Phillips Academy Andover - Second Round Applicants?

Prep School Admissions
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Hi! This is my very first post on CC :slight_smile:

I’m a current 8th grader in a competitive NYC public school. I was planning on applying to PA last semester (by the original deadline of Feb 1st), but then a huge accident happened to one of my family members and it wasn’t the best time for my family to send me off to boarding school - so I sadly withdrew my application.

However, my family seems relatively stable and they say they have reconsidered applying to boarding schools. So I decided that I would apply next year as a non-repeating 10th grader and called the admissions officers for more info - only to be informed that there was actually a second round of applications that I could go through!

I’m very new to this whole “second round” application process, so although I contacted the admissions offices again about general info, I was wondering if you could answer some of these questions :

  1. Is the second round process a regular thing for Andover? When we checked the website last year around the same time, there was no mention of such a process - but now there is.
  2. the admissions office says that I will be competing for a spot on the waitlist. Do you think that my chances of getting actually getting accepted are minimal or might there be exceptions for this round?
  3. If there is a very little to no chance that I will get into Andover, should I apply anyway? I do have to complete the entire application in less than a month and am wondering if it is even worth it.
  4. If I manage to get on the waitlist, will it help my chances if I apply for 10th grade next year?
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It’s been around for several years. But, as you said, you are admitted on to the waitlist (unless you are rejected outright). There has been little to no movement off the WL for the past several years, and I know of nobody that even got accepted onto the waitlist in the second round. My gut says that anyone accepted onto the WL would be the child of a high-ranking corporate exec that got transferred to Boston and would be attending as a day student.

I’m gonna say slim to none. If you need FA, I’d say none.

Personal choice

No, but it won’t hurt, either.