Hello,
Thanks for the reply & yes I am looking for the difference in admissions.
For example, the “chance me” threads are full of great sounding kids applying to a set of competitive boarding schools. And most of the replies are along the lines of “you sound like a great kid, but, it’s a coin-toss” or “apply to more schools and less selective schools.”
There aren’t many threads about competitive day schools, and I’m trying to understand where they fit in.
In terms of raw numbers, if a school has an average 85th percentile on the SSAT, there’s a larger pool of kids on the national level that can fit in that bucket, than from any given city. Similarly, it’s eaiser to a good athlete/musician/mathemetician/etc at the city level than at the national level.
But I haven’t really seen much discussion of how admissions look different at the competitive day school level versus the competitive boarding school level. It might be that there isn’t a lot of overlap for people to know … we are only applying to day schools while I take it some people are only applying to boarding schools.