College Prep boarding schools.
All the private schools we work with in the United States of America have the College Prep designation. With the guidence of the College Counselors, and based on their academic performance and results, each student applies and secures up to 5-9 top college and university acceptances at the best universities of the world. The options are boarding schools or private schools with homestay.
The key aspects that define the Academic Year program at private schools in the United States of America are: prestige, tradition, the highest academics and qualified teachers, and state of the art facilities. In this section you will find all the boarding schools program details. For private schools with homestay you can find all the information at the following section: USA Family
Once we have identified the candidate’s main interests, we will carefully select the perfect school for their profile: mixed or single sex schools, with or without uniform, specialized in academics like STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), business, graphic design, with strong art programs, music options, performing arts, media studies, etc. The same for sports interests like a great soccer team, competitive ski and snowboarding teams, sailing options, swimming, equestrian, or even aviation programs (extra cost) at military boarding schools. We will select the best possible school to fit the student’s main areas of interest.
Campus
All teachers, staff members, counselors and advisors are highly educated and provide an exhaustive supervision for each student through the academic year in order to guarantee the best possible academic results. Every week, each advisor meets with the assigned students up to 3 times to make sure they reach their full potential.
On top of that every student quickly develops a strong study habit thanks to the daily 2 hours mandatory study hall. These supervised periods of study are guided by teachers and staff members of each boarding school, so the students learn key organizative skills to develope their academic success.
Classes
In order to select the best possible school for the candidate’s profile, it’s essential to get to know their interests in academics, sports, music and art options, weather and environment. Once we have established those key aspects we can select the perfect fit for each student among the school selection we have made over the years after visiting hundreds of top private schools.
New England area, in the east coast, allows students to graduate and study in some of the best Universities and Colleges of the world located in the Boston area, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts or even New York: Yale, Harvard, Columbia MIT, Boston University, Brown, Darmouth, Pennsylvania, etc. Upon arrival, each student is assigned to a College Counselor who will guide them according to the student’s academic performance, chosen career and sport interests. To ensure having a wide range of options, each student usually applies up to 6-10 different colleges and universities to maximaze the number of acceptances.
Environment
For students without ski interests or used to warmer climates there are plenty of other options and areas in the United States with warmer weather and temperature and outside sports all year long. Among these areas we find options like Texas, or with ocean proximity for swimming, surf, marine biology, scuba diving or sailing programs in spectacular beach areas like Hawaii, Florida, (Miami, Palm Beach, Orlando) or California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara). All these destinations also offer all kinds of strong academic options like STEM programs (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), environmental sciences, astronomy, etc. In California the students usually apply to technology colleges in order to work in top companies based in Silicon Valley.
There are also options for military boarding schools for parents looking for a more disciplined environment with both mixed and boys only options. Some of them even offer outstanding aviation programs (extra cost) for students who want to become pilots.
For the more adventurous students with strong sailing interests, we have the spectacular alternative of the sailboat across the world program . This incredible option allows students to live on a boat during the entire academic year and to travel to 20 different countries where they will do all kinds of field work activities for around 10 days each (Italy, Greece, Cuba, Barbados, Norway, USA, South Africa, France, Netherlands, Brazil…) Given the very specific nature of the program, (living on a boat without internet) it only considers very mature candidates between 17-19 years old going to study their 11th, 12th grade or PG programs.
The cost for the academic year program at the private boarding schools in the Unitede States is similar to the cost of America’s top universities, around 45.000$-75.000$ + health insurance (2.000$) + student account (2.000$) + our fees (4.000€ + VAT). For parents with limited budgets some of the schools offer financial aid opportunities and merit scholarships for excelent academic candidates or athletes who can become important assets. Here, at International Academic Programs, we are specialized in securing those financial aids to families with needs can leave the cost of the academic year program in around 35.000$-40.000$ + health insurance (2.000$) + student account (2.000$) + our fees (4.000€ + VAT). Families must provide financial proof to access the financial aid.
Sports
The sports offered at the boarding schools are played through 3 different seasons and according to the student’s level so each one could play up to 3 different competitive sports during the academic year program. Each season offers different options and for example, in fall students can practice soccer, field hockey or golf among others. In winter time they can practice indoor sports like volleyball or basketball, or mountain related options like ski and snowboarding. Finally during spring they can join tennis, lacrosse or track and field. The sports offered in each season depend on the selected area and specific weather chosen in the United States.
Regarding arts, the schools offer many programs like media studies, movie production, photography, drama, ceramics, painting, audio editing, virtual reality, coding, etc.
For weekend activites the students have many different options like sport competitions, (each team plays every weekend agains other private schools in the area in their respective leagues), movie nights, formal dances, Halloween and Thanksgiving parties, trips to the mall, restaurants, cultural visits, karts, ski trips, paintball, university visits, day trips to major cities, nature options like hiking, kayaking, etc. Every weekend students get to choose the activities they are most interested in.
Extracurricular activities
Recreation
Next you will find an interactive map showing every area we promote in each destination, with links to the specific reports indicated with the symbol .
Once you click in each of these reports you will be able to check our impressions, photos and videos of the best schools we select in each area.
Travel Blog
Boarding schools in the USA reports
Video reports
Video reports of our visits to boarding schools in the United States.