<p>Someone at my daughter's school has been bragging that she was accepted at Exeter for 10th grade, a year in the future. She is entering ninth. Is this possible?<br>
zp</p>
<p>Wow, a lot of people in my school are doing that too… My guess would be only if she is a recruited athlete or if their parent works at the school. It makes me wonder when people in my school tell me they have already been accepted into DA and Milton when they didn’t even apply for this upcoming admissions year yet.</p>
<p>No, I don’t believe that is true. Even faculty children have to formally apply within the regular timeline. A lot of wild stories are told about prep school admissions, even on this site!</p>
<p>No hooks like ^^. She is going to the summer program, though. That much is true.
It just bugs my d because she, (my d) worked so hard, is a much better student, and ultimately was waitlisted at two schools with lesser reps than Exeter.</p>
<p>The only situation I have heard of a deferred acceptance was because of an illness discovered after the admissions process was over and it was agreed that they could wait one year.</p>
<p>Son was accepted to several schools last year for ninth grade, but we decided he was not ready. We requested deferred admission to the schools, but were told to apply again next (this) year. They also insuated, one way or another, that he would be accepted again. He only applied as a repeat ninth grader to his three favorite schools this year and was accepted at each of them.</p>
<p>^^Agree. Our situation was similar and while acceptance the following year (as a repeat 9th grader) was not guaranteed, it was insinuated that it was most likely. Maybe this is your daughter’s classmate’s situation.</p>
<p>I’m not buying that the girl got into Exeter either. Unfortunately if this is true (not accepted), she is falling into a behavior I’ve seen with college admissions where students brag about EA/ED’s that didn’t happen.</p>
<p>I’d say if the girl doesn’t drop it (it should pass naturally as the girl moves onto other things to relieve her insecurity), you D might play coy and say “gee whiz, I never thought I could get into a school as good as Exeter. Can I see what their acceptance letter looks like?”</p>
<p>That should put an end to it.</p>
<p>Zp, I have never heard of that and I believe your daughter’s classmate might be fibbing. I have heard of students applying, getting accepted, and trying to get a deferrment for the next year. In most cases, they get a “probably”, as the family above mentioned, but they would never accept a student for a year in the future. The next thing you will probably hear from this student is that she never interviewed either—I hear that one a lot.</p>
<p>I know of one situation where this happened. A “top” bs offered a hooked candidate admission for the following year, to repeat the year, because they wanted (correctly) the student to be more mature. I did not believe the story at first, but was confirmed by reliable adult who said it is a rare occurance.</p>