<p>I heard 16% of exeter students were excepted because they got, like 20% more applicants.</p>
<p>cause they're better.</p>
<p>But also, think about Exeters huuuuuge endowment. they can afford to accept students who need financial aid where other schools can't. i bet a lot of people taht were accepted by exeter and waitlisted or rejected somewhere else had applied for FA</p>
<p>Yeah, and starting 08-09 Andover is going need blind.</p>
<p>go EXETER!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D</p>
<p>There was a post in this thread that got it right. Exeter did indeed have more applicants this year. </p>
<p>I am a student who attends Exeter, and I also write for the school paper. I was privileged to be present at the interview of one of Exeter's admissions officers.</p>
<p>She said that Exeter received a noticeable increase in applicants this year and said that this was most likely a result of 1) the word being spread to more places than ever before (a.k.a. Exeter was recruiting students for some reason, probably to diversify the student population) and 2) the new financial aid initiative in which Exeter will give an accepted student a full scholarship if his/her family makes less than $75,000 a year.</p>
<p>The rough numbers for incoming students are: about 200 juniors (9th graders) about 70 lowers and about 45 uppers. There are 14% more incoming 9th graders this year than last year. </p>
<p>If you question my statistics, just send me a personal message, I'll tell you where my statistics are from.</p>
<p>"haha. i was accepted at exeter with FA i needed, and waitlisted at andover."</p>
<p>same tanyoosha lol</p>
<p>I have a question. I know that there are a a lot less lowers than juniors accepted, but are there (proportionately) less lowers applying than juniors? So instead of having a 10% (random stat, rawr) admissions rate for lowers and a 20% acceptance rate for juniors, its the same acceptance rate just different amount of people applying/accepted?</p>
<p>yes, less lowers apply and less are admitted. the admit rate is pretty comperable to that of 9th grade admissions.</p>
<p>Thank god. 20% (which is probably even lower- new FA intitiative=more applicants, same number of acceptances) seemed low, and something even LOWER would give me a heart attack. :)</p>
<p>Saer, are you going into 9th? Sorry, I can't remember.</p>
<p>I'm applying this year (9th grade) for next year (10th grade). I missed the deadline for this fall, and family obligations (plus FA) kept me from applying late.</p>
<p>CC is weird. The same thing happens sometime between Harvard and Yale. This site just attracts a very select group of applicants and sometimes one school likes those applicants and another doesn't.</p>