2012 Admissions Results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do priority applicants (siblings, alumni, rich and famous, etc.) find out their admission status before regular (non-priority) applicants?

Not "rich and famous," but at our school sibs go through a different set of admissions deadlines, including notification. Sib contracts, if offered, are due before other admissions decisions are made.

At ours, sib apps are due earlier, and parents of sibs are orally informed in December what the March letter will say. letter comes out at the same time and the same deadlines to keep the spot apply.

It was nice for once to have one of the kids they built the class around. For the first kid, eek. Very happy with where we ended up but the process really, really sucks. Good luck to all applying for their kids this year.

[SAM2]

Bump. Beta-test time. Below are links to a tool for counting 2012 admissions results. For right now, I am just testing it to make sure it works. Please enter whatever results you want. Admit your daughter to 20 different schools. Call yourself a major donor or a celebrity. Do whatever you want. I will wipe the results clean on Friday, and set it ready for real data. But for now ... go crazy!

Here is a link to a simply survey tool, so people can log their admission results for 2012.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5NYXREbjVicnV5UXQzd3BNOUw1NlE6MQ

Here is a direct link to a summary of the current results.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dE5NYXREbjVicnV5UXQzd3BNOUw1NlE6MQ

You will see that I listed only a limited number of schools, and dropped some from last time. This is due to a lack of many results for those schools. If there are schools you want me to add back next year, there is a spot at the end of the form to list them.

Also, as is DCUM tradition, people of course should feel free to bypass the form and post results to this thread.

Good luck to everyone.

[Anonymous]

This is great SAM2! What does Oops! I made a mistake mean? Would anyone actually select that option?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does "Oops! I made a mistake" mean? Would anyone actually select that option?

If you accidentally click on a row for a school where you did not apply, you cannot easily "unclick" to selection. But you can easily change your accidental selection to "Oops," rather than entering inaccurate results.

[Anonymous]

It looks like things are working well, but please post here if you see something that's not working.

I don't think the "Applicant Characteristics" questions are very user-friendly right now. I plan to eliminate the school-specific characteristics question about sibling/legacy/etc, and just merge those into the more general characteristics question. That will make the results page shorter and slightly less complex.

I plan to wipe results and open it up for real data sometime tonight.

Sam2

[Anonymous]

Awesome work yet again, SAM2! Thanks for doing this.

[Anonymous]

On the submissions page, nothing below the Beauvoir relationship question is coming up for me. But it could just be my connection, which is often a problem.

Is it too late to add Concord Hill?

[Anonymous]

You have a few schools in age group categories that don't apply. For example, you could enter that your 9th grader got into Primary Day, which is only PK-2nd.

[Anonymous]

What defines a diversity applicant?

[Anonymous]

So are these results "real" now, or is this still the beta test (fictional) result information?

[Anonymous]

Not live yet.

[Anonymous]

Since admission results have started to come in for some of the catholic schools, will it be going "live" soon?

[SAM2]

Below are links to a tool for counting 2012 admissions results. The counting survey is live now. Please enter real results only.

Here is a link to a simply survey tool, so people can log their admission results for 2012.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5NYXREbjVicnV5UXQzd3BNOUw1NlE6MQ

Here is a direct link to a summary of the current results.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dE5NYXREbjVicnV5UXQzd3BNOUw1NlE6MQ

You will see that I listed only a limited number of schools, and dropped some from last time. This is due to a lack of many results for those schools. If there are schools you want me to add back next year, there is a spot at the end of the form to list them.

Also, as is DCUM tradition, people of course should feel free to bypass the survey, and just post results to this thread free form.

Good luck to everyone. May all your envelopes be fat.

[SAM2]

Anonymous wrote:What defines a diversity applicant?

For purposes of this counting survey, it means whatever you think your schools consider diversity for admissions purposes. It can mean race, ethnicity, orientation, religion, SES status, physical disability, whatever ... as long as the schools consider those things. You have to decide whether the schools you are applying to will consider your child diverse in a way that affects admissions. But while you personally may think your child's triple-nipple makes him extremely diverse, if you honestly don't think the schools will view it that way, then he's not diverse for purposes of this survey.

HTH. No offense intended to those with supernumerary nipples.

[Anonymous]

Georgetown Prep, 9th grade, waitlist.