<p>"It also stands to reason (though it is concededly only speculation) that the entering class stats for OOS students also skew higher, insofar as they’re coming out of a highly competitive applicant pool. You’re right that we don’t know the distribution of in-state v. OOS engineering freshmen, but if it’s anywhere near the overall university distribution of 60% in-state/40% OOS, and if I’m right that OOS stats tend to skew higher, perhaps especially in highly competitive programs like engineering, then it’s not an unreasonable assumption that OOS engineering freshmen in 2013 would have an ACT median of 33 (1 point higher than the 2012 figure for all engineering freshmen) and a middle 50% of somewhere around 32-34.</p>
<p>Speculation, certainly, but I’d say well-grounded speculation."</p>
<p>To put it lightly, I’m not sure this is well grounded. Do you have any factual data to back up the engineering ACT ranges? And you fail to acknowledge that the figures you’re citing are for admitted students. You keep on comparing the overall university breakdown (40/60) of out of state and instate students to the admitted pool, which is patently incorrect. Michigan’s out of state yield is 20%. If anything, the 32 median ACT will not go higher for ADMITTED students unless Michigan supplants substantially more of its in-state admits with out of state applicants.</p>