<p>does anyone know when the boarding schools will notify students about admissions decisions? i heard it's march 20-something, and that all the major ones (e.g., SPS, Andover, Groton, Exeter, Choate) will notify on same date?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>It’s March 10th for everyone. Most will have an online notification. Andover only notifies electronically if you are international. If you are domestic, they will send a fedex that generally arrives on the 10th, but if you are WL or denied, it will come later through the post. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>thx neatoburrito!</p>
<p>How do you get online notification?</p>
<p>Email I would assume.</p>
<p>Schools rarely notify decisions via email. Instead, if the school has an online notification option, they will issue a admissions username/password and tell you the date and time you can expect results to be posted. Some are available as early as 12:01 am on March 10 but this varies by school. Check the admissions section of each school to see if this is an option. Good luck!</p>
<p>Exeter you get an online confirmation, at least you did last year. They note that a more detailed letter will be coming in the post, but it will let you know of your admissions status (accepted, wait-listed, or rejected).</p>
<p>Some (eg Asheville School) have an early Jan notification. Like college, you promise to go there.</p>
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But why? I may have missed something here. How is this helping applicants?</p>
<p>*But why? I may have missed something here. How is this helping applicants? *</p>
<p>Think “Early Decision” in a college application context. By telling Asheville through deeds rather than words that they really want to come there, students are presumably improving their chances of being accepted. If Asheville is at or near the top of a particular student’s list and he/she doesn’t need FA, the student clearly has been helped. Admittedly, I know absolutely nothing about Asheville, but I suspect that’s a very small pool of applicants that have been helped.</p>
<p>On the other hand, some applicants may be tempted by the lure of receiving an early decision and reintroducing certainty into their lives into making a poor decision. That group may be larger than the first group.</p>
<p>And it’s certainly very easy to see how this helps Asheville.</p>
<p>I don’t quite see the point from the applicants’ perspective. It’s a school with an acceptance rate of 45%.</p>
<p>I don’t quite see the point from the applicants’ perspective. It’s a school with an acceptance rate of 45%. </p>
<p>Which means that there are 55% that the school turns down. If you are an applicant in that shadow range just outside being accepted and being willing to commit to the school gets you in, haven’t you gained something?</p>
<p>Benley,
There pool is smaller as most from the NE don’t apply there. If you look at its applicants, a good number also applied to the Exeters, etc.</p>
<p>Example. Look at Davidson College (outside Charlotte). Listed as one of the top 20 schools in the US, but few outside the area know of it.</p>
<p>Early admission at any school (BS or College) lets you go to your first choice and “be done with it”. If you don’t get in, then you have time to go elsewhere.</p>