<p>Today I received my registration packet for Deerfield in the mail. I logged on to DANet, and there was an article in The Scroll (student newspaper) which revealed admissions statistics.</p>
<p>Overall Acceptance Rate: 16%
Percent Application Increase from Last Year: 13.4%</p>
<p>Freshmen Applications: 1066
Percent Freshmen Application Increase from Last Year: 12%
Admitted Freshmen: 144
Freshmen Acceptance Rate: 13.5%</p>
<p>Percent of Applications that were International: 24%
International Applications: 460
Admitted International Students: 41
International Acceptance Rate: 8.9%</p>
<p>Day Student Applications (as listed above): 74
Admitted Day Students: 21
Day Student Acceptance Rate: 28.4%</p>
<p>man, I still remember Deerfield when I followed my sister (she applied for the fall of 2004 as an incoming sophomore) to visit. I remember everyone at the school I met loved it there. Hope all you new Deerfield students have a great high school experience :D</p>
<p>And I must say the acceptance rate has dropped quite a bit since 5 years ago. lol.</p>
<p>Uhh Sarum its actually 2 hours from Logan Airport (still a hassle) but I meant 4 hours including the layover from where I’m coming from not landing in Logan Airport. (sorry about that typo) The airport in northern Connecticut I believe? Its a one hour drive from the connecticut airport to Deerfield excluding layover and extra flight time.</p>
<p>I don’t really care how isolated the schools are, just more distractions as you get near big cities. and maybe more vibrant community when there’s nothing to do but to chill with your friends?</p>
<p>TIGER–As an incoming student at Deerfield, and having visited multiple times, I can honestly say that it was only 1.5 hours from Logan in the rain. </p>
<p>Deerfield is not as isolated as some of the schools I looked at, but I actually think it works in Deerfield’s favor. It provides a community where there is a small percentage of day students, participation in on-campus activities is commonplace, few students leave on the weekends, and the community is tight.</p>
<p>To not like a school for 1.5 hours from the airport and a layover is ridiculous. You’d only have to make that trip about six times per year. It’s no big deal, and Deerfield is definitely worth it.</p>
<p>Tiger it is 1.5 hours from Logan to Deerfield not 4 hours as you said. I have done it many times as we drive the route (2)on the way from Logan across Mass. and up to our house in SW Vermont. We make sure to stop at Pappa Rizzi though and I deduct the eating time from the trip!!:)</p>
<p>I don’t get it. Why are parents paying so much for excellent education these days while, at the same time, they have less and less money and their kids have less and less chance of getting into the schools dispensing this education?</p>
<p>I think that parents are willing paying these sums because they fear for the future of their kids so much. They think that this education enhances the odds in favor of their children in getting superb jobs, which will be less and less in the days to come. It it fear, not hope, that drives the parents and the kids. If I’m right here, we have arrived at a very sad state of affairs, for which so many of the people who have mislead this counrty for so many years are to blame and who should be punished openly and often. (Each of us have our own long list.)</p>
<p>“It it fear, not hope, that drives the parents” - toombs61
You hit it on the nail. Let’s see what his next 100 days brings.
I will be grateful if after Obama’s 4 year term this isn’t an issue anymore as he promised.</p>
<p>Oh my, I’m much more of an optimist than toombs and Sarum. My daughter is at Andover so that she can stretch intellectually and further develop her love of learning. I am very hopeful about the opportunities she will find eventually and the personal satisfaction. Fear just isn’t in the equation.</p>
<p>lemonade1, if you don’t fear for the future of your daughter, your country or your livelihood, then you are either aloft in the clouds of the blessed few or lost in the batch of the pitifully blind. I, like you, pray that my son will love learning and stretch his mind at Hotchkiss these next three years. But I fear (yes, fear) that he will be facing soon the brutal fact of living in a country struggling through the worst economy in over 65 years. I believe that Hotchkiss will help him greatly prepared for this potentially harsh world. With such belief, I am willing to pay the incredibly high enrollment fees to this wonderful school with my diminishing dollars. I also believe that many other parents think like I do on this point and that such thinking explains, to a fair degree, why so many families are rushing to these elite prep schools these days even though the fees of these schools climb, the rates for acceptances decline and the funds of families sending kids to these schools vanish.</p>