Anonymous wrote:On the Maret tour, they were pretty open when this question was asked. They said 1 in 8.

That's funny, GDS HS says the exact same thing.

Anonymous wrote:Fwi, Maret told us they accept 25 kids for 9th and expect 250-300 applicants.

And Maret doesn't deny anyone - so don't put too much weight in you 'waitlist'

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Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

LOL

no school has 100% yield. every school admits more kids than they have spots.

Of course, but they don't admit two for every spot. They maybe add 3-4 kids per expansion grade (maybe 1-2 for K/PK) more than spots available based on traditional yield rates.

For the most selective schools, it’s somewhere between five and fifty percent.

On the Maret tour, they were pretty open when this question was asked. They said 1 in 8.

Certainly not 100% yield for 9th grade, but close for students coming from private K-8. The K-8 schools definitely talk to the high schools about who wants to go where. K-8 schools have an incentive to accurately convey which students fit best and where they really want to go and high schools take the information seriously to manage enrollment. Sidwell is not going to accept a student if Capitol Hill Day says their first choice is Maret.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

LOL

no school has 100% yield. every school admits more kids than they have spots.

Obviously not all accept! But surely there's a risk of more than expected accepting.

Sometimes that happens and the school is stuck with a larger-than-desired class until attrition brings it back down.

Anonymous wrote:Even Sidwell etc. have to admit twice as many kids as they have spaces, because they all know that top applicants will apply to multiple schools and have multiple choices. Schools like Sidwell may admit 2 kids for every seat they want to fill. Less selective schools may admit 3 or 4 or five kids for every seat they want to fill.

This is a major exaggeration.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

LOL

no school has 100% yield. every school admits more kids than they have spots.

Obviously not all accept! But surely there's a risk of more than expected accepting.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

LOL

no school has 100% yield. every school admits more kids than they have spots.

+1. I know 3 kids who turned down Sidwell, for other privates and a MoCo magnet.

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Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

LOL

no school has 100% yield. every school admits more kids than they have spots.

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Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

That never happens. STA and NCS even Sidwell may have higher yield rates so they know historically how many to accept to achieve their desired class size. There's also selection bias in the applicant pool; a lot of kids do not apply to the top schools because they would not get in or it would not be a good fit.

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Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

correct they don't this is what the WAITLIST is for. For K, 3, 6, and 9th grade intakes.
They do not run a massive overbooking model.

Anonymous wrote:no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.

I was wondering this--why would they admit more kids than they have spots? What if all accept?!

no way even close for 9th grade sidwell. there is a thing called a wait list.