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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Michigan just IS a safety school for many Metro NYC and DMV kids...it's obvious.”

I’m missing the point of the sentence above by PP. Can you please clarify it for me. [/quote]

I am PP.  My point is that Michigan is a safety school for the Ivy-seekers. And there are a lot of them in Metro NYC and DMV.

So Michigan can't easily tell how many of these 1500+ SAT with extremely high GPA students really want to go to U of M.  For a lot of them, it's not going to come in front of any Ivy.

What people on this board may not realize is how concentrated high SAT scores are in certain areas.  In effect, people have made their insanely talented kids almost a generic candidate from X place.  My friend in Ann Arbor has a generic high stats kid.  He applied to 15 schools.  Mine applied to 5.

My son, whose highest goal was to get into U of M, went on a summer study abroad trip with a lot of New Yorkers last year.  He got an earful of what a safety school Michigan was for them.  I'm glad his eyes were opened. And I'm sure the ones who come in the end are excited about it BUT there's definitely a geographic exchange function that might not be happening if Ivy classes were larger.

Let me know if that explains.  I welcome out of staters to every school.  I just don't like people being snobby to others about school choices.  I am the child of Ivy parents but I chose state flagships for myself because I like good value for money.  The older I get, the more I see successful people from all tiers of the college ranking hierarchy.

What's also interesting to me is to see how much love DMVers have for Pitt, my undergrad U.  Lots of insanely high stat kids applying there early just to know they got in somewhere o.k.  I really appreciate that.  Pitt was great for me and my family.  Even if high stats DMVers don't end up going there, you're helping the university strengthen its applicant pool.  So I appreciate that because I know it's a school that does great things for its students and society.[/quote]

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