Acceptance Rates

I know this might be too early but does anyone have any information about schools acceptance rates this year? Everyone seemed to think it was going to be quite low but from the kids I know seems about the same as last year.

Well the principles at Lawrenceville and Exeter (where I was accepted) both said that this was the most competitive year as there was a spike in the amount of applicants. I remember on Andover’s instagram, they said it was the lowest acceptance rate they have ever been through. So, I’m guessing it’s much lower that last year.

Andover was 13% this year. Lowest ever.
Exeter said it was low this year as well

Andover was 13% this year, Choate was 18%, they just updated Exeter’s page on boardingschoolreview .com and it says that Exeter is 19% (take that with some skepticism), I think that MX was 18%…

@Nico.campbell why with skepticism???

Are they including the numbers actually accepted to cover their yield? I know SMS was super low this year, too. But I don’t know how many extra slots they offered to cover their yield…the had almost 900 applications for less than 90 slots…

Yes. They use the actually numbers.

That’s what I figured. So without knowing the actual number of slots offered, I can’t give an accurate percentage. Oh well…big pat on the back for those who got in!

@momof3swimmers Because i got the stat from a third party website so I’m not totally sure how accurate it is

Groton was 12% again this year.

I was at Exeter yesterday and told they got 2500 applicants for 2017

Honestly, unless a school has stated they aren’t using their waitlist at all, it’s too early to talk final acceptance rates. The April 10th deadline hasn’t even passed yet.

And besides, there’s not a formal process for boarding schools to publish admit rates, yield rates and WL adjusted admit rates. The best you could do is to share them here if you happen to know them from somewhere.

Acceptance rates really can’t be compared with any great meaning. A great many are apples to oranges. Small schools verses large schools fluctuations in various factors. Some schools tend to over accept in greater numbers for various reasons.

Admit rate is actually a pretty straightforward concept. It’s the number of applicants a school had to accept to form a class divided by the number of applicants who had followed through the application process. If available, it’s easy to compare apples with apples. As for “small vs large schools”, arguable if might be easier for smaller schools to reach lower admit rates than larger schools, but by and large it’s still a supply and demand function. The “fluctuation” is pretty predictable. And what can be the “various reasons” to “over accept” other than yield management? Over acceptance with an off the mark yield forecasting will lead to over enrollment, and overenrollmenr can put pressure on the school’s infrastructure and no school wants unplanned enrollment increase.