<p>It was my impression too that many junior boarders skip the last year to become four-year seniors.</p>
<p>If you look at the websites of K-9 schools they often tout the value of the 9th grade year. 9th graders are given extra privileges and/or leadership positions. It’s 'cause the school is trying to keep enrollment up for the 9th grade.</p>
<p>At S1’s school, the JBS kids he knows finished JBS thru 9th grade; however, they were savvy about maximizing their chance of admission and a number of them applied as repeat 9th graders.</p>
<p>Most boys stay for 9th at those Jr. BS (only 2 kids left Eaglebrook last year after 8th). Most then go into 10th, though some repeat 9th (but not the majority). No idea about girls’ JBS.</p>
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<p>At Fessenden the 9th grade class drops by about 40 percent. Fewer than half of the 8th grade at Fenn (day, but similar in all other ways to Fessenden) stays for 9th, and around half of those do 9-9. The ninth grade drops at CMS too, although not as precipitously. It is much less common for girls to repeat than boys.</p>
<p>So is it easier to get into BS for tenth? I’ve been curious.</p>
<p>I don’t think this thread has really answered that. It looks like-- at some schools-- a higher percentage of applicants get in, but not so much at others (including the HADES schools). The JBS piece is hard to know without real numbers-- these kids definitely are more successful than average at getting in-- they’ve been independent, succeeded in a BS environment, there’s a very good placement program in place, classes are geared to fitting into a BS plan. So that means that kids outside the JBS system have to compete with kids who are especially attractive and prepared for BS, which somewhat lowers the chances for everyone else. But, unless we really have numbers (how many are coming out of JBS, how many are applying for 10th), I certainly can’t tell how much that affects the admit rate for everyone else. Anyone have those numbers?</p>
<p>The stat that most determines the percentage of 10th graders admitted at any school is the yield for the 9th graders the year before. For example NMH which is cited above as being a good bet for 10th grade actually had a huge yield for the class of 2016 in 9th grade, leaving less beds for the 10th grade applicants last year. Some sophomores are actually in the freshman dorm this year as a result. So my guess is the ease of admission for 10th grade is going to vary greatly from year to year according to yield regardless of the school’s overall acceptance rate.</p>
<p>The schools I was referring to were acronym schools including a HADES.</p>
<p>There are a number of private schools, both day and boarding, which run through 9th grade. So the pool applying for 10th grade is not composed solely of the students who didn’t find a match the year before; they’re joined by a slew of mostly full-pay kids who are well prepared, and often have already played high school sports.</p>
<p>They also have good placement advisors at their private schools, who do steer them to the right schools. So the admit rates and yield rates aren’t so useful to compare 9th and 10th grade, because there may be more well-advised students who apply to one, two, three schools (?) rather than 8. </p>
<p>The good news I would take away from the stats cited is how many first round applicants end up happily enrolled somewhere. Happy enough at any rate not to be applying out.</p>