is Michigan OOS impossible in RD.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got into Michigan RD from a no-name (& pretty weak) OOS high school last year. The bigger problem with Michigan OOS is paying for it -- far too expensive even to consider it in the end. If we'd known the price tag, kid wouldn't have applied.

What did you expect from a top 20 school and being from OOS?

Just to clarify (in case this helps anyone), the kid referenced here also got into a couple of SLACs that most here would think better than a top public like Michigan, and those SLACS turned out to be much cheaper -- with the aid they offered (not special scholarships, just standard aid) -- than Michigan OOS. With the difference in aid, I suspect that nearly any top private would be cheaper in the end than a top public OOS (despite similar sticker prices).

(Kid didn't in the end go to any of these schools.)

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This was years ago but it was cheaper for me to attend Michigan OOS than Maryland in-state. Michigan was very generous with need based grants + scholarships. NYU Stern and Chicago were my other options but they gave out massive loan packages and not much else, non-starters

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My OOS DC got into Michigan (accepted to computer science major) RD last admissions cycle.

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Anonymous wrote:My OOS DC got into Michigan (accepted to computer science major) RD last admissions cycle.

stats?

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Anonymous wrote:My OOS DC got into Michigan (accepted to computer science major) RD last admissions cycle.

stats?

1580 SAT (800 math) took multivariable calc and linear algebra and AP physics C. Was also accepted to top CS programs (MIT Stanford CMU and some others)

[Anonymous]

Last year rd. In at Ross. But decided to go somewhere else. From dmv. Gpa was high. Act/sat 50 percentile. So it doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year rd. In at Ross. But decided to go somewhere else. From dmv. Gpa was high. Act/sat 50 percentile. So it doable.

That was last year. Not sure if acceptance will happen this year with an EA/RD application. Time will tell.

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I think RD will not be impossible but EA actually will be a bloodbath for oos students. The only students applying EA are those for whom Michigan is not their first choice, or who are not full pay. Either way they will fare very poorly compared to ED. I suspect there won't be a huge difference between EA and RD, but I don't imagine RD will be worse off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think RD will not be impossible but EA actually will be a bloodbath for oos students. The only students applying EA are those for whom Michigan is not their first choice, or who are not full pay. Either way they will fare very poorly compared to ED. I suspect there won't be a huge difference between EA and RD, but I don't imagine RD will be worse off.

+2 ED allows Michigan to predict yield. In previous years, the kids accepted from OOS in EA were the kids with Ivy-level stats that also end up getting into Top10 schools. Michigan loses most of these kids. They also accept high stat legacies during EA because they tend to yield those kids. So many kids are applying to Michigan ED this year, but they seem to be one step down stats-wise from the type of kids Michigan admitted in EA at our school in previous years. It will be interesting to see what happens. They haven’t even hinted at what percent of the class will be accepted ED.

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Anonymous wrote:My son's bestie now wants to apply to Mich. Is this a long shot during RD round? Public school w no guidance and the HS is def not a feeder, but very good EC and a 1540 SAT. GPA is good but again, just a random hs where everyone has a good GPA

My DD got WL with lower stats.

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Anonymous wrote:My son's bestie now wants to apply to Mich. Is this a long shot during RD round? Public school w no guidance and the HS is def not a feeder, but very good EC and a 1540 SAT. GPA is good but again, just a random hs where everyone has a good GPA

Yes, it is long shot. Michigan doesn’t give aid to OOS kids. Assuming his family can pay $86,000 a year, he should apply. No one can predict what will happen this year, but it will likely be a lot harder in EA and RD this year.

[Anonymous]

To everyone who cares, get your app in as early as possible so the local AO knows you're out there. That's my thinking. Don't wait until the exact RD deadline. Kids, including my own, tend to wait until the exact deadline. That creates a spiky load of paperwork.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To everyone who cares, get your app in as early as possible so the local AO knows you're out there. That's my thinking. Don't wait until the exact RD deadline. Kids, including my own, tend to wait until the exact deadline. That creates a spiky load of paperwork.

Your thinking is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think RD will not be impossible but EA actually will be a bloodbath for oos students. The only students applying EA are those for whom Michigan is not their first choice, or who are not full pay. Either way they will fare very poorly compared to ED. I suspect there won't be a huge difference between EA and RD, but I don't imagine RD will be worse off.

+2 ED allows Michigan to predict yield. In previous years, the kids accepted from OOS in EA were the kids with Ivy-level stats that also end up getting into Top10 schools. Michigan loses most of these kids. They also accept high stat legacies during EA because they tend to yield those kids. So many kids are applying to Michigan ED this year, but they seem to be one step down stats-wise from the type of kids Michigan admitted in EA at our school in previous years. It will be interesting to see what happens. They haven’t even hinted at what percent of the class will be accepted ED.

Michigan received almost 110,000 applications last year for first year students. No reason to think that number will decrease this year. With that many applications, there will be large number of students applying ED with top stats. Those students applying EA, even with perfect stats, will probably be overwhelmingly deferred to the RD round. I would think Michigan will accept a huge percentage of ED applicants who have those top stats. I wouldn’t be surprised if 40% of the class is made up of ED admits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think RD will not be impossible but EA actually will be a bloodbath for oos students. The only students applying EA are those for whom Michigan is not their first choice, or who are not full pay. Either way they will fare very poorly compared to ED. I suspect there won't be a huge difference between EA and RD, but I don't imagine RD will be worse off.

+2 ED allows Michigan to predict yield. In previous years, the kids accepted from OOS in EA were the kids with Ivy-level stats that also end up getting into Top10 schools. Michigan loses most of these kids. They also accept high stat legacies during EA because they tend to yield those kids. So many kids are applying to Michigan ED this year, but they seem to be one step down stats-wise from the type of kids Michigan admitted in EA at our school in previous years. It will be interesting to see what happens. They haven’t even hinted at what percent of the class will be accepted ED.

Michigan received almost 110,000 applications last year for first year students. No reason to think that number will decrease this year. With that many applications, there will be large number of students applying ED with top stats. Those students applying EA, even with perfect stats, will probably be overwhelmingly deferred to the RD round. I would think Michigan will accept a huge percentage of ED applicants who have those top stats. I wouldn’t be surprised if 40% of the class is made up of ED admits.

Michigan definitely tries to get as many applications as they can. They have a due date of Feb 1 which is weeks later than any other top30 college and they relentlessly. advertise the fact that they're still taking applications during these 2 weeks. So they scoop up all the applications that kids send in once they're rejected or waitlisted from their EA schools or from kids who didn't apply to enough schools. I'm sure many of these apps go straight to the trash at Michigan because they're not qualified. Take the 110K with a giant grain of salt.