<p>I visited Choate a few months ago, submitted my complete app. last night (yikes), and have everything locked away. When i visited the campus, in the waiting room in the admissions office, there was a prototype for a new dorm to be completed in summer of 2008. With the addition of this dorm, will there be a higher acceptance rate due to the fact that more students can be housed? If anybody knows what sex the dorm will be for please share. Thank you.</p>
<p>that might not be the case because Hotchkiss just built a brand new dorm for freshman boys but the acceptance rate remains the same.</p>
<p>Actually i think it's two new dorms being built at Choate.
I'm not sure if it's gonna make it a higher acceptance rate but...hopefully it is because everyone on this board deserves to be accepted to whatever school is they apply to!</p>
<p>new dorms take old dorms off line, which are either torn down or converted for other uses. </p>
<p>Choate down-sized its student population recently and has no plans to increase it. This move actually improved Choate's WTBY Indices rating rather dramatically.</p>
<p>awww...well that sucks....o well :(</p>
<p>I think they said it opens up space for more boarders. So chances of admission will go up a smidge for boarders and down a smidge for day students.</p>
<p>Okay - well there are going to be fewer day students, and more boarders, but the whole size of the school won't change. It will be more competitive for day students. The dorms will be finished next spring.</p>
<p>I think funisfun and Olivia are both correct. Choate has some pretty old and quirky dorms - like Gabels. I suspect a couple of the smaller dorms will be shut down or converted to other uses (maybe faculty housing). I also think percentage of borders may go up slightly, with percentage of day students going down.</p>
<p>Right now don't know if it's tougher to get in as a day student or a border. Both Concord and Milton are a lot tougher if you're applying as a day student - but they draw students from the greater Boston metropolitan area.</p>
<p>Finally, it's my understanding that the new dorms are going to house primarily 4th formers (sophmores) so if you're applying to Choate as 10th grader you might get to live in a new dorm.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and they're trying to cut down on smaller-scale housing, like faculty houses and the smaller dorms and such. </p>
<p>But if you're applying for 10th grade this year, you wouldn't get to use them until 2009-2010, because they won't be finished till spring 2009. I thought they were both sophomore and junior dorms, but maybe that changed.</p>
<p>Actually, the dorms will be finished this fall. Most sophomores will end up living in the new dorms, with some in the other dorms.</p>