Admissions Management for Boarding Schools

On offer acceptance, the visa-documentation pack auto-generates per the destination country: UK requires CAS (Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies) from a Home-Office-Tier-4-sponsor school per Home Office Tier-4 child student guidance; US requires I-20 from a SEVIS-certified school for F-1 visa application. The platform tracks document checklist completion, school-side issuance of CAS / I-20, and parent-side visa application progress (interview scheduled, visa granted, travel booked). ISI inspection of UK boarding schools and SEVIS audit of US boarding schools both prepared from this record.

Per UK ISI guidance and HMC best practice, international boarders under-18 must have a UK-based educational guardian responsible for the student during exeats, half-term, illness, and emergencies. The platform captures the educational guardian appointment (name, address, relationship, AEGIS-accreditation status if applicable), verifies references, and stores the guardian agreement. On enrolment, the guardian is linked to the student record alongside parents.

Configurable per school: typical rules include sibling-in-house priority (younger brother goes to elder brother's house), geographic distribution (no single country/region dominating one house), gender (separate boys / girls houses), and academic-stream balance (mix of science / arts / humanities students). Roommate matching for new first-year boarders runs via questionnaire (sleep pattern, study habits, social style, sports). Housemaster reviews allocations before publication.

Yes. Fees bill in the institution's billing currency (typical: GBP for UK schools, USD for US, CHF for Swiss); parent pays via Stripe (covering 130+ currencies), wire transfer (with auto-generated reference and tracking), or Razorpay/Paystack/MidTrans for region-specific gateways. FX rate locks at offer acceptance per institution policy to avoid mid-year exchange shocks. Wire transfer reconciliation auto-matches by reference number.

A top applicant typically holds 3-5 offers from competing boarding schools. Each school issues an offer with a decision deadline (TABS standard: April 10 for most US boarding schools; UK schools vary). The platform tracks offer-out, deadline, accept/decline status. School-side admissions team sees the conversion funnel live; can adjust waitlist movement accordingly. Once accepted, offer is locked and downstream onboarding (visa, house, fees, pastoral) triggers.

Before the student arrives: medical disclosure (chronic conditions, medications, allergies, mental-health history with parent consent), dietary needs (halal/kosher/vegetarian/specific allergies — communicated to mess), educational guardian / local guardian appointment (UK ISI requirement for international under-18s), airport pickup booking (school sends staff/driver to airport), uniform sizing with vendor for pre-arrival shipping, induction-day schedule communication. Housemaster reviews each new boarder's file before arrival. First-night-in-house buddy assigned from existing residents.