<p>A2Wolves, I am pretty sure Hoedown is a lady. I could be wrong, but for some reason, I recall him being a her! hehe</p>
<p>As far as Pioneer and Huron, they each send well over 50 students to Michigan annually, making them the biggest feeder schools. </p>
<p>An interesting side note. There is a private school in NYC called Dalton. It is one of America's top 10 High Schools (up there with the likes of the Philips Academies and Deerfield Academy). Annually, Yale and Harvard are the most popular destinations for their students, each enrolling roughly 7-10 of their students. Keep in mind that Dalton only has 100 or so seniors! 15% of their class goes to Harvard and Yale. Another 6-8 end up at Penn or Brown. So altogether, an average of 30% of their students go to Harvard, Yale, Brown or Penn. But after those 4 Ivies, Michigan, along with Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern, Oberlin and Wesylan is the most popular destination, each receiving 3-5 or so students from that elite prep school. Many others end up at Duke, Stanford and Williams, to name a few. Can you believe those numbers? 75%+ going to top 15 universities. </p>
<p>In its own way, I'd say that Dalton is definitely a feeder school for Michigan, as they send roughly 40 students to Michigan each decade with amazing consistancy.</p>
<p>To deviate from the topic, Dalton definitely has some rep. It is the NYC prep school. I know John Lennon sent his son there, Anderson Cooper went there just to name a few.</p>
<p>Enjoy your high school sports rivalries while they last. If you guys become wolverines you'll be on the same side of much bigger & better ones. You guys should consider yourselves lucky. My school's sports teams are terrible..and we don't even have a football team, nor do we have a pool =(</p>
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<p>That's really amazing haha ... our adcom told us basically the same thing - that we were the top. She gave us numbers - told us something like 138 admits and like 100 going for last year. I wish we could get some kind of official word on this.</p>
<p>i think its clear that when a dalton(private school with 10s of thousands of dollars for tuition) student goes to Michigan, he has, to put it simply, failed. Feeder doesn't apply here, Michigan isn't prestigious enough to be considered.</p>
<p>Actually NYao, those students from Dalton are usually children of successful Michigan alums living in NYC. Those kids in many instances grew up bleeing maize and blue because their parents had such fond memories from Michigan and their Michigan degree obviously served them well. I have myself met a few of them, and in all cases, they turned down decent East Coast schoolls (like the Ivies, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Duke) to attend Michigan. </p>
<p>Like I said, when 5% oif a high school ends up enrolling at one University, I would call it a "feeder".</p>
<p>I think Pi High is the top "feeder" in terms of students who enroll in any year. I think the 200 figure is a bit of an exaggeration on the part of the adcom, however.</p>
<p>I don't know what makes me prouder, the fact that schools like Exeter, Dalton, Groton, Phillips Andover, Lawrenceville, Avon Old Farms, etc etc will occasionally deign to send their "failures" to a crappy school like mine, or the fact that a brilliant admissions guru like NYao graces the school's forum here on CC. My cup runneth over!! I feel all tingly. Someone, hold me.</p>
<p>i have met a ton of dalton kids too, and they all agreed that they were the worst students at dalton. The only schools they got in besides Michigan was syracuse, SUNY-Binghamton type of schools. They all think that public U is ridiculously overpriced, but they came because they had no other options and they could tell other people that Michigan is on par with the likes of Cornell, Columbia.</p>
<p>feeder is associated with a college/university of prestige, u cannot say <no name=""> high school is a feeder for UNLV. Feeder means having an advantage in terms of admissions for a prestigious college for going to a specific high school. Anyone can get in Michigan. Generally, same cannot be said of Harvard/Stanford type of schools.</no></p>
<p>You can use these terms however you wish, but in the admissions field I can assure you that the term "feeder" is used more broadly than you claim. I'd bet money that the folks at UNLV use the term in their office.</p>
<p>Is this the same dictionary that told you that selectivity means only the percentage admitted?</p>
<p>Not everyone gets into Michigan. I know that as a fact.</p>
<p>NYao, if you so strongly dislike Michigan, why again are you posting in the Michigan forum??? To me, that's not the best move aqnd kind of shows poor judgment on your part.</p>
<p>NYao, everything you say is unfounded..... and honestly, pathetic. Why you waste your time posting on the boards of a school that you despise is beyond me.........</p>
<p>everything alexandre says is founded of course. with his million friends, somehow he knows some people in every field. i'm just telling you there is a lot of unhappy people at michigan. It's a decent school, perhaps worthy of being top 50, but it is nowhere near Cornell, Columbia, Duke, and other Ivy caliber schools, as Alexandre always trolls.</p>
<p>Guys, it's clear NYao is just a troll. "Perhaps worthy of being top 50"???? Anyone who doesn't concede without hesitation that Michigan is a top 50 university either knows nothing about colleges or has a serious bias against the University. I dare someone to find a highly respected voice in the university community who thinks Michigan is only "perhaps worthy" of top 50 status. All rankings I've seen based primarily on peer assessment have Michigan top 20. This doesn't mean they necessarily are, but I think it would put them in the top 50 with absolute certainty. I've never heard NYao give the credit that the community at large on CC would. He has a bias for some reason or another.</p>
<p>Nah, NYao is a disgruntled engineering student at Michigan. When I was teaching ChE classes back in my days, there's always a couple of those in each class. Just leave him alone.</p>
<p>yao, I go to a private high school and will likely be choosing Michigan over some top private colleges. I'm OOS and Alexandre is right that a lot of it has to do with being raised on maize and blue. I wouldn't consider myself a failure at all. There is a strong case for Michigan being grouped with the best handful of university's in the world.</p>