<p>In schools with over 40% day students(ie Loomis Chaffee, Milton, or Concord), is it generally easier to be admitted as a day or boarding student?</p>
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<p>Boarding, because you pay more!</p>
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<p>In most cases, boarding students don’t pay more for tuition. If they are paying more overall, the difference in cost covers the expense of room & board.</p>
<p>Day students usually have a higher admit rate.</p>
<p>Loomis is determined to raise its boarding percentage and get closer to 70/30, so in the short term, anyway, day student applicants will be at a disadvantage (although I think as they recruit a wider applicant pool, most of the application increase is coming from the potential boarding population, not from the greater Hartford area).</p>
<p>I saw data for one of the schools on your list and the percent admit for day students was significantly higher than for boarding. There’s also a cross-subsidy from day students to boarders as the slight difference in boarder tuition doesn’t cover their full-cost of housing, adult supervision, food, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t know specific data, per se, but I do know that the school wants to fill up their dorms before they fill up their lockers.
It all depends on the school. If it’s a day school with a small percentage of boarders vs. a boarding school with a small percentage of day students. I would think that many people at an elite prep school up north (Exeter, Andover, etc.) would prefer to be a boarder, and probably have more space for boarders, since the boarding environment is so well-crrafted there.</p>
<p>Day students are more likely to accept an offer of admission. If an older sibling attends the school, they’re practically guaranteed to attend. Even if that particular child decides to attend a different school, the family will feel kindly toward the school which accepted the both sibs. </p>
<p>Is it easier to get in as a day student? I don’t know. I would say, the admissions teams know much more about the local applicants and their families, particularly if their children attend the same feeder schools.</p>
<p>It depends. Milton - in 9th grade, it would be easier to get in as boarding. Why? They have spots for total of 150 kids. They want 50/50 day and boarding. But they have a lower and middle school. So about 40-50 spots of the75 day spots have already being taken by their current students. That leaves 25 day spots that could be filled by legacies, connected, celeb and the average joe off the street. On the other hand, there are 75 spots for boarding available. So the total number of applications for the boarding spots have to be at least 3x the total number of day spots for the odds to be even between the two. Or something like that.</p>
<p>Don’t forget a certain percentage of day students are faculty children.</p>
<p>at Concord admissions are usually more selective for day students, especially day student girls</p>