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Anne C.

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Review for The Gow School, South Wales, NY, USA

Rating: 5 stars  

Our son is an intelligent person, but by 9th grade I feared he would not graduate from high school. He had struggled in school since first grade due to his dyslexia and was miserable and without confidence. He enrolled at The Gow School in the 9th grade and graduated a totally different person. The first year, he learned that he could learn and he never looked back. He is in college in a 3-2 program now. He spent his first 3 years of college at Earlham College, double majoring in pre-engineering and physics. He is in the second of his last two years at Columbia University Engineering School. After he finishes his second year at Columbia, he will receive a Bachelors degree from each institution. Gow changed his life, and gave us, his parents the knowledge that he could succeed in life. Before he went to Gow, my motto for him was "a mind is a terrible thing to waste." His mind is no longer being wasted, thanks to Gow and his hard work. We are very grateful for the life the Gow school gave back to our son, through the good work of the faculty and staff there.

I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...

seeing the progress that my son and his fellow students made as they advanced through the curriculum and learned the skills and gained the confidence they needed.

If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...

keep it going the way it has been going. I don't have suggestions for change.

Role:  Client Served & I sent my son away to boarding school when he was only 15, knowing that it would change his life for the better.