Our services
Boarding School Placement
Personal guidance to find, apply to, and enroll in the U.S. boarding school that fits your child.
From grade 6 through a postgraduate year, for families anywhere in the world.
Who we work with
From grade 6 through a postgraduate year
Families from anywhere in the world, including the United States, work with GESP. Every placement starts with the student.
Grades 6 to 9
Junior boarding
Schools for younger students that usually end at grade 8 or 9, with smaller classes and close supervision.
Grades 9 to 12
High school, entering at any grade
The full boarding-school years, whether your child starts in grade 9 or joins later.
After grade 12
Postgraduate (PG) year
One more year at a U.S. boarding school after finishing secondary school, often to strengthen academics, English or athletics before college.
Any profile
Academics, athletics, or both
Your child doesn’t need to be an athlete. For student-athletes, athletic fit is weighed alongside academic fit.
Student-Athlete Placement
Students with a learning difference or a specific interest are matched to schools that support it.
What’s included
Everything from the first conversation to your child’s first day
An assessment of your child
Academics, English, interests, personality, family priorities and budget, and athletics where they matter.
Three school proposals
Each one chosen for your child, with the reasons it fits.
Applications, handled with you
The SAO or the school’s own form, the Duolingo English Test, financial aid forms and interviews.
Offers compared, year by year
What each offer costs your family, year by year, at GESP's negotiated rates where they apply.
Visa guidance
The school issues the I-20 and the U.S. consulate decides the visa. We guide you through both.
One consultant
Your consultant stays your point of contact through enrollment and arrival.
How we choose schools
What we weigh for every student
We get to know your child first, then weigh each school's classrooms, teams, dorms and the people who run it.
Size
Intimate or larger communities
Academics
Rigor, interests and support
Athletics
Competitive or participatory
Region
Location and lifestyle
Cost
Tuition, aid and payment plans
Learning support
What the school provides, matched to your child
English support
Where your child’s English is today
Residential life
Dorms, weekends and community
Why boarding school
School, home and team in one community
Students live where they learn. Teachers often coach and live on campus, and the day runs from class to practice to evening study.
For student-athletes, it also means being inside the American system where college coaches already look: the same transcripts, counselors, coaches and calendar.
How we place student-athletes
Families and schools
Families we have placed, and the schools they attend
“They guided us through every step of the process, from finding the right schools to applying for financial aid, which can be overwhelming when you’re doing it from another country.”
Daniel’s journey: Williston Northampton School → Dickinson College
Schools in our network
75+ partner schools across the United States, known through campus visits, admissions tours and years of working with their admissions teams, teachers and coaches.
Meet the team and our global networkBefore you reach out
What it costs
GESP’s fee
GESP's fee is separate from school tuition. Your consultant sets it out on the first call.
Financial aid
Aid is awarded by each school, and international students generally receive less than domestic students.
What happens after you reach out is on Our Process.
Start with a conversation
Start with a conversation about your child.
No Dream Is Too Big.