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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Am I understanding that you think Gonzaga is full because it is giving discounts? The merit aid is a handful of students. Do you suppose, perhaps, that financial aid might be a core part of the values of the school, not a scheme to fill seats? Again, I know many, many kids disappointed to not get into Gonzaga last year and I’d estimate 90% of those 20 or so I know are full pay. They give aid to be able to serve a range of students. They could easily fill their class with full-pay students but choose to give aid.

You seem to have some odd ax to grind but the Catholic privates, even the diocesan ones, are good, extremely popular schools. No one is saying your school isn’t also great and amazing.[/quote]

You say they could easily fill their seats with full pay students, but provide no evidence.  This is probably wrong.  I’m just going to reiterate a few points.

Need based financial aid is normal.  At Gonzaga, 35% of students get financial aid.  This makes sense but we have no idea if they could fill their seats with full pay students.  Please don’t make up bogus things.

Second, it is not normal for top privates to provide merit based scholarships, however Gonzaga does.  This suggests that the academic high fliers there are all getting discounts to be there.  That is fine, but know this is an unusual practice.[/quote]

You seem to have a strange need to tear down these Catholic schools. It’s fine if you don’t like them-others do, and guess what-that’s fine too! [/quote]

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