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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jealous people are talking out of their butts. Wealthy mid-pack prep schoolers get into Michigan, Wake Forest, and even UChicago with ease.[/quote]

This is not true.  Unless you are defining mid-pack as around an A- average. And even then . . .[/quote]
I know that, according to Bethesda Magazine, under 20 percent of W school applicants (living in some of the most well-off zip codes in this area, and whose parents have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars not paying private school tuition) are admitted to Michigan/Wake Forest, and under 5 percent to UChicago. Are "mid-pack" Big 3 students, however you want to define them, doing the same or worse in admissions?[/quote]

I am not sure what point you are making. No one is comparing private to public here. Are you asking whether more than twenty percent of applicante from a Big 3 class gets into Michigan/Wake Forest and more than 5% get into UChicago? I have no idea.  The grades are much smaller. Or are you asking whether everyone in the top 20% or top 5% of a Big 3 gets into those schools? Again, I don't know, but they would be very competitive candidates. But neither of those cut-offs are mid-pack. The initial poster referred to a 3.4. I am pretty sure based on recent years that a student with a 3.4 from a Big 3 (since that was the claim made) would find acceptance to any of these schools challenging.[/quote]

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