<p>Curious if any other schools had a lopsided enrollment year and any ideas why this happened at these two schools?</p>
<p>I was surprised to learn that Blair’s 9th grade matriculation favored girls. Often it favors boys because of wrestling and football. Strange that the same thing happened at Deerfield and SPS.</p>
<p>much more girls applied then boys? Its true in college that there are a lot less boys, so maybe some of the reasons for those numbers would work in prep school.</p>
<p>Large numbers of Eaglebrook boy usually march down the hill to DA - this year they didn’t, but altough accepted at DA, they headed in unusually large numbers to St. Pauls. Eaglebrook staff are still scratching their heads. DA would have assumed that the Eaglebrook boys would have showed up. But that does not explain the same preponderance of girls at St. Pauls.</p>
<p>toadstool, i’m impressed. that’s insider type info!</p>
<p>A few Eaglebrook boys does not create the kind of major shift seen at DA (only a handful are accepted each year, despite the schools close proximity). From what I heard, the female applicant pool was especially strong and so more than usual were accepted but that’s only a small piece as well. What really shifted the numbers was the especially high yield (over 80%) of underclass female applicants. DA will be 50/50 next year as a result (usually 48/52, female/male).</p>
<p>Good for my son at SPS!!:)</p>
<p>I think it’s interesting that a 50/50 ratio is described as “overloaded with girls.”</p>
<p>DA
New students: 220
Yield: 67.7%</p>
<p>Ninth grade girl yield: 81.8%</p>
<p>Projected students: 649 (from 616 this year)
Overenrolled and will use renovated common rooms (likely moved to basements), faculty apartments, convert some doubles to triples, and a currently unused dorm to accommodate. Girls are mostly affected.</p>
<p>Class breakdown:
2013: 118
2012: 166
2011: 177
2012: 188</p>
<p>Girls will represent 50.3% of the student body.</p>
<p>Took this from a previous thread so even though the total school ratio maybe 50-50, the freshman class would seem to skew to girls. Anybody have any hard numbers on DA?
I"ve heard SPS is something like 60-46 girls to boys.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone in the DA community would describe it as “overloaded” with girls, that was the original poster I believe. I think a 50/50 mix is the goal of the school but it is rarely reached for a variety of reasons (although never off by more than a few more boys than girls).</p>
<p>My son let me peruse the new student DA facebook. Not all the pictures are in, so I had to guess the gender on a few names.</p>
<p>Freshmen: 67 girls/51 boys
Sophmores: 27 girls/30 boys
Juniors: 12 girls/14 boys
Seniors/PGs: 3 girls/21 boys</p>
<p>Total: 109 girls + 116 boys =225</p>
<p>Assuming Admissions expected about a 67% yeild for freshman girls, they have 12 more girls in the class than expected.</p>
<p>thanks cksabs, that is what i was getting at. assuming they expected the same yield, i as wondering what’s up? This info may be very helpful for next year applicants to plan their strategy. Any info on hotchkiss, pea or pa?</p>
<p>class of '12 and '12 were the biggest in history of NY preschools(same as '09 was for colleges). Each year a certain % of those kids go to BS. Fashions for schools are cyclical and change everysooften. Statistically there are more girls than boys, but there also could be dissatisfaction in some girls schools leading them to accept boading schools in greater numbers. Thats just a small slice, in one place, but added with other factors as stated earlier, that makes up the numbers. I would also hazard a wild guess, but am assuming that based on DA’s new campaign of gender equality, there MAY be a greater push to recruit girls.</p>
<p>After a student spends at least 2 years at EBS, they are not always willing to spend another 3 some cases 4 more years in Deerfield. Time to get out of town. EBS students still do get a impressive percentage of the beds at Deerfield but doesn’t mean they’ll go. Back to original query, it’s never a perfect science and any substantial gender difference is made up for the following year.
DA has been and still is enjoying an enormous wave of prestige. Doesn’t mean it’s for everyone, still comes down to finding the right fit. 35 years ago everyone wanted to go to Choate.</p>
<p>SPS does seem to like both Eagle Brook and Cardigan grads.</p>
<p>my original question has nothing to do with the schools . It is that if they admitted the same number of boys and girls, which i do not know is the case, why did the girls yield so much higher at both schools and did it happen at other schools or did some other schools snag the guys?</p>
<p>DA can supplement the boys as the years go on with PG’s & repeat grade male athletes, so I bet it balances out by senior year.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - A Look Inside St. Paul’s School: A student’s prospective](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHqlhLtbLOU]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHqlhLtbLOU)</p>
<p>This will give you a insight as to why SPS is the place everyone wanted to go in the fall 09</p>
<p>well, why didn’t the boys want to go in equal numbers?</p>
<p>St. Paul’s stats. Yes, SPS admitted 79 boys this spring and 88 girls. But deducting graduates and adding new admits… The SPS totals end up as:
276 boys (49.4%)
283 girls (50.6%)
559 Total</p>
<p>So personally, I would not call that ‘overloaded’. If you look at the forms (classes), some have more boys, some more girls, but overall it is So balanced that it defys probability. Not an issue.</p>