schools where more than 50% of applicants are accepted for 9th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. John’s and Good Counsel.

That's not correct. SJC received about 1350 applications and accepted around 300 kids last year, and GC, I think, received around 1000 applications and accepted around 300 kids. My kid doesn't go to either, but I don't think any private school accepts around 50% of its applicants.

They both accepted more than 300 kids. They both have more than 300 kids in their freshmen classes, and obviously not every kid who gets an acceptance enrolls.

[Anonymous]

I have no doubt this is true. Lots of mediocre and good students apply to both GC and St John’s. There are far more mediocre and good students collectively than excellent/stellar students. The excellent//stellar students typically apply and aim to get into Visi/Stone Ridge/Prep/Gonzaga and use GC and St John’s as back ups so GC and St. John’s actually get MORE applications than the top schools because everyone applies there. The high number of applications and yield at St. John’s doesn’t mean that the school is highly competitive though. It’s like saying that because more people buy leggings from Walmart than Lululemon, that Walmart therefore must have the best leggings.

I don’t know why people post comments like this. I have DC at both SJC and one of the other schools. The smartest, most academic by far, attends SJC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have no doubt this is true. Lots of mediocre and good students apply to both GC and St John’s. There are far more mediocre and good students collectively than excellent/stellar students. The excellent//stellar students typically apply and aim to get into Visi/Stone Ridge/Prep/Gonzaga and use GC and St John’s as back ups so GC and St. John’s actually get MORE applications than the top schools because everyone applies there. The high number of applications and yield at St. John’s doesn’t mean that the school is highly competitive though. It’s like saying that because more people buy leggings from Walmart than Lululemon, that Walmart therefore must have the best leggings.

I don’t know why people post comments like this. I have DC at both SJC and one of the other schools. The smartest, most academic by far, attends SJC.

That means nothing. Your smartest and most academic child might be dumb as rocks compared to other children. And even if I were to buy into your inference that your child is a genius, so what? St. John will net at least somebright kids. It's just that most of them aren't academic standouts or what one would consider to be the tippy top of their 8th grade classes. It's not bad or good, it just is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. John’s and Good Counsel.

That's not correct. SJC received about 1350 applications and accepted around 300 kids last year, and GC, I think, received around 1000 applications and accepted around 300 kids. My kid doesn't go to either, but I don't think any private school accepts around 50% of its applicants.

A 50% yield seems about right…so they accepted probably 600-650 to yield 300-325…that’s close to a 50% acceptance rate (650/1350 = 48%).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. John’s and Good Counsel.

That's not correct. SJC received about 1350 applications and accepted around 300 kids last year, and GC, I think, received around 1000 applications and accepted around 300 kids. My kid doesn't go to either, but I don't think any private school accepts around 50% of its applicants.

A 50% yield seems about right…so they accepted probably 600-650 to yield 300-325…that’s close to a 50% acceptance rate (650/1350 = 48%).

Those are my calculations as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St Anselm's

No.

[Anonymous]

OP, schools do not release this information, so no one replying here actually knows unless they are in admissions. Lots of trolling though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, schools do not release this information, so no one replying here actually knows unless they are in admissions. Lots of trolling though.

This is the key thing. This is just an excuse to drag on certain schools by certain posters who reliably enjoy doing it. It’s an odd hobby but they seem to like it.

[Anonymous]

OP is looking for a unicorn.

There are many more students looking for a 9th grade admission than there are total openings at 9th summed across all of the top-10 private schools, including whichever mainstream religious schools are in that grouping.

Quite honestly, I do not think any top-10 school in metro DC has such favorable admission chances at 9th (assuming no hooks).

Maybe some lower tier evangelical Christian school ??

[Anonymous]

SSSAS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. John’s and Good Counsel.

That's not correct. SJC received about 1350 applications and accepted around 300 kids last year, and GC, I think, received around 1000 applications and accepted around 300 kids. My kid doesn't go to either, but I don't think any private school accepts around 50% of its applicants.

The class size at SJC is about 300 students, so they accept quite a few more than that - their yield rate is not 100%.

[Anonymous]

SSSAS full pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, schools do not release this information, so no one replying here actually knows unless they are in admissions. Lots of trolling though.

This is the key thing. This is just an excuse to drag on certain schools by certain posters who reliably enjoy doing it. It’s an odd hobby but they seem to like it.

THIS +1000. Just stop.

[Anonymous]

No one knows the answer to this. Admission data isn’t public for the most part.

[Anonymous]

Admission rates wouldn’t be useful even if they were public. I would guess that the rates for 9th at the fancy schools aren’t as low as people would guess because they get fewer applications. For example, at our well known K-8 only a couple of kids applied to Sidwell. I bet their application volume for ninth is nowhere near as high as people would guess and its admissions rate is higher. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to get into. Just the applicant pool is self selecting. For K and elementary it would be a different story.