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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan matriculates over 3000 in staters every year.  [b]With an average instate acceptance rate over 40%, [/b]I’d say that a pretty generous offering. For example in 2018, Michigan had approximately 12,500 students submit applications with about 5100 acceptances.  Approximately 3100 ultimately enrolled. That’s about a 60% instate yield. Considering that Michigan has about 100,000 high school graduates each year, and shrinking,[b] a 5% overall instate admit rate among all high school graduates[/b] is right in line with other top notch public universities in this country, including UVA[/quote]

? you just said it was a 40% instate acceptance rate.  They can't accept people who don't apply[/quote]

Sorry for your confusion.  [b]I should have said 5% of all high school graduates in the state of Michigan end up in Ann Arbor [/b]so it wouldn’t cause you too much confusion. [/quote]

??  They can only accept the ones who apply.  The acceptance rate for Michigan students who applied for admission is 40%[/quote]

No kidding! Let me simplify it for you

40% of high schoolers who applied to Michigan from inside the state were accepted.

That is equivalent to 5% of the total number of high school graduates instate. This percentage includes all students who graduated from high school instate, whether they applied for admission or not. [/quote]

It wouldn’t matter if 100% of Michigan high schoolers applied — U of M ain’t admitting more of them. 50% of the seats in each class are RESERVED for non-residents. [/quote]

And yet twice as many Mich in state students are admitted compared to out of state students. Also U Mich OOS percentages are lower than many of their state universities especially the UCs …

There is unnecessary and misleading focus on blaming OOS students for wider issues related to funding for public universities being at historic lows and not keeping up with tertiary public education demands. Public universities have to rely on OOS tuition income to fund needs of instate students. Further, it is generally far more competitive for OOS slots so it helps keep their selectivity rankings elite and enhance their academic reputations. US has a far younger population spread than most Western countries so the need to invest in public higher education is higher than in most OECD countries  … 
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