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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every kid from our K-8 who applied got into SSFS, SAES, Bullis, Holton, Burke, and Field, so yes, these schools have a greater than 50% acceptance rate from our private.

It does not mean that their overall acceptance rates are over 50%. (They may be, but this data point does not prove it.). I know kids who were waitlisted at each of these schools from both private and public.

The point is that only the schools know their own acceptance rate, and they aren’t advertising them.

Burke doesn’t waitlist. You’re either accepted or you’re not

[Anonymous]

Wrong on Burke. My kid was waitlisted and then offered a spot.

[Anonymous]

SAES & Bullis, everyone gets in, especially if you are full pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every kid from our K-8 who applied got into SSFS, SAES, Bullis, Holton, Burke, and Field, so yes, these schools have a greater than 50% acceptance rate from our private.

It does not mean that their overall acceptance rates are over 50%. (They may be, but this data point does not prove it.). I know kids who were waitlisted at each of these schools from both private and public.

The point is that only the schools know their own acceptance rate, and they aren’t advertising them.

No waitlist at SAES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every kid from our K-8 who applied got into SSFS, SAES, Bullis, Holton, Burke, and Field, so yes, these schools have a greater than 50% acceptance rate from our private.

It does not mean that their overall acceptance rates are over 50%. (They may be, but this data point does not prove it.). I know kids who were waitlisted at each of these schools from both private and public.

The point is that only the schools know their own acceptance rate, and they aren’t advertising them.

No waitlist at SAES.

I have a relative who was waitlisted recently along with a friend of theirs. Both coming from public. Not sure if that mattered.

[Anonymous]

The people who claim that everyone gets into school x are always basing that on nothing. All private schools have become more competitive over the last several years. Having been through 9th admissions recently the following is true:

If you are coming from an known independent K-8 and have a good record - mostly As (although not necessarily all), good recommendations (but nothing special), etc. - you have pretty good odds at the following schools:

SJC, Landon, Madeira, Bullis, SAES, SSSAS, Burke, Field, Holy Child, AHC. Nothing is guaranteed anywhere but you can generally count on if you apply to a few of these you will get in and many people will get into all of them.

The following schools are also doable and have generally been accepting kids like the above from our school: Gonzaga, SAAS, Prep, Stone Ridge, Visitation. I know for Catholic schools K-8 admissions work differently. But for our independent K-8, generally are kids are getting in (but we only have a limited number year apply to these schools). Test scores though are way more important here than the schools above. If you get a low HSPT or SSAT these are much harder.

At the following schools admissions is very unpredictable if you are not a legacy, sibling, big money, or a recruited athlete: Maret, Holton, NCS, Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, STA. So these schools you cannot count on and you will be surprised which people get in (it’s not necessarily the top of the class academically).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who claim that everyone gets into school x are always basing that on nothing. All private schools have become more competitive over the last several years. Having been through 9th admissions recently the following is true:

If you are coming from an known independent K-8 and have a good record - mostly As (although not necessarily all), good recommendations (but nothing special), etc. - you have pretty good odds at the following schools:

SJC, Landon, Madeira, Bullis, SAES, SSSAS, Burke, Field, Holy Child, AHC. Nothing is guaranteed anywhere but you can generally count on if you apply to a few of these you will get in and many people will get into all of them.

The following schools are also doable and have generally been accepting kids like the above from our school: Gonzaga, SAAS, Prep, Stone Ridge, Visitation. I know for Catholic schools K-8 admissions work differently. But for our independent K-8, generally are kids are getting in (but we only have a limited number year apply to these schools). Test scores though are way more important here than the schools above. If you get a low HSPT or SSAT these are much harder.

At the following schools admissions is very unpredictable if you are not a legacy, sibling, big money, or a recruited athlete: Maret, Holton, NCS, Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, STA. So these schools you cannot count on and you will be surprised which people get in (it’s not necessarily the top of the class academically).

I came here to write essentially the above. Also wanted to add that this will fluctuate a little from year to year. When DD was applying to HS, for example, we knew her top pick only had about 20 spots after legacy/siblings were added to the number of girls who'd committed to return. The following year, more girls left after 8th, and there were fewer legacy/sibling candidates, so there were easily 2x the number of openings.

[Anonymous]

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

lol

They get 1,200 applicants for 300ish seats.

GC flags that they receive far more applications from boys—including public school boys—and they must balance for gender (and kids from catholic and other private schools are prioritized).

While we are applying to area privates for HS, I’ve been managing my spouse’s expectations. In short: it will be a miracle if our white boy from public school gets in (which tracks with what I’ve heard from parents as well as admissions staff).

Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 We came from an Independent to SJC as well for exactly that reason. We do not see a need to supplement.

And this is precisely why SJC has become so hard to get into.