<p>My friend wants to know what the acceptance rate for OOS students is at UoM (he's a junior) and I found a bunch of varying responses as I perused the internet (anywhere from 15% to 40%), so I was wondering if anyone definitively knew what the rate was.</p>
<p>As well, he also wants to know the LSA honors acceptance rate, which I told him was probably between 70-80% because they claim to get 1500 applications and want an incoming class size of 500, but maybe you guys know better (though the number seems a tad high, it seems reasonable because I wouldn't imagine it has that high of a yield).</p>
<p>No one knows the OOS acceptance rate for umich, but that range should be pretty accurate. At the end of the day, it’s not easy to get in from OOS. </p>
<p>As for LSA honors, you can’t really get an acceptance rate, because they accept some people who don’t even apply (i.e. write the additional essay).</p>
<p>My feeling is that is probably not too different from instate. Lots of instate people who apply would never had applied if they were out of state because of the likelihood of getting in. It’s harder to get in from OOS, but I don’t think the admit rate is much different, just the group of people applying is more self-selective.</p>
<p>^Somewhere on this forum someone said that there was an article with a UoM admissions officer from years back and he provided the number of those who applied and those who got in, and the admit rate was 15%. However, many on here have speculated that the acceptance rate is ~30%, but I wasn’t sure which one was the correct one. I was under the same impression originally, though…a 50% acceptance rate for OOS students.</p>
<p>30%-35% is about right, but no university other than the UCs break down their in-state vs OOS acceptance rate, so there is no offical figure. As others have pointed out, it is harder for OOS students to get into Michigan. I have seen many (and I mean many) top students get rejected by Michigan and end up at schools like Cornlle, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Rice and even Stanford in the last couple of years.</p>
<p>^Even those who applied ER (this is directed towards the rejected by UMich bit)? As well, anyone know the statistics of those admitted to LSA honors (someone in the other thread claimed they were comparable to those of the ivies, but of course provided no sources for the claim), and, Alexandre, do you know anything of the LSA honors admit rate (how many accepted out of those that apply and how many get accepted without sending in the additional essay)? I’m not sure if the information is obtainable, but if anyone could obtain it or knew it, I figure it would be you out of all those on this forum.</p>
<p>Motion, you are trying to establish a trend in order to see where you fit in. NEVER DO THAT! Michigan, as in everything else in life, will approach each case separately an one cannot never estimate what will happen based on what happened to others. </p>
<p>Now to answer some of your impossible-to-answer questions. Yes, some of those students applied ER. As for LSA admit rates, it is slightly lower than the overall Michigan acceptance rate, but the actual percentage accepted is not released, so we don’t know it. I would estimate it is around 40%-45% (as opposed to 45%-50% for the university as a whole) overall and roughly 30% for OOS students, but that is a very rough estimate. And no university on earth will give admissions stats based on supplemental essay responses! LOL! </p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I wish Michigan would break down admissions stats at least by college and residency, but for some reason, it doesn’t.</p>
<p>“Don’t get me wrong, I wish Michigan would break down admissions stats at least by college and residency, but for some reason, it doesn’t.”</p>
<p>Well, the vast majority are either LSA or Engineering. They give the admit rate for Engineering, you can get a pretty accurate number on the LSA. Also, I think the other schools depend very heavily on things with can’t be quantified, therefore don’t have average stats (atleast not anything useful), and therefore have no use for admission statistics.</p>