<p>My top choice for college is the University of Michigan. "They" say with a 28-29 ACT and around a 3.7 and above ACT you will likely be admitted, so then why are there so many graphs such as this one which show lower standards of acceptance?</p>
<p>Thank You!!</p>
<p><em>Keep in mind UMich had a acceptance rate of 40.6% for 2012</em></p>
<p><em>I do realize some of the lower GPA's and ACT's may have been athletes or notable figures</em>
Graph Website(s):</p>
<p>I understand what your saying, but I do not understand why someone would lie about their scores, what agenda could be behind that? That is just my opinion.</p>
<p>Why do people lie about their scores? I have no clue. Why do some people on this website hang around in individual college forums and trash the schools every chance they get? Why do some posters set up a screen name make one controversial post about a school and are never heard from again? People lie to make themselves sound bigger and better or to make others sound smaller and worse.</p>
<p>You’re assuming that the data set is accurate (by the way it’s the same graph from the same source in both links), why do you assume that? Why do you assume that all the 4.0/2400 posters are telling the truth? You assume that the low admits must be athletes. Why? You’re assuming that one of Michigan’s roughly 150 per year recruited athletes got onto this particular website and posted their statistics (which of course must be below the averages). Possible, but just as likely this could be an international student, or a returning student or someone who entered the wrong data and couldn’t figure out how to erase their profile or someone just being a jerk.</p>
<p>The graph is vaguely interesting, but the only useful data is from the common data set or other college reported governmental sources ([College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics)) - and even those can be manipulated. Without some controls for entering information, you have no way of knowing how representative this data is or isn’t, use it at your own risk.</p>
<p>Okay, I don’t understand why you think Umich with a 28-29 is a likely entry. If you are talking about Ann Arbor you completely wrong. That school is a lot above the standards you say it is at. </p>
<p>Also, to answer your question about the graph. I think that graph represents Umich Flint or both of them together or something. Here is the REAL Ann Arbor stats:</p>