<p>Culver is some military/all girls school in Indiana. It’s not that high up on the “scale” as most of the schools mentioned on CC. It’s one the schools that send you some letter to apply for a scholarship after taking the Duke TIP.</p>
<p>^Lawrenceville/Loomis</p>
<p>St. Andrew’s School (DE)</p>
<p>It was lawrenceville/loomis? I always thought it was just Lawrenceville. :/</p>
<p>yeah its not Loomis its just l’ville</p>
<p>Kind of a strong East Coast bias. I might put Cate and definitely Thacher ahead of Middlesex, Groton and Milton.</p>
<p>I don’t know, groton is very strong academically, as well as middlesex. but then again i don’t know a lot about cate and thacher</p>
<p>Groton has a lower acceptance rate and higher SAT/SSAT scores than either Thacher or Cate.</p>
<p>Barely, Sue. And when you look at Groton’s yield and attrition rate, which are worse, it makes the slight stats advantage immaterial.</p>
<p>Parlabane-
You may be right, and I wasn’t trying to put down the West Coast schools. Just didn’t think Groton should be booted from the top tier, where it clearly belongs. BTW, where did you find stats on yield & attrition?</p>
<p>I’m not a fan of this whole gladchemms, hades nonsense. Groton is a truly fantastic school, among the very best. My daughter looked at it and loved it, as did we. Schools that are proud of yield and attrition will publicize them, less so for schools that aren’t where they’d like to be. Ask Groton, as we did and they should tell you. It’s usually a closely kept admission’s factoid, but most schools calculate SSAT and other stats on admitted students, not matriculating students (which is a whole different deal). Excellent yield and attrition rates tell me the school is especially good at admitting students who are well matched, which I think is also a community health marker. Too many of the “top ten” schools go for the US News and World Report results and use admitted students, not matriculated students to burnish their creds. Sometimes you’ll hear the really hard core hades types argue that substandard attrition stats are actually a healthy sign because, in the spirit of Darwin, it shows the school is ridding itself of defects. I think it’s best not to have the problem in the first place however, especially if its the result of overeager stats chasers.</p>
<p>“I’m not a fan of this whole gladchemms, hades nonsense.” </p>
<p>Me neither, and yet we both posted on this thread! ;-)</p>
<p>I also wonder whether the plethora of schools in the NYC and Boston areas skews the stats. For instance, does the fact that Groton is within driving distance of a large number of great boarding and day schools affect the number of applicants or the yield? If Thacher and Groton were in the same area would the numbers be the same (in favor of either school)?</p>
<p>First, you’re right. I’m hypocritical to post on this thread. </p>
<p>Location is a tougher variable to consider. California is a huge state (as are many of the large but lightly populated states that adjoin). There is also less of an orientation toward/understanding of boarding schools. On the east coast, there is a vastly larger number of quality boarding schools and, this is just a guess, 80% of the boarding school-going population. So, both more schools but also a much bigger boarding student pool.</p>
<p>In the Boston area lots of kids apply to both boarding and day schools. In my town application to prep school is so common that 8th graders are customarily asked “Are you going to the high school next year?”</p>
<p>Exactly. Lots of schools, but extremely high demand and a monster applicant pool. Great for stats when looking at all applicants, less so for matriculated students.</p>
<p>Here put it this way gladchemms is the best broading in the eastern part of nation and cate and thacher are the best west coast schools</p>
<p>Really people? How many times has this been done then dismissed?</p>
<p>Loomis Chafee maybe???</p>
<p>Did someone say Culver was an all girls military school? I thought that it was all boys and maybe that has changed but certainly not an all girls school</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of Culver so who cares</p>
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