Two months ago a distinguished group of eleven educators from independent schools around New England spent three days on the Rivers camp...

Several years ago the Director of College Counseling and I met with a senior admissions officer at an Ivy League school.   At one point ...

Last month a team of eleven outside educators from some of the top schools in New England (including three from ISL schools) spent three...

I was talking last week to a 2013 Rivers graduate who is doing a gap year before she attends an Ivy League college.   She spent two months i...

I often hear prospective parents talk about trying to help their son or daughter find “the right fit” in an independent school. The conversa...

So why do I direct traffic in the morning?   There is a serious answer to this question, and the answer reflects the school’s educational ...

There are a lot of issues I have with Mark Edmundson’s article “Where Should I Go to College?” – the cynical tone, the thinly disguised ...