TaborTalk Blog

^{Written by Deb Cohen P’22 (mother of Hailey Cohen ’22)}

The flood of colleges switching to test optional and “test flexible” admissions began as a trickle in 1969 when Bowdoin became the first college in the U.S. to make the submission of standardized test scores optional. Now, almost fifty years later, over 1000 colleges and universities have followed Bowdoin down the test-optional path.

Everything we do at Tabor moves us closer to our mission, and both a lifelong love of learning and care for others and committed citizenship were pursued with gusto by our faculty this summer.

When visitors come to my house or to my neighborhood, or even to my town, I like to show them around, point out different places I like and tell them stories. It has always been natural for me to share places with people who are seeing them for the first time, especially if it is a place I love. So, of course, when I came to Tabor Academy I became a tour guide so I could share my new school in the same way.

Two junior students traded places between Marion and Beijing this fall:  Amber Harris, from Tabor will attend the school Ricky Ren has joined us from, RDFZ Xishan School in Beijing!

Being a captain of a team at Tabor has been one of my goals since first arriving on campus, largely due to the impact of the captains who have led the many teams I have previously played on.

Since my son Jackson was seven years old, we have carved out at least one week each summer to take a father-son trip.

^{Senior Dorm Proctor, Phoebe Dias ’19, shares some insight into making the most of your start, right from the start!}

As we finalize preparations for starting school, it is always nice to celebrate the birthday of our founder, Elizabeth Taber.

The college counselor’s hand eagerly shot into the air.  

“Yes, please go ahead,”  said Shawn Felton, director of undergraduate admissions at Cornell University, making eye contact with the woman with her hand up.

Peter Cheung, a Tabor student from Hong Kong, was chosen as Tabor’s CIEE Tokyo 2018 Idemitsu Scholar

The sixth and final orientation cruise started on a hot sunny day as nervous faces arrived at the Tabor waterfront to check in. Just like our incoming students, this would be my first time on an Orientation at Sea trip; you could say we were all in the same boat.