2018 Notification Guide

Prep School Admissions
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Credit to @Atria , too! Copied her list and pasted. Any changes for this year, can be added to the thread, as needed, but this should give y’all a starting place!

Credit to @stargirl3 for compiling this list on google sheets… Just pasted it here

Andover: Available on Gateway 5:00 PM ET…FedEx acceptances mailed M10 → snail mail deny/waitlisted…check email: decision at 5pm, March 10 on Andover web portal

Blair: M10 online admission portal by 7 am-> letter mailed on M10

Brooks: M10 online admission portal by 5 am-> email sent out one week prior to make sure everyone can log in

Cambridge School of Weston : paper mail on M10

Canterbury: M10 email-> Followed by a letter

Cate: Email on M10 → Followed by a letter

Choate: M10 3:00 PM EST on GoChoate ->Followed by a letter

Concord: Email on M10

Cranbrook: M10 Email @ 12 AM

Deerfield: M10 email between 6:30 and 8 AM EST → Followed by a letter

Emma Willard: Email on morning of M10

Episcopal: M10 9:00 AM (email)

Exeter: Email on M10 @ 6:00am ET/Exact time frame from email-> Letter/package to follow

George: M10 email and through admission portal

Governor’s: Online @ 12 noon (or 10 am)-> mail sent on M10

Groton: M10 online @ 6:00 PM-> Followed by letter

Hill: Email sent out to make sure portal works → M10 6:00 AM/3:00 pm on online platform → letter follows.

Hotchkiss : M10 @ 6:30 AM EST online → Letter arrive on M10

Kent : M9 Online (email) @ 5:00 PM EST-> Postal letters will be mailed to arrive on March 10

Kimball Union : M10

Lawrence Academy : M10 on Portal 8:00 AM EST-> Letters Mailed on M10

Lawrenceville: M10 @ 9:00 AM EST through Lawrenceville Admission Portal

Loomis Chaffee: M10 @ 8:00 AM through Explore_Loomis (Send an Email with link and time earlier)

Masters: M10 3PM

Mercersburg: M10 @ 12:01 AM-> Letter M10

Middlesex: M10 @ 9:30 AM

Milton-> letter mailed M10 => rejection=email at 1PM + snail mail/accepted=fed ex package on M10

Miss Porter’s: Online on Portal on M9 @ 8:00 PM-> letter mailed M10

New Hampton : M10 or (I am not sure what this means but) → electronically notified today (3/7) at 6pm

Noble and Greenough: M10 @ 9:00 AM through admission portal

Northfield Mount Hermon: M8 @ 7:00 AM-> letter might be sent out

Peddie: M10 @ 12:00 AM (email)-> followed by a letter

Pomfret: Online @ 12:01am on M10-> M10 snail mail

Princeton Day School: Mailed on M10

St. Andrew’s (DE): Mailed March 10 (link on the google sheets)

St. George’s: emailed at 12:01 AM on M10

St. Mark’s (MA): M10 email @ 6am-> website says mailed M10 (send email to students one week prior to confirm email address. Parents and student emailed acceptance video at 6am for 9th grade)

St. Paul’s: M10 @ 3:00 PM online, instructions sent on M1-> Followed by letter mailed onM10

Suffield Academy: M10 email

Tabor: acceptance letter on M10

Taft: M10 through portal @ 8:00 am (they might send it out at midnight)-> letter follows M10

Thacher: email on M10 @ 4 PM PST

Thayer Academy: Snail mail: acceptance and rejections

Tilton: letter M10 (Tilton has link to get text notice on M7)

Webb Schools (CA): Log in on M10-> followed by email-> Followed by letter

Westminster: Email on M10

Westover: USPS parcel

Williston Northampton: Email on M7-> letter M10 (Email came in at 5pm)

Woodberry Forest-> M10 6 a.m. email-> Followed by parcel about 1 week later

Worcester: Online M14 or M10@12:01 am posted online

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totally bookmarking this!

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Thayer Academy now has an online portal with decisions posted at 9 am on M10!

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Groton - decisions available on portal at 8 a.m

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Are you sure Grptpn is at 6 PM, seems a little late…

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This is from last year…so, there may be some changes, but Yes, Groton was at 6 pm ET last year…and Andover was at 5…trust me, I remember the pain waiting for them to be released driving over 300 miles to Dallas for hockey, as well as the pain of the rest of the trip after we got the answers…

I will modify if you notify me you’ve received other information directly from a school. Just let me know!!! @SkysTheLimit2007 I will try to change Thayer tonight…

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@FunintheSun1211 Yes…Groton is at 6 PM ET on the dot. 18:00:00 :)>-

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Got an email from Andover that said 9am…
Is this referring to the email/letters or the decisions?

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Kimball Union had sent out an email that said that their decisions would be sent out via email at 6:00 p.m. on March 9th, instead of March 10th as it states on the list.

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Berkshire will announce decisions on M10 “early in the morning” in their admissions portal, per an earlier email.

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Andover: Available on Gateway 5:00 PM ET…FedEx acceptances mailed M10 → snail mail deny/waitlisted…check email: decision at 9am, March 10 on Andover web portal @ 9am

Berkshire: M10 on portal in the am

Blair: M10 online admission portal by 7 am-> letter mailed on M10

Brooks: M10 online admission portal by 5 am-> email sent out one week prior to make sure everyone can log in

Cambridge School of Weston : paper mail on M10

Canterbury: M10 email-> Followed by a letter

Cate: Email on M10 → Followed by a letter

Choate: M10 3:00 PM EST on GoChoate ->Followed by a letter

Concord: Email on M10

Cranbrook: M10 Email @ 12 AM

Deerfield: M10 email between 6:30 and 8 AM EST → Followed by a letter

Emma Willard: Email on morning of M10

Episcopal: M10 9:00 AM (email)

Exeter: Email on M10 @ 6:00am ET/Exact time frame from email-> Letter/package to follow

George: M10 email and through admission portal

Governor’s: Online @ 12 noon (or 10 am)-> mail sent on M10

Groton: M10 online portal @ 8:00 am> Followed by letter

Hill: Email sent out to make sure portal works → M10 6:00 AM/3:00 pm on online platform → letter follows.

Hotchkiss : M10 @ 6:30 AM EST online → Letter arrive on M10

Kent : M9 Online (email) @ 5:00 PM EST-> Postal letters will be mailed to arrive on March 10

Kimball Union : M9 email 6:00 pm

Lawrence Academy : M10 on Portal 8:00 AM EST-> Letters Mailed on M10

Lawrenceville: M10 @ 9:00 AM EST through Lawrenceville Admission Portal

Loomis Chaffee: M10 @ 8:00 AM through Explore_Loomis (Send an Email with link and time earlier)

Masters: M10 3PM

Mercersburg: M10 @ 12:01 AM-> Letter M10

Middlesex: M10 @ 9:30 AM

Milton-> letter mailed M10 => rejection=email at 1PM + snail mail/accepted=fed ex package on M10

Miss Porter’s: Online on Portal on M9 @ 8:00 PM-> letter mailed M10

New Hampton : M10 or (I am not sure what this means but) → electronically notified today (3/7) at 6pm

Noble and Greenough: M10 @ 9:00 AM through admission portal

Northfield Mount Hermon: M8 @ 7:00 AM-> letter might be sent out

Peddie: M10 @ 12:00 AM (email)-> followed by a letter

Pomfret: Online @ 12:01am on M10-> M10 snail mail

Princeton Day School: Mailed on M10

St. Andrew’s (DE): Mailed March 10 (link on the google sheets)

St. George’s: emailed at 12:01 AM on M10

St. Mark’s (MA): M10 email @ 6am-> website says mailed M10 (send email to students one week prior to confirm email address. Parents and student emailed acceptance video at 6am for 9th grade)

St. Paul’s: M10 @ 3:00 PM online, instructions sent on M1-> Followed by letter mailed onM10

Suffield Academy: M10 email

Tabor: acceptance letter on M10

Taft: M10 through portal @ 8:00 am (they might send it out at midnight)-> letter follows M10

Thacher: email on M10 @ 4 PM PST

Thayer Academy: Portal. M10 @ 9 am

Tilton: letter M10 (Tilton has link to get text notice on M7)

Webb Schools (CA): Log in on M10-> followed by email-> Followed by letter

Westminster: Email on M10

Westover: USPS parcel

Williston Northampton: Email on M7-> letter M10 (Email came in at 5pm)

Woodberry Forest-> M10 6 a.m. email-> Followed by parcel about 1 week later

Worcester: Online M14 or M10@12:01 am posted online

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Wow, Groton is late. I would have thought most schools notified as early as possible

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@FunintheSun1211 at least it’s not as bad as Thacher, their decisions are released at 4 p.m. PST, that’s basically saying 7:00 p.m. EST for where I live, making it excruciatingly agonizing for those who have chosen to apply there.

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I am told that in the olden days before the magma cooled and while dinosaurs roamed the earth, applicants had to wait by a thing called a mailbox until a person dressed in blue walked up at an unspecified date and time with an envelope with the decision. Perspective (and patience) please.

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Ha! Do those blue clad men #1 wear blue anymore? And #2 actually go drop off mail at a house? I don’t know of any homes in our town that have their own mailbox…we have to go to the end of the street with a little key in hand. And god forbid you lose said miniature key!!!

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So has every PA applicant signed up to get those emailed early FedEX delivery notifications? Or does that just jinx your chances? :stuck_out_tongue:

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I need to quote @SevenDad (with whom I agree) on this topic:

Aside from serving only to increasing anxiety, one risks a false positive.

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I agree with @SevenDad too, @skieurope. Luckily DD and I will be in Europe on M10- no time to fool around with courier notifications! The food and castles alone should provide enough of a distraction as we wait out the decisions in that time zone :slight_smile: I’ll feed her anxiety with pain au chocolat and crepes au nutella et banane! Espresso, for me.

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Hun School comes out at 6am on M10

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@sriracha10 is that email or portal?