Interesting points everyone. Two questions:
- Is the (absolute) number of instate students capped by any legislative rule or does UM need to enroll students maintaining a certain percent of seats for instate students?
- I could not find any admitted student profile breakdown of IS vs OOS. I see that UM's academic requirements are clearly above MSU, is there any data that shows the difference in IS vs OOS students at UM? It is hard to reconcile the difference in acceptance rates (~50% IS vs ~25% OOS) by applicant bias alone. In other words, are the average IS applicant's stats lower than the combined average (given a 60/40::IS/OOS ratio, that does not seem far fetched)? Is this inflated average keeping away more IS high-schoolers from applying?