what time zone am i in michigan?
North American Eastern Time Zone
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 Michigan State offers a rolling admissions system , with an early admission deadline in October . MSU is considered " more selective " by the U.S. News & World Report . Its admissions are difficult ; for 2009 's entering class , the 25th / 75th percentiles for the SAT were 1030 and 1240 / 1600 , and its 25th / 75th percentiles on the ACT were 23 and 27 / 36 . 

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 In Michigan , a tornado in Tuscola near Flint threw a one @-@ year @-@ old baby 40 feet ( 12 m ) away from its location along with the crib and was later found amongst a pile of rubble under a mattress . His parents told reporters that the mattress saved the toddler 's life and he suffered few to no injuries . According to the National Weather Service in Detroit , tornadoes this late in the year in Michigan are rare . The last significant October tornado event was on October 24 , 2001 , when three tornadoes hit southeastern Lower Michigan , out of a total of nine in the state that day . Including the 2001 tornadoes , only seven October tornadoes had been recorded in the NWS Detroit county warning area prior to the 2007 outbreak . By comparison , NWS Detroit had confirmed five tornadoes in its coverage area from this outbreak . It was also the largest October outbreak over western Kentucky and southern Indiana as 15 tornadoes were confirmed on October 18 . Previous to this outbreak , only 19 tornadoes had been recorded in that same region during the history of October prior to this event . The Owensboro tornado , which was rated an EF3 was also the strongest ever in that month over the same region since records were kept in 1950 although an unofficial F3 took place in Posey County , Indiana on October 16 , 1928 . 

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 East Lansing is very much a college town , with 60 @.@ 2 % of the population between the ages of 15 and 24 . President John A. Hannah 's push to expand in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in the largest residence hall system in the United States . Around 16 @,@ 000 students live in MSU 's 23 undergraduate halls , one graduate hall , and three apartment villages . Each residence hall has its own hall government , with representatives in the Residence Halls Association . Yet despite the size and extent of on @-@ campus housing , the residence halls are complemented by a variety of housing options . 58 % of students live off @-@ campus , mostly in the areas closest to campus , in either apartment buildings , former single @-@ family homes , fraternity and sorority houses , or in a co @-@ op . 

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 Contest entries were divided into five age groups : seven years old and younger , eight to eleven years old , twelve to fifteen years old , sixteen to eighteen years old , and nineteen years old and older . Square EA then determined the three highest scores per week in each age group . The three participants with the highest scores of the week in their respective age group received a Chocobo Piggy Bank . 

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 In its second and third games against top 10 teams , Michigan lost to # 3 Kansas in overtime on January 9 , and to # 2 Ohio State by 4 on January 12 . By week 11 's poll , which was released on January 17 , the team 's first three top 10 opponents were the top three ranked teams in the country in both national polls and accounted for all the first place votes in the ESPN / USA Today Coaches ' Poll . 
