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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Time to make lemon-aid out of lemons.

So how many Beauvoir boys did not hear good news from STA recently?  In other words, how many slots are left for the serfs to fight over.[/quote]

Although you might not have meant it that way, your post assumes that the only Beauvoir boys who don't go to STA are the ones who didn't get in. As a PP has noted, that is not the case: some don't apply, and some of those who are admitted forfeit their deposits decline the acceptance later in the year, when they hear from their first choice school.

In a typical year, about 2/3 or so of the Beauvoir boys wind up enrolling at STA. I imagine there's some year-to-year variation, but it's as good a number to start with as any. So figure that means about 25 or 26 Beauvoir boys will go to STA. If you know how large the 4th grade class is at STA, and can estimate the yield (the percentage of admitted kids non-Beauvoir kids who will actually enroll--some of these kids will get into more than one school and will say no to STA) you can get a rough estimate of how many kids will be accepted.

My sense is relatively few of them are serfs. Most of the manors around DC have been turned into housing developments.[/quote]

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