<p>And I might add, the funds for FA students diminishes as donations and endowments shrink.</p>
<p>Btw, its about two hours from logan to deerfield. I just mapquested it (: haha
but pertaining to previous posts, I don’t think my parents fear for me. I believe that they have faith in me to do the best that I can because both my parents and I know that I have the ambition for great things. Its just where I can get the hard work and discipline to support that ambition. That is why I’m attending Milton because I know I’ll get the tools for me to take my ambition into reality.</p>
<p>yeaa, i drove from deerfield to logan because hartford was more expensive than logan…</p>
<p>deerfield’s a great school, i’m so happy for you all!!</p>
<p>Mapquest LIEZ!!!</p>
<p>My mother-in-law flew in to visit us and we picked her up at Logan late this morning. She wanted to see Deerfield again, so we drove directly from Logan to Deerfield down the Mass Pike and up 91. From terminal C to the gym took us 1 hour 43 minutes while mostly obeying the speed limit. There was also very little traffic.</p>
<p>You can’t get to DA in 1.5 and mostly obey the speed limit!</p>
<p>True, Sarum. We also went the long way. Route 2 is shorter.</p>
<p>That Italian restaurant I mentioned before on 2 is awesome. And at least once stop at the French King’s bridge and spit into the Ct. River:)!!</p>
<p>Yes, Papa Razzi is a good little chain. (It was a Howard Johnson’s when I was growing up and we would stop there for ice cream on the way home from Boston.)</p>
<p>I can’t imagine being international applying to these schools…wouldn’t being a female international boarder (well duh you’d be boarding), the acceptance rate would be <5%? Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s cutthroat!</p>
<p>being an international means you’re a boarder automatically, the acceptance rate would be just 8.9%. I don’t know how applyig as a female would make a difference though</p>
<p>It could make a negligible difference because in general more girls than boys apply to private schools, but the schools still like to maintain a ratio near 50:50. As for internationals being boarders automatically, that’s not true. An international applicant simply has citizenship of a country other than the US. That doesn’t mean that they can’t live in the town of Deerfield and apply as day students.</p>
<p>Average Yield: 65%</p>
<p>Deefield seems to be very hard to get in this year, but how come the yield is only 65%? Or is it considered high?</p>
<p>65% is very respectable.</p>
<p>I was just checking the DANet and discovered some interesting things.</p>
<p>First, there appears to be a typo in the Scroll article. There were initially 315 accepted students with 2,061 applicants, so the acceptance rate was 15.3% (not 16.8% as originally reported). Since the Freshman acceptance rate was 13.5%, the acceptance rate for other classes (details were not provided as they were for the freshman class) was 17.2%. Curiously, the intial yield for the freshman class was 76.4% vs. 55.0% for the other classes (overall yield is 64.5%).</p>
<p>When the information first came out a couple of weeks ago, my son counted 110 freshman/53 sopphmores/21 juniors/19 seniors & PGs. As of today, there are now 117 freshman/55 sophmores/26 juniors/20 seniors & PGs. I’m not sure if this reflects waitlist activity or late applications, but 15 students were added, so there will be 218 new students next year. I suspect it is waitlist activity because we just received an admissions letter today stating a 16.4% acceptance rate. </p>
<p>Here are some estimated FA vs. FP stats. Requested FA 44% and accepted FA 30%. This means there were 907 FA requests (44%x2,061) and 95 FA acceptances (30%x315) or a 10.4% acceptance rate. Assuming the same distribution of requests and acceptances for the freshman class, there were 469 FA requests (44%x1,066) and 43 acceptances (30%x144) or a 9.2% acceptance rate. For FP students, the numbers are a 19.1% overall acceptance rate and 16.9% freshman acceptance rate. This means it is 1.8X more difficult to get in when requesting financial aid.</p>
<p>Did anyone notice that the Apple Macbook 13 usurped the incumbent Lenovo/IBM as the laptop issued to new students next year. My son is very disappointed since both of his previous Macs (one was a replacement) were lemons. At least he can give it to the Deerfield IT Help Desk if he has issues again. Also, at the $650, the cost is a little less than 60% the education discount price for the same configuration.</p>
<p>To my knowledge, the new MacBooks are much less prone to both cosmetic and mechanical damage. They’ve seen a significant overhaul in appearance and insides. They’re aluminum now, and not the same plastic that was so prone to damage of all types. With any luck, your son should have a better experience with his new MacBook, and if he feels the need to not just go cold turkey on Windows, he can even install XP or Vista to run alongside OS X.</p>
<p>Hmm, like you said, I’d assume that the article in the scroll was not so much inaccurate as written before late applicant/wait list stats came in. I’m interested also in the fact that so many fewer applicants asked for FA than at so many other schools. I suppose that Deerfield just attracts a more affluent crowd than some other schools.</p>
<p>Updated admission stats from the Deerfield Scroll:</p>
<p>Applications: 2,076
Accepted: 325
Acceptance rate: 15.7%</p>
<p>New students: 220
Yield: 67.7%</p>
<p>Ninth grade girl yield: 81.8%</p>
<p>Projected students: 649 (from 616 this year)
Overenrolled and will use renovated common rooms (likely moved to basements), faculty apartments, convert some doubles to triples, and a currently unused dorm to accommodate. Girls are mostly affected.</p>
<p>Class breakdown:
2013: 118
2012: 166
2011: 177
2012: 188</p>
<p>Girls will represent 50.3% of the student body.</p>
<p>All Deerfield freshmen and sophmores have singles, and having spoken yesterday to my Green Key, they have no intentions of changing that. Dorms are broken down into upperclassmen and lowerclassmen, and since 9th and 10th graders will not be sharing rooms, there is no way that they’ll be affected by dorm rooms being changed from doubles to triples. Thus upperclassmen will primarily be affected, and not necessarily girls.</p>
<p>True, they are attempting to minimize the impact on 9th and 10th grade. However, if you read the “Crowd Control” article, you’ll see the only dorms being renovated/converted are the girls dorms (Dewey, Mather, McAlister, Pocumtuck, John Louis, Bewkes, etc.).</p>
<p>Wouldn’t want to be a female applying next year - especially for 10th grade…</p>