<p>Why not screen grandparents as they may attend grandfriends day and cause a disturbance? C’mon get real. :D</p>
<p>Pulsar - the free market theory only works if you hold the power and your decision to purchase or not purchase will affect the school strategy. You don’t hold the power, you have too much competition and the “elasticity of demand” curve confirms that. Price goes up - applications go up - hence the market is not reached its peak demand. And boards like this only increase the demand by creating a further mystique. Also - supply and demand suggests if you have 10x more applicant than spots - and most if not all are qualified, the school - not the parent - controls that market. Sorry. </p>
<p>Don’t like the rules, play in a different playground. </p>
<p>Dos Chicos - no amount of “stats” is going to tell you whether a school is perfect for YOUR child. Especially if the child is not already predisposed to a top school, attends, and falls in that % of students who do NOT get into a top school (note even HADES is not at 100% for top 50 colleges). </p>
<p>I support the parent on the boards that pleaded with others to look at how exhausted the current students and staff are playing host for a week. They aren’t just hosting you - but hundreds of others all with different goals and dreams and questions. That doesn’t include the emails and phone calls from accepted families and those on the waitlist. And even if you are a “full pay” - your child is being subsidized by alumni donations/endowment for 1/3 of the actual cost. </p>
<p>So asking for more entertainment and ec’s “after the fact” rather than at the time of application - yep - to me that’s whining. And not asking for clarification about an Adcom statement - waiting instead to speculate on a discussion board - makes me wonder.</p>
<p>Exie, Quote: Price goes up - applications go up - hence the market is not reached its peak demand. Market may not have reached its peak at a few schools, it certainly has at many other schools. So a consumer still has a choice, ha. :)</p>
<p>Okay - you crack me up :-)</p>
<p>Yes - at some schools.</p>
<p>As a current four year senior, I feel the need to put my two cents in.</p>
<p>You are sending your children away for the most challenging years of their lives. Seriously? High school? Do you remember how much growing up you did between age 14 and 18? A lot.</p>
<p>Numbers can’t tell you anything. I have a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, which is a little low, even by Exeter’s standards. I’m still going to a tier one school next year. There are kids with straight As that get rejected from their dream school. If your child has good grades, you’ll be happy with the colleges they get into. No one can guarantee admission to Harvard, but chances are, if you do what you’re supposed to, you can get into an Ivy or two.</p>
<p>The growing up though, that is what you should be concerned with. If your kid loves Exeter at revisit, chances are they’ll love it here. The kids I know who haven’t liked it were forced to attend by their parents. Don’t do that.</p>
<p>If your child loves Exeter, you don’t need to worry about numbers. You need to know that this is a challenging place. There will be some seriously tough times at Exeter, but it’s okay. Nothing will prepare me for a challenge better than Exeter has. Nothing daunts me. I have learned amazing things, and frankly, when your child graduates, they will be smarter and more intellectual than you. This place does that. We’re a very nerdy bunch =) Whatever you want to experience, Exeter can offer it (athletics, arts, what have you.) You’re worried about classes? Don’t be. The teachers here <em>live</em> here. They have devoted their lives and their families to Exeter. You can’t ask for more caring, passionate educators. Exonians are incredible people. I can’t imagine what I’d be like without the people I’ve met here. My friends are brilliant, intellectual, amazing. They love me and they challenge me to learn. The whole experience of this place has made me examine my shortcomings, understand my flaws, and work on them. Try to appreciate that this place is special. You can’t give your child a more useful or wonderful high school experience.</p>
<p>@doschicos
You do realize that as you are going through the admission process you can email the schools sports coaches or faculty about clubs,theatre and athletics right? that was YOUR responsibility as an applicant to look into this. Not to mention, you are also offered a specific student that is paired to you for reasons including theatre, athletics, and/or clubs. How you did not use this to your advantage is beyond me…</p>
<p>cmao -</p>
<p>My child applied to many top tier schools. As a family with history of boarding school attnedance, I am well versed on getting info from schools and I did email coaches (one Exeter coach was particularly kind and helpful - we had a very thorough dialogue with him). However, the student we were “paired” with had very little in common with our child in terms of interest. We also contacted faculty in areas of interest and the response - if there was one - was often unsatisfactory. In contrast, some other schools were much more anxious to provide info. I realize that Exeter is a fine institution and can provide a wonderful education. Frankly, we found it too impersonal and it wasn’t the best fit for our child vs. our impressions of other schools. To each their own. This was our experience but I assure you, our homework - or my responsibility as you refer to it - was undertaken very thoroughly.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how you insinuated from my posts that this was something I failed to do??</p>
<p>I am also familiar with the application process, seeing as I went through it and have been a part of it as a tour guide, experience exeter student and as an athlete. I know that every prospective student is offered the opportunity to go with a student to a practice or a game. I also understand that contacting faculty is difficult but with the hundreds of teachers we have roaming campus, it should not have been difficult during your revisit. Reaching out was encouraged; my fellow students, faculty and I were standing there for that purpose. I am disappointed that “impersonal” is what you took from your visit, because I know that our revisit days are not engineered to be so, and that your child did not get the full experience out of exeter’s revisit program. But I am also wondering if you would have preferred a private scrimmage from the lax team?
Exeter is not only a fine institution that strives to provide a wonderful education, but a group of hardworking students and faculty that try their hardest to lead Exeter’s legacy, its future classes and exonians. I am just questioning what could exeter done to reach out to you more…?</p>
<p>doschicos, I’m sorry that you had such a disappointing experience. However, our experience was quite different. We only “reached out” a few times, but each time we had a serious, interested, and highly helpful response - from faculty, coaches, and current Exeter students. From everything we’ve heard, our experience was more representative of what happened for most inquiring parents and students. In fact, that was one important deciding factor in our son’s final decision - choosing to attend Exeter this Fall.</p>