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

[Anonymous]

In general the admissions rates are highest at the schools with a lot of ninth grade spots to fill. One of the reasons the fancy DC schools are tough admits is because they often only have 10-25 spots. The big Catholics are adding more than 10 times that amount or more.

[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.

Some of ya’ll really hate SJC and GC and need to make yourself believe there are not bright students at these schools. Some kids don’t want attend Visi/Stone Ridge/NCS/Prep. Heck I’ve know kids to attend NCS lower school and go on to attend SJC for HS. Not because they couldn’t cut it at NCS for HS but because they wanted something different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Some of ya’ll really hate SJC and GC and need to make yourself believe there are not bright students at these schools. Some kids don’t want attend Visi/Stone Ridge/NCS/Prep. Heck I’ve know kids to attend NCS lower school and go on to attend SJC for HS. Not because they couldn’t cut it at NCS for HS but because they wanted something different.

Something easier. 😉. There, I fixed that for you.

[Anonymous]

Any big Catholic school or ones that are struggling with enrollment (Sandy Spring Friends, SAES)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Some of ya’ll really hate SJC and GC and need to make yourself believe there are not bright students at these schools. Some kids don’t want attend Visi/Stone Ridge/NCS/Prep. Heck I’ve know kids to attend NCS lower school and go on to attend SJC for HS. Not because they couldn’t cut it at NCS for HS but because they wanted something different.

Something easier. 😉. There, I fixed that for you.

Like getting away from this type of parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Why would it be a different story for K and elementary? I am asking because we are applying for K

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any big Catholic school or ones that are struggling with enrollment (Sandy Spring Friends, SAES)

St. Andrew's is struggling with enrollment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In general the admissions rates are highest at the schools with a lot of ninth grade spots to fill. One of the reasons the fancy DC schools are tough admits is because they often only have 10-25 spots. The big Catholics are adding more than 10 times that amount or more.

Don’t most of the fancy DC schools nearly double the class for 9th? I think it’s more like 50-60 spots to fill except for STA/NCS which are smaller schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In general the admissions rates are highest at the schools with a lot of ninth grade spots to fill. One of the reasons the fancy DC schools are tough admits is because they often only have 10-25 spots. The big Catholics are adding more than 10 times that amount or more.

Don’t most of the fancy DC schools nearly double the class for 9th? I think it’s more like 50-60 spots to fill except for STA/NCS which are smaller schools.

No, the top tier independents don't add 50-60 spots in 9th. The poster you quoted is correct. Places like Sidwell, GDS, Maret, Holton, etc. only have 10-20 spots open up in 9th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any big Catholic school or ones that are struggling with enrollment (Sandy Spring Friends, SAES)

St. Andrew's is struggling with enrollment?

This was my thought exactly… St. Andrew’s was rejecting straight A kids last year, so I doubt they are struggling with enrollment.

[Anonymous]

An AD told me once, "We accept 100% of qualified candidates and about 10% of those who apply."

[Anonymous]

No dog in this fight, but we know several kids who went to SJC from independents because they were tired of the privileged kids in their small independents and wanted to be around different types of people. It does happen. Parents have been largely pleased and are paying far less than what they paid in independents and kids are happier and enjoy being in the scholars program. They supplement a little but likely would have if in independents as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any big Catholic school or ones that are struggling with enrollment (Sandy Spring Friends, SAES)

St. Andrew's is struggling with enrollment?

This was my thought exactly… St. Andrew’s was rejecting straight A kids last year, so I doubt they are struggling with enrollment.

SAES is not struggling with enrollment. There is some poster that repeatedly says this in threads but it is not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In general the admissions rates are highest at the schools with a lot of ninth grade spots to fill. One of the reasons the fancy DC schools are tough admits is because they often only have 10-25 spots. The big Catholics are adding more than 10 times that amount or more.

Catholic high schools in the DC area have large grade sizes but tend to prioritize Catholics, siblings, and sports recruits for admission. For a non-Catholic, non-sports recruit kid coming from a non-Catholic middle school and without a sibling already enrolled in the school, the acceptance rates are much lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Some of ya’ll really hate SJC and GC and need to make yourself believe there are not bright students at these schools. Some kids don’t want attend Visi/Stone Ridge/NCS/Prep. Heck I’ve know kids to attend NCS lower school and go on to attend SJC for HS. Not because they couldn’t cut it at NCS for HS but because they wanted something different.

Something easier. 😉. There, I fixed that for you.

Well, in this case, with NCS, you are talking about an extreme. The level of rigor and competition and plain old-fashioned “hard times to make one resilient” is just not appropriate.