<p>@MBVLoveless, please just stop. Its gotten to a point where you are an adversary of every school other than Lawrenceville. People have come up with concrete evidence to support their point and you just keep on babbling on and on and on. This thread was supposed to compile a list of schools and their acceptance rates and there are only 3 posts in this entire thread that does such. Let’s just get back to the list.</p>
<p>And you too just spent another post contributing nothing, good job!</p>
<p>I was trying to end further posts like the obnoxious one that you just posted.</p>
<p>Refer to the last sentence in the post. </p>
<p>I was trying to end obnoxious posts! Do you need me to spell it out for you? You’re not worth my time to be arguing with you. </p>
<p>Do you need me to spell out the last sentence in the post for you?</p>
<p>“Fourth, this is not contributing anything to the thread and I will stop.”</p>
<p>I never said anything negative about Exeter–just facts (which I stood corrected) and hypotheses. Your thinking makes it such. </p>
<p>Never mind that. Exeter’s amount of applications did go down drastically from last year’s application amount, but the acceptance rate was nearly the same. When Exeter posts their entire 2014-2015 admissions stats, we’ll so what was up there.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Groton’s 12% include 8th grade admits? </p>
<p>It probably does.</p>
<p>Stick to facts please everyone: they’re not hard to find. A drop from 2468 to 2325 is not drastic or likely to have the Exeter’s admissions staff desperately seeking new prospective students. The drop correlates closely to the increased use of Gateway. Exeter has chosen for its own carefully thought out reasons to not use Gateway. Case solved. </p>
<p><a href=“http://oldexonian.com/2013/03/28/news/admission_offered_to_495_applicants”>http://oldexonian.com/2013/03/28/news/admission_offered_to_495_applicants</a></p>
<p>MBV, if you actually remembered 2700, why didn’t you write 2700? Constantly giving out inaccurate information about another school isn’t the way to make your own look better. (Do they teach kids to check their sources at Lawrenceville? a random reader might wonder.) </p>
<p>I never mentioned my school in this thread, and I don’t know why you keep clinging onto the 3000 thing when, as you said, a drop in applications isn’t a big deal and doesn’t reflect anything about Exeter’s admission, which is curious but to which I agree…</p>
<p>@classicalmama I’m on your side but they actually received 2,866 applications last year but an acceptance rate does not define how good a school is. I applied to Exeter because I wanted the bet education possible and now I will.</p>
<p>@needtoboard : Where is that statistic coming from? Did you see the link I posted from last year’s Exonian with my numbers in it? Are you perhaps looking at applications started, but not completed? Most schools use the completed application stat in their final analysis of admit. rate–it’s important to compare apples to apples. </p>
<p>@MBVloveless : It’s not the number; it’s the continual repetition of incorrect information–even when you admit you know better–that I’m commenting on. I don’t see how that does anyone any good. </p>
<p>It was on this red slip of paper that they handed out at a TSAO event. It says Final Applications then 2,866 right next to it.</p>
<p>@Stargirl: Any more details about Groton? Admits, applications? And any other posters have this year’s admission stats for other schools. After we have a good list, posters can share perspectives on what’s new and maybe issues related to over trend, but let’s not argue over one school in this thread.</p>
<p>A couple of thoughts about admit rates…(yes, it’s fun to talk about them but keep some perspective, kids)</p>
<p>As @classicalmama pointed out earlier in the thread, there are just far too may unknown variables to determine what a “real” admit rate is. And even more so, what the admit rate was for any individual candidate (FA, gender, geography, all factor in when you do the math of applicants divided by admits with varying results). “Admit rate” is different for each candidate when you think about it. One kid beats out 2,000 kids in his pool, and another beats out 500. WHO CARES?</p>
<p>Does “competitive” mean better? Does “popular” mean better? </p>
<p>If 100,000 students apply for 10 spots at your local community college, their admit rate would be .0001%
If it happened, would that make it a “better” school than Harvard?</p>
<p>If a pop record goes platinum, is the music of better quality than that of a Julliard-trained cellist who sells 20 copies of their self-produced album?</p>
<p>Look, the bottom line is this:</p>
<p>As soooooo many have said previously on these boards, it’s fun to talk about this stuff, but in the end, <strong><em>choose the school that is the best fit for you</em></strong>. Does it matter that a school is “ranked” #1 or 2, or 25, by some particular criteria, if it doesn’t have the one subject/sport/activity that makes your heart sing? Are you really choosing the place that will be your home for the next four years based on that rank? </p>
<p>Sidebar: my son applied to Exeter, and has a friend at his current school who specifically said he didn’t want to “bother” with Exeter because he only wanted to deal with using Gateway. That student was admitted at three other schools that I know about (including Andover). Maybe he’s the ONLY one in the universe who didn’t apply for that reason. Likely he’s not. Does it matter whether it was 10 kids or 2000 who opted not to cast the net wider because it was one more thing on their “to do” list? Not really. </p>
<p>These are all excellent schools. And if you were accepted, it’s an accomplishment regardless. If it matters to you to say “my school’s admit rate was 15% and yours was 25%” then I think you might be doing this all wrong. </p>
<p>^^^ End of discussion.</p>
<p>Hmmm…I just checked on the Exeter website, and I think we should probably go with this number, published in the Exeter 2013-14 Facts Brochure: 2491 completed applications with a 20.2% admit rate. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/media/content/facts.2013.14_finalwebLR.pdf”>http://www.exeter.edu/media/content/facts.2013.14_finalwebLR.pdf</a></p>
<p>BUT…check this out @MBVloveless! Your 3000 figure checks out in the 2012-13 Facts Book. I stand corrected.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/documents/facts.2012_final_web(1).pdf”>http://www.exeter.edu/documents/facts.2012_final_web(1).pdf</a></p>
<p>All of which still correlates nicely to the shared application changeover.</p>
<p>AND…all of which suggests to me that this thread needs to wait a few months while the schools sort out their final figures. </p>
<p>And right on booklady–and a good reminder to get off CC and get back to work… :)</p>
<p>20%!!!
Forget it, this place is a dump. I’m not sending my kid after all.</p>
<p>=)) </p>
<p>STOP! I’ll never get my laundry done. 
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