<p>“UMich gets about 40,000 apps…it admits about 16,000 and puts about 15,000 on the waitlist, so not many are actually rejected.”</p>
<p>mom2collegekids, Michigan rejects most, if not all, waitlisted students. That is not unusual. Harvard habitually places over 1,000 students on the waitlist and rejects most of them. </p>
<p>“46% of the frosh class has an ACT between 18 - 29. You won’t see that at a top private. That is a strong indication that as a public, it does feel that its mission is to educate “the masses”. (80% of its frosh submit ACT scores).”</p>
<p>That’s a very misleading statement. Only 5% of Michigan students scored less than a 24 in the ACT. The majority of Michigan students who score less than 30 on the ACT are concentrated in the 26-29 range. Michigan’s mid’s 50% ACT range is 28-32. At Brown and Cornell, it is 29-33.</p>