Have been reading and hearing about many deferred-to-acceptance decisions over the past few days. Son is in-state, 1520 SAT, 3.96UW, 4.5W, 8APs (heavy science-all 5s), 4-year varsity sport and captain, CoE applicant. Perfect 7th semester grades sent, no LOCI. We wonder about how no alumni status figures into the decision since many with very similar qualifications but WITH alumni parents have gotten accepted. Does anyone have stats on % of acceptances for CoE (computer science) vs. LSA? It seems that many on this site with lower GPAs and scores have been accepted into LSA.
I got accepted to LSA! In-state. 32 act (34 superscore) and a 4.0. Congrats everyone
Curious
“U if M typically accepts 100ish kids from your school”
Any idea on the percentage of 100 accepted who typically register at U of M from your school each year?
50%?
Congrats Mia…
Congrats and when? Stats?
Legacy status at UMich is “considered” per the CDS, but “not important.” If you’re asking for my opinion, I’d say that legacy status is WAY down the list of criteria for acceptance to UMich, especially when compared to a university like Notre Dame or in the Ivy League. The legacy advantage is “slight” at UMich.
As for your question about CoE vs. LSA, the CoE simply has less seats/spots and a student’s stats for an acceptance into CoE is higher than LSA. Here’s a breakdown of enrolled students by school for the Class of 2022:
@J123D123 According to one source I found it stated that 115 on average are accepted and 83 choose to attend (https://www.michigandaily.com/content/feeder-schools). Another source did not state acceptance rate, but listed the number of people who registered at Umich to be 65 (https://expo.mlive.com/erry-2018/05/3f2ff604553639/see_where_michigan_colleges_ge.html). I also stand corrected, as it seems that my high school (Troy High) seems to be 3rd or 4th largest feeder school.
has anyone from nj heard anything this round?
@notserp12345 it is normal to have lower GPA and stats for LSA. Engineering is like 3.93 with 33/34 ACT. Instate LSA would be normally lower then the LSA 3.83 32/33 ACT
@sushiritto I disagree to a point. I think legacy is much more important for out of state students. Studies show that like 80% of kids that are legacy accept their school when given the chance. That’s pretty good odds for a college to predict that student would attend. The article happened to mention Michigan as one of those schools that look at legacy.
@Crivelo… I find this sad. I also talked to engineering admission about this. I am from Chicago. Michigan’s feeder school is New Trier which on a good day is ranked in the top 20 schools in Illinois. My son’s school has been ranked the number 1 school in Illinois for like 15 years but they don’t have a lot of kids going to Michigan. Lots of them go to University of Chicago, Northwestern and University of Illinois champaign. Lots go to different ivys and other selective schools.
So why does New Trier have so many kids go there? Money, plan and simple. They can send their kids Full pay no questions asked. Not technically the better student just a better bank account…
University’s are major business’s and don’t let anyone tell you differently. So does this affect “some” decisions for students? Yes it does.
@Crivelo… I find this sad. I also talked to engineering admission about this. I am from Chicago. Michigan’s feeder school is New Trier which on a good day is ranked in the top 20 schools in Illinois. My son’s school has been ranked the number 1 school in Illinois for like 15 years but they don’t have a lot of kids going to Michigan. Lots of them go to University of Chicago, Northwestern and University of Illinois champaign. Lots go to different ivys and other selective schools.
So why does New Trier have so many kids go there? Money, plan and simple. They can send their kids Full pay no questions asked. Not technically the better student just a better bank account…
University’s are major business’s and don’t let anyone tell you differently. So does this affect “some” decisions for students? Yes it does.
When is the next wave of Ross decisions?
@Knowsstuff No worries. My family doesn’t listen to me either. 
Here’s their expression when I speak 8-|
FWIW, and it ain’t much, a grand sample of one OOS school for year only, but last year our local public NorCal HS sent 7-8 kids to UMich. No legacies.
However, UMich probably has “nuts, twigs and berries” quota that needs to be filled. 
@Knowsstuff Just to clarify, my higschool is instate. Also, I can’t help but respectfully disagree here. Umich has an endowment of 11.9 billion dollars. I really doubt that they take some students over others only because of financial capability.
So when do you guys think the next wave is? A mid-month wave or just at the end of the month? I dont think I can wait that long to start figuring out where Im going to go.
@Crivelo it’s not a coincidence. Also Michigan ranks like number 1in OOS family financials of avg OOS families over $150,000. It’s not a coincidence. We are OOS and love it there but facts are facts. Also Andover, Detroit country day, Grosse Pointe, West Bloomfield … Anything in common. I grew up in suburbs of Michigan.
Yes with 11 billion dollars the school should be cheaper for all BTW… Lol…
We are instate and daughter applied to COE and still waiting after being deferred. 34ACT, 1450 SAT heavy Science AP as well. Many kids from her school are deferred ( especially COE) and waiting as well. We were debating whether we should apply to LSA/COE but decided to apply to COE because that is what she wanted to do. May be a bad idea.
@iam4ed. You have the stats for instate engineering. Many debate this. This seems to be a very strange acceptance year but hang in there.
is the school of kinesiology on its own schedule? im OOS and haven’t seen any acceptances yet