Boarding School's for average to below average SSAT scores

stalecookies
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:12:04 +0000

The thing is, if you’re looking at the top 20, you’re going to have low admissions rates.

Acceptance rates are a function of supply and demand: there are only so many spots at any given school, and they cannot accept more students than that. (Well, they sometime do - calculating that not all students accepted will choose to enroll, based on historic yield.)

The majority of “Chance Me” posts seem to be by people applying to top 10 schools, with some “back up” school(s) that are still in the top 20.

There are many schools not in the top 20, or top 50 even, that offer ambitious students a quality education, even if they are “easier” to get into. Different people have different things that they are looking for in a private/boarding education.

Look far enough down on this list and you will find plenty of great schools that accept close to 50% (or more) of applicants: