Is it worth applying to UMich EA for OOS students?

Michelle_Li3
Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:01:38 +0000

No disagreement on in-state yield. It is very high for Michigan. However OOS yield is NOT.

Looks like your daughter was admitted to Michigan few years ago. Things have changed since then. UCLA has now become a top priority public school for many people, in fact, Californians prefer UCLA even above Berkeley because of its beautiful campus. Most CA students have ton of AP’s and they’re able to finish their college in 3 years, at any school, including UCs.

Michigan knows this, and therefore they defer and waitlist most OOS applicants from CA, and admit them later after they submit LOCI. They know their OOS yield rate is below par and they do this with the primary objective of boosting OOS yield rates.

Additionally UCLA takes ~75% in-state, and despite that it’s more competitive because of the highly competitive student pool in California. CA students are in-demand throughout the US and they have lots of choices. Michigan takes 50% in-state, their in-state acceptance rate is 40% (which is quite high!), and those in-state students don’t have too many choices, and hence their in-state yield is high.