<p>I'm graduating early and accepting an offer of admission from a university in my home country of Canada. I'm considering taking a gap year for exploration purposes and spending a year at a top boarding school seems like an interesting possibility.</p>
<p>Can anyone give some idea as to how difficult it is to be admitted to one of these schools?</p>
<p>Super hard let me tell you</p>
<p>Do they offer a post-grad year? That would probably be easier to get into.</p>
<p>as easy as getting a job at lehman this year</p>
<p>This year there were 38 new seniors/PGs (i’m not sure how many of each there are)</p>
<p>Someone just posted in a thread about PG year that there is a new book on the gap year and PG out. It has a chapter on PG year and listing of schools and their academic profiles. It’s called “The Complete Guide to the Gap Year” by Kristin White and you can find it on amazon if you are interested.</p>
<p>They ask for students with A’s and B’s in a rigorous program. That doesn’t give the impression of super-selectivity.</p>
<p>Andover and Exeter are super- selective. Extremely super-selective. Not impossible, but extremely hard and you must have a strong hook.</p>
<p>if you have an acceptance in college, why would you go back to high school??? they have curfews, restrictions, etc and everyone will be extremely involved in getting acceptance to college. The experience would be totally meaningless. Why not investigate great gap year programs such as rustic pathways has or others?</p>
<p>From a fact sheet we picked up at Exeter regarding last year’s apps:</p>
<p>Prep: 1863 apps, 203 enrolled
Lower: 630 apps, 62 enrolled
upper: 428 apps, 46 enrolled
senior: 79 apps, 38 enrolled (27 male)
PG: 205 apps, 27 enrolled (24 male)</p>
<p>total final apps: 3205, 17% admitted</p>
<p>hope this helps</p>