<p>I read on another thread that roughly 17% of SPS students are legacies. This seems like a relatively modest number. I've heard that Deerfield has a strong focus on legacies, but haven't seen any numbers. Anyone have figure for the top 10-15 schools?</p>
<p>Other than legacy, there is another factor that linit the number of accepted students
from general appilcation pool. That is, there is a significant number of incoming students
from feeder school. They are usually 10th graders(4th Form) since those feeder school’s
program is until 9th grade. For example, Eaglebrook school(junior boarding) send a good
number of students to Deerfield and Fay School send more than a dozen students to Saint Mark’s every year. I am sure that there are many other feeder schools to top BS.</p>
<p>About 12% of tototal admitted students are from international students application.</p>
<p>Roughly about 50% of the BS admitted students are from junior Boarding schools.</p>
<p>Milton is the school with the biggest amount of legacies, or kids who got in because of connections. just hearsay not facts</p>
<p>erkybk, not sure I understand the 50% figure. Does that mean that 50% of matriculations into boarding high schools come from Junior Boarding schools, or that Junior Boarding Schools accept 50% of the total incoming students into all boarding schools?</p>
<p>If you want a clear picture of legacy, just be sure to create a clear definition. Sometimes it is strictly defined as an applicant with one or both parents alums of the school. The family connection can be broadly defined to include grandparents, aunts/uncles, siblings, etc. </p>
<p>If you do a search of “legacy” on this board, you will find various discussions. Sometimes it can be misleading because people are not going by the same definition.</p>
<p>I consider a legacy to be someone with a parent who is an alum. That is different from a sibling, which is a separate hook. I realize we’re not going to get true precision here, but I am hoping that the overall admissions impact of legacies is as muted as the SPS statistic I mentioned above. That said, I don’t know exactly how that 17% was derived.</p>
<p>it is about 10% from exeter’s report. Should be similar for other schools.</p>
<p>Kraordrawoh, a bit more than 50% of matriculations into boarding high schools come from Junior Boarding schools or private schools. Less than 50% (40ish %) of the admitted students are from public middle schools.</p>
<p>erkybk, Thanks! Any idea how that 50% divides up between private day and junior boarding schools? I’ve been surprised at the number of junior boarding schools, but figure the private day schools must supply far more students by virtue of their larger numbers?</p>
<p>The 17% at SPS was derived my me personally counting each and every tie by name from the Annual Report (just released) for the year ended 6/30/09. I totaled them by class and for the entire school. It is 100% accurate. I did not include siblings, unless they had another tie. It even includes a couple that had GGG Grandfathers! Interestingly, the current count is less than 17% because last year’s graduating class (form) had 22%, which was higher than any other form.</p>
<p>Thanks Winterset. I’d forgotten where I’d read that.</p>
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<p>Can you justify this statement please? I don’t think your correct.</p>
<p>Junior Boarding schools AND private schools, urbanflop, not just junior boarding schools</p>
<p>Thank you for clarifying that.</p>
<p>Ur welcome :)</p>