Year by year, Michigan seems to get more and more competitive. Part of their website says they’ve gotten over 50,000 applications this year, which is also what they’ve gotten last year, when the acceptance rate was about 26.2%. Now I’ve heard they’re being more conservative about how many spots they can have on campus this year, and it seems like applications only go up.
Does anyone have some info on the acceptance rate for this year, or how many applicants they’re expecting to get? Any guesses?
It can only be guesses as the admission process has not been done yet. The admission rate is likely to be lower than last year. It is over 50,000 application this year, but I think it should be more than last year as indicated by the increase in EA applications this year. That alone would lead to a lower admission rate. My guess would be between 22-25%
I heard that number of admitted students will increase (in amount, not necessarily percentage)- about 2500 more undergrad students will be added over four years.
@guitar321 I think one of the admission officers responded on social media or email with that number. Someone posted it in this forum. It sounds like a good estimate.
It’s going to drop. The current freshmen class was still slightly above the target size admissions was aiming for (6071 instead of just under 6000). As such, they’re going to purposefully waitlist more kids to try and control the class size.
@Wolverine19 IDK if admissions rate will drop, but I think they will be admitting more students for Class of 2020. I heard that they are trying to add 2500 students over the next four years.
yikesyikesyikes, I highly doubt Michigan will add more students. Michigan is aiming for a class of 6,000, with 6,200-6,700 ultimately enrolling. There is no way that all of a sudden, they will be aiming for classes of 6,700 with 7,000-7,500 ultimately enrolling. Michigan simply does not have enough dorm rooms or class space to accommodate so many students. You must have heard wrong.
This year, I anticipate similar acceptance and enrollment figures as last year (14,000 admits and 6,200 or so matriculants).
Last year, they admitted less students with the intention to use the wait list more, however, the yield rate went up and they did not use the wait list much at the end. My bet would be accepting even less than last year to be on the safe side. I think it would be closer to 13000 admission this year.
Pollack, who is provost (?), has noted that the prior 2-4 classes were larger than considered either optimal or acceptable. The likelihood that that university will enroll that many additional students is VERY low.
13000 admits and 54000 applications = 24% admission rate. If application count continues to rise and yields also continue to rise, admit rate will be down under 20% in 3 or 4 years.
^ It would not happen within the next 4 years or they need to increase the class size by 10% from this year on. I don’t see that would happen even within the next 6-8 years.
The number of in state high school graduate is steadily but slowly going down. With the Hail program, there may be a small increase for in state applicants but not likely more than a few hundreds.