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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting into the second tier schools like Mich really isn’t that hard. You just need the stats and scores. And you need to be strategic, know which regions and which schools the college likes the pull kids from. There are schools that have 3-4 kids accepted into Mich every year. This may not be where your HS sends kids. So figure out if they send kids to NYU or another school. [/quote]

I disagree. Michigan routinely denies valedictorians [/quote]
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Michigan waitlisted my A Student IB Diploma[/b] DD. Has old time ECs like newspaper EIC and sports captain, plus a couple of good internships. Perhaps because TO. But going to a top 15 school.[/quote]
same.

4.92 wgpa
4.0 gpa
1580 sat[/quote]

THIS. Try applying to Michigan 00S with a 1350 and not at the very top of your class with excellent ECs and essays and awards and see what happens. It's on par with ivies for OOS kids - the 20% is for in-state kids. That 1350 poster always pops up to crap on Michigan and say how easy it is to get in.[/quote]

Michigan is just not a good example, it's a state school so obviously it's much harder for OOS. That has always been true.

Also people are always saying their kid took some enormous number of APs. What were there actual scores? A lot of private school kids and kids from other less crazy school districts take a small number and get 5s. That's what's actually impressive to these schools.[/quote]

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