<p>last year the mx acceptance rate was about 20%. i would assume it’s gone down a bit, so maybe ~17%? just a guess</p>
<p>2010 Applications (Corrected Thacher, Exeter)</p>
<p>Groton: 1000 (applications), 82 Openings (for 9, 10, 11 gr)
Taft: 1500 (applications), 160 Opeinngs (for 9, 10, 11 gr)
Milton: 1000 (applications), 150 Opeining (for 9, 10, 11 gr)
St Paul: 1300 (applications), Openings 185 (for 9, 10, 11 gr)
Hotchkiss:1683 (applications), 310 Opeining (for 9, 10, 11 gr) students on FA dropped to 27% for 2010.
Middlesex: 1025 (applications), 100 Opeinings (for 9, 10, 11 gr)
Thacher: 440 (applications), 79 Opeinings (for 9, 10, 11 gr)
St Andrews: 430 (applications), 70 Openings (for 9, 10, 11 gr)
Exeter: over 2500 (applications) 450 Opeinings (for 9, 10,) 95 (11 gr)</p>
<p>Newebs - you still have it wrong, unfortunately. I said Thacher made 79 Offers. The school only has 65 open slots across 9th, 10th and 11th grades. You confused “openings” with “Offers.” With an expected yield of roughly 83%, 79 Offers turns into 65 matriculated students.</p>
<p>There are say 85 spots (openings) at Super Academy but many people got more than just an offer for SA. For example Jesssie gets in to Exeter and SA and chooses Exeter than that means they won’t get the class size they want. They’ll have 84 rather than 85. Thomas make the same choose and the class size drops again. So they make 100 offers based on how many people they think based on previous years will accept other offers (yield). That’s the number of offers. So in this theoritical situation there was 85 spots and 100 offers. I think I’ve got it right but feel free to correct me.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this was mentioned (probably was) but Groton has a 14% acceptance rather this year. yup, theater kid already shared it and I replied to it. Silly me.</p>
<p>I’m surprised at that, Blue. That means that their projected yield is only 58%??? Doesn’t seem right. If they had 1000 apps and 14% admit, then they accepted 140 kids for 82 seats. I thought their yield was closer to 70%, which would mean they would accept 82/.70= 117 kids. I hope they don’t end up overenrolled. Maybe they’ve just added more day students. That could be where the discrepancy is.</p>
<p>You’re right it doesn’t make sense. I am sure Grotons acceptance rate is 14% though unless Groton stated it wrong on the note they sent both Theaterkid and me.</p>
<p>Okay, I just looked at the numbers for Hotchkiss that newebs gives here for 2010. I find them confusing. Based upon my knowledge of THS gained last year when my son went through the BS application wringer, I think that newebs should say for Hotchkiss this year the following: 1683 applications, 310 “admits” or “offers” (NOT “openings”) for a 18.42 acceptance rate. THS doesn’t really have 310 openings because the school knows, based on yields from past years, that the 310 kids receiving offers this year will not attend THS this fall.</p>
<p>Last year, I think that the yield on the 316 then admitted was 56% and, therefore, 177 new students enrolled at Hotchkiss during the fall of 2009. Assuming another 56% yield this year, then Hotchkiss would have 174 new students this fall or, in other words, Hotchkiss will have filled 174 “openings”.</p>
<p>I hope this helps. Maybe it doesn’t.</p>
<p>The person asking me to clarify openings and admits deleted their post making me look like I’m talking to myself. my Super Academy thing was a theoritical example to explain the whole thing.</p>
<p>what about DA acceptance rate?</p>
<p>Maybe Groton overstated their admit rate just so people wouldn’t completely give up hope!!! If the yield is 70% (and I could be WAAAAAY off on that - but it seems like I remember reading it last year on their website), then they would have accept 117 out of that 1000 for those 82 spaces, making the acceptance rate just under 12%. That would make it the most selective school out there (that I know of). I don’t think I would encourage my children to apply to a school with that low of a rate. Jeez.</p>
<p>Something is “off” with those numbers. Like I said before, maybe they increased the number of day students again and maybe day students have a lower yield rate than boarders and that skews the numbers. I really have no clue. </p>
<p>These broad admissions rates are usually pretty useless anyway. There are so many confounded variables.</p>
<p>I have heard of a couple schools that publish their acceptance rates higher than they actually are, specifically for that reason. As who they are looking for is so beyond just grades, they do not want to needlessly discourage students they would truly like to apply. My son has 2 friends who were accepted by Groton who were B students and had under 50% on the SSAT, BUT they EXCEL in other areas (more than one).</p>
<p>Other areas like what? Would they be able to handle Groton’s acdemics?</p>
<p>If they admit several students with less than 50 SSAT scores, I wonder how they manage to keep the SSAT average so high(in the early 90s from memory)? I’m not doubting your word or anything but considering how small Groton is they’d have to make up for it by admitting predominintly 90s students. It’s just interesting.</p>
<p>Multiple Sports, Music, Leadership skills…
I doubt they would accept them if they did not feel they could handle the academics. They will not be A students for sure but solid B-/C+…not eveyone can be the top of the class and schools look to balance their school environment.</p>
<p>Sorry BlueRaven I did not see your post before I did mine. They accept many students with 99% SSAT so I imagine this offsets the lower ones.</p>
<p>Acceptance rate can be misleading in many ways. It depends on which grade you’re applying, in other words, which pool you’re in. I was aghast when I learned that Middlesex accepted 2 out of 70 for 11th grade. If I knew, I would not have applied :D</p>
<p>Middlesex was just ridiculous for 10th grade because they overenrolled so much. On my tour they said that there are about 370 students, but over a hundred freshmen already. They accepted something like 10 people in total for 10th.</p>
<p>Any advice on the difference between the programs would be great! Which program is it more competitive?</p>
<p>Originally I stated ‘Spots’. Some of you ‘Objected’. Then suggestion was given it should be opening, offers, etc.</p>
<p>The letters the schools mailed on March 10 2010 states ‘OPENINGS’. I can only put what the letters states which is a fact. If the letters are mis-leading from the schools, its not our issue.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter related to Acceptance rate for 2010:</p>
<ul>
<li>Thacher is one of the smallest school on the west coast. It only has about 21-23 openings in 9th grade for 2010. </li>
<li>On the east coast, Groton and Westminister are two schools that have lower number of openings compared to other schools. </li>
<li>Smaller the school, the harder it is to get in. The more the number of applicants, the aceptance rate drops for that school.</li>
<li>It seem to me the acceptance rate for 2009 are not the same for 2010. </li>
<li>For 2010 enrollment, the acceptance rate have dropped from 2009 enrollments, since more students seem to have applied to the BS this year.</li>
<li>Plus the % of FA available also dropped at some schools. Some schools denied FA to students or families who qualify based on SSS etc.</li>
<li>This also slightly seem to have affected the yield at some schools for 2010.</li>
<li>School Admission are also on a tight spot when they have more applications, since they don’t know how many students actually accept their offer. And they are trying to create a ideal class composition based on the school policy.</li>
<li>The class composition that each school targets for a specific year determines the final outcome after potential students actually enroll. Till the the admissions are also guessing and hoping for the best class composition.
-Last year Deefield may not have got ther class composition correct. There were more girls then boys plus more students accepted their offer. So they converted TV rooms and staff housing into doms. For 2010 they have made some adjustments.</li>
<li>Also some school doesn’t seem to post what is accuarte information due to marketing agenda etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>I wish there was a post to show how many waitlisted students got accepted last year. I don’t seem to find that information anywhere.</p>
<p>We can discuss whatever is correct or wrong, the fact is acceptance rates for 2010 seem to be lower at most school compared to 2009. </p>
<p>we are plannning our revists now, so all the best to you and your families.</p>
<p>Has Exeter given out any of their rates or stats for the admission for the 2010-2011 year? or Are they waiting for April 10?</p>