<p>Exeter will probably come out with those results when the application process starts. Last year they released a red slip of paper with all of the stats. It should be interesting to see due to the over enrollment of preps last year.</p>
<p>Pomfret: At the revisit, they said they had over 700 applications for 110 spots this year. The 110 “spots” (people) accepted were explained to my mother and I not as “we had x amount of spots and we accepted y amount of students” (to correspond with needing to over accept to deal with the yield rate) but as “we accepted a total of 110 students. That’s it.”</p>
<p>That’s a 16% acceptance rate. They added that they had a large spike in applicants this year…a 9% increase in domestic applicants.</p>
<p>yikes this year was way too overkill…
I hope my year (next school year) isn’t that bad!!! </p>
<p>Oh it’ll be worse. </p>
<p>Are you measuring accepted admits or offers? They tender more offers than they enroll.</p>
<p>I’m not measuring, I was told they accepted 110 kids. The spots they are trying to fill are less then 110; but they over accepted taking into account their usual yield rate and they ended up taking 110.</p>
<p>@mrnephew: You’re scaring me!!! why will it be worse?</p>
<p>Because if you look at the trend since 10 or so years ago, acceptance rates have been generally declining every year.</p>
<p>More of the international students applying leads to less domestic acceptances, and thus a more difficult time getting accepted.</p>
<p>Shoot.
Ok thanks tho.
Giving me more motivation on my future application!</p>
<p>Yeah, better work your butt off on those essays!</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>
The schools with fat endowments don’t need fullpay int’l students to plug a budget gap; therefore, they will continue to restrict the number of int’l students to a certain overall percentage of the student body. That means as the number of int’l applications swell (particularly from China) it just makes it more difficult for int’l students (particularly from China) to be admitted. </p>
<p>^ agreed. International student applicants biggest competition are other international applicants. Domestic student applicants biggest competition are other domestic applicants. International applicants and domestic applicants aren’t really even in the same playing field. When the admissions committees are trying to form a diverese group of kids admitted, comparing domestic and international applicants is like comparing apples to oranges…you really can’t. Some domestic applicants and some international applicants may have similar credentials, but as far as the “diversity” thing goes, they can’t compete with one another. From what I’ve learned, how competitive your applicant pool is is based largely upon things like your race, location, and ability to pay. The majority of domestic applicants aren’t affected by this increase in international applicants (from China, for example).</p>
<p>@prepschoolwannab when I went to pomfret I heard 110 spots not acceptances. Btw were you there saturday or Thursday?</p>
<p>Saturday. They said spots aloud, you’re right, but then when my mom and I approached someone and it came up in conversation, they explained it to us as I explained it on here. @newyorkerrr </p>
<p>Oh okay and I was there Saturday too! Maybe I saw you haha @prepschoolwannab</p>
<p>Maybe! Were you accepted as a new freshman, sophomore, junior, or a higher grade? @newyorkerrr</p>
<p>Freshman @prepschoolwannab </p>
<p>@prepschoolwannab what elective did you do? And what classes? Pm me</p>
<p>We just received a nice welcome email from the Thacher admissions office. It states some of their admissions statistics for this cycle: 12.8% of the students who applied were accepted and 85% of those who were accepted decided on Thacher. That would mean that this year was slightly more competitive than previous years because the Thacher website states that generally those percentages have been 14% and 78% respectively. We are thrilled and honored that my son will be going to that wonderful school! (And I’m happy that I still have four and a half months to get myself ready to have him leave home!)</p>