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College Application Boot Camp Draws Students to Campus
"You have a story to tell," Ted Blain, chair of Woodberry's English department, told a large group of sixth formers gathered in Brown Lecture Hall for Woodberry Forest School's first-ever College Application Boot Camp. He and several other English teachers offered personalized essay-writing help during the second day of the optional workshop, held August 22 - 26, 2016.
Woodberry's college counseling office designed the weeklong program to help prepare sixth formers to put their best selves forward on their college applications. Other sessions focus on standardized testing, using the college admissions software Naviance, completing the Common Application, and resume building.
"We're very pleased that roughly three-quarters of the senior class is participating in this elective program," says Phil Hooper, director of college counseling. About the same proportion of fifth formers also returned early to campus for an SAT preparatory course.
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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