Schools even ones like Michigan must consider yield (% of kids that accept their offers) which means every school has a “sweet spot” - GPA and ACT range and ECs where they will accept vast majority of their kids. They publish stats but that’s not the whole story. If Michigan accepts all the OOS students with 34 and 35 ACTs, then guess what? Lots of those students have other “East Coast” offers and their yield drops dramatically. This explains why an applicant with a 3.8/32 or 30-31/3.7 gets a second look vs. the 4.0/34-35 with 8 APs president of the class and saved animals from extinction. The first one with a solid “why Michigan” essay will accept the offer and the second might have an essay that doesn’t quite make the case. They reads thousands of essays and can tell the difference between a “passion for a school” essay and a “safety, I have other choices” essay. Yes, I am generalizing, but many of you can probably identify with what I am saying.
It’s really stressing me out that deferred people are finding out if they got in recently, it’s making me think that it’s too late for me
@jxtxun It is absolutely not too late for you at all! Remember, they most like have received quite a bit more applications than last year so it is taking them a long time to get through them all. They have committed to getting through them by early April and I am sure they will, We are still several weeks to go. The people on this thread are a small sample so it’s impossible to know how what % have been accepted of the total deferred but I expect they will release “batches” weekly until the first few days of April. Be optimistic, there is almost a month left!!
@UofMorMSU umich accepted 11,000 oos last year and 4,500 in state last year and only 3,300 of each enrolled.
How many in state applied and how many out of state? Cause that makes a very big difference
@c011e93
11,000 in state applied, 44,00 oos applied last year. this year probably over 50,000 oos applied and in state stayed the same.
@Eeeee127 So you have sourcing for the number of In state and OOS accepted?
@Eeeee127 thanks… I’ll take the odds for IS over OOS 
@UofMorMSU I have last years numbers https://record.umich.edu/articles/admissions-reviews-more-55000-applications-fall. This year is likely more competitive.
@Eeeee127 It’s more competitive for OOS students, the in state numbers are pretty much stable
@UofMorMSU yeah but the competition from the out of state students pushes the in state stats up to decrease the discrepancy between in state and out of state. for example in 2000, umich act score was only 25-31 and now its 30-34 because of all the competition from out of state raising the standards.
@Eeeee127 Ehhhhhhh I think it’s moreso the fact that more OOS kids are being admitted now than in 2000, which drives up the mean statistics. There are kids who got in with 29 and 30 at my In State school.
@UofMorMSU but those kids couldve gotten in with a 25 15 years ago.
@Eeeee127 Right, but since OOS students have become way more prominent, the numbers have driven up.
also all college difficulty numbers have been driven up - not just colleges that began accepting OOS students - especially with the expedition of the common application which makes it easier for more kids to apply to more schools
@jacklax very true
@TheShortSon Bruh you’re still here?
http://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/almanac/Almanac_Ch2_Feb2017.pdf
this is very helpful on seeing admission and enrollment trends in Michigan.
Anyone think anything will happen this week?
@gdcap62 This “yield” theory has been around for years, as has the so-called “Tufts Factor”. There is only anecdotal evidence to support it. I work closely with a highly regarded private school in Michigan. All the students get offers from top tier universities. And yet Michigan has accepted over a dozen students to date. And many of these students are on financial aid now, and will get financial aid at Michigan.