One university (Umich) admitted 3 students EA from my high school when there is usually 1, maybe 2 total acceptances for the whole year. Will Umich not want to admit any more students regular? I applied regular and am worried about this.
It is not a quota per school but depends on the application of the students. Don’t over interpret from data in the past.
Also, if/when admissions people look at a particular high school’s applicant pool, the narrative is more likely to be, “We already denied four students from this school who have much stronger apps than this one. We would have to have a very compelling reason to accept him, and I’m not seeing one.” Admissions people don’t want to seem capricious to the guidance counselors.
At the very highest level (top 20 schools, more or less) I know it seems kind of random about why one kid is accepted and another isn’t. But for most colleges it’s pretty clear-cut. If a lower-stats student is accepted and a seemingly better candidate is not, there is a reason that the guidance counselor will know about. It’s not just athletes and URMs. Maybe the model student who always gets As did poorly on the ACT - four times - and didn’t take advantage of the many AP classes available. Maybe the kid who always sits in the back and doesn’t talk, has great SATs but mixed grades, because he has been bounced around 6 foster homes, and wrote a brilliant essay about quantum theory.
Sorry, didn’t mean to write an essay myself! I just mean, nobody is thinking “This high school is over-quota.”
U.Michigan is a great school, but it is also quite large. You will be compared with a very large list of applicants from all over. If your application is strong enough then they will have room for a 4th or even 5th student from your high school.
The feeding schools are not just having more qualified students but also have a high tendency to attend. So they may admit even over 150 from one school each year. There is not a limit to admit from each school if there are many good candidates. On the other hand, they may admit certain number of students from under represented areas and under privilege schools that have slightly weaker stat. In this case, there may be some influence by the number of already admitted students from the same school.