<p>I wish they would break those statistics down a little. They look so daunting when all categories are lumped together. For instance, how many of those applicants are applying for rare 11th grade spots, how many Koreans are applying for a limited number of “asian” spots? How many applicants are legacy or development cases?</p>
<p>I realize that no school would disclose that kind of information, but surely to acceptance rates vary considerably from demographic to demographic.</p>
<p>I’m sure that there will hardly be any Koreans applying to Middlesex. Of all the asians and obsessed people, I knows through my application proccess that they only have their eyes on A/E or SPS. When I took a tour at Middlesex, there were only like 2 Asians!!!</p>
<p>Anyways, don’t worry guys you’ll do find. Lets all wish each other good luck, and keep our minds busy till March 10.</p>
<p>I’ll be posting an accepted and (sadly) rejected thread soon</p>
<p>Just Middlesex statistics…</p>
<p>Average SSAT- 86%
Acceptance Rate- 25%
Matriculation Rate- Under 50%, roughly 42%</p>
<p>The School</p>
<p>1901 Date of founding
350 Campus acreage, with Bateman’s Pond
9-12 Grades served by Middlesex School
344 Student body (72% boarding / 28% day)
11 Average class size
5 to 1 Student-to-faculty ratio
70% Teaching faculty with advanced degrees
20 Distance, in miles, from Boston and Logan Airport
23 Faculty dogs
26; 3 Average number of students and faculty families per dorm
Alumni of note:
Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico and former Presidential candidate
William Weld, Former Governor of Massachusetts
Steve Carell, Actor – The 40-Year Old Virgin, The Office
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr , Former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
William Hurt, Academy Award winning actor.
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<p>Students</p>
<p>32 Number of International Students
12 Number of countries represented
24 Number of states represented
670 | 670 | 690 Median verbal, math, and writing SAT scores of graduating class
95% of senior AP test scores were “3” or higher in 07-08
57 Number of teams in 17 different sports
Top 5 colleges over past 5 years: 1. Brown, 2. Tufts, 3. Harvard, 4. Boston College, 5. Trinity
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<p>Finances</p>
<p>$42,820 | $34,250 Tuition for boarding and day students, respectively
$110M Amount restricted and unrestricted endowment
$3.4M Amount of available financial aid
106 Students receiving aid
$32,180 Amount of average grant
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<p>Admissions</p>
<p>970 Interviews in 2007-08
931 Applications in 2007-08
108 New students enrolled 2007-08
86% Median SSAT percentile
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<p>The figures are not really that unfavorable. If you assume a yield of 50%, then you have 220 acceptances out of 950 applications, for an acceptance rate of one out of four. Further, the stats are surely better if you are applying for ninth than for tenth, and if you are applying for boarding rather than day or applying for aid versus as a full pay. So for some subsets, it may be as favorable as one out of two or three!</p>
<p>I got that letter to day also.
I was floored with the # of apps compaired with the number of admitted.
BUT…not all will accept so that will bring the apps numbers down a bit.</p>
<p>Just happy thoughts…</p>
<p>Middlesex, you are partially correct. Middlesex has 10% international (not just two.) Middlesex does have less internationals them SPS for example (18%- correct me if I’m wrong)</p>
<p>The interview at Middlesex is most definitely the most important component of an application. Last year there was an applicant with 98% SSAT’s that was waitlisted at Middlesex. </p>
<p>Best of luck all you Middlesex lovers…</p>
<p>benevolent, what is a matriculation???</p>
<p>Please anyone answer i’m dying to know.</p>
<p>42% seems a bit high for a statistic no matter what it is</p>
<p>Matriculation is also known as yield (the percentage of students that attend once accepted)</p>
<p>thnx.</p>
<p>All the best</p>
<p>I computed it by doing 108 / (931 x .25)</p>
<p>Actually equal to 0.4635194</p>
<p>roughly 46.3%</p>
<p>-in case you needed proof ;)</p>
<p>Kool!! So only like 50% of applicants will go. I suppose the other 50% would choose A/E or Groton or Choate. </p>
<p>I personally love Middlesex the best. Thnx for the computation. Its nice to kno facts and figures. We’re doing Conceptual physics and there is never a certain answer. GAHH!!!</p>
<p>Anyone got any funny stories to tell us about their school?</p>
<p>46% is pretty high. SPS is 59%. Andover is 75%.</p>
<p>I just typing in what I’m thinking right now----- but wouldn’t people go to SPS if they were accepted? Why is the matriculation higher for Andover? I mean SPS is and has always been ranked higher for academics, clubs, everything. Its just a thought but I’d expect there to be like a 80% for SPS. It’s considered a great honor to be accepted there.</p>
<p>Of course it’s all opinion, but Andover is more commonly accepted as a “better” school than SPS. I’m not sure where you get your opinion, but Andover and Exeter are known to be the most prestigious schools in the country. The may not be the “best fits”…</p>
<p>If you look it up online- best prep schools in WORLD, you can see that a school in London marks first, SPS second, Exeter third, and Andover is actually somewhere around 5th or 6th.</p>
<p>It is not opinionated… It is facts that SPS is better. Atleast for most kids</p>
<p>SPS has a lower yield rate because it is all boarding. Andover has approximately 25% day students, and a day applicant is more likely to attend if offered admission. That fluctuates matriculation data.</p>
<p>SPS and Andover are both good school. Academically, I consider them equal, but I happen to like one more.</p>
<p>may i ask which one??</p>
<p>How is it “facts” that SPS is better? What makes a school better? Higher test scores? College matriculation numbers? No, it’s the intangibles like quality of teachers and quality of support systems and counseling.</p>
<p>Middlesex, what are schools did you apply to?</p>
<p>benev wrote: “The interview at Middlesex is most definitely the most important component of an application.”</p>
<p>I hope that’s true!</p>