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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]
I think you are mis-reading between applications, acceptances, and attending.  Assuming her data is accurate, the first poster in this string points out that roughly the same percentage of students from each school [i]applied[/i] to Michigan (22%).  49 of those 100 applying students from Whitman were accepted (49%).  We don't know the percentage admitted from Sidwell.  We know that 11 students from Whitman (2.4%), and 8 from Sidwell (6.6%), ultimately chose to attend Michigan.

For Harvard, we know 25 Whitman students applied (5.5%), and 2 were accepted (0.4%), but we don't know how many chose to attend Harvard (??).  We don't know how many Sidwell students applied to Harvard (??), or how many were admitted (??), but we know 3 or more chose to attend (2.5% or more).[/quote]

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