Official Deerfield Admissions Stats!!!!

CKSABS
Tue, 05 May 2009 14:12:20 +0000

I was just checking the DANet and discovered some interesting things.

First, there appears to be a typo in the Scroll article. There were initially 315 accepted students with 2,061 applicants, so the acceptance rate was 15.3% (not 16.8% as originally reported). Since the Freshman acceptance rate was 13.5%, the acceptance rate for other classes (details were not provided as they were for the freshman class) was 17.2%. Curiously, the intial yield for the freshman class was 76.4% vs. 55.0% for the other classes (overall yield is 64.5%).

When the information first came out a couple of weeks ago, my son counted 110 freshman/53 sopphmores/21 juniors/19 seniors & PGs. As of today, there are now 117 freshman/55 sophmores/26 juniors/20 seniors & PGs. I’m not sure if this reflects waitlist activity or late applications, but 15 students were added, so there will be 218 new students next year. I suspect it is waitlist activity because we just received an admissions letter today stating a 16.4% acceptance rate.

Here are some estimated FA vs. FP stats. Requested FA 44% and accepted FA 30%. This means there were 907 FA requests (44%x2,061) and 95 FA acceptances (30%x315) or a 10.4% acceptance rate. Assuming the same distribution of requests and acceptances for the freshman class, there were 469 FA requests (44%x1,066) and 43 acceptances (30%x144) or a 9.2% acceptance rate. For FP students, the numbers are a 19.1% overall acceptance rate and 16.9% freshman acceptance rate. This means it is 1.8X more difficult to get in when requesting financial aid.

Did anyone notice that the Apple Macbook 13 usurped the incumbent Lenovo/IBM as the laptop issued to new students next year. My son is very disappointed since both of his previous Macs (one was a replacement) were lemons. At least he can give it to the Deerfield IT Help Desk if he has issues again. Also, at the $650, the cost is a little less than 60% the education discount price for the same configuration.