<p>Since University of Michigan is a public institution I know that students who are in-state have a higher chance of getting in.</p>
<p>According to College *******r, the acceptance rate for UM is about 50% but that is a average for in-state and out of state students.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the acceptance rate for JUST out of state students?</p>
<p>Well first you have to realize that you right now can only see 2010 statistics. Last year UM switched to the common app and the acceptance rate dropped to around 40%, and next year it will probably be in the low 30’s. And that’s overall. There are no official stats published for just out of state but I would guess that it’s at least 10% lower and so next year I wouldn’t be surprised if the OOS admit rate was in the mid to low 20’s. Michigan is really getting tough.</p>
<p>Out of state is harder but not significantly harder. I would focus more on the numbers required to get in then the percentages which in the end tell you nothing besides whether an institution is selective or not.</p>
<p>In the grand scheme of things, OOS is pretty hard when compared to IS. </p>
<p>Some of Alexandre old stats he posted had the difference at like 12%+ between the two</p>
<p>With the common application, admissions are going to become increasingly difficult, mostly on international and OOS applicants. That’s because the number of applicants will increase drastically annually for the first 3-5 years, and most of the surge will come from OOS and international students. Unfortunately, Michigan does not publish admissions data according to residence.</p>
<p>I don’t agree that Michigan is that hard to get into from OOS. The reason I say this is that I recently saw the admission stats for a well regarded public high school in New York, and about half of those kids who applied got in.</p>
<p>floridadad, just because a few select high schools have success placing many students into a university does not mean admissions into that university is easy. There are some high schools where 60%-75% of students enroll into Ivy League-type universities.</p>
<p>That being said, there are degrees of difficulty when it comes to admissions into universities. On average, Michigan is obviously not going to be as selective as much smaller peer institutions…yet. That is going to change over the next 5 years, as the University’s selectivity will alter significantly as a result of joining the common application. For international applicants, Michigan has already become almost as hard to get into as many of its smaller private peers.</p>
<p>floridadad, that’s like saying I don’t think it’s that hard to get into Harvard because at my school last year, two out of the three kids that applied got in. You’re post doesn’t make much sense.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, he is correct in saying that it isn’t too difficult to get in out-of-state relative to it’s peer institutions. He’s not knocking the quality of the school, but because Michigan chooses to have a much larger class size, it becomes less selective as a result. </p>
<p>For Michigan to become near as selective as peer institutions, it has to have more than triple the applications compared to them, to account for the fact that its peer institutions have much smaller class sizes.</p>
<p>Infinit, try telling that to the thousands of students with near perfect credentials that were rejected by Michigan last year. Just because Michigan is not as selective as some of its smaller peers does not mean it is not difficult to get in, particularly for OOS applicants.</p>