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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be competitive without any hooks, shoot for a 3.9+ at Sidwell. This year, pretty much all non-athletic recruits, including legacy students, had above that threshold. In terms of taking the advanced math track, 3/4 attending Harvard were in Math IV, while those committed to Stanford and Yale took Calc II.[/quote]

13/18 (72%) of c/o 2024 Sidwell graduates heading to Ivies didn’t take Math IV. The vast majority of that 72% graduated with Calculus 1. You do not need to take Calculus 2 or 
Math IV to be admitted to an Ivy from Sidwell. [/quote]

Sure, but OP asked about HYPSM. However, your information is still not completely right. Taking away the 2 athletic recruits, ~6/16 took Calc I. Given that 4 kids (not 5) took Math IV, that leaves ~6 taking Calc II, which is an even split between Calc I/II.

Note additionally that this means 12/16 (excluding athletic recruits) did not take Calc I, which is the majority.[/quote]

Why are you excluding athletic recruits? Are they not Sidwell students attending Ivies? Are you going to exclude students based on race next?!? GTFOH!

The majority of the 18 students going to Ivies did NOT take Math IV or Calculus 2. Full stop. [/quote]

Because those students did not get in based off their academic performance. However, if you choose to include them anyway, the percentage of students taking Calc I is 8/18 (44.44%)! Namely, a minority of the students attending the Ivy League!

To be even MORE explicit, you are wrong :)[/quote]

More students going to Ivies took Calculus 1 (44%) than those that took Math IV (22%) or Calculus 2 (33%).

My point: You do not need to take Math IV or Calculus 2 to be admitted to an Ivy from Sidwell. The facts are the facts. [/quote]

I agree with your assessment. I never said that someone deciding to take Calc I would exclude them from the Ivy League, simply that the majority of Ivy admits took EITHER Math IV or Calc II.

However, there does seem to be a boost in your odds if you take Calc II or Math IV as opposed to Calc I or [b]Statistics[/b]. For example, 4/8 (50%) of students in Math IV are attending Ivys, while somewhere closer to ~6/30 (20%) of Calc II students are attending Ivys. There are far more than 30 students in Calc I, yet only 6 who are attending Ivys, making their odds percentage wise undoubtedly lower than those of Math IV and Calc II.[/quote]

Why are you including statistics here. Do you have ADHD? Stay focused.

Btw, correlation doesn’t equal causation. The best way to boost your odds of being admitted to an Ivy+ is to get an A/A- in every class you take (whether it’s Calc 1/2/Math 4), and get >1500 or >34 on the SAT/ACT. [/quote]

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