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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Whitman - arguable one of the top 5 public schools in the country.  Billed as the best public high school in the area.

Yale - 17 applied - 1 got in
Harvard - 25 applied - 2 got in
Princeton - 22 applied - 2 got in

That is about the same as the broader admissions pool.

Not impressive and not the same as the Big 3.

Public schools parents rant as rave - save your money -- in this case - it appears money was saved and the results were nowhere near the same.[/quote]

You need to take a trip on over to the "Any Parents Disappointed With College Placement?" thread. There you can check out the lists from elite privates for non-HYP acceptances/matriculations, and while you're there you can ogle all the nasty posters calling, for example, certain STA results dismal and worse.[/quote]

According to a recent Sidwell publication University of Michigan was the number one school in terms of both applicants (26 out of a class of about 120, or 22%) AND Sidwell students attending.  At Whitman it's second to UMD in terms of number of applicants (100 applicants out of about 450 students, or 22%), and probably number attending as well.  According to that same publication 2 or fewer Sidwell students went to Princeton and Yale, 3 to Harvard.  Not too dissimilar.  By contrast, Sidwell has one going to Penn while 7 were admitted from Whitman.[/quote]

Isn't Whitman 4-5 times as big as Sidwell?   [/quote]

They have the same percentage going to Michigan  - it doesn't matter how big the school is.  [/quote]

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