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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan alum with DC about to graduate from Michigan in May, and want to add my two cents:

1. Legacy is not considered as a factor in acceptances, but the legacy does help provide content to answer the "why Michigan" essay, and it does help with LOCI (see below).

2. Most of the EA acceptances are Michiganders.  There are some OOS, but they defer/postpone most OOS to RA.

3. That said, Michigan used to have a round of acceptances between EA and RD that was mostly OOS.  This happened to my DC, who was deferred to RA in January, but admitted in this round after submitting the LOCI (in which the motto, fight song, alma mater (not the same!) and Go Blue! were quoted). I think this was discontinued after my DC.

4. There is very little FA for OOS.

5. [b]Many of the OOS students at Michigan are Jewish or Asian[/b].[b] This is the legacy of Michigan taking such students when the Ivies refuse(d) to take in more of them, despite being qualified to attend.[/b] These families tend to send their kids to the same feeder schools in NY, Chicago, etc.   The Jewish families are very loyal to Michigan with their students and donations (Tisch, Ross), and now the Asians are starting to do the same (Mrs. Larry Ellison, a Chinese-American alumna, donated $ 10 million in NIL to get our next starting quarterback!).

That said, this entire process is a YMMV situation.

DC #1 had 1480 SAT, 11 APs, 3.9 GPA UW in FCPS HS and average ECs and was accepted by Michigan in RD but rejected by UVA.

Three years later, DC #2 had 1500 SAT, 12 APs, 3.9 GPA UW in same FCPS HS and average ECs and was accepted by UVA in EA but rejected by Michigan (deferred, then WL).

Glad we're done with this.

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Total conjecture on your part.

And unless there is an "ethnicity and religion by state" breakdown on Michigan's website, you don't have a clue on the ethnic or religious breakdown of OOS students.

I'll conceed that it's not a stretch to list the 2 most overrepresented blocks attending top colleges.[/quote]

I love the part about the Ivies "refusing" to take them. They have way more admits than spots. 8f course tons of all kinds will be rejected, but if certain groups encourage more apps, then they will also have more rejections.[/quote]

I think PP was not referring to the present time, but to a time when previous generations (who are now donors) would have attended Michigan in part because certain Ivies were believed to have quotas for certain groups, thus making it much harder for members of those groups to be accepted. At least how that’s how I interpreted it. [/quote]

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