Moving to Detroit, Michigan in June 2010

[RingWalk]

U of D may be the best school in the city limits. What would be the competition, Cass Tech? Anyway, in metro Detroit, it would be Country Day and Cranbrook.

You know, if you can drop $100K or more to send your kid to high school.

I think Liggit in Gross Pointe is almost equally as expensive.

[us66]

Originally Posted by RingWalk

U of D may be the best school in the city limits. What would be the competition, Cass Tech? Anyway, in metro Detroit, it would be Country Day and Cranbrook.

You know, if you can drop $100K or more to send your kid to high school.

I think Liggit in Gross Pointe is almost equally as expensive.

I saw an ad in the newspaper recently- it was either the GP Academy or Liggett, and not one graduate was accepted into an Ivy League school.

[RingWalk]

That's funny. I don't even know how you get into those schools. (One of our) valedictorians had like a 4.6 and a 34 on the ACT, applied at every Ivy league school, and didn't get into a single one. Ended up at MI. Of course he was Asian, which didn't help. I guess you seriously would need to, in addition to being a borderline genius, also be class president and a highly ranked golfer or something.

[Jackson Belle Grande]

U of D may be the best school in the city limits. What would be the competition, Cass Tech? Anyway, in metro Detroit, it would be Country Day and Cranbrook.

You know, if you can drop $100K or more to send your kid to high school.

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Renaissance would probably be the closest competition. Someone said Renaissance was the best school in the city. It's not. U of D is. Renaissance may be the best PUBLIC school (that also lets girls in). If you've got kids and you're moving to Detroit to indulge your desire to live in a $300,000.00 house that would cost a million and a half in the suburbs, if you could find a similar house there, you can probably afford a smaller house and U of D or a nicer house in the suburbs and better public schools. Priorities.

I'd love to live in a house like that and could afford it if I was kidless. Kids complicate things. Having young kids and moving to Detroit is not an acceptable move for most families.
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[Jackson Belle Grande]

UD Jesuit is one of the best schools in the state. The connections one makes at that school are absurd. I have many friends who are alums from that school, primarily from Grosse Pointe, and they are all well-connected. Going to UD Jesuit can be your ticket. I'm talking big industry people, real estate, finance, law, politics, and everything in between. It's the old boys club of Detroit and it feeds right into membership at the Detroit Athletic Club. "Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high. You're never gonna die. You're going to make it if you try. They're gonna love you." That's UD Jesuit.

Haa haa, yep, that's the place. I believe it's also the alma mater of the murderer that Mayor Bing wanted to install on the Board of Police Commissioners. With U of D connections you can go to prison for murder, get out and they make you Police Commissioner! Can you imagine?

[RingWalk]

Yep that is one of the huge things holding Chicago back as well, the schools suck ass. If they could fix that, a LOT of people that move out would stay and raise their kids here. Who wants to live in the suburbs? Maybe Rahm will fix it.

[GreyDay]

Originally Posted by us66

I saw an ad in the newspaper recently- it was either the GP Academy or Liggett, and not one graduate was accepted into an Ivy League school.

Well Grosse Pointe Academy doesn't have an Upper School. And Liggett historically sends 1/4 to 1/3 to University of Michigan. The *** laude (honor society) usually sends 5-10 kids to Ivies. The senior class is usually only 60 kids.