Absolutely. I have had personal conversations about with with some people in engineering at Michigan. They know their feeders well and know what type of students they can expect in general from X school. Most schools do this. Same as when companies come to Michigan for internships /job offers. They know usually what their getting.
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Typically itās core classes they are looking at like math science, social studies, language etc.
Random formatting question: does anyone know if we should leave a space between paragraphs in the EOCI form? There doesnāt appear to be a preview option here like with the Common App, so I was curious if anyone knew for certain. Thanks
Thx for reposting this. I took another look at like the top 5-6 schools in Illinois. They are selective enrollment public high high schools that you have to test into. They run like private schools. Most had like 44 acceptances with around 12 students going to Michigan. NW and UChicago and UIUC get more kids due to location. But one school Lindholm, which is a minority school mostly got 12 acceptances and 11 went to Michigan. Thatās a fantastic percentage.
But looking at known schools in different cities no question they and other schools are cultivating from the best schools in the United States. Just look at the list. But every other known university is as well. Does performance of these studies matter to pick future students. Sure it does to a degree. The high school Advisors know the AOs well. If they recommend a kid (yes it happens) they are pretty assured that kid will go to said school.
Again, a parent posted from the Class of 2025 and reported that Michigan calculates a GPA with ācore classesā only. Iāve heard that multiple times before on this forum.
The UCās here in CA have more than one GPA calculation as well.
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First, Iām not āsaying.ā Iām wondering out loud. Second, I have no idea if theyāre more deferrals this year than previous years. I donāt have that data.
Iām wondering if the deferrals are being redistributed. Because of big data.
To clarify, normalization is not AI, Big Data or any of the other ways it is being described. It is simply adjusting similar classes to the same scale so that, for example: an A in AP Bio is not 6.0X4 = 24 gpa points for one student and 4.5X3 = 13.5 for another. It assumes the same scale for all classes and strips weighting for honors gym classes and basket weaving ( if used at all)
Additionally, because not all schools offer A+ and some do not use + or -, it is common to see these removed from GPA calculations.
As it relates to same school performance, this is one way to gauge grade inflation and competitiveness., i.e., does an A average actually reflect an outstanding student at school X
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For our large IL public, 200+ apply each year and 40+ are admitted. Average acceptance rate over last 7 years is approx. 20%. Top kids have fewer APs than top kids at other high schools due to high honors track. Clearly Michigan knows this high school well and whatever AI system they use accounts for the different system used.
Sure, fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.
In case it helps, hereās data from my Dās HS:
Competitive STEM school with a lot of highly accomplished kids with great profiles.
On average, for the past 3 years:
- approximately 12-15 applicants each year (slight uptick last year)
- 4-5 get accepted EA, occasionally maybe 1 or 2 get rejected but itās rare; all others get deferred (mostly higher stat kids, per the GC - not my words)
- about 2 typically enroll
This year:
- 16 applicants
- 1 acceptance, 15 deferrals
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I concur. My son school was the top school in Illinois. He had only 2 Aps but all classās were honors. They have 25 Ap classes to choose from. His schedule wouldnāt allow more junior year and he was freaking. His school told him donāt worry the AOs at the colleges all know about our school. But he still took 6Aps senior year with MVC and aced it to be sureā¦
The AOs from all the schools know about the schools and reputation. If a newer school they will get the schools report anywayā¦ We had 44 acceptances with 12 going.
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Hereās where the butterfly effect started. Letās blame this poster.
Iām joking of course.
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Slow day at the office?? 
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Office? I live in Silicon Valley. Iām working from the local cafe. 
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Curious - how do you know how many from your HS applied EA, how many deferred, etc? My DS goes to a large public HS and we have no idea how many were accepted or deferred. They use naviance but this info does not show up there (that Iām aware of). thanks.
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yeh, us too. i do see our suburban public hs in the high school feeder data. From 2019 (my older daughters class, 100 apps, 20% accepted, 10% matriculated. This year D22 only word of mouth, we know that 4 accepted EA. MANY more postponed/deferred. Still trying to figure out why the semantic change!!
From Dās GC.
Has anyone received UMICH Flint decision?
I got email from them.
A schoolās report can be an underrated piece to the admissions process. When done well, it can greatly inform an AO/office, and benefit applicants from that high school. When written ineffectively, it can be a bigger detriment to applicants from that school than you might imagine.
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What is Flint decision?
I tried to make a new thread titled U Michigan Ross 2026 but it keeps disappearing. It shows up for 5 mins, but then disappears.
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