<p>I applied to this school and visited it a while ago, and I ended up loving the campus and all the kids seemed to be very nice.
But, I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the school either about the community or the acceptance rate, chances of admission, average ssat scores, study abroad program, ect...
Thanks :D</p>
<p>Check their website and <a href=“http://www.boardingschoolreview.com%5B/url%5D”>http://www.boardingschoolreview.com</a> </p>
<p>Last time I checked they had a pretty high acceptance rate</p>
<p>When I visited the NMH campus, the students I met seemed to all be very nice and supportive of each other. Many of the students seemed to be extremely laid back but at the same time very intellectual. When I toured the gym I met several PG’s and varsity athletes. They seemed to be very different than most of the other students. My question is whether this large variance of personality types has a significant impact on the school’s community?</p>
<p>Also, does this mean that an average to good athlete will likely never make a varsity team at the school?</p>
<p>I know boardingschoolreview says NMH admits 31% of applicants; however my daughter’s letter regretfully informing her that she was not admitted says they have over 1600 applicants for approximately 220 places which is about 14% acceptance. While my d. would still have applied to NMH, knowing the correct figure might have affected what other schools she applied to. We aimed for a range of acceptances but inadvertently ended up with 2 out of 4 schools being extremely selective.</p>
<p>Also, we were somewhat taken aback to get an email right around admission deadline stating that their financial aid policy revolves around using their dollars to fill out the student body according to their design, and that they wanted us to have this information when evaluating different schools. But no one ever told us this when it was early enough to actually reconsider our selections of schools to visit and apply to!</p>
<p>So I have to say NMH is as selective as any top school yet their financial aid sounds more limited.</p>
<p>alooknac - You’re not taking yield into account. Figure that some of the kids they admit are going to turn them down. So, in order to fill 220 spaces, they may need to admit 440 students . . . half of whom will accept the offer and half of whom won’t. End result is an admit rate quite a bit higher than 14%.</p>
<p>Which doesn’t make you feel any better right now. Sorry about the decision . . . :(</p>
<p>With an endowment over 100 million dollars, NMH’s FA is probabaly more generous than that of the average BS. That said, FA money is not unlimited. Unlike the U.S. gov’t, boardings schools actually have to balance their budget</p>
<p>Assuming the majority of those they called in advance but are not accepted “on paper” will not get off FA waitlist, their yield would’ve been lower and admit rate even higher. Apparently, the school is trying very hard to look good on paper, but the “strategies” they take show desperation.</p>
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<p>I’m not an expert on the multiple different categories of decisions that different schools use, but I do know from my family’s own experience that NMH is certainly not alone in designating certain applicants “financial aid waitlisted.” It appears to be a fairly common designation. The only thing that differentiates NMH from the other schools that use a FA waitlist is NMH’s effort to communicate with families who receive that decision. And that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.</p>
<p>Strategy? Perhaps. Desperation? Hardly. Don’t know what your agenda is, DAndrew, but it’s time to stop trying to spin everything that’s posted into a way to make one school or another look bad.</p>
<p>Saw a lot of rejections. Did anyone (on the forum) get accepted to the school, FA (if applied)??</p>
<p>I don’t “spin”. It is my point of view. You can disagree but don’t direct to me in qestioning my “intention” because intention doesn’t matter in an internet board where people are encouraged to post anonymously. You work with different perspectives not individuals. As long as the invidual doesn’t make things up or lie, they can interprete things they way they feel right.</p>
<p>As for FA waitlist calls, OK the calls are “considerate” but shouldn’t these people who are called get a decision on paper? Is “no decision” supposed to make the applicants feel better than an acceptance w FA waitlist? I think by doing this they are trying to protect their yield while maximizing the chance of enrolling most qualified students who have little chance of coming up with the money last minute. Please go ahead and disagree but don’t try to generalize ME in terms of “always”, “everything”… this is a discussion board not a court of law.</p>
<p>I just got accepted by NMH, and the person who notified me about the decision only wrote me a short email with “congratulations” blah blah blah and told me about the reception for new students. I haven’t received my username or password to log in to see my admission status on the NMH website, and I’m thinking about calling the admission office. I haven’t heard about my financial aid decision either…</p>
<p>Hey everyone. NMH released their decisions online and I’m eager to check them except I don’t know my info to log in. I know that my username would be my first two letters of my first name, my last name, and then my birthday in numbers (June 21 would be 0621) but I’m confused on my password. Is it, like, generic or is there something like the username? Help?</p>
<p>I am accepted as well, and I do not need FA.</p>
<p>Hey, my password was this weird combination of letters and numbers that do not seem to be related to me in any sense. So, yeah, you’ll probably have to call them to ask for the password. Shouldn’t it be your parents’ email inbox? That’s where I found my login info on March 6th.</p>
<p>hey Clairee, how did you know about the result? I got this weird email, and then I logged into NMH website but the decision letter hadn’t been posted yet (it says “decision letter will be posted on March 7th” and IT IS MARCH 7TH ALREADY)</p>
<p>Let me go ask my mom. Thanks. :)</p>
<p>Well, my mom got this email that said “NMH - March Decision” or something like that containing my login info. For me, when I logged on, it said “DECISION LETTER WILL BE POSTED ON MARCH 10TH” till the very last second they actually posted it. Hm, weird. Anyhow, the moment it turned 12:01 I refreshed the page and TADA, there was the decision letter. On the email it also said: “Please know that some decisions may not be accessible through this notification process. Your decision letter will be mailed on March 6 and you should receive your decision shortly.” I have no idea why that is, but I guess you fit in the category of “some decisions”. I would guess that it has something to do with financial aid but I am no expert.
Who did you receive your email from, your interviewer? I received no email of that kind… hmm…</p>
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<p>Of course it does . . . which is why some users are asked to leave.</p>
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<p>Of course, and they do. They only thing they don’t get is online notification, which is apparently the result only of limitations in the online notification system NMH uses.</p>
<p>Congrats to all those who were accepted!</p>
<p>My daughter was unexpectedly rejected, and not even waitlisted. The earlier announcement seemed nice to us when we expected to get in. Now we have to get through the next few days for other chances at good news.</p>