Nightingale and Chapin School Waitlist

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone - hoping to tap this wonderful community for advice 🙏

I’m trying to get a sense of how waitlists for Nightingale and Chapin move from year to year. If anyone has experience with either waitlist (how far they typically move, timing of offers, or anything you learned along the way), I’d be so grateful to hear your insights.

Thank you in advance!

[Anonymous]

Good luck! I know both of these schools have an admitted families events soon if not already, maybe that will sway them one way or another to accept or decline their offers

[Anonymous]

Thank you ❤️

[Anonymous]

I get the impression Nightingale moves a fair amount, since while it's a very good school in its own right, a lot of people apply there as a backup for B/S/C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get the impression Nightingale moves a fair amount, since while it's a very good school in its own right, a lot of people apply there as a backup for B/S/C.

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[Anonymous]

Thank you both ❤️ We don’t have a PSD to provide feedback, so we’re just trying to get any guidance.

[Anonymous]

If no PSD just sharing the key tips:

1) keep expressing interest

2) If you have a top choice, you can tell them again now. Especially if it is true that you would accept immediately if offered a spot

Also - I don’t know about nightingale- but I believe chapin has wait pool and then waitlist applicants. Are you in wait pool? Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Nightingale admit rate last year was 35% with a yield of 54%. That means they accepted 91 to get to a class of 49. Plenty of wiggle room there to get off waitlists.

[Anonymous]

Thank you all, very helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If no PSD just sharing the key tips:

1) keep expressing interest

2) If you have a top choice, you can tell them again now. Especially if it is true that you would accept immediately if offered a spot

Also - I don’t know about nightingale- but I believe chapin has wait pool and then waitlist applicants. Are you in wait pool? Good luck.

Yes, waitpool!

[Anonymous]

I know a small handful of people who are planning on taking either TT coed or Brearley but got a backup offer for Chapin. So OP there is hope for Chapin too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a small handful of people who are planning on taking either TT coed or Brearley but got a backup offer for Chapin. So OP there is hope for Chapin too!

Is there a reason they are still holding onto the Chapin acceptance? I thought PSDs really push families to communicate offer declines as soon as possible. Our PSD requested we do within 24 hours and implied it was frowned upon not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a reason they are still holding onto the Chapin acceptance? I thought PSDs really push families to communicate offer declines as soon as possible. Our PSD requested we do within 24 hours and implied it was frowned upon not to.

Funny, we turned down an offer from one of the girls' schools last year after 24 hours and they actually came off as kind of affronted that we had decided so soon and didn't even know which one of our higher choices we were taking yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a small handful of people who are planning on taking either TT coed or Brearley but got a backup offer for Chapin. So OP there is hope for Chapin too!

Is there a reason they are still holding onto the Chapin acceptance? I thought PSDs really push families to communicate offer declines as soon as possible. Our PSD requested we do within 24 hours and implied it was frowned upon not to.

Not sure but many schools also had admitted family events so they could have held out on deciding after those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a small handful of people who are planning on taking either TT coed or Brearley but got a backup offer for Chapin. So OP there is hope for Chapin too!

Is there a reason they are still holding onto the Chapin acceptance? I thought PSDs really push families to communicate offer declines as soon as possible. Our PSD requested we do within 24 hours and implied it was frowned upon not to.

Not sure but many schools also had admitted family events so they could have held out on deciding after those.

Totally, but that poster referred specifically to a "backup offer" from Chapin. If they know they are going to Brearley or a TT coed, then why hold onto the Chapin offer?