<p>It seems as though anyone those year without a 33+ ACT and 3.8+ GPA was at least deferred. How do they manage do accept over half of the applicants still!? That percentage doesn't strike me as being that of a "selective" school.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1090811-how-can-university-michigan-so-great-competitive.html?highlight=selective[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1090811-how-can-university-michigan-so-great-competitive.html?highlight=selective</a></p>
<p>read through that and get back to us if you have any more questions.</p>
<p>Well, for OOS is like 20% and International student is like 5-7% acceptance rate…
is for instate students that is easy…also the number of students applying from instate is also relatively small, as the population of students in Michigan is relatively small compared to other states and counselors discourage students from applying to UM if they don’t have high scores.</p>
<p>That international rate seems a little low…</p>
<p>5~7% acceptance rate for internationals? I really doubt that. Michigan is a good school but it shouldn’t be that selective.</p>
<p>That is because a lot of international students apply, but they only take approx 300 international students each year for undergraduate…</p>
<p>Where did you get the statistics anyway?</p>
<p>Other posts (there used to be a lot about it)…and I also tried my own calculations based on UM statistics to make sure…like number admitted and rejected…student population…etc</p>
<p>are you sure you took the yield into account? as in, since Michigan’s yield is probably quite a bit less than 50% so it would have to accept more than twice the number of people required to fill its class. </p>
<p>I still doubt Michigan’s 5~7% for internationals…</p>
<p>“5~7% acceptance rate for internationals? I really doubt that. Michigan is a good school but it shouldn’t be that selective.”</p>
<p>Unlike Brown I suppose?</p>
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Looking at the 2010 class they accepted about 50% of the applicants but only a little over 40% of those actually enrolled.</p>
<p>2010 Freshman Class Profile</p>
<pre><code>* 30,947 Applications
- 15,436 Admitted
- 6,300 Enrolled
</code></pre>
<p>It isn’t 5%-7% for internationals…yet. This year, Michigan received 7,000 international applications and will accept roughly 750 or so. As such, the acceptance rate for international applicants is 12%. For OOS students, the acceptance rate is lower than 35%. It is the acceptance rate for Michigan residents that is very high (over 50%). However, it is important to keep in mind that most Michigan residents who apply to Michigan are near the top of their class. It is not common for students ranked out of the top 10% of their high school class to apply to Michigan.</p>
<p>By the way, the days of Michigan accepting 50% of its applicants are over. This year, Michigan has received 38,000 applicants and will accept fewer than 15,000 of them. That’s a 40% acceptance rate. Next year, Michigan should receive close to 45,000 applications and will again only accept 15,000. I estimate that in 3-4 years, Michigan acceptance rate will drop to roughly 25%.</p>
<p>I am suprised only top kids apply to umich IS. </p>
<p>In Ohio EVERYONE applied to OSU, qualified or not.</p>
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But don’t you just have to have a pulse to get in there?;)</p>
<p>@rjkofnovi</p>
<p>I was just making a point. I did apply to Michigan as an international and got accepted, as did quite a few of my friend. So I do have some idea of the competitiveness of the international pool. Not 5~7% , as Alexandre said above. </p>
<p>when I said “it shouldn’t be that competitive,” I wasn’t saying that Michigan is an easy school to get into or anything. I was just pretty sure that the number wouldn’t be that low if the rate was calculated properly (i.e. taking yield into account).</p>
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<p>not any more</p>
<p>Well MLDWoody, you have to remember Michigan also has another large research university- MSU. That’s where most kids not in the top 10% apply to, if they don’t plan on studying OOS.</p>
<p>I disagree that only top MI students apply to U of M. Most people try their luck at it at least (being an in-state junior who has observed seniors this year in the application process)…</p>
<p>I don’t have any specific numbers, but the counselors at my son’s (Michigan) high school stated that since they joined the common app process, the majority of the kids who applied to U of M were weightlisted this year. It was much higher than in previous years. His comment was that they can get more money from the OOS applicants so they are admitting them first and weightlisting the instate applicants. In addition, MSU’s academic criteria has increased also - as a direct result of the overflow of in-state U of M applicants that are being rejected or weightlisted.</p>
<p>If they just wanted OOS kids for money, we would be a lot more than 1/3 of the student body.</p>