Interesting Stats from Boarding School Review

Prep School Admissions
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<p>The following data has nothing to do with ranking. I know many people including myself don't like to rank BS. But it may be interesting to take a peek.</p>

<p>Source: Boaring School Review (Sort</a> Boarding Schools by Key Criteria)
You can sort different data by clicking different criteria.</p>

<h1>1)Boarding School Avg. SAT score </h1>

<ol>
<li> Thomas Jefferson 2150 </li>
<li> Phillips Exeter 2085 </li>
<li> Groton School 2080 </li>
<li> Phillips Academy 2076 </li>
<li> St. Paul's School 2075 </li>
<li> Middlesex School 2070 </li>
<li> Milton Academy 2065 </li>
<li> Concord Academy 2040 </li>
<li> Deerfield Academy 2020 </li>
<li>The Hockaday School 2020 </li>
<li>The Hotchkiss School 2013 </li>
<li>Peddie School 2000 </li>
<li>St. Andrew's School, 1999 </li>
<li>Lawrenceville School 1998 </li>
<li>Choate Rosemary Hall 1981 </li>
<li>St. Mark's School 1970 </li>
<li>Cate School 1970 </li>
<li>The Thacher School 1970 </li>
<li>Indian Springs 1965 </li>
<li>Georgetown Preparatory 1950 </li>
<li>The Loomis Chaffee 1945 </li>
<li>The Taft School 1925 </li>
<li>St. Stephen's Episcopal 1924 </li>
<li>Episcopal High 1922 </li>
<li>The Webb Schools 1920 </li>
<li>Saint James School 1910 </li>
<li>Oregon Episcopal 1910 </li>
<li>Miss Porter's School 1908 </li>
<li>St. George's School 1900 </li>
<li>The Athenian School 1900 </li>
<li>The Webb School 1894 </li>
<li>Emma Willard School 1892 </li>
<li>Cranbrook Schools 1891 </li>
<li>The Masters School 1890 </li>
<li>Santa Catalina 1886 </li>
<li>Lustre Christian High 1885 </li>
<li>Salem Academy 1880 </li>
<li>Stevenson School 1880 </li>
<li>Linden Hall 1860 </li>
<li>Asheville School 1860 </li>
<li>Dana Hall School 1854 </li>
<li>Tabor Academy 1850 </li>
<li>Westover School 1850 </li>
<li>Miss Hall's School 1850 </li>
<li>St. Anne's-Belfield 1848 </li>
<li>Woodberry Forest 1847 </li>
<li>The Stony Brook 1841 </li>
<li>Hill School 1840 </li>
<li>Saint Andrew's 1839 </li>
<li>Mercersburg Academy 1830 </li>
</ol>

<h1>2) Boarding School Avg. SSAT score </h1>

<p>X. Florida Air Academy 1550% ( I think this is an error!)
1. Phillips Academy 93%
2. Milton Academy 90%
3. Groton School 90%
4. Georgetown Preparatory 90%
5. Deerfield Academy 88%
6. Middlesex School 87%
7. St. Andrew's School, 83%
8. The Hotchkiss School 83%
9. The Thacher School 83%
10. St. Mark's School 82%
11. The Taft School 82%
12. Lawrenceville School 81%
13. St. George's School 81%
14. Cate School 80%
15. Colorado Rocky Mountain 80%
16. Concord Academy 80%
17. St. Albans School 80%
18. Episcopal High 80%
19. The Loomis Chaffee 79%
20. Linden Hall 78%
21. Hill School 77%
22. The Governor's Academy
(formerly Governor Dummer 75%
23. Lake Forest Academy 74%
24. Kent School 73%
25. Indian Springs 70%
26. Peddie School 70%
27. Miss Porter's School 70%
28. Blair Academy 70%
29. CFS, The School at Church 70%
30. Westminster School 70%
31. Northfield Mount Hermon 67%
32. Stevenson School 67%
33. Westtown School 67%
34. Cranbrook Schools 66%
35. Woodberry Forest 66%
36. Holderness School 65%
37. Portsmouth Abbey 65%
38. Brooks School 65%
39. Lawrence Academy 65%
40. Emma Willard School 65%
41. Tabor Academy 65%
42. Canterbury School 64%
43. Pomfret School 62%
44. Dana Hall School 62%
45. Westover School 61%
46. Midland School 61%
47. The Ethel Walker 60%
48. Avon Old Farms 60%
49. Foxcroft School 60% </p>

<p>3) Acceptance Rate (In the reverse order -- higher acceptance rate first.)</p>

<h1>The lower, the tougher to get in!</h1>

<ol>
<li> Academy of the Holy 99% </li>
<li> Oakland School 95% </li>
<li> The King's Academy 95% </li>
<li> Hargrave Military 92% </li>
<li> Colorado Timberline 90% </li>
<li> Fenster School 90% </li>
<li> The Gow School 90% </li>
<li> Grand River Academy 90% </li>
<li> Randolph-Macon 86% </li>
<li>Leysin American School in Switzerland 85% </li>
<li>High Mowing School 85% </li>
<li>San Marcos Baptist 85% </li>
<li>Valley Forge Military 85% </li>
<li>Olney Friends School 85% </li>
<li>Oak Hill Academy 85% </li>
<li>Admiral Farragut 83% </li>
<li>Purnell School 83% </li>
<li>St. Johnsbury 83% </li>
<li>Fryeburg Academy 83% </li>
<li>Montverde Academy 82% </li>
<li>Foxcroft School 82% </li>
<li>Camden Military 80% </li>
<li>The Meeting School 80% </li>
<li>The Brook Hill 80% </li>
<li>Buffalo Seminary 80% </li>
<li>Squaw Valley Academy 80% </li>
<li>Florida Air Academy 80% </li>
<li>Andrews Osborne 80% </li>
<li>Riverside Military 80% </li>
<li>Howe Military School & Summer 80% </li>
<li>The Marvelwood 80% </li>
<li>Wasatch Academy 79% </li>
<li>Gould Academy 77% </li>
<li>Scattergood Friends 75% </li>
<li>Family First Academy 75% </li>
<li>Sedbergh School 75% </li>
<li>Ridley College 75% </li>
<li>Oldfields School 75% </li>
<li>Wayland Academy 75% </li>
<li>The Outdoor Academy 75% </li>
<li>Colorado Rocky Mountain 75% </li>
<li>Linden Hill School 75% </li>
<li>St. Thomas More 75% </li>
<li>Cardigan Mountain 74% </li>
<li>Army and Navy 73% </li>
<li>Saint John's Preparatory 73% </li>
<li>Fountain Valley School of 73% </li>
<li>St. Margaret's 72% </li>
<li>Miller School 72% </li>
<li>Cotter Schools 72% </li>
<li>The Kiski School 71% </li>
<li>Grier School 70% </li>
<li>Stuart Hall School 70% </li>
<li>Darlington School 70% </li>
<li>Monte Vista Christian 70% </li>
<li>The Forman School 70% </li>
<li>Oliverian School 70% </li>
<li>Lustre Christian High 70% </li>
<li>St. Catherine's Military 70% </li>
<li>Hillside School 70% </li>
<li>Lowell Whiteman 70% </li>
<li>The Greenwood School 70% </li>
<li>The Storm King 70% </li>
<li>Rabun Gap-Nacoochee 69% </li>
<li>North Country School 68% </li>
<li>Dublin School 68% </li>
<li>New York Military 68% </li>
<li>Hebron Academy 68% </li>
<li>Christ School 67% </li>
<li>Houghton Academy 67% </li>
<li>The Madeira School 66% </li>
<li>Woodberry Forest 66% </li>
<li>Idyllwild Arts 66% </li>
<li>Chatham Hall 65% </li>
<li>Midland School 65% </li>
<li>Blue Ridge School 65% </li>
<li>Dunn School 65% </li>
<li>Interlochen Arts 65% </li>
<li>Kimball Union 65% </li>
<li>Darrow School 65% </li>
<li>La Lumiere School 65% </li>
<li>Shattuck-St. Mary's 65% </li>
<li>Hyde-Bath 65% </li>
<li>Virginia Episcopal 65% </li>
<li>Subiaco Academy 65% </li>
<li>Woodside Priory School (The 65% </li>
<li>Ojai Valley School 64% </li>
<li>Wentworth Military Academy & 63% </li>
<li>Hyde-Woodstock 63% </li>
<li>Foxcroft Academy 62% </li>
<li>Stoneleigh-Burnham 60% </li>
<li>Rosseau Lake College 60% </li>
<li>The Winchendon 60% </li>
<li>Missouri Military 60% </li>
<li>Trinity Pawling 60% </li>
<li>Besant Hill School (Formerly Happy Valley 60% </li>
<li>Thomas Jefferson 60% </li>
<li>The Ethel Walker 60% </li>
<li>Southwestern Academy 60% </li>
<li>Villanova Preparatory 60% </li>
<li>Cushing Academy 60% </li>
<li>New Mexico Military 60% </li>
<li>Shawnigan Lake 60% </li>
<li>St. John's Northwestern Military 60% </li>
<li>Christchurch School 60% </li>
<li>St. Timothy's School 59% </li>
<li>Westtown School 59% </li>
<li>Western Reserve 58% </li>
<li>The MacDuffie School 57% </li>
<li>The Cambridge School of 57% </li>
<li>Flintridge Sacred Heart 57% </li>
<li>Cheshire Academy 56% </li>
<li>Portsmouth Abbey 55% </li>
<li>Garrison Forest 55% </li>
<li>The Knox School 55% </li>
<li>Fork Union Military 55% </li>
<li>Northwood School 55% </li>
<li>Wilbraham & Monson 55% </li>
<li>Westover School 55% </li>
<li>Oregon Episcopal 55% </li>
<li>The Webb School 55% </li>
<li>Perkiomen School 54% </li>
<li>Verde Valley School 54% </li>
<li>George School 53% </li>
<li>Lake Forest Academy 53% </li>
<li>Salem Academy 53% </li>
<li>Tilton School 52% </li>
<li>Pomfret School 52% </li>
<li>West Nottingham 52% </li>
<li>Brentwood College 50% </li>
<li>Fay School 50% </li>
<li>Vermont Academy 50% </li>
<li>Emma Willard School 50% </li>
<li>St. Anne's-Belfield 50% </li>
<li>Millbrook School 50% </li>
<li>The Gunnery 50% </li>
<li>Annie Wright School 50% </li>
<li>Hoosac School 50% </li>
<li>Tallulah Falls 50% </li>
<li>The Orme School of 50% </li>
<li>Bement School 50% </li>
<li>Lawrence Academy 50% </li>
<li>Holderness School 50% </li>
<li>Culver Academies 49% </li>
<li>Proctor Academy 48% </li>
<li>Avon Old Farms 48% </li>
<li>Northfield Mount Hermon 46% </li>
<li>South Kent School 46% </li>
<li>Miss Porter's School 46% </li>
<li>The White Mountain 45% </li>
<li>Asheville School 45% </li>
<li>Brewster Academy 45% </li>
<li>The Masters School 45% </li>
<li>Saint James School 44% </li>
<li>Kent School 44% </li>
<li>St. Stephen's Episcopal 44% </li>
<li>Miss Hall's School 43% </li>
<li>The Athenian School 43% </li>
<li>The Williston Northampton 43% </li>
<li>St. Andrew's School - 42% </li>
<li>Indian Springs 42% </li>
<li>Hawaii Preparatory 42% </li>
<li>The Webb Schools 42% </li>
<li>Cranbrook Schools 42% </li>
<li>Stevenson School 42% </li>
<li>The Stony Brook 41% </li>
<li>New Hampton School 40% </li>
<li>Brooks School 40% </li>
<li>Episcopal High 40% </li>
<li>St. Albans School 40% </li>
<li>Salisbury School 39% </li>
<li>The Pennington 39% </li>
<li>Dana Hall School 38% </li>
<li>Hill School 38% </li>
<li>Mercersburg Academy 37% </li>
<li>Berkshire School 36% </li>
<li>The Bolles School 35% </li>
<li>Canterbury School 35% </li>
<li>Concord Academy 34% </li>
<li>The Bishop Strachan 33% </li>
<li>The Loomis Chaffee 33% </li>
<li>Suffield Academy 32% </li>
<li>St. Andrew's School, 30% </li>
<li>The Governor's Academy
(formerly Governor Dummer 29% </li>
<li>CFS, The School at Church 29%
186 St. Mark's School 29% </li>
<li>St. George's School 28% </li>
<li>Milton Academy 28% </li>
<li>Cate School 27% </li>
<li>Middlesex School 25% </li>
<li>The Taft School 24% </li>
<li>Peddie School 24% </li>
<li>Choate Rosemary Hall 24% </li>
<li>Westminster School 23% </li>
<li>Georgetown Preparatory 23% </li>
<li>Lawrenceville School 22% </li>
<li>St. Paul's School 22% </li>
<li>Phillips Exeter 21% </li>
<li>The Hotchkiss School 20% </li>
<li>The Hockaday School 20% </li>
<li>The Thacher School 20% </li>
<li>Groton School 19% </li>
<li>Phillips Academy 17% </li>
<li>Deerfield Academy 16%</li>
</ol>

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<p>Hockaday seems pretty beastly, but I’ve never even heard of it…
It’s not too much of a surprise though. I’m pretty ignorant as far as boarding schools are concerned…</p>

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<p>^ Hockaday is like 0.2% boarding, though (okay, huge exaggeration but you catch my drift!)</p>

<p>Haha, something I found funny was that Cate & Thacher have the same SAT score! Thacher = higher SSATs, lower acceptance, yet they have the same average SAT… hmm.</p>

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<p>SSAT aint sh…[you know the rest]</p>

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<p>Interesting how exeter doesn’t appear on the ssat list? I think boarding school review just might, just maybe, possibly be a crappy website.</p>

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<p>Why, because Exeter didn’t submit their average SSAT to BSR?</p>

<p>Exeter doesn’t appear because BSR doesn’t have their SSAT statistics. But when I was still an applicant, I was told by Ms. Bergofski in the admissions office that their average SSAT was 85%. But who knows, that may have changed this admissions season.</p>

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<p>Hockaday is an all girls school in Dallas. I think there are like 75 boarders out of a school of a 1085 which doesn’t seem like much but hockaday is a pre-k through 12 school and they only board from 8th through 12th grade so about 40% of the people in the highschool end up being boarders. i think it’s a good place to go if you live in the area but don’t want to have to drive back and forth everyday. you get like 40 overnights that you can take so you can go home on weekends a lot and stuff. I probably would have applied there but I really didn’t want to go to an all girls school. i live like 25 miles away though.</p>

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<p>It seems like that Taft started realeasing its data. They have not disclosed their data in the boarding school review.</p>

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<p>Also recognize that the differences are sometimes infinitesimally small (e.g. Andover 2076, St. Paul’s 2075). They are for just one year, so they move about. The differences among the top 5 or top 10 are slow gradations of gray. In fact (excluding Thomas Jefferson), the difference between Exeter and Middlesex is only 7/10ths of 1 percent! Hardly a meaningful difference!</p>

<p>So we are slicing the salami into transparently thin slices. So thin, that it becomes statistically irrelevant. You have to pick a top school and compare it to a bottom school before it becomes meaningful.</p>

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<p>It is always so difficult to slice no matter how thick you cut because the difference between two adjacent schools is always so slim. The difference between 10th and 11th is less than 1%, and the difference between 20th and 21st is also less than 1%.</p>

<p>You can use the data as a reference. I understand what Winterset means. That is
why the list shows only 50 schools out of several hundred BS. All the 50 schools are good schools and they have a good reputations. </p>

<p>Then whichever school listed at 51st spot may complain(smile)!</p>

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<p>I agree. All the schools from 1 to 30 certainly deserve better recognitions.</p>

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<p>I guess the stats will help those who will apply this year. The stat cannot be an absolute
measure for BS. But it can be a good reference. Thanks for the erkybk’s posting!</p>

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<p>85% is not Exeter’s SSAt average but minimum required. I remember I asked the admission officer, and she said 85% is minimum requirement. Therefore, even if tExeter did not post the average SSAT socore on Boarding School Review, we can guess it is highrer than 85%.</p>

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<p>erkybk,
Don’t want to fan any flames but for all those looking to apply to Exeter, 85% is certainly not the “minimum required”. The school has fantastic diversity from all shapes, sizes, places and backgrounds and would never place a standardized test above the unique abilities of all applicants. Apologies for disagreeing but no boarding school has SSAT minimums, the test means something but it is not the “be all, end all” for admissions.</p>

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<p>hola3,</p>

<p>You may disgree. But I am telling you exactly what I heard from the admission personnel.
My D took SSAT twice: the fist score was 89% and the second was 97%, and I called them to replace the fist score with the second one. Then the lady said that even the fist score was fine because the first score is higher than the minimum required. I do not know what it means exactly. But that is what I heard. I am telling you what she said exactly.</p>

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<p>Fair enough. I won’t contest what an Exeter representative relayed to you. I only interjected because I didn’t want any possible candidates discouraged from applying to Exeter because their SSAT scores were lower than 85%. I’ve been working in the BS world for a while and have known several students who were admitted to Exeter without an 85% on the SSAT. It may be a general guideline score but any school is willing to admit a student with a strong “hook” and if that “hook” is strong enough, their standardized test scores can be far below a stated “minimum.”</p>

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<p>I think that Exeter encourages peolple to get an 85% at least if they don’t have a strong hook. But they also don’t want them to get a 40% even if they have a strong hook.</p>

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<p>I think all of hola3, erkybk, and urbanflop may be correct. I think if a student gets less than 85% SSAT, he/she has a very slim chance anyway unless they have a very very strong hook anyway considering the fact that Andover average SSAT is 93%.</p>

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<p>If you consider a very very strong hook URM or athlete or legacy…then yea, you’re right.</p>

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<p>Sure! That is very correct!</p>