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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]

But it sounds like if you don’t take Calc I/II you need to be a recruited athlete which is a high bar to clear (especially while being a decent enough student and test taker).[/quote]

If you don’t take at least Calculus 1 as a senior, and you’re not a recruited athlete, you shouldn’t expect to be admitted to an Ivy+. It means that you only completed statistics by the end of 12th grade. [/quote]

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