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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the Georgia poster from another thread, and, as a math person, I agree, the lack of data can be frustrating. However, as others have pointed out, I think it’s a lot more complicated than a college admission rate (which itself is far from telling the whole story for any particular kid).

The school we ended up at also has a 25% admission rate listed in one of those publications. But, I know for a fact the school has a tremendous expansion in 6th grade and almost no expansion any other year except 7th. So, the 8th graders applying have a much lower chance. But then, I also know there is a local “feeder” K-8 that takes up almost 1/3 of the 6 grade entries and almost all the 7th grade expansion. So your odds applying from that school are closer to 50%, whereas your odds as a non expansion year kid from elsewhere are almost zero.

The number of kids we are talking about is also much smaller than most universities. So, by the time you find your kid’s “admission pool” (let’s say - female, 6th grade, non feeder kid, no athlete) you may only really be competing for 2 or 3 spots - so the odds have a huge fluctuation year to year.

[/quote]probably

You could say the same for Catholic school. They have more feeders. But if you don't count the kids coming from feeder schools the acceptance rate is probably close to 25%.[/quote]

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