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2008 College Admissions from Andover

#Explaining the Statistics: As the college admissions season draws to a close, the question on everyone’s minds is: “How did we do?” Though the most tangible measure is statistics, the College Counseling Office hopes to emphasize “good match” over “good math.” Out of concern for students’ privacy and adherence to the guidelines of the Eastern Independent Secondary School College Admissions Personnel (EISSCAP), the CCO will not be releasing the acceptance and rejection statistics to the public. The Phillips Academy College Counseling Office is a member of EISSCAP, a consortium of peer schools born several years ago dedicated to exchanging ideas. “In this way, EISSCAP acts as a ‘compass,’” Anderson said. Together, EISSCAP decides what admissions data is released. As a compromise between member schools’ positions, the schools will only publish the number of applicants and number of matriculations at schools their students will ultimately attend. Remarking on this round of admissions, Anderson said that students applied to the usual “core” group of schools—the Ivy League, Duke and the University of Chicago—but also to uncommon choices like Chapman University and University of Puget Sound—developments which Anderson described as “very exciting.” But Anderson felt that this year was “probably stronger” than other years in terms of student satisfaction with the college process.

| College/University | Applicants | Matriculation |
| American University | 12 | 1 |
| Amherst College | 31 | 5 |
| Babson College | 7 | 1 |
| Bard College | 7 | 2 |
| Barnard College | 13 | 1 |
| Bates College | 20 | 2 |
| Bentley College | 9 | 2 |
| Boston College | 52 | 2 |
| Boston University | 57 | 3 |
| Bowdoin College | 30 | 2 |
| Brandeis | 14 | 3 |
| Brown University | 80 | 6 |
| Bucknell University | 14 | 1 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 29 | 4 |
| Case Western Reserve | 11 | 1 |
| Chapman University | 1 | 1 |
| Chicago, University of | 35 | 5 |
| Claremont McKenna | 13 | 4 |
| Colby College | 24 | 2 |
| Colgate University | 13 | 2 |
| Colorado, University/Boulder | 8 | 2 |
| Columbia University | 71 | 9 |
| Connecticut College | 14 | 4 |
| Connecticut, University of | 8 | 1 |
| Cornell University | 62 | 5 |
| Dartmouth College | 49 | 7 |
| Dickinson College | 6 | 1 |
| Duke University | 50 | 9 |
| Edinburgh, University of | 3 | 1 |
| Emory University | 19 | 2 |
| Fairfield University | 4 | 1 |
| Franklin College SWI | 1 | 1 |
| George Washington University | 39 | 4 |
| Georgetown University | 65 | 11 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 2 | 1 |
| Hamilton College | 18 | 1 |
| Hampshire College | 2 | 1 |
| Harvard University | 89 | 8 |
| Harvey Mudd | 6 | 2 |
| Haverford College | 5 | 1 |
| Holy Cross | 13 | 4 |
| Illinois, University of | 1 | 1 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 47 | 7 |
| Kansas, University of | 1 | 1 |
| Kenyon College | 8 | 2 |
| Lafayette College | 3 | 1 |
| Macalester College | 5 | 1 |
| MIT | 29 | 3 |
| McGill University | 11 | 1 |
| Merrimack College | 6 | 1 |
| Miami, University of | 15 | 3 |
| Michigan, University of | 24 | 2 |
| Middlebury College | 32 | 1 |
| Mount Holyoke | 2 | 1 |
| New Hampshire, University of | 7 | 1 |
| New York University | 51 | 2 |
| North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 9 | 1 |
| Northeastern | 20 | 3 |
| Northwestern | 45 | 5 |
| Oberlin College | 11 | 1 |
| Occidental College | 12 | 1 |
| Penn State University | 8 | 1 |
| Pennsylvania, University of | 71 | 12 |
| Pitzer College | 5 | 1 |
| Pomona College | 17 | 2 |
| Princeton University | 63 | 13 |
| Puget Sound, University of | 3 | 1 |
| Reed College | 4 | 1 |
| Rice University | 13 | 2 |
| Richmond, University of | 13 | 1 |
| Saint Joseph’s University | 1 | 1 |
| Scripps College | 3 | 1 |
| Skidmore College | 24 | 6 |
| Southern California, University of | 33 | 5 |
| Southern Methodist | 1 | 1 |
| St. Andrews University | 12 | 2 |
| St. Francis College | 1 | 1 |
| Stanford University | 69 | 15 |
| Swarthmore College | 23 | 2 |
| Syracuse University | 21 | 1 |
| Toronto, University of | 3 | 1 |
| Trinity College | 33 | 3 |
| Tufts University | 65 | 5 |
| Tulane University | 18 | 1 |
| Union College | 14 | 1 |
| US Air Force Academy | 1 | 1 |
| US Military Academy | 2 | 1 |
| US Naval Academy | 4 | 2 |
| Vanderbilt University | 45 | 4 |
| Vermont, University of | 12 | 1 |
| Virginia, University of | 21 | 1 |
| Wake Forest University | 5 | 1 |
| Washington University at St. Louis | 31 | 4 |
| Washington, University of | 8 | 1 |
| Wesleyan University | 44 | 6 |
| Wheaton College | 5 | 1 |
| Whitman College | 3 | 1 |
| William and Mary | 10 | 3 |
| Williams College | 33 | 4 |
| Worcester Polytechnic | 4 | 2 |
| Yale University | 90 | 15 |
| Total | 2188 | 290 |