<p>She was talking about the yield in relation to benevolents post. Obviously pretty much everyone from andover’s day students would accept raising the overall yield. Whereas SPS is all boarding therefore you don’t have the upper hand of having a portion of kids that live 5 minutes from the school (put in separate pile from everyone else) you know will accept your offer. Sounds logical to me…</p>
<p>Thanks, mpicz. I was talking about yield and probably misspoke in mentioning acceptance. </p>
<p>So, approx. 25% of Andover is day students per the school’s website. 450 students were admitted for the 2008-09 year and 69 of those were day student admits, again per the school’s website. 69/450 = 15.3% of admitted students are day students. So, obviously the yield rate on day student admits is much higher than the yield rate on boarding student admits if the school’s day student population reaches 25% of the student body.</p>
<p>One of you math whizzes can do the calculation for me to figure out what the day student yield is.</p>
<p>Here you go creative1.</p>
<p>Assuming a 75% overall yield and 95% day student yield, you would get the following:</p>
<p>25% day students X 95% day yield = 23.75%
75% boarding students X ? boarding yield = 51.25% (75% weighted yield -23.75% day)</p>
<p>Therefore, the boarding yield is 68.33% (51.25%/75%) and the day yield is assumed to be 95%.</p>
<p>The Andover boarding yield seems comparable to SPS. Interestingly, with FA yields significantly higher this year, that would mean the non-FA yield would be lower if the overall yield is the same this year. We’ll have to wait for all the stats.</p>
<p>Also from the Andover website:</p>
<p>How many new students join each class at Andover?
Every year, nearly 200 new ninth graders, or juniors, begin their journey at Andover. They are joined by an average of 85 new peers in the tenth grade, or lower year, and 20-25 new eleventh graders, or uppers. A total of 30-35 new seniors and postgraduates round out the graduating class.</p>
<p>So…if each group of new students per year is roughly 340 students and approx 25% of those are supposedly boarding students, then the school expects a yield of 100+% for day students. They only accepted 69 students and 25% of 340 is 85. Let’s say most of the new 11th graders and 12th graders/PGs are boarding, you’re still looking at 285 new 9th and 10th graders which is 71 students and still 100+% yield for day students. Hmmm…</p>