<p>Does anyone know how last year's over or under-enrollment by gender affects this year's acceptance rates at the top schools? I believe Deerfield over-enrolled 3rd form girls last year, so this year is a bad year to be applying for the 4th form there. Other examples anyone? This gets to the difficult constraints placed on the admissions teams.</p>
<p>Both Deerfield and SPS overenrolled 3rd form (9th grade) girls last year; it will be more challenging for those girls applying for 10th this year. I also think it will continue to be tight for those applying for FA given the continued weak economic climate.</p>
<p>Does this have a spillover effect for applicants to the 3rd form? Our DA guide mentioned that dorms had to be reconfigured to accommodate the girls.</p>
<p>Nope. It might actually help slightly if you are a full pay 3rd form girl. In this economic climate, if they’ve created extra space, why not utilize it by bringing in extra revenue and remaining slightly overenrolled.</p>
<p>Same picture at SPS you think? Both are on my D’s list.</p>
<p>SPS didn’t create extra space in the same way Deerfield did - they just converted some doubles to triples and singles to doubles. Here’s some color from a news story on the SPS website about changes the school is planning to make over the next 5 years or so: “• For at least the next five years, we will need to be a school a little larger than we earlier anticipated, i.e., a school of 535 students, which is our current enrollment.” So whether it creates extra space for 3rd form girls specifically, or just more space over all which will be split among boys/girls (more likely), it does mean a few more spots may be open for full pays. Not a lot but maybe 5-10.</p>
<p>SPS will probably enroll more boys this year, they had 11 plus girls to guys last year.</p>
<p>More fourth form boys? It boosts my chances then. :D</p>
<p>I believe St. Andrew’s yield was much larger than expected in '09 so should be tough for the IV form.</p>
<p>OPS, yes you’re right about SAS. They went from roughly 280 to 305 in a year. I’m not under the impression that they’re going to let that go back to 280, so admissions should be roughly normal there.</p>
<p>It seems to be trend among the smaller schools especially, to let the numbers creep up. Groton’s day student population has steadily increased over the past few years as well. SAS up, SPS up - without any indication that they will cut down. It’s easy enough to add day students, but for 100% boarding like SAS and SPS, I imagine that once they have made the proper living modifications for the additional students, why not keep them?</p>