<p>Just wondering because I'm considering going there for senior year.</p>
<p>Exeter does just fine with the Ivies. I think the real question is how competitive would YOU be, where would YOU rank amongst the upcoming senior class at Exeter.</p>
<p>What grade are you in now?</p>
<p>Ivy Leagues know that if you come from Exeter you must have some kind of brain.</p>
<p>Grade 11...I got into exeter for my senior year, I put in a deposit already because I couldn't decide.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering if it would be more competitive applying from there, or from my school in Vancouver, Canada...</p>
<p>Most people on here will probably say it's harder to get into a good college from Exeter than a mediocre public school, but I'm not really sure if I agree with that. Obviously, colleges know how tough schools like Exeter, Andover, Deerfield, St. Paul's, etc. are, so I think they would have lower standards for grades, but I think when admissions officers look at applicants from Exeter they will hold them to a higher standard because they expect more of them, but they still know that nearly all the applicants are worthy of acceptance to top universities. </p>
<p>It would be interesting to see some data that has the number of students that applied and the number accepted/rejected/waitlisted.</p>
<p>It really is a toss up...with the Exeter/mediocre school debate.
I definitely think I had a harder time coming from EX trying to get into top schools...After speaking of the record with someone who used to be in college counseling I know the Ivies, for instances line up all the Exeter apps and look at them together. And the college counselors from Ex go and powow with the Ivies.</p>
<p>Well I know that roughly 30% of Exeter/Andover students go to Ivy Leagues...and the other 70% all go to good schools. But I dont know if that 70% orginally wanted to go to Ivies, but got rejected and ended up going to the other schools...</p>
<p>Here are the matriculations lists for Exeter and Andover if you're interested:</p>
<p><a href="http://college.exeter.edu/published/newsletters/College_Matriculation_2002-2004.html%5B/url%5D">http://college.exeter.edu/published/newsletters/College_Matriculation_2002-2004.html</a>
<a href="http://www.andover.edu/cco/matrics/default.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.andover.edu/cco/matrics/default.asp</a></p>
<p>I'm guessing going senior year wont help in terms of counsellor recs either...=S</p>
<p>and Decisions2Make, are you sure they line up all the Exeter apps and look at them together? And oh, does Exeter rank? Like...top 10% etc...</p>
<p>I'm almost 100% sure they do. You see patterns in Ivy admissions and counselors from the College Counseling office go and meet with at least some colleges (I know Columbia does...my best friend caught his former college counselor on campus during his freshman year). They undoubtedly communicate. And Exeter ranks in percentiles...five, I think so top 20, top 40, top 60, etc. Top 20 usually makes it into cum laude society. So top 20 theoretically should make you the top of the top there though Exeter does give early cum laude to the top 5% of the senior class midway through their senior year. And the only other ranking is valedictorian (you are elegible provided you attend the school for at least 2 years).</p>
<p>Also, remember that Ivy matriculation stats are skewed. As Blair has said elsewhere, kids are hooked coming into BS--athletes, legacies, a few insanely talented "normal" kids. </p>
<p>They are also slightly off in that at Choate, a ton of kids in the senior class and my class (juniors) are not interested in Ivies. I know a senior who got into Columbia and Davidson, obviously vastly different schools. The student respects the prestige with Columbia but would be most happy at Davidson--so Ivy matriculation rates may be lower than they should be with kids getting into Ivies and choosing other places. I know kids in my grade who could easy get into Ivies but are instead looking at top tier liberal arts schools like Amherst, Haverford, Swarthmore, etc, which are comparable to the Ivies academically. Ivy matriculation rates are probably slightly lower for this reason.</p>
<p>And if you really want an Ivy, don't go to Exeter--or any top BS. You are competing with a stronger and larger pool than at your old HS, and most colleges group by school (they have their own reader at the college) and then grouped by the larger pool "boarding school," or at least that's what my counselor told me.</p>
<p>Do you think they limit the universities you apply to? Say for example, only 3 or 4 ivies...?</p>
<p>^^Do you mean exeter? They definitely discourage you from applying to too many</p>
<p>yeah, getting into an ivy is technically "harder" from exeter than from public school.</p>
<p>from my old school, i was pretty much guaranteed most ivies, as i would be top 3 out of 300 in my class</p>
<p>as for exeter, you are competing with the best to get the best grades, most extra curriculars, and best in sports, so it is much harder to stand out</p>
<p>but the point of exeter is to prepare you for college, and exeter grads always say that college seems a breeze.</p>
<p>and yeah, college counseling does usually suggest that you don't apply to too many ivies</p>
<p>That's insane. In 2006, Exeter sent 80 kids to Ivy League schools!!!</p>
<p>Why do they discourage you?</p>
<p>Ummmm. my guess is that they don't feel like dealing with more paperwork;) They also see a lot of kids who totally load up on ivy leagues and have this worry that they're shooting too high. Plus Im not sure if the schools talk and the cc office makes it seem like it's better to show you're really passionate about a specific school for a certain reason...not just because its an ivy</p>
<p>Yeah they send a lot of kids...but I bet you if every kid in exeter's senior class was at a less competitive school, the majority would be in the top 5 of their class and probably about 200 would be going ivy.</p>
<p>Blee0507, it's obviously extremely difficult to be among the top students at Exeter, due to the level of competition. However, they do send 30% of their students to Ivy League schools year in and year out. So if you just work hard and you're at Exeter, you're esentially guaranteed to end up at a top college.</p>