<p>I feel like half the people on CC were waitlisted to Deerfield! Scary for all of us, I think.</p>
<p>jasmine: they must be tracking us or something. O_O <em>looks around in paranoia</em></p>
<p>haha, I think that choate also has a giant CC waitlist.</p>
<p>Most of BS has a couple of hundred students on the waitlist.</p>
<p>not true from what i hear. exeters and choates waitlist is only 50-60. loomis is like 20. choate is like 40</p>
<p>it seems like a lot of people got W/L at DA!</p>
<p>Where did you get in, helicopter?</p>
<p>Toombs61, thank you so much for your kindness and very thoughtful advice! We are seriously rethinking Hotchkiss. We find ourselves in a mix of emotions as all the results are in. 4 waitlists to the usual tops and one in at Hotchkiss (yes, also tops). Human nature is so funny --that’s the only word I can think of now coz if we didn’t even get in at one we would be on our knees begging the Lord, Buddha, Allah, and every other god we could think of. If we only got waitlisted to all of them–we would be praying like mad (tho not on our knees and to only one selected Almighty.lol) But with one goal in and rest in waitlist…we’re so acting arrogant here. We want the chocolate AND vanilla all at the same time!</p>
<p>Class of 2014
Accepted: Hotchkiss, Loomis, Taft, St Marks
Waitlisted: Groton, Deerfield, Milton, Exeter, St Andrews
Denied: SPF, Andover, Thatcher, Westminster
Will be going to Hotchkiss. </p>
<p>You need to decide what is best for you; Large or smaller school? Urban or rural setting?
Where can you make best frields for life. Where do you fit in.</p>
<p>No point expecting the waitlist to turn positive. If we don’t decide and respond to one of the accepted schools by April 10, we will loose the accepted school offer and if waitlist doesn’t turn positive after April 10, we have no BS to attend this year. We need to take a decision before April 10 2010 and stop hoping waitlisted results will turn positive. </p>
<p>All the top 15-20 BS schools are good schools and with the economic in a recession, funding getting scare, more people applied to top BS. If you got accepted to any one of the top school, you are blessed. </p>
<p>All school have 20%-35% of the seats reserved for international and about 40% reserved for rich kids who are willing to pay full tuition. Rest 20-25% is reserved for diversity type of students. 2010 applications were at a record level. Only Andover and Exeter have more then 100 kids being admitted in 9th grade during 2010. Most schools have only 65 to 40 kids being admitted for 9th grade. Some schools like Thatcher only have 21 kids admitted for 9th grade. During 2009, Deerfield was over subscribed, and most students accepted offer. So they had to covert staff housing into dorms and TV room into 2-4 beds units. Typically BS oversubscribe about 10-15% of the actual seats. Wait list only opens up after the oversubscription. (It is like hoping a seat in a plane, opens up after tickets have been oversold).</p>
<p>Top 15 schools received 1500-900 application each.</p>
<p>Advice is, if you got accepted to one of the top BS or a decent BS, accept it, before you loose it by April 10 2010. No point waiting for wait list to open up.</p>
<p>If you have no acceptance and all wait listed, start calling Tier-2 and tier 3 schools immediately and get new applications in before they get filled too. If wait list opens up you got lucky. Dont just sit and wait. Either apply to a backup school (if you can afford $50-$75 application fee), or just hope luck is with you. Reality of wait-list opening up, is very very slim this year.</p>
<p>Best of Luck</p>
<p>i would apply to seecond and third tier schools but I heard there is no FA left for second round applicants who need FA so…</p>
<p>The wait lists at the top schools are huge. Hotchkiss says there are currently HUNDREDS of students on its waiting list (the admission officer refuses to give the exact number), and most likely it will only take 2 students.</p>
<p>assign is correct! Most of the BS has a couple of hundred applicants on the waiting list.
No matter how many are on the waiting list, it is very rare to get picked up from wait list. Some times, one or two are picked up at the end of summer if some students decide not to come back to the schools. When they give admission, they usually give about 1.5 -2 times more admission than the number of spots they have considering yield because many students are admitted to more than one BS and they will pick only one of those. So if you are waitlisted and waiting for “picked up”, then i am sorry to say that that is unlikely to happen. If you are very very lucky, you can be picked up during summer.</p>
<p>assign & erkybk, both are correct. Waitlist run into high numbers. This year a lot of people are going to be disappointed if they are expecting WL to turn positive. Yield, class composition, gender, diversity all matter in creating a perfect 2010 class. FA will only be given if any unassigned funds are available and the student is accepted/admitted. FA is also based on family income, PFS status etc. You can plead for partial FA this year is any funds available and try to get FA that are closer to calculated family contribution next year. Most of FA funds at Tier 1 School have been obligate by now. </p>
<p>If you still looking for admission try for Tier-1 or Tire 3 school that may not be popular or have the hype plus have FA available from various organizations etc. For example Westover an all girls school is a really good BS and has substantial funds and scholarships. </p>
<p>Westover was one of our backup school and we received full FA. I was also accepted at Loomis and St Marks but no FA. There are lots of tier2/3 schools that are excellent, have seats still open and some amount of FA available.</p>