<p>I know some colleges have feeder schools where they get most of their students from. Considering how big UMICH is, how many accepted applicants from one hs would make it a feeder school? My hs sends about 30-35 kids to UMICH every year, so would it be considered one? If my hs is a feeder school, would that increase my chances of admission or give me any type of edge over other applicants?</p>
<p>I don't think that your high school would necessarily count as a feeder school just because it sends 30-35 kids to Michigan a year. Because of Michigan's massive size I am sure there are many schools that send that many kids a year to Michigan. But...it also depends on a lot of things to determine if your high school will help you get into Michigan like:
Do you go to an in-state high school?
How many kids are in a graduating class?
How many kids apply to Michigan?
How many kids get into Michigan?
How many kids actually go to Michigan?
After considering all this, then you can actually assess if going to your high school will help you with enrollment at Michigan.</p>
<p>"Feeder school" is a name given to a HS because it happens to send a lot of kids to a college, but because that school gets preferential treatment of any sort. The school that "feed" Michigan tend to be great suburban schools that have well-regarded curriculums, etc, but you will get no preference just because you go to a school that sends lots of other applicants. A feeder school sends a lot of kids to Umich because it's good, not because their kids get in more easily.</p>
<p>Ann Arbor Pioneer and the terrible school across town Ann Arbor Huron send the most students to UM each year consistently. Troy Athens and Troy are also up there.</p>
<p>Well my hs is out of state (NY) and there are 562 seniors. Last year, 64 kids applied and 46 got in (72%) and around 30-35 went. It's a public city school that has a good reputation. I was wondering if it was a feeder school because one of the guidance counselors mentioned that UMICH likes our school. </p>
<p>Is it true that selective colleges like UMICH and Cornell, etc. tend to favor highschools that are in the same area? I've heard that kids from Ithaca HS have a high acceptance to Cornell because Cornell wants to maintain a good relationship with the surrounding area. I thought it was interesting. From what A2Wolves6 said, I'm starting to think this is a general trend.</p>
<p>umm excuse me a2wolves? i attend huron! lol..don't be jealous of us!</p>
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<p>I'm sorry, Huron people aren't allowed on these boards.</p>
<p>Win in football/hockey/basketball then you can speak, stupid River Rats.</p>
<p>I don't know about students who enroll, but in terms of apps the top NY schools are:</p>
<p>Bronx HS Of Science
Deerfield
Fieldston School
Horace Greeley
Horace Mann School
Hunter College HS
Jericho Senior
Roslyn</p>
<p>Interesting,Hoedown
Im a NY'er and I can tell you that two of those schools are by admission test only for NYCity residents (Bronx Science,Hunter College HS) 4 are private and pricey and only two are schools where any student in that district can attend (Jericho and Roslyn..but in very high income residential area districts on Long Island)</p>
<p>Not surprising, really, because U-M is pretty expensive for nonresidents.</p>
<p>I'm a little surprised to see Horace Mann and Fieldston - just because the private schools' lower GPA's wouldn't translate so well into a U-M GPA for admissions purposes.</p>
<p>Yeah I go to the Bronx HS of Science. I'm surprised Stuyvesant isn't on that list.</p>
<p>I know Stuy High is up there--I just had to do a cutoff somewhere, and that may have been just below wherever I chopped.</p>
<p>jrpar, factors like that are why nonresident GPAs tend to be lower than resident GPAs. Readers know about the grading, and take it into account.</p>
<p>basically all of the more affluent suburban high schools would be considered feeder schools to u of m- i.e. northville, novi, bloomfield hills, ann arbor, plymouth/canton, grosse pointe/ile, maybe livonia, etc.</p>
<p>im at the utica center for math, science, technology</p>
<p>I think our graduating class this year is like 52, and I bet that at least 20 will go to Michigan.</p>
<p>My home high school, Utica Eisenhower, sends probably 30 kids a year, but I'd say about 10-15 of those are from the mst.</p>
<p>I bet we beat everyone this year. I wouldn't be amazed if we have 150 acceptances and 100 going.</p>
<p>I guarantee you don't have more students than us. We send in the 200s to Michigan.</p>
<p>^^geez what schools do you guys go to?? I go to troy athens and i dont even believe we have 100 kids merely applying to uofm this year...to say nothing of acceptances...</p>
<p>a2wolves- in the 200s? but you couldn't have too many more than 400 kids in the graduating class, and i doubt that even close to half of them are u of m caliber.</p>
<p>Our school has about 2200 people, graduating classes of around 600. Don't know the actual numbers though. And school is very picky about giving out "who got accepted/rejected where" information.</p>
<p>And yes... we do have a bunch of "UM caliber" students. I have about a 3.65 GPA, and I rank in like the 35% (don't issue ranks).</p>
<p>Ask hoedown, he'll tell you - every year AA Pioneer has the most applicants, and sends the most students. That's what we were told when the adcom came to our school and our college visit (of a few hundred kids).</p>