<p>Well I am from California and I was looking at Michigan as one of my top choices.</p>
<p>It seems that in some threads it says that Michigan is much harder on out of state applicants and that their standards are higher.</p>
<p>Does anyone also see this?</p>
<p>It is harder to get in OOS than IS. As for how much harder, it’s going to be very hard to predict. UMich is switching this year to the common Ap, so admissions will be different.</p>
<p>wait even harder than International Students?
is that really true?
Is UMAA harsh on OOS or loose on IS?</p>
<p>Public colleges in general, give preference to instate students. Their parents pay taxes to the state, and the state in return, help fund a large part of colleges endowment. This leads to instate students having cheaper tuition and are given preference in the admissions process. </p>
<p>As QwertyKey said, how much preference they give to their students is kinda hard to predict. Michigan has a high amount of out of state students ( compared to the average state university ), so I don’t think Michigan is " harsh " on out of state students like say, Berkeley. </p>
<p>But if you are international student, you are treated as an out of state student. You aren’t put into a separate pool of applicants.</p>
<p>Yeah, commonapp will definitely change some admission percentages. I think eddie thought that qwerty said "OOS is harder to get into than International Students. rather than In State.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think they’ll look into admitting a few more OOS kids because of the financial times… but I think there is a law requiring them to admit X% of instate students (I think about 65-70%). With the common app, however, I worry. Then again, I do wonder how many people will actually apply “for the lolz” because of it.</p>
<p>UM is probably much easier to get into OOS than UNC-CH… the OOS acceptance at UNC is 15%.</p>
<p>From another post:</p>
<p>['U'</a>; officials: This year’s application numbers up | The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://www.michigandaily.com/content/u-officials-say-number-applicants-has-increased]‘U’”>'U' officials: This year's application numbers up)
Both Coleman and Sullivan said they expect the traditional ratio of resident to non-resident students to remain constant for next year’s incoming class as well. Typically, two-thirds of admitted students are from Michigan, while one-third is from out-of-state.</p>
<p>“I don’t think there’s going to be any change to the usual admissions formula, which is roughly two-thirds (in-state), one-third (out-of-state), adjusted for the yield because our yield is generally lower on non-resident students,” Sullivan said.</p>
<p>Does commonapp increase chances of an OOS applicant?
4.7 weighted gpa
3.8 nonweigted
1980 Sat</p>
<p>Def. wouldn’t increase chances for an oos app. If anything, oos pool will likely have an increase in main stats.</p>
<p>When I said “IS,” that’s instate, not international.</p>
<p>I really doubt the overall impact of switching to the common app. It will result in an increase in applications, but I think that will impact the RD more than the EA route. I plan on applying EA so I’m not too worried.</p>