<p>Does the panel sit around passing the essays & reading the recommendations or do they all view them individually on their own time by logging in(since everything is scanned), then put them in most likely, definitely not order........</p>
<p>Most likely there is a comment on every aspect from interviews, personal presentation & scores..</p>
<p>Here's an idea of how the process works at Andover. The bit about selection process starts about mid-way through.
<a href="http://www.phillipian.net/article.php?ID=2069%5B/url%5D">http://www.phillipian.net/article.php?ID=2069</a></p>
<p>Now that's interesting the amount of students applying. What about for other schools? How many applications do you think are received for Deerfield, Choate, Taft, Lawrenceville, Exeter, Milton, etc, etc? Does the number diminish significantly with schools not as prominent as those,i.e Canterbury, Pomfret, Millbrook, etc. Any ideas?</p>
<h1>of applications for last year:</h1>
<p>Andover 2354
Exeter 2281
Deerfield 1752
Lawrenceville 1643
Taft 1300
St. Pauls 1072 *for 05-06
Choate 874 *the school reported 674 boarding applications, and "over 200" day applications</p>
<p>I couldn't find info for hotchkiss or milton</p>
<p>Thanks for posting. Anyone have anything on Canterbury, Westminster, Millbrook, etc? I am curious to see if there is a significant difference.</p>
<p>After the admissions cycle last year, Westminster's admit rate went from 40% to 34% on boardingschoolreview. I don't know about the others, but I imagine that they became a little more selective.</p>
<p>Boardingschoolrevew which was formerly a free website started charging boarding schools for the listings so information for some schools no longer appear on that site. We found by talking to various schools that some of the information listed was either out-of-date or erroneous, so like everything else, take the stats with a grain of salt. Also, as other posters have mentioned, many schools use different methods to calculate their stats.</p>
<p>That is all correct creasemonkey. However, I think the overall trend last year was lower acceptance rates at many schools (perhaps the top 50?), including Westminster, Loomis and Blair along with the usual suspects. </p>
<p>I've heard that overall, boarding school admissions have been flat for years. However, I suspect what is happening long-term is that marginal schools are increasing day students to stay in business, and some schools are shrinking. Schools that are close to urban centers have better results with day, so they are also increasing day. I suspect that there was an upward blip for # of applications in this flat trend the last 3 years, including this year. Just an observation -- I have no hard facts to prove this. If anyone has hard numbers, I am interested in seeing them.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many applicants to BB&N and Belmont Hill School?</p>
<p>That is a good question. Our eldest attends a day school on par with those and I know the number and quality of applications to her school have gone up over the past few years. Getting into one of these schools for 9th or 10th grade may be about as tough as many of the good bs's (maybe not THE most sought after) but the decision criteria may differ. Also they do not have as many openings for these grades. Most do not publish their SSAT scores - most applicants get in at younger grades and take the isee. </p>
<p>If you live in a place where day school admissions are very tough it makes it hard to judge bs's by your "best local option" for high school unless it is your local public school and/or a school you are already attending.</p>
<p>I've referred to the "best local option" as the floor by which BS should be compared. If your child isn't yet admitted to a day school, then I wouldn't consider that to be your "best local option." It may be your best local school, but until the decision is yours to make -- your option -- you really shouldn't compare it to any BS as your best local option. </p>
<p>I imagine that it's very rare for a local school option to become available in the weeks or months after you have to decide on a BS. Also, for those seeking FA...if your EFC is below the tuition for a private day school then it's possible that the cost component is equalized...as between a BS and a private day school (provided that both give you FA commensurate with your EFC). All these components of your decision matrices become much clearer...and much more specific to you...in mid-March.</p>
<p>Choate 874 </p>
<p>How can this be, if their total student body is 846? They must have a high yield rate.</p>
<p>olivia, that info came from <a href="http://thenews.choate.edu/2006/04/07/News/Class_of_2010_Most_Selecti.php%5B/url%5D">http://thenews.choate.edu/2006/04/07/News/Class_of_2010_Most_Selecti.php</a></p>
<p>Upon re-reading the article, I think the >874 number was only applications for the class of 2010 (which wouldn't include apps for new sophmores, juniors, PGs). The article says Choate expects to yield 55-60% of those freshman admits.</p>
<p>I thought this would be the appropriate topic to ask this in;</p>
<p>Are applicants 'chosen' from the pool or 'eliminated' (<for want of a better word...)? Do they base decisions on the rest of the class? Eg.. musicians become less important when they have 50 state pianists?</p>
<p>Well, yes, the more rare an applicant is, the most likely they are to accept them. The more perfect scores there are, the more likely they will be admitted.</p>
<p>Thanks very much, bicoastal. I thought you meant for a minute that they accepted 60% of applciants, and I was like ... what??</p>