Taking a time out

Prep School Admissions
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<p>Hi. I’ve been reading non-stop and thought I would take the time to check in with you all during what must be an anxious period of waiting and wondering.</p>

<p>Here’s what you should know:</p>

<p>1) Your parents love you. They want the best for you. Your hearts would swell with pride if you could read all the beautiful things they’ve written about you in their Parent Statements. They will continue to love you, no matter what happens on March 10. </p>

<p>2) Your teachers are amazing. They’ve taken time out of their busy schedules to write on your behalf. Nowhere in their job descriptions does it say they have to write recommendations for boarding schools, so that those same boarding schools can scoop up their very best students. Where’s the reward in that? You would cry if you could read all the wonderful things they’ve written about you in their letters of recommendation. Please thank your teachers for writing on your behalf, no matter what happens on March 10.</p>

<p>3) If you don’t get in, it doesn’t mean you did something wrong. You’re not dumb. You’re not a bad person. You are smart and you are talented and you are good. It just means that we have so many truly outstanding students from which to choose, we just can’t take all of you. We wish we could. </p>

<p>Thank you for applying. I wish you all the best of luck. </p>

<p>Gemma V</p>

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<p>Thank you for the perspective and kind words. I have a question about the applicant pool growth in recent years. Has the growth been driven primarily by international or by broader awareness among domestic students of the BS opportunity? Thanks!</p>

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<p>Are you having more or fewer applications in Hogwarts this year?</p>

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<p>wow!! thanks so much for that. It makes me feel a lot more confident</p>

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<p>If this was Facebook I would like this post :)</p>

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<p>Hogwarts is up, as are several other of what you guys consider the “big” schools; our increase is in both domestic and international applicants.</p>

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<p>I agree with Aurelie. C: Thanks, Gemma.</p>

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<p>Thanks so much, this really means a lot.</p>

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<p>@GemmaV,
How about FA applicants at Hogwarts? Are they up or down? What about the other “big” schools?</p>

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<p>If you live in an under-stairs closet, you get a full-ride to Hogwarts…otherwise, your folks had better have plenty stowed away at Gringotts!</p>

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<p>ifax, Hogwarts is a fictional school. What happens there doesn’t apply to real world!</p>

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<p>Thanks GemmaV!
I had 2 questions,
Approximatly, how many applicants apply for 9th grade at Hogwarts?
Also, how much do you weigh on SSAT scores at Hogwarts?</p>

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<p>yankeefan1234</p>

<p>We are not really supposed to know which school Gemma V works for. Thus size, number of applicants…no no no.</p>

<p>For your second question: please refer to her last thread Go ahead and ask.</p>

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<p>oh sorry I was just trying to know the approximate amount of applicants for a common boarding school</p>

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<p>This year’s stats:
3000 at Exeter
1900 at SPS</p>

<p>And you can always check their websites. There’s no point in asking a school’s number of applicants if we don’t know Hogwarts’s size (which is meant to be a secret).</p>

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<p>3000 applied to Exeter this year? Wow…</p>

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<p>where did you get these stats… cause I looked on Exeter and could not find them…</p>

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<p>@kisskob,
Where did you get the SPS figure? That’s up 600 applications from last year. Could you post a link verifying this?</p>

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<p>Winterset said " Looks like it will be another record year for applications. Completed apps are up 14%. And recall that last year the acceptance ratio was 15%. This year there will be fewer spots and there are 1,896 applications. So the acceptance rate will drop assuming the yield stays the same. " According to the SPS website, they got 1306 applications last year. A 14% increase would be 1488 applications. Last year they admitted 16% of 1306 or 208 students. If they were to accept say 200 students out of the 1488, the acceptance rate would hit an all time low of about 13.5%. I think Winterset made an error but if there are indeed 1896 applications; that’s a 45% increase in applications. If they were to accept 200 kids of the 1896 applications, that would be a 10.5% acceptance rate. Either way the acceptance rate goes down.</p>

<p>Sources : Winterset Quote : <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11914687-post2438.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11914687-post2438.html&lt;/a&gt;
SPS Fact Card : <a href=“https://www.sps.edu/ftpimages/36/misc/misc_64610.pdf[/url]”>https://www.sps.edu/ftpimages/36/misc/misc_64610.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yeah, thank you swissbrit.
There’s another thread about FA at Exeter this year. Someone cited an article in the Exonian.</p>