2015 Admissions Results

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anyone else? The one thing I notice is that it's hard to tell how many of the acceptances, especially at the more competitive schools, are tied to siblings, special situations etc and how many of the wls fell under the category "no special ties." You can only tell that these categories exist, but not how they are distributed among acceptances, waitlists, etc.

[Anonymous]

Please add Alexandria Country Day School - K-8.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else? The one thing I notice is that it's hard to tell how many of the acceptances, especially at the more competitive schools, are tied to siblings, special situations etc and how many of the wls fell under the category "no special ties." You can only tell that these categories exist, but not how they are distributed among acceptances, waitlists, etc.

This is easier said than done. When I first created this template, I started a discussion on DCUM about how much detail to ask for, and how much to reveal. Consensus was to avoid much detail, because that would deter people who are concerned about privacy. Although the total number of people participating in the survey is pretty large, the actual number per school is pretty small, so even a few details might allow someone to identify particular children.

That said, I can cross-tabulate the answers to gather more detail. It's a labor-intensive process, so I don't plan on doing it regularly. But just for curiosity's sake, I did it for the 2015 PK/K results for a few schools that generate lots of discussion - Sidwell, Beauvoir, GDS, and Maret. The results aren't nearly as exciting as some might hope.

Comparing schools: Each of these four schools has a variety of admit / waitlist / deny results, sometime covering the same student applying to multiple schools. The number of multi-school applicants is small enough that it's not useful to draw comparisons. Most often, applicants are applying to one or two of these schools. Only rarely did someone apply to three or more.

WPPSI scores: Most admits are in the 90s on their WPPSI, but I also see admits in the 70s and 80s too. Likewise, I see plenty of WLs and denials from children with scores in the 90s.

Diversity: I see no correlation between diversity and results. Diversity applicants seem just as unlikely as anyone else to get an admit / WL / denial.

Siblings: I cannot always tell where the sibling is, if someone applied to multiple schools. But in general, sibling applicants seem more likely to get admits than non-siblings.

Hook vs. no-hook: I took out all the siblings, and then compared the "win %" for other applicants (defined as # of admits, divided by # of WLs+denys), to see how those with some "hook" (legacy, diversity, etc) did compared to those without any hook. The win % is almost exactly the same for each category, with unhooked applicants carrying a very slight lead.

So I don't know if this tells us anything more than common-sense would. Also, as always, the data gathered is pretty limited, and not everyone is careful in entering the data, so there surely are some errors.

[Anonymous]

SAM2, are you coming back for 2016.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAM2, are you coming back for 2016.

Sadly I cannot. Real life is too much right now. If someone else is willing to take over this project, message your email address to me, and I can send you the form you'd update to run the survey.

[Anonymous]

SAM2 can't we get you out of retirement!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAM2, are you coming back for 2016.

Sadly I cannot. Real life is too much right now. If someone else is willing to take over this project, message your email address to me, and I can send you the form you'd update to run the survey.

Sorry to hear, but thank you so much for your great work in the past. Sending you good karma to deal with real life pressures.