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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan. Full pay OOS, elite prep = guarantee admission[/quote]

Not with a 3.0.[/quote]

Why do you have to exaggerate? "B" students are 3.0 to 3.6, are they not? Full pay OOS rich kids from an elite prep school are getting into Michigan with a 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6. All day long. Especially if they display demonstrated interest and apply early. Michigan is hard up for cash, obsessed with building its endowment and cultivating donor class.[/quote]
[b]Less than 3% of the incoming class had below a 3.5 GPA per the common data set.[/b] [/quote]

Common data is juked and spun. You don't know if that's weighted or unweighted. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and say it's unweighted: Over 15,000 admits per year, so 3% is over 500 < 3.5s? Add in the 3.6s, certainly north of a 1,000. We personally know "B" student family friends from elite preps currently at Michigan.[/quote]

Each year is more competitive, so if your friends currently at Michigan are a junior or senior, then it has very little correlation to this past year or the current year. Michigan had a significant yield problem last year in that, too many kids accepted. As such, it is making it much more difficult for the 2024 cycle (ie the current senior class.)[/quote]

Additionally, the scale is different for in-state and OOS applicants. The scale is also different for recruited athletes, whose GPAs are likely a bit lower. Add those two groups to your 1000 and it leaves very little room for a B/3.0 "elite" school applicant to gain entry without any other hooks.[/quote]

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