Our vision for the HSS is to provide the basic building blocks for you to jump-start your journey in researching, applying to, and selecting a private school for your child.  This document is not meant to replace the arguably more important steps of in-person school visits, interviews, and soul searching, but it is meant to significantly reduce the initial tedium that you would have otherwise suffered if you had started from scratch.  Also, this document should enable you to quickly compare schools across a number of different criteria.

Before you dive into the convoluted private school search head first, start by reading this document.  Being the young, recent college graduates that we are—the data monkeys, writers, and analyzers of these words—we knew little about the stress and trials that you are about to go through or are currently going through.  Therefore, we worked diligently to learn everything that we could, to answer the numerous questions that we ourselves had, and to anticipate your own.   We are confident that our research will provide you with a 75% picture of what you will need to know about your private high school options, comparable features, and admissions process.  


Please legitimately think about and consider the environment in which your child will honestly succeed.  Try not to immediately assume that your oblong child will fit into square brand school.  Talk to your friends, family, and school administrators about their views and experiences and trust your instinct.  Finally, go see the school for yourself.  Sign your child up for a shadow/buddy day so that he or she can experience a school with a currently enrolled student or administrator guide.  Openly listen to what your child has to say about that experience.