Harvard-Westlake Matriculation to UMich

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p><a href="http://www.hw.com/abouthw/School-Profile/Matriculation"&gt;http://www.hw.com/abouthw/School-Profile/Matriculation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>L.A.'s premiere private school keeps sending more kids to Michigan. Tied with U$C this year.
Surprising that Berkeley only has 4 people going...the same number as University of Maryland. :-/ </p>

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<p>Pretty impressive. Michigan also gets a lot of students from the Phillips Academies (both Andover and Exeter) and St. Paul’s School. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/documents/College_Matriculation(1).pdf”>http://www.exeter.edu/documents/College_Matriculation(1).pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.andover.edu/Academics/CollegeCounseling/Documents/PASchoolProfile2014-2015.pdf”>http://www.andover.edu/Academics/CollegeCounseling/Documents/PASchoolProfile2014-2015.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“https://www.sps.edu/ftpimages/36/download/download_1141212.pdf”>https://www.sps.edu/ftpimages/36/download/download_1141212.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think this is the main reason:</p>

<p><a href=“http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Munger-Talk-at-Harvard-Westlake.pdf”>http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Munger-Talk-at-Harvard-Westlake.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>rjk, although Munger’s interview probably had a hand in this, I believe that Michigan has long been a destination of choice for Harvard-Westlake. I would say that along with Cal and UVa, Michigan is the most popular public universities (and one of the top 10 destinations outside of their own region even if you include private institutions) for graduates from elite private high schools. Like I showed above, three of the top 10 high schools in the Northeast, like the Phillips Academies, St Paul.</p>

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<p>Interesting. Also noted how few Harvard Westlake sends to the premier Tech schools like MIT, Caltech, Harvey Mudd - total of 2 for 2014 !?!</p>

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<p>^ Because they have a different mentality and a different set of majors to aim at making money. Besides, MIT, Caltech, HM don’t have legacy policy.</p>

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<p>Why does this even matter unless we know what the qualifications of the students that Michigan sent to Harvard Westlake are? I’m not sure what the point of this thread is.</p>

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<p>Not sure why you have decided to return to the Michigan board either Ennisthemenace. </p>

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<p>Well, that would explain the number of Porsches I see around here…</p>

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<p>“Why does this even matter unless we know what the qualifications of the students that Michigan sent to Harvard Westlake are? I’m not sure what the point of this thread is.”</p>

<p>Michigan is a university and doesn’t send any students to Westlake which is a highschool…you need to reverse the arrow of implication. Apologies if English is not your first language. If you mean Michigan the state, that would also be irrelevant because situs as a former Michigan resident should present zero correlation with differential entering PSAT scores for a prep school, and have low to no correlation with the graduates of Westlake. At the margin, if the worst Westlake kid displaces what would have otherwise been the worst student at Michigan via his/her superior credentials, that would be a win for Michigan.</p>

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<p>“I’m not sure what the point of this thread is.”</p>

<p>We can start by clarifying that this thread was started by a non-Wolverine. UCBChemEGrad is a proud Cal alum through and through. </p>

<p>The point of this thread is simple. UCB thought it was quite telling that at California’s elite high school, where California’s elite children go, Michigan is very popular. And he is right. Whether it attracts the best students at HW is irrelevant. What is relevant is that Michigan has the reputation to attract California’s elite over most other schools. </p>

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<p>^ Some jealousy on my part I guess too… LOL! Cal could use some rich donor parents.</p>

<p>I don’t know why HW parents would be choosing to spend a lot more money on out-of-state publics when they have some of the best public universities in their home state for a much cheaper price. But I guess if I was rich enough to pay full freight at HW for 4-6 years, why would I decide to start saving money for the next four? </p>

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<p>UCB, I just think that in the case of HW, a lot of those students have the means, and would just rather leave the state for college. Cal does just as well as Michigan and UVa with prep school kids from the Northeast.</p>

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<p>My son’s dorm mate went to HW. Funding is not an issue!</p>

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<p>There is a lot of interest in U-M from Choate, another elite NE high school, but Choate suffers from low yield with U-M which I’m hoping will not hurt our son’s chances there this year. Here’s the Naviance data for U-M since 2008 (sorry for the formatting):</p>

<p>Class Apply Admit Enroll
2014 40 16 3
2013 29 4 0
2012 17 4 1
2011 25 5 0
2010 26 14 3
2009 17 8 3
2008 21 11 0</p>

<p>Choate to Cal looks like this:</p>

<p>Class Apply Admit Enroll
2014 30 11 2
2013 21 7 2
2012 10 0 0
2011 6 3 1
2010 12 1 0
2009 7 2 1
2008 11 3 1</p>

<p>You can see that apps to both schools are rising, but enrollment not so much. :(</p>