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Campbell Hall

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4533 Laurel Canyon Boulevard North Hollywood CA 91607 United States
Day
K to 12th
Gender
Coed

Academic

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One thing that I really appreciate Campbell Hall for is teaching me how to write at a college level. Starting in 9th grade they stress the importance of writing and each year they build on not only the quality of your writing, but also the amount of pages you write and what you are writing about. Senior year, we had to write an 8-10 page research paper for English where you had to come up with your own thesis, when given a very broad topic. While the teacher walked you through every step of the process it helped me learn how to write a paper in a way that I still use in college. The Block schedule (where you don't have the same classes every day and the time you are in class is longer) also helped because freshmen year, when my peers were struggling to pay attention for the fool hour and forty-five minutes of class, I had no issue because I was used to it. Classes were all lecture based, with power-points included to take notes from. While this is how most of my college courses are taught, I do wish we had been taught on how to take notes when a teacher just talks without including visuals because I struggle with knowing what exactly is important to take note of and what is not.

College Counseling

I first made my college list with my advisor at the beginning of my Junior....

Sample insights on college counseling

  • They have contacts at most of the major universities and feel perfectly comfortable picking up the phone and advocating for a student to get accepted somewhere they feel is a good fit for that student. However, these counselors are certainly not magic bullets. They cannot guarantee that a student will get into an Ivy League university...
  • For those wishing to move on to Oxford or Cambridge, the provision is second-to-none. In the months running up to application and interview, every subject faculty offers classes (often run by former Oxbridge tutors) exploring further areas of their subject as well as offering advice on personal statements, interview technique and more...

Admissions - Getting Accepted

To get into Campbell Hall, I had to take an exam when I was in....

Sample insights on admissions

  • For the interview, dress conservatively. Try to be very clean and put together. Also, I was a tour guide for two years and at the end of every tour, we were asked to evaluate the candidate so if you think the tour is not apart of the process, you are very wrong. Ask questions and be interested. Also, tip for the parents: the kids speak on the tour. Do not ask their questions for them...
  • Most younger siblings have an easy time in the admissions process. I can only think of one case of a younger sibling not being admitted. About half of the students who entered with me had come from public schools. The remainder came from private K-6 schools, or had transferred from other New York private schools The Elizabeth Morrow School and St. Bernard were two of the larger feeder schools...

School Life

The overall quality of student life was great. There was a balance of leisure and academics and everyone accepted everyone else for who they were. Most of the student body and the surrounding area is white, upper-middle class to upper class, but there were people under, and above this. The only hard part of this is that a lot of times, students didn't understand if someone did not have money to do something or why they didn't have certain designer things. The schools approach to discipline was too rigid at times. For instance, after formal or after prom parties were....

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