share similar 'type' and have had an easy time establishing rapport. So much so, that I was inspired to offer an MBTI session at the SSATB Annual Meeting a couple of years ago to help admission professionals explore their own type to ensure that there wasn't any personality type bias in their interviewing and admission processes overall. The danger simply is…

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