With a focus on college guidance as well as private day and boarding schools, we offer expert counsel to parents deeply committed to their children's academic success.
Our Services
Initial / General Consultation
During this complimentary consultation, your placement partner will explore your child’s and family’s interests, values, parameters, perspectives, and expectations. Your partner will follow up with an email with tailored recommendations.
Personalized / A la Carte Services
Placement Partners are well-versed in all aspects of the K-12 admissions process. Our team can personalize services to ensure your family’s needs are met with the best course of action throughout the admissions process.
Comprehensive Admissions Package
Partnership and guidance throughout the four stages of the independent school admissions and enrollment process: Our thorough process-oriented approach, from summer/fall until decision dates and continuing post-enrollment, ensures that your child has the best opportunity to capitalize on their unique qualities and achieve their greatest individual potential.
FAQs
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The school years – between kindergarten and senior year of high school – remain the most foundational and transformational in most people’s lives. Each year, and even each passing day, provides an opportunity for children to take one step closer to being the best and most authentic versions of themselves. In order to truly thrive, children must engage with adults who know them, care for them, and challenge them and are surrounded by a community of peers who share their values and who maintain lofty aspirations and high standards. A rising tide truly does lift all boats. It's well known that by about age nine, children’s peer groups have the largest impact on their beliefs, values, and aspirations. Without match, Independent Schools provide the context as well as the resources for children to flourish and grow to achieve and become their best.
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Admissions Counselors help navigate the ubiquity of outstanding educational opportunities that exist, break down the extremely high barrier to entry, and demystify the intentionally opaque admissions processes, walking step by step with you and your child throughout the invigorating, yet daunting, admissions process.
School choice is among the most consequential decisions we can make for our children. The admissions processes can be incredibly rigorous and opaque, and it varies from school to school. When partnering with a Counselor that understands both children and schools, the process itself becomes an opportunity for reflection and growth, not just a means to an end.
Partnering with a trusted counselor to help solidify your family’s values and expectations and to appreciate the complexity of your child ensures that you will identify and gain entry into the best school option for your family.
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Each Baly Group counselor possesses rich and deep experience in independent school leadership and admissions. Between our knowledge and understanding of the admissions process, the relationships we have with school and admissions officers, and our ability to understand and build relationships with children and families, we can ensure that your child ends up in the School that’s best for him/her.