Traditional School Advising

Our educational planning includes:

• Assisting students and families in clarifying their educational priorities;

• Assessing a student’s needs and accomplishments, as well as academic, extracurricular, and social goals;

• Providing informed, personalized school and program recommendations;

• Designing and implementing a strategy to maximize the student's chances for admission;

• Providing a clear timeline for the application process;

• Consulting on standardized testing, including ERB, ISEE, SSAT, TOEFL; 

• Mentoring students through the campus visit and interview, the application process, and essay review;

• Advocating for the student with admissions officers when appropriate; and

• Monitoring progress and providing ongoing support and communication with parents throughout the process.

Secondary Boarding School

We help students find the schools where they can discover themselves.

Boarding schools offer transformative experiences that can only happen in a setting that lives an educational mission 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.

Dedicated teachers who live on-campus are accessible to students around the clock, whether for extra help during evening study hours, coaching on the soccer field, or an extracurricular conversation about computer programming or U.S. history over a board game on Saturday night. By getting to know students in the classroom, on athletic fields, in the dining hall, and as dorm residents, faculty develop a comprehensive picture of each student’s strengths and areas for growth. Top-notch facilities are available for athletics and the arts, while service and social activities are interwoven throughout the community. Depending on their mission and focus, these schools offer a wide variety of signature programs, for example, leadership training, real-world internships, and primary research.

At TBG, we help families find the right fit with a school so that students reap the full benefits of a secondary boarding opportunity. We have decades of experience in matching teenagers to environments that foster their intellectual, social, physical, and emotional growth. As a result, our candidates embrace their emerging independence, graduating with impressive maturity, academic and leadership skills, and a sense of self that they carry forward into college and future careers.  

Junior Boarding School

We help families benefit from unique educational opportunities.

Not as well-known as secondary boarding schools, junior boarding schools offer an unparalleled learning environment for students in sixth through ninth grades. Early adolescence encompasses one of the most dramatic—and vulnerable—phases of child development. During this special time, the tight-knit community of a boarding school can offer structure, challenge, and nurturing from exceptional adult mentors, who serve as teachers, coaches, and residential life advisors. Junior boarding schools are known for helping students find their academic and social confidence as well as their independence through a highly supervised experience. The ninth-grade year at these schools encourages students to become role models to younger peers at a time when they are developmentally ready to embrace the concept of leadership. 

Ultimately, junior boarding schools provide the ideal academic and social preparation for secondary school. A junior boarding school education can be a life-changing gift to a child: nurturing his or her initiative and resiliency, and laying the foundation for success in secondary school, college, and life. TBG helps families identify and access these opportunities.

Day School

We help you find the right school, close to home.

Families are often attracted to the abundant educational and extracurricular possibilities at independent day schools. However, discerning how each school’s mission, merits, and unique approach to education may—or may not—serve a specific child can be a challenge.

TBG’s individualized approach, together with our in-depth knowledge of schools, provides each family with the confidence to make informed decisions and find the synergy between a specific student and a school. Our experience navigating the complex and often competitive admission process benefits the family experience and the student outcomes.