Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to break out responses based on grade? Knowing 4 people applied to Sidwell isn't helpful if they all could have been in a different grade than what I'm looking at. I seem to recall that was done last year? Thanks for this.

SAM2 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to break out responses based on grade? Knowing 4 people applied to Sidwell isn't helpful if they all could have been in a different grade than what I'm looking at. I seem to recall that was done last year? Thanks for this.

What you're describing is cross-referencing the results. It's definitely possible to do that with a survey, so that people could see (for example) the number of boy applications to PK at Sidwell. But I recall that when I created the original results survey in March 2011. some people were uncomfortable with the idea of cross-referencing, since it might make it possible for others to recognize real life applicants. So when I created this survey, I did not include any cross-referencing.

All that said, while I don't have time to revise this current survey, I'm happy to make adjustments to the March 2012 survey I will create for admissions results. Let me know what level of cross-referencing makes sense to you and how it might be interesting. I'm open to suggestions.

Also, I need your help on another element. The list of schools is already very long, and getting longer with each day. As you can see, the list is so long it overloads Google's chart drawing function on the results page. I was thinking about grouping schools by state (DC vs MD vs VA), but that seems arbitrary. Another approach is to try to group together those that most often compete for students ("Big 10" vs others), but that approach surely will get people agitated because it involves me making judgment calls about which school belongs in which group. How should I split up the list?

SAM2 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How should I split up the list?

How about K-8, 4-12, etc?