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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jackson-Reed sends more kids to Michigan + Ivies than Sidwell and GDS combined.[/quote]

Writes someone who does not understand statistics. [/quote]

Writes someone who doesn’t understand college admissions. Yes, Jackson-Reed has a larger graduating class and it also has a much higher acceptance rate for its graduates going to Michigan in particular. Smart kids from diverse, urban public school districts have a major advantage over private school students when it comes to college admissions in 2023. And first-gen. students have an even bigger advantage. Go look at Michigan’s freshmen class profile. A lot of folks on this board are stuck in the past. Things have changed for the better.[/quote]

Then the more pertinent statement would be that J-R has a higher admit rate than private schools--and even Thomas Jefferson. Which is true. However, it's unknown which schools at UM J-R students are applying to, but it is known that the YEILD rates from J-R are higher than the yield rates from Sidwell and Thomas Jefferson. Sidwell and TJ (and even schools like Phillips Exeter and Stuyvesant) students who are overall stronger than J-R students by any objective measure (e.g., SAT and AP average scores), seem to still be using Michigan as a back-up. And it's known that Michigan yield protects, so that could explain the differences that we see. High schools that produce a yield of 40% or more definitely appear to have higher acceptance rates than high schools that send only a few of their accepted students onto Michigan.
https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/we-looked-301-high-schools-most-applicants-u-m-heres-what-we-found/[/quote]

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