Anyone aware about the acceptance rates at the top boarding schools this year?
Exeter - 13%
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Thanks. I heard Groton was 8%
St. George’s 14%
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Lawrenceville had over 2500 applications according to the acceptance letter, and on the revisit day, the Dean of Admissions mentioned that they accepted 358 (out of which they aim to enroll ~240). That gives an acceptance rate of ~14.3%, and an expected yield of ~67%.
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Since most , but not all , leading schools were SSAT / ISEE optional this year again , are the reported application pool numbers somewhat inflated at the test optional schools this year ? The profile / credentials of the students that the schools admitted probably did not change. Test optional admission standards might have encouraged some less qualified applicants to send in their Gateway / SAO application and pay the fee . One has to speculate that the percentage of accepted applicants to leading schools who did not submit some recent example of standardized test results is small , perhaps really small ?
“In 2020-21, 53% of applicants did not submit testing, and 50% of our admitted students were admitted without testing.” This is from the MX website. From last year, but I expect little has changed since then. Some schools also saw a decline in applicants this year, with Exeter receiving 3100 applications this year as opposed to 3600 last year.
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Nobles received 1200 applications for 40 spots in 7th grade. Not sure how many accepted but yield is way above 50%, so acceptance is well below 10%.
I mean, yeah, acceptance rates can be misleading depending on pool. I remember on my revisit day (back in 2019!), we were told that for 44 freshman boys, there were >500 applications, so assuming the then 60% yield the freshman boy acceptance rate was already at least 14~15% compared to the overall ~20%.
My guess is that smaller schools probably have lower acceptance rates than those much larger schools at the same level, particularly in current environment.
When a student applies to a large school A, the kid may think why not another smaller school B. Kids are applying to more schools anyways. The result is that smaller schools receive similar increase in applications to larger schools. They don’t raise acceptance numbers, so there goes lower acceptance rates.
Pure speculation.
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According to the waitlist letter, it was 5%
Which one?
Groton it said 90 openings with 1550 applications they didn’t specify if it was completed applications though.
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Right. But they accept more than 90, so the acceptance rate is higher than the simple “openings divided by applications” ratio.
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What I heard on a zoom organized for admitted students and their families was the Groton admitted 120 out of 1550, aiming for 90 coming to Groton.
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Makes sense and is consistent with what @houstonmoma said above.
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Anyone know andovers acceptance rate/ is it still 13%?
Tracking US college admissions trends, one suspects that in recent years a generic boarding school / regional day school applicant , particularly in the Boston to Washington I - 95 corridor , has increased the number of schools she / he are submitting applications to hedge their bets ( financial aid or otherwise ) and the ease of applying to many schools with little additional effort. Most admission offices can tell who the real interested applicants are.
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Loomis - 18%
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Word from a revisit-er is that they were told that the acceptance rate at PA this year was 9%.