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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the schools are fully enrolled every year, so doesn’t that mean that the same number of kids are choosing either option as in any past years?[/quote]

It could be that these schools have a lower yield rate and have to admit more kids to fill their classes, or go deeper into their waitlists.  If applications really are up, then that could offset this somewhat.  However, just because a school is fully enrolled that doesn't tell you much.  Admissions are not necessarily selective.[/quote]

+1 the fact that these schools can fill their seats is not saying much[/quote]

Then what do you suppose it is saying? What an odd take. I have kids at both Visi and Gonzaga and know admission has gotten more difficult every year. I have a child from the GZ class last year that had a crazy, unprecedented yield. Schools overall are getting more and more applications as people are turning to private. [/quote]

It just shows that people are disappointed with the public options. [/quote]

That’s one possibility. 
Another is that these schools are popular.  [/quote]

Being able to fill their seats just shows these schools are not completely failing.  At Gonzaga, 35% of students receive need based financial aid, so they are giving out discounts to fill their seats.  In addition they offer merit based scholarships, which most top private schools do not offer.  So it seems they also need to give discounts to attract better students, which is pretty abnormal.

The acceptance rate would be helpful to know, as we suspect it is significantly higher than peer schools.[/quote]

The premise that any school is losing popularity because it gives need-based financial aid is ludicrous.

We get it, you hate Gonzaga. That’s fine, but doesn’t mean it is not still popular by any valid metric. Financial aid isn’t one of them, for any school. [/quote]

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