Applying to Private School? Here's What You Should Have Done by Nov. 15
By Caleb Park
KEY Admissions Advisor
While fostering social and emotional learning, we teach children essential skills and concepts for long-term success in highly selective schools. Current research shows that children achieve the best results academically, emotionally, socially, physically, and artistically when they develop a balance of these intelligences. KEY teachers know that self-regulated learning is also critical to success in today’s education system and they strive to help young children regulate their learning.
Our unique Academic Planning process gives your child the advantage by assessing where they need to focus and then recommending a pathway to academic success. From there, Subject Tutoring allows for your child to select particular subjects they find difficult or would like to get ahead in with private, semi-private and group classes for all subjects at any age level. Finally, work with our Admissions team for that edge when applying for private and boarding schools. At KEY, our staff will customize a plan that meets the needs of your child and your family.
KEY’s expert Admissions Guidance Specialists are here to support you in finding the institution and program that best suits your child. Private schools, as well as university programs and policies, evolve constantly. At KEY, we follow the dynamic nature of the admissions process to provide accurate information and effective advising sessions with our students. Our commitment through tutoring, academic planning, and admissions is to ensure your child is submitting an application that sets them apart from the status quo.
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We’re more than admissions and educational consultants. At KEY we take a long-term, strategic approach centered on the individual student’s best interests. We are Western educated, raised with global backgrounds and viewpoints. From our KEY Early Years early childhood education program through to our KEY university admissions guidance, all of our programs and services are designed to give each of our students the best opportunity to thrive within their current education environment and beyond. We help lay essential and formative foundations for our students to help them create their own legacies and find success. We endeavor to teach our students to be deep learners.
At KEY our approach to building a team begins with the values of intelligence, passion, and innovation.
We look for like-driven people who bring an agility, enthusiasm, and an ability to pioneer new concepts to the organization that inspires and ignites abilities in all of us:
INTELLIGENCE. PASSION. CULTURE FIT.
With this approach, we empower our team to rise to challenges that helping families through the process of providing their children with the best opportunities to succeed in school and in life.
As entrepreneurs in a burgeoning industry, we rely on the innovation of the people we work with to create vibrant learning space. We offer a supportive environment for our employees as we do each family KEY serves.
Yesterday, in the middle of a meeting, I got the text from my daughter’s high school. Mid-term grades are out, and her math teacher wanted to talk. Eyebrows raised, I logged into my e-mail and there was the topic of our discussion staring back at me: a 54.9 percent mid-term grade in math.
The full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival is on the wane, but our private school application season is only beginning to wax. It’s now time to turn your eyes away from the autumn sky (and yes, from those scrumptious moon cakes, too) and look squarely at where you are in the application process.
At KEY, we have helped many students achieve their goals of successful admission to their chosen private schools. A vital component of the admissions process is the SSAT exam.
Many new families to Canada want to take advantage of Vancouver’s world-renowned education by enrolling their children into top private schools. With limited spots available, the biggest question families want answered is, “Am I Ready?”
KEY's SAT Academic Level Test Preparation course helps me identify personal weaknesses and teaches me how to effectively improve weaknesses. My teachers are responsible, intimate and professional, and in line with the different learning needs of each of us. The content of the lectures is rich and profound, which not only makes people satisfied, but also helps me to learn the methods of preparing for the exams, which will make me useless in my future life. KEY, thank you for teaching me how to "crack" the SAT!
Curious, concerned or confused about the UBC admissions application prompts?
Curious, concerned or confused about the UBC admissions application prompts?
Curious, concerned or confused about the UBC admissions application prompts?
As parents, we want to make sure that our children have the right education for their future. However, when it came time to apply for private schools, we realized just how competitive the admissions process was. KEY helped put our minds at ease as they guided us through the behind-the-scenes process of the application process to top private schools. We saw the value in working with a KEY admissions expert who not only went to a top private school but also had work experience as a private school admissions interviewer. We will certainly return to KEY when it comes time to prepare for the university application process.