<p>Anyone have the current year's acceptance rates for the various schools? I have seen some figures but assume many sources are out of date. Have heard, for example, that Blair has dipped below 30% & that Brooks was insanely competitive this year. Where/how are the most current figures released?</p>
<p>There is a thread on this which you may be able search.</p>
<p>2011 (from my reading the cc posts earlier)
Deerfield 13.5%
Andover 14%
Exeter ~19%
Hotchkiss 19%
Lawrenceville~22%
SPS not sure 20% may be. You can say most of the HADES are below 20%.</p>
<p>2kidsnoanswers,</p>
<p>Andover: 14% admit rate, 78% yield. </p>
<p>Website research should reveal the acceptance/yield rates at other prep schools. Keep in mind, that admit rates for new upperclassmen (11th grade, 12th grade, PG) may be lower.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Loomis Chaffee was 28%</p>
<p>St. Andrew’s site says their accept rate is 28% and yield is 61%…though I’ve heard the actual accept number in recent years is in the teens.</p>
<p>Here are some stats from BSR:</p>
<p>Cate School: 22%
Choate Rosemary Hall:22%
Deerfield Academy: 14%
Georgetown Preparatory School:23%
Groton School: 19%
The Hotchkiss School: 20%
Lawrenceville School:23%
Middlesex School: 19%
Peddie School: 23%
Phillips Academy Andover: 14%
Phillips Exeter Academy:19%
St. Paul’s School: 16%
The Taft School: 23%
The Thatcher School: 17%
The Governor’s Academy: 29%
The Loomis Chaffee School: 28%
Milton Academy: 26%
St. Andrew’s School: 29%
St. George’s School (DE): 28%
Suffield Academy: 29%
Westminster School: 28%
Blair Academy:30%
Brooks School: 33%
Concord Academy: 32%
Emma Williard School: 33%
Woodside Priory School (Priory): 31%
Berkshire School: 36%
Hill School: 38%
Mercersburg Academy: 37%
St. Mark’s School: 35%
Salisbury School: 39%
Episcopal High School: 40%
Miss Porter’s School: 43%
The Williston Northhampton School: 43%
Avon Old Farms School: 48%
Cuulver Academies: 49%
Northfield Mount Hermon School: 46%
Portsmouth Abbey School: 45%
Lawrence Academy: 50%
Pomfret School: 52%
The Cambridge School of Weston: 60%
Idyllwild Arts Academy: 66%
Interlochen Arts Academy: 65%
Kimball Union Academy: 65%
New Hampton School: 60%
Trinity Pawling School:60%</p>
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<p>From Thacher’s public website:</p>
<p>Approximately 500 applicants were winnowed down to 85 who were offered admission (a 17% acceptance rate). 80% of those said, “Yes!” (some with two exclamation marks!!)—and voila! New kids on the block are a bunch of hits and ready to help make 2011-12 The Best Year Yet, talent and smarts (average SSAT score 90% percentile) and passion sharpened by the anticipation of becoming a member of the Thacher fam. And they are a diverse group, as well—having packed their duffels in 15 different states and six other countries, bringing all-school totals to 28 states and 11 countries. Self-reporting as students of color are 36% of the newbies, and 28% are receiving some form of financial aid (30% in the school at large).</p>
<p>@invent: what school are you attending this fall?</p>
<p>I received an email from one of the staff at NMH, and he says that out of 300 applicants, 100 are admitted- or 1 out of 3 are admitted. So roughly 33% for freshmen. But the yield may be low, so it could be well above 33%.</p>
<p>DA, Planning to drop out of school and start a company. There are so many successful dropouts, it’s not even funny.</p>
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<p>Embarrassing…smh</p>
<p>@Invent: planning to drop out from which school?</p>
<p>@rizzle,</p>
<p>I think the “yield” rate is calculated by dividing the number of matriculating students by the number of Accepted applicants–not by the number of total applicants. </p>
<p>So, as per your example, if NMH admitted 100 out of 300 applicants, and only 60 matriculated, then the admission rate is 33%, and the yield rate is 60%.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. I do try to keep my eye on acceptance rate, since the yield is not 100% for even the most competitive schools (with such low numbers as it is, that’s good news!). I keep hearing that BSR is out of date…is this still true?</p>
<p>I do wonder why some of the numbers are so very low - Suffield, for instance. Anyone know if they have a lot of local applicants or something?</p>
<p>Maybe. I still check BAR for other info. If the boarding pop is low then it’s probably competitive because of day students maybe…?</p>
<p>Hotchkiss was 16% acceptance this year.</p>
<p>Choate was at 20% this year.</p>
<p>What’s St. Andrews in DE?</p>
<p>Rizzle, read the thread for Pete’s sake.</p>
<p>No I meant the acceptance rate lol.</p>