Acceptance Rates at Schools
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Anonymous
| no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list. |
Anonymous
I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?! |
Anonymous
correct they don't this is what the WAITLIST is for. For K, 3, 6, and 9th grade intakes. They do not run a massive overbooking model. |
Anonymous
That never happens. STA and NCS even Sidwell may have higher yield rates so they know historically how many to accept to achieve their desired class size. There's also selection bias in the applicant pool; a lot of kids do not apply to the top schools because they would not get in or it would not be a good fit. |
Anonymous
LOL no school has 100% yield. every school admits more kids than they have spots. |
Anonymous
+1. I know 3 kids who turned down Sidwell, for other privates and a MoCo magnet. |
Anonymous
Obviously not all accept! But surely there's a risk of more than expected accepting. |
Anonymous
This is a major exaggeration. |
Anonymous
Sometimes that happens and the school is stuck with a larger-than-desired class until attrition brings it back down. |
Anonymous
| Certainly not 100% yield for 9th grade, but close for students coming from private K-8. The K-8 schools definitely talk to the high schools about who wants to go where. K-8 schools have an incentive to accurately convey which students fit best and where they really want to go and high schools take the information seriously to manage enrollment. Sidwell is not going to accept a student if Capitol Hill Day says their first choice is Maret. |
Anonymous
| On the Maret tour, they were pretty open when this question was asked. They said 1 in 8. |
Anonymous
| For the most selective schools, it’s somewhere between five and fifty percent. |
Anonymous
Of course, but they don't admit two for every spot. They maybe add 3-4 kids per expansion grade (maybe 1-2 for K/PK) more than spots available based on traditional yield rates. |
Anonymous
And Maret doesn't deny anyone - so don't put too much weight in you 'waitlist' |
Anonymous
That's funny, GDS HS says the exact same thing. |