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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]

Sidwell and other elite privates don't publish precise matriculation lists because they benefit from the false impression that most graduates head off to top 25 schools.  Michigan is a fine school, but it's not quit top 25 and certainly not top tier. [/quote]

Easy there.  I am a Michigan alum and I have a kid there now who graduated from a Big 3.  Michigan is more than a "fine" school and depending on what ranking you look at it is within the top 25.  You could do MUCH worse than a Michigan degree.  Anyhow, what people on here fail to realize is that MOST of your kids are not going to get into HYP.  So the obsession with those stats is misleading.  But there are PLENTY of kids from prominent privates and publics at those "certainly not top tier" colleges like Michigan, UNC Chapel Hill, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon who are doing VERY well.  In looking at these stats, people should not lose sight of that. [/quote]

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