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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The selectivity and yield numbers are interesting in their own right, but they're irrelevant for this "desirability" question. What matters is raw numbers of applicants. Honestly guys, this is basic numeracy.

So, for example, (a) using the Sidwell admissions odds of 14::1 that someone quoted, we could assume about 280 applicants for 20 9th grade slots at Sidwell, and (b) looking at high school only (because Gonzaga doesn't have Pre-K or K admissions so that would weight the comparison unfairly), we  get:

1000 applicants for 250 Gonzaga slots > 280 applicants for 20 Sidwell high school slots

=> 1000 kids applying to Gonzaga > 280 kids applying to Sidwell HS

=> Gonzaga is more desired than Sidwell[/quote]

NP here.  I suppose that's one way of looking at it.  By that logic, the most desired schools will always be the ones with the single biggest entering class: Gonzaga, Mecersburg Academy, St John's, Good Counsel, Dematha.  If you really want to compare schools on that basis, then I guess you'd need to total up all the applications that a school with multiple entry grades receives across those multiple grades.  So for example, if Sidwell has 100 students in its senior class, and a 14:1 ratio, then you'd assume it took 1400 applications to select them all over several years.  And of course the most desired school under this approach is DCPS/MCPS/FCPS, because they have the most applicants of all!

Interesting way of looking at it.[/quote]

It's not just "interesting," it makes a lot more sense than using odds of admission numbers. For example, the Curtis Institute of Music and Julliard have the lowest admissions rates in the country, lower than Harvard's rates, but would you really argue that all high school seniors find these two schools more "desirable" than Harvard? No, and that's because your odds of admission numbers are contingent on key factors outside of pure desirability, such as the number of open slots. [/quote]

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