I know several rising 9th graders who were accepted at NCS and turned down their spots.

At the "welcome to the upper school" event in April, it was pretty clear they were surprised by the high percentage of accepted offers for the 9th grade.

Anonymous wrote:Have you thought that the reason could be that they are making up for lower enrollment numbers in the lower grades?

It is not that it will "hamper the ability to admit as many in the lower grades".

But they don't have lower enrollment numbers in the lower grades. There are still plenty of people I know whose daughters are on waitlists for 6th and 7th.

Anonymous wrote:Have you thought that the reason could be that they are making up for lower enrollment numbers in the lower grades?

It is not that it will "hamper the ability to admit as many in the lower grades".

I don't think so because they expanded the 6th grade by an entire homeroom a few years back. maybe they are changing their points of entry and taking fewer kids in 7th? they have a newish AD so she may have changed strategies.

Have you thought that the reason could be that they are making up for lower enrollment numbers in the lower grades?

It is not that it will "hamper the ability to admit as many in the lower grades".

Anonymous wrote:Think the accepted/yield result was an accident? They want the money.

Yes, it was clearly unintentional.

See the above about overall enrollment limits for the school. This will hamper their ability to admit as many to lower grades next year.

NCS is in the city and the neighborhood zoning and building codes have a cap on the number of students who can physically attend the school on the campus. This year was unusual in that the ninth grade admits yielded an unprecedented return, so the class is overenrolled. Next year there will need to be minor adjustments made - probably no openings in that class and it may impact the class size above and below as there the building code and zoning only allow so many students (and believe me they were already maxed out). It will all work out.

More kids allows for attrition without having to bring in many kids at 10th and 11th.

Holton has been doing the same thing..2019 is their largest class. I think they willhave about 90 girls. 6-7 leaving to moves/boarding school and 20 coming in! Huge class size but the ratios in class will stay the same. I like more kids personally. More options for sports, finding friends etc...

PP here. Also, it is lower than 95... its something like 92, the current senior class only had like 78 and the largest class in the US is 85 I think, so its really only something like 7 more than the largest class. NCS also added a whole section/new homeroom in 6th grade a few years ago so I think they really might be trying to become a larger school, who knows.

I have spoken to one of the division directors. They are having more sections, some teachers will teach 5 sections, so the class sizes will be the same size. They also are adding new advisors to the ninth grade so advisories will still be the normal 8 and 9 students.

I wonder though if this is a structural shift though and they just aren't telling us. They built the huge new MS/US building and now have more space so maybe NCS is trying to grow itself.

If they have the space and resources, they'd be foolish not to use it. People will still flock there even with large class sizes because of the name. Extra tuition money is never a bad thing for a school.

Think the accepted/yield result was an accident? They want the money.

They accepted the same number and were surprised by a much higher yield.

Is it true that NCS has accepted so many students for next year that the class will grow from the usual 75-80 to 95 ? That's an extra 800,000. In tuition income every year