Why do so few Michigan residents apply to UM?

TooOld, your numbers seem to be very much an outlier from most of MSU’s accepted students. From MSU’s common data set 14-15, 15.9% of students scored above a 30 on the ACT. Less than 5% of admitted students had a GPA below 3.0 and nearly half (44.7%) had a GPA of 3.75 or higher. http://opb.msu.edu/institution/documents/CDS_2014-2015.pdf

Will I argue that the stats of admitted MSU students are as high as Michigan’s? Of course not. But your school’s Navient is definitely not representative.