This week's spotlight takes us to Upper Canada College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. UCC is a large PK-12 boys' school. The upper school curriculum is college preparatory. Students take courses leading to the International Baccalaureate diploma which is recognized at colleges and universities around the world. It is tough to get into 9th grade, the normal high school entry point at UCC. Applicants outnumber available places by a ratio of 8 to 1.

Read UCC's profile. If you went to Upper Canada College, tell us about your experiences and what you thought of the school. Please post your response here.

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With more and more private schools using Twitter, I found myself wondering whether it might be a useful tool during the school selection process. If I were visiting schools, I'd want to keep in touch with them after the visit.

Twitter offers a great way to keep in touch. That's because most schools have figured out that tweeting about anything which is going on at school reaches a large audience. When a professional writer like me sees something interesting on Twitter, I retweet it to all of my followers. So the exposure to a school's message grows exponentially. Would I use Twitter to follow a school if I were a parent choosing schools? You bet.

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You can take the SSAT or Secondary School Aptitude Test on several test dates throughout the year. But the December test date is typically the last one before the deadline for many private school applications. January 15 or February 1 are common application deadlines. The late online registration deadline for the December 12 SSAT is this Friday, November 27.

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I recently received a copy of Our Kids Go to School. It is Canada's Private School Guide and is also available online. What impressed me was how small Canada's private school community really is. The U.S. has over 29,000 private schools as opposed to a couple of thousand schools north of the border.

If you live in Canada and are thinking about private school, you will certainly want to read Our Kids Go to School from cover to cover. There's lots of good information. The school display ads are gorgeous.

If you live in the U.S. and are thinking about private school, why not add a Canadian school or two to your list? They offer great value, are an hour or two at most from most major American cities and just might give your kid an advantage when he goes to apply to college. After all, not many American high school students study abroad.

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