Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'd bet you that a huge fraction of Michigan residents have no idea about schools like Emory, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, etc. Basically the entire South. Michigan kids mainly consider in-state and the surrounding belt of Midwest states. And famous East Coast schools. A few look at Syracuse and Pitt but the cost is too high.
In the last 10 years, from our Michigan district, one kid went to Penn, one to University of Maryland, and two to Tulane. A few applied to Harvard based on name brand without the chops and were rejected. My kid applied to Cornell RD (family school) and was waitlisted. He didn't see the advantage of lobbying to get off the waitlist to spend a minimum of $200K more than Michigan. The schools have a lot in common. Including derision from the snobbiest Ivy snobs.
The Tulane kids were real outliers. One got denied by Michigan. The other was going for elementary ed. Odd choices. Knowing what I know now, I suspect USNWR brainwashing.
It's not like they could get in anyway. We can see Umich'es test scores.
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