<p>It is official that Andover has over-enrolled for the class of 2016, with an unexpectedly high yield. Current students were recently notified that several dorm rooms will be turned into triples, and some singles into doubles, to make room for the influx of freshmen and new lowers.</p>
<p>This could lead to a lower admittance rate for the next two years, according to several of my teachers.</p>
<p>I figured that I should share this information with CC, seeing as it looks as though Andover will not be going to its waitlist for the class of 2016 this year. Please correct me if I'm wrong though!</p>
<p>Ah, sorry for the duplicate info! I’ve been really busy with schoolwork, but I try to contribute to CC when I can, so I only see very recent threads. Sorry!</p>
<p>No problem! I believe your insight was valuable though. It does not hurt to post more! I was just saying that because if you wanted to see what others were saying to toss around ideas. :)</p>
<p>@bklai: I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure that the freshman class was the only one that was drastically over-enrolled, but judging by recent dorm changes, the incoming lowers might be over-enrolled as well. One of the most popular dorms on campus no longer has 3-room doubles, specifically to accomodate new upperclassmen (meaning 10th, 11th, and 12th graders).</p>
<p>I’m not sure how many students chose Andover, and by how much that exceeds the number we wanted. My math teacher seems to know a lot about this issue, and he told our class today that the admissions committee was not anticipating as many students to choose Andover over Exeter. Typically, there are many strong applicants admitted to both schools, and the division of their choices is such that it satisfies the yield for A and E.</p>
<p>Oh, man. Oh, man. It’s bad enough being class of '16, students during this kind of admissions everywhere… do I feel bad for those even younger. Talk about a tough playing field, indeed.</p>
<p>It is possible that they intentionally overenrolled based on their previous attrition rate, if a good number of them dropping out for various reasons like not able to handle the academics, DCed etc., so that they are still left with the right number of students after attrition. It’s like the Airlines who overbook for a flight, as they expect a certain number of travelers will not show up for the flight.</p>
<p>Actually - schools don’t intentionally over enroll. It’s not a fun thing to tell donors that their children are now crammed into overcrowded dorms. It’s not what the school wants to do. </p>
<p>What happens is schools estimate that a certain percentage of their pool is highly recruitable and will have multiple options come March 10th. The schools analyze their “yield” over several years to predict their current outcome - and sometimes underestimate. Schools that tend to be oversubscribed simply cut back the number of firm offers they give out the next year and, in some cases, also decrease the size of the waiting list as well.</p>
<p>What is odd this year, is that Andover is oversubscribed, but its competitors - who rarely go to the waitlist, are now making offers to students on them in the last few weeks. Which begs the question - what did Andover do right this year to make it the “must have” for applicants. (I applaud them!)</p>
<p>It was a ‘misjudgement’. The yield was unexpectedly high. Judging by the statement that 88% of those who attended re-visits decided to enroll, you can sort of get an idea how many chose Andover over Exeter (disclaimer: NOT bashing Exeter! Just figured it could be a reason why Exeter went to its WL so “extensively” this year) as half of Exeter admits were also admitted by Andover according to an AO at Exeter, and I bet many of them would revisit both A & E.</p>
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<li><p>“Matriculation rates for the 2012-2013 school year reached a record high 84 percent, compared to last year’s rate of 78%." (As a point of comparison, Harvard’s yield was about 75 percent in 2011, I believe.)</p></li>
<li><p>This 6 percent increase in Andover’s yield was “unprecedented.” </p></li>
<li><p>Andover “admitted about the same number of students” it accepted last year; “in some classes, [it] admitted fewer students than last year.”</p></li>
<li><p>For the five years prior to this year, Andover’s yield had consistently remained “between 78 and 79 percent.” (Hence, the over enrollment presumably occurred because Andover estimated its yield this year based upon its historical yield for the past five years.) </p></li>
<li><p>“88 percent of the students who attended the Spring Visit Program matriculated to Andover.”</p></li>
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<p>Easy, dsterino. This is just one thread with a dozen+ posts, much less than the “why Reed doesn’t have many HADES graduates”. Learn to ignore the threads you have no interest in and save it for those you do have something to say.</p>
<p>My daughter is currently in a palatial single, which I bet will make a fine double next year. </p>
<p>The article linked above had a nice explanation of why the matriculation rate jumped. Great effort to enroll “youth from every quarter”. </p>
<p>And Exonian16, Andover High is a very respectable school. It is a part of the “A Better Chance” program, where disadvantaged students move to a boarding situation in the town so they can attend Andover High and get a fine education.</p>
<p>Oh hello Exonian16. For one thing there are some very nice towns around Andover, not just lawrence. There are also a fair amount of prep schools, not just andover. Trust me, I know many people currently in the public school system that applied to several schools, not just andover, tons of people from andover, north andover, lawrence, north reading etc. never even apply there. And only 80 day students were admitted total this year, so it doesn’t skew the data for the boarding students that much.</p>