Madeira - Easier to get in as Day Student?

[Anonymous]

Is it more competitive to be admitted as a Day or Boarding student?

It appears that the school has received increased attention in the last few years.

[Anonymous]

What percent of students board?

[Anonymous]

Traditionally about 50/50

[Anonymous]

Slightly more than half board. Historically, easier admit as a boarder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it more competitive to be admitted as a Day or Boarding student?

It appears that the school has received increased attention in the last few years.

You make it sound like Madeira is a new thing. My grandmother from the Midwest went to Madeira after high school when it was a finishing school. Not new, and not newly getting "attention."

[Anonymous]

They will soon be getting “attention”. They just received the largest gift ever to a girls school from a generous alumna. B.I.G.

[Anonymous]

Interestingly, this unprecedented gift comes from an alumna who wants to remain anonymous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it more competitive to be admitted as a Day or Boarding student?

It appears that the school has received increased attention in the last few years.

Yes, easier as a boarder purely through numbers. They aim for 50/50 day/boarding students, but have fewer boarding applicants, so the percent of applicants who get in is higher.

If the format is a good fit, it’s a great school. The mod system doesn’t work for every student, though.

[Anonymous]

@ 13:21 - No offense intended! More attention in comparison to schools that are more usually discussed on this forum such as GDS, Sidwell, NCS etc.

@14:40 - Thank you

[Anonymous]

Much harder to get in as a day student.

They just received a $60M donation to the endowment.

[Anonymous]

It is still easier to get in as a boarder. However there has been an increase in boarding applications along with a rise in day applications. A number of students board locally.

The gift Madeira just got is even larger than the one Foxcroft received a couple of years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it more competitive to be admitted as a Day or Boarding student?

It appears that the school has received increased attention in the last few years.

You make it sound like Madeira is a new thing. My grandmother from the Midwest went to Madeira after high school when it was a finishing school. Not new, and not newly getting "attention."

It is not a new thing but was never a finishing school. The aim was always to prepare women to go to college, even in a time when that was more unusual. Legend has it that Brooke Astor had to leave the school because her mother did not want her to go to college.

[Anonymous]

Harder as a day student. No secret who the donor is either - few alum in that strastosphere.

[Anonymous]

Who do folks think is the donor??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who do folks think is the donor??

Who cares? She wants to be anonymous, let her be anonymous.