<p>In terms of selectivity and prestige it looks as if some other schools will be in the new HADES acronym next year. </p>
<p>So far in all the schools that I have been accepted to (most of the "top" schools) the school that had the lowest admission rate was Milton. I was surprised, according to Boarding School Review they had a thirty percent last year, this year they had a mere fifteen percent.</p>
<p>From what friends tell me, Choate also tightened their belts in terms of applicants and statistics are more selective than ever. </p>
<p>Andover's sixteen percent did not surprise me, with the regard it holds.</p>
<p>As you probably know, Milton is 50% day students. It is super competitive to be admitted for upper school as a day student. Milton is close to Boston, so there are many day student applicants. The 30% acceptance rate probably reflected the boarding and not the day acceptance rate. A few years ago the Milton acceptance rate was around 20%, with around 10% for day and 30% for boarding.</p>
<p>And Boarding School is not always accurate – some of the numbers are years old, particularly since the schools has to “subscribe” or pay for updates, many choose not to.</p>
<p>I’ll second what Burb Parent says. Top schools with a higher day student population will typically have lower overall acceptance rates and high yield rates driven by the very high competition for day student slots.</p>
<p>thats not quite right because the school will accept more kids than they expect to go. though they only have 150 spots, they accept more than that… like around 200</p>
<p>acceptance rate does not put a school into a different tier. In a booming economy all schools become more sought after than previously and in a downturn things return to their usual states. The numbers to look at will be next years. Hades have been hades for hundreds of years. A certain school may become more popular in a given two-three year cycle, than its counterpart, and then the trend reverses itself. As to accepting no more than 170 – the upper school has 680 students. That makes it 170 per grade. No school wants a non-conforming grade size-wise. So they want no more than 170 enrollments. How many they accepted is different.</p>
<p>That’ just what my interviewer told me. Choate, Lawrenceville, and Milton have been growing for the last ten or so years… I anticipate that they will be on par with HADES after the economy becomes more stable. </p>
<p>I’m not big on “tier” but if I was, I’d know that the people that are considered to be top tier…will always be that way. Maybe we can change things up on this board, but to the public nothing changes. No one cares if one school accepted a few less people one year than another school</p>
<p>I got into Hill and Miss porters but waitlisted at st. george and concord…what should I do? Would I have to deposit without actually knowing for sure where I am going?</p>
Congrats!</p>