<p>@ " Let’s eat grandma."</p>
<p>“Oh, the humanity!”</p>
<p>Hot tea just came out through my nose. Thanks, granny!</p>
<p>That must have been a saying from centuries past. :D</p>
<p>Writing will not grow corn, writing will not build a bridge, …</p>
<p>No engineer or innovator will be taken seriously if he/she can’t express the idea logically and write convincing arguments. No one will follow such leader either.
I won’t hire anyone who can’t write no matter how glorious their resumes or references are.
One may go as far as a mechanic or excellent technician without good writing skills but no further.</p>
<p>@pwalsh, I work in a STEM field and can tell you first hand that if you can’t read critically, and can’t write well to express your ideas effectively, you don’t get very far in your career. It’s verbal ability that separates the STEM mice from the STEM men (and women). The higher you rise professionally, the more important your communication & writing skills become.</p>
<p>English class was just as important to my career trajectory as all the math, physics, chemistry & engineering courses I took. </p>
<p>Just try to build a bridge without writing a proposal.</p>
<p>Einstein barely spoke English, let alone write. </p>
<p>Writing technical proposals doesn’t require you to write like Charlotte Bronte, and the writing skills to write technical proposals are easily taught in all high schools. If you want to be the next JK Rowling, that’s another story entirely. Texting is the new writing. We convey messages with a “K” and you parents get it, right?</p>
<p>“Einstein’s General Theory of Writing” by Alice Calaprice</p>
<p>“… Albert Einstein was a prolific writer…”</p>
<p>[Einstein’s</a> general theory of writing | Books | The Guardian](<a href=“http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview36]Einstein’s”>Einstein's general theory of writing | Books | The Guardian)</p>
<p>Please read the article before posting. Have you read any of Einstein’s writings? Someone else is doing the writing for him.</p>
<p>From the article you referred:</p>
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<p>Yes, I have read Einstein. Good luck in your studies.</p>
<p>What writings of Einstein have you read?</p>
<p>I was certainly not talking about creative writing, but more along expository writing. Also, proposals are not written like a manual or documentation of software project (which any present day public high school teaches how to do anyway.) It’s often written more like a doctoral thesis. The ones I see are at least 200 -500 pages of writing for STEM projects.</p>
<p>I hope I’m not scaring away any STEM hopefuls. You do a lot if writing in STEM fields. Publish or perish.</p>
<p>How about this…</p>
<p>“Only two things are infinite, the universe and stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein</p>
<p>Why are we discussing a non-native’s possible problem in English skills? As long as one can write well in his/her language and have qualified translator at hand that’s not a problem. The latter is often difficult but not for Einstein as there were/are plenty of multilingual scientists. </p>
<p>Often with a foreign student’s writings, it’s not difficult to see if the student has English problem or ‘writing’ problem. Grammar problems can be fixed, but the editor/translator can’t fix what’s not there (such as logic or thesis.)</p>
<p>I’d recommend Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis papers. translations are publically available on the Internet.</p>
<p>Wow. This thread sure has strayed from the OP question!</p>
<p>Sooo back to HowdoIpay’s original concern regarding the anxiety of paying for BS…As a Taft grad who also has a “beans or rice” budget (best cc quote ever imo but then, hey, I feed my family by writing stuff) did he say he is applying for FA? Many families, mine included, have to really stretch to pay tuition but don’t apply for aid or don’t receive it</p>
<p>Not sure if the documents he refers to are FA paperwork or applications but in either case, now that we are facing payment #2, I have to agree - writing the checks is very nerve-wracking. Even if granted aid, many schools minimum family contribution is still close to $10,000. If your child does not fill a needed slot or is not a member of an under-represented group of some kind, FA is less likely to materialize</p>
<p>Please consider looking into boarding schools that also offer merit scholarships. It is possible to receive a scholarship AND substantial financial aid. </p>
<p>Mercersburg, Culver, and Kent are some of the schools that offer merit scholarships. A search on Boarding School Review will list many others.</p>
<p>Apply to some schools where stats exceed the averages provided by the school.</p>
<p>Hello - yes, we will be applying for financial aid. Honestly without it BS isn’t an option.</p>
<p>We’ve experienced sticker shock every step of the way. Seven years ago, when we first entered the world of private school tuition in a local day school, we were taken aback by the lifestyle changes we had to make. We were taken even more aback when we entered the world of BS tuition/EFC. And yes, college submitted us to a new level of sticker shock. I look back at our dismay with day school tuition with embarrassment that I was even surprised by it. </p>
<p>Yet at each point I would scan CC threads and other sources to glean whether our situation was within the norm. And each time I came away feeling that we had been given very generous packages, relatively speaking, at every turn. </p>
<p>The bottom line is that EFC at any level is not designed to leave you with much (any?) discretionary income, whether the school has a large endowment or not. We’ve never regretted our decision in large part because we have no local options. But when you are considering more than four years of tuition (college+) I think it helps to be very sure it’s worth it. In the end, we will have had 12 years of tuition (this does not include grad school) and our home equity and savings have taken a beating. But then, there is nothing we value more than our kids education. There are plenty of people around me who think we’re nuts.</p>
<p>S1 and D1 went to two different BS’s. S2 wants to go, but I think it would be a hard sell to convince me. Yes, good things came out of their time at BS, but I’m not sure they out weigh keeping your child local/ at home. My children have wonderful friends from public and private day schools with great college outcomes. I am on the fence as to whether I see the value added to sending our kids away, which was less than 2 hours from home for each. D1 is an hour away and S1 was 1 3/4 hour away. We saw them frequently, sometimes 2xweek. Now that one has graduated (from a highly ranked BS) I look back and regret the time I gave up with him. D1 is about to graduate and I feel the same. I really think I will keep S2 home at local day school.</p>