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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan. Full pay OOS, elite prep = guarantee admission[/quote]

Not with a 3.0.[/quote]

Why do you have to exaggerate? "B" students are 3.0 to 3.6, are they not? Full pay OOS rich kids from an elite prep school are getting into Michigan with a 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6. All day long. Especially if they display demonstrated interest and apply early. Michigan is hard up for cash, obsessed with building its endowment and cultivating donor class.[/quote]

In the last three years? Not according to our prep school Naviance. No one below 1400, no one below 3.7 UW.[/quote]

What school? Not Big 3.[/quote]

The average across all years, yes, that makes the chances look very good; but not the last three only -- you can't see that in Naviance, but the counselor will tell you. There has been a drastic shift.[/quote]

This doesn’t make any sense. Everyone says on this board that kids at the Big 3 who are B students (apparently everyone) would have A’s at Wilson BUT wouldn’t that make their test scores equivalent? The brightest kids are not getting a 1400 on their SAT, and would never get into Michigan with those scores. We know two Wilson kids last year in the 4.2-4.5 range with 34s who didn’t get in, and none of those who scored 32 (in the friend group).

So, it sounds like it definitely is a safety for underperforming kids at the Big 3, even though the Wilson kids who are academically stronger (per the test scores) and pay full freight as well. It also sounds like it’s not adding up re grades and test scores — which is it? [/quote]

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