<p>11% at lawrenceville? just came back from the revisit. my kid hated it. stated his host was a dud with no common interests. my kid had lawrenceville on the top of his list, but the admission staff blew it on the revisit by matching weak hosts with their admittees.</p>
<p>Creative1: Good point about the yield rate for day students. Probably similar for Exeter, as they also have about 20% day students in current population. Would be interesting to see separate yield stats for day and boarding students at these schools.</p>
<p>WYVERN: Is your child a male or female? I am trying to keep a list of accepted students (as we are wait listed at two schools) to see if anyone says "no" to our schools. Your posts seem to mention a girl and a boy. I only ask for my totally non scientific research!</p>
<p>My post #4 is confusing because it is not easy to read. I hope this makes it more understandable:</p>
<p>I think prep admissions for many schools parallel the increases in college admissions. I wonder when it will slow down.</p>
<p>Here is something I found on WikiAnswers:</p>
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In 2008, at many private schools, the acceptance rates are actually much lower than the 45% from a previous post. Record number of applications over the past few years have resulted in a significantly reduced acceptance rate. 2008 is noted as a "peak" year with the number of applications expected to drift downward. I think many schools are both excited about the rising quality that numbers bring and concerned that the new numbers will scare off qualified candidates. Our son applied to several schools . The 2008 stats provided by those schools are as follows:
Blair 700 applicants 120 openings (all grades), 550 applicants 90 openings 9th grade = 16% acceptance. </p>
<p>Episcopal = 600 Applicants 100 openings = 16% </p>
<p>Lawrenceville 1450 Applicants 150 9th grade openings = 11%. </p>
<p>**Comment to above: Please note that not every accepted applicant matriculates to the school. If the yield rate is 50% (that is, 50% of accepted students matriculate), then the acceptance rate at Blair would be 32%. **If and when I learn what the acceptance rate was this year, I will post it.
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<p>This was in the most recent Blair Headmaster's letter: </p>
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Meanwhile, our own admissions continues to set records, as we have experienced another double-digit percentage rise in applications, breaking our previous totals for applications numbers. We now await the decisions of those accepted to Blair, and we anticipate a very strong and vibrant group of new students next year.
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<p>wyvern - If I was councilling my own child, I wouldn't let a poor match w/ a revisit host get in the way if my child liked everything else about the school. I'm sure it was disappointing but don't judge on one child. Having a 9th grade child attending boarding school now, I can imagine it's not always easy for admissions to find a perfect match for every kid. At my d's school, they have 3 revisits scheduled, each of which spand over 2 days. Not all kids volunteer to do revisits and most students will only do one, so admissions could be limited on making all of them a great match.</p>
<p>yes for sure the yield at andover is helped by students. I live in anodver and know about 20 day students who got in last year, every single one of them ended up attending</p>
<p>1234, son says nix to Lvlle. daughter leaning towards deerfield, son undecided between sps and groton.</p>
<p>to JennyCraig:</p>
<p>from Andover's newspaper The Phillipian, April 4, 2008:</p>
<p>"Apart from the 450 admitted students, the Admissions Office placed about 25 boys and 25 girls on the waiting list for both the Junior and Lower class. Fried wrote that generally 10 to 15 students will be moved off the wait list depending on various factors, including class size and the number of beds."</p>
<p>Wyvern: TWO of them! Are they twins or different grades? I can not imagine dealing with two sets of applications. We want a 9th grade boy spot at Andover or Exeter. I know, so do LOTS of others! Luckily, we have an acceptance from an excellent day prep.</p>
<p>The Lawrenceville School will welcome the families of nearly 300 prospective Lawrentians to campus on its three annual revisit days, April 1, 4, and 8. The students, who have been admitted to Lawrenceville, are visiting the campus prior to making their school choices for next year. Decisions are due by April 10.</p>
<p>On revisit days, admitted students and their families will attend classes and a variety of programs designed to acquaint them with the unique opportunities available at Lawrenceville. They will have time to meet with current Lawrentians and faculty to get a true insider's view of life at Lawrenceville.</p>
<p>Lawrenceville received a record number of applications this yearmore than 1,600. According to Greg Maloberti, dean of admission, the Admission Committee reviews carefully the academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, extra-curricular involvement, and personal qualities of each candidate in an attempt to create a successful student body that will be well served by the programs Lawrenceville offers and that is widely representative of the world in which we live. Only 22% of the candidates who applied this year were offered admission.</p>
<p>"While this speaks well of Lawrenceville's reputation, the Admission Committee has never had to disappoint so many qualified candidates as we have this year," said Maloberti.</p>
<p>From Exeter's website:
The crop of students accepted for 2008-09 is a group of inquisitive, clever and hardworking youngsters from more than 22 countries and nearly all 50 states. The number of this year’s applicants is up by more than 400. They hail from places as varied as Brazil, southern California, Canada, Texas and Connecticut. </p>
<p>Treda Collier, associate director of admissions, with a
prospective student and admissions tour guide
Of the 2,678 applicants, 484 #18 percent# have already accepted the invitation to become part of the Exeter community. Families have until Thursday, April 10, to reserve a space in the class. This year’s number of applicants is up by 14 percent, an increase of 371 from last year’s. That continues a three-year trend of rising numbers of applicants. </p>
<p>Phillips</a> Exeter Academy | New Crop of Students ‘Experience’ a Day on Exeter’s Campus</p>
<p>Financial aid offers are also on the upswing. The announcement last November that an Exeter education is free to families making $75,000 or less, followed several years of ever increasing aid to applicants. This year, 56 percent of accepted students were offered aid. That’s up from 50 percent in 2007-08, and 45 percent in 2006-07. “We’re very proud of that,” says Admissions Director Michael Gary. “It is truly a blessing to be able to admit the kids we want regardless of their financial need.” </p>
<p>If they accept, members of this year’s class could include a debate team captain; a Massachusetts All-State football quarterback and regional basketball champion; an artist; a newspaper reporter from Florida who was awarded a patent for his “Adaptive Magnetic Levitation Apparatus and Method;” a cross country runner; a clarinetist; an equestrian from New Hampshire who also races go-carts; a professional actor; and a premier level soccer player from Oregon who plays jazz piano, tap dances and studies two foreign languages. </p>
<p>More than 18 percent of this class would be students of color, 13 percent day and legacy students, 51 percent boys and 49 percent girls.</p>
<p>I don't really get the admissions stats in the article above, but the percentage of students offered FA - 56% - is very impressive!</p>
<p>NMH had an admissions rate of 20% for ninth grade, I don't know about the other grades. On my revisit they told me that they had 350 applicants for grade nine spots and they admitted 70 students.</p>
<p>hellosunshine -- Please remember that not every admitted student attends the school. What you missing above is the yield rate for the school -- that is, the percent of admitted students who accept the offer of admission. If it is 50%, then the acceptance rate would be around 40%. Predicting the correct yield rate is an art and science for Admissions. They accept more students than they have places based on a predicted yield. The wait list protects them from an incorrect yield prediction and gives them some options if needed talents do not accept the admissions offers.</p>
<p>I understand that the yield rate matters, but I don't understand why it changes the admission rate. Shouldn't the admission rate be separate from the yield rate? "Admission" does not mean admitted and went, it means that a student was admitted. Can someone explain to me why the yield is a component in the admission rate?</p>
<p>If what you said above is correct, then NMH went from having an admit rate of around 40-50+% (my memory) to around 20%. Also, for a school of around 600, it seems strange that they would admit only 70 to 9th grade. Perhaps there was some misunderstanding?</p>
<p>I don't really understand that, either. Another question....is "acceptance rate" the same as "admission rate". One seems to imply that a student accepted, whereas one just seems to signify who was accepted and did not necessarily choose to attend.</p>
<p>I believe NMH starts with a smaller 9th grade class and has larger classes for later grades. Some schools only fill in vacancies after 9th grade; not NMH to my understanding. So a 9th grade class makes sense.</p>
<p>Oh? I thought that was the norm. (To admit increasingly more students).</p>
<p>The most recent published stat on BSR is 51%, which is three years old, and was the year immediately following the consolidation of the two NMH campuses, which could account for the decrease in applications. They did announce in a letter from the head of the school that they had a 20% increase in applications for ninth grade this year.
Also, I believe those numbers can be substantiated by others as well. I was part of a parent calling forum for newly admitted students, and several parents reported being told those same numbers.</p>
<p>Perhaps NMH received 350 applications for 70 spots for 9th grade girls? 70 does seem to be small for the total 9th grade class.....But, NMH did have the letter to parents on their web site about the 20% increase in applications.</p>