Sidwell GDS and Michigan

[Anonymous]

At NCS, in 2022 and 2023 you needed about a 3.8 and a 1550 SAT/35 ACT for acceptance. These are also the girls getting into Ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing wrong with Michigan but it is just a big state school. A far cry from an elite Big 3.

A high flyer from a DC private with other options likely won't chose a public uni filled lots of Michiganders.

Sorry your first statement is just wrong. It is a big state school, but a lot more and very high-caliber. Ann Arbor is an awesome, quintessential college town. Just bring your winter gear and try to spend at least one summer there. Your challenge at Michigan as an OOS student is finding a community, both socially and academically, within a big place.

Yep. What these ignorant players don’t realize is that academia considers Michigan interchangeable with the Ivies, Stanford, UChicago, etc.

Basically, for people who actually live and breathe the academic reputation of these places, the distinctions people think are there are simply not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At NCS, in 2022 and 2023 you needed about a 3.8 and a 1550 SAT/35 ACT for acceptance. These are also the girls getting into Ivies.

Same stats as at our DMV private-lots of deferrals too in this range in EA round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At NCS, in 2022 and 2023 you needed about a 3.8 and a 1550 SAT/35 ACT for acceptance. These are also the girls getting into Ivies.

Thx. My kid has a 4.0/1550 at NCS (She has A minuses but Michigan counts these as As). Her first choice is Michigan; hoping it is enough.

[Anonymous]

Michigan has a preference for public schools. They will ratio how many people get in from privates. We accepted more people from Ann Arbor public schools than the mid-Atlantic elite private high schools combined when I last worked there in 2009. This hasn’t changed.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan has a preference for public schools. They will ratio how many people get in from privates. We accepted more people from Ann Arbor public schools than the mid-Atlantic elite private high schools combined when I last worked there in 2009. This hasn’t changed.

Good luck.

Last time I checked, Ann Arbor was in-state for Michigan, thus it would stand to reason.

[Anonymous]

Does legacy help at all if kid qualified otherwise or do you have to be a big donor?

[Anonymous]

DD got in from a big 3 in 2021, we were all actually surprised. SATs in the mid 1400s, 3.6gpa, no ties, no sports. Some decent ECs but nothing earth shattering.

She loves it — the classes, the sports and the partying of which there is plenty.