<p>Has any data on class of 2016 come out yet? such as acceptance rate, # of applicants, etc</p>
<p>approximately 42000 applicants, clearly the acceptance rate has not yet come out seeing as many students are still waiting on decisions. the official data will not be released until about january or february next year, if class of 2015 data was any indication.</p>
<p>If there are 42,000 applicants and they accept the 16,073 that they did last year, the acceptance rate would be 38%.</p>
<p>They may accept less though, because they over accepted last year and ended up with a little more than the 5,970 they wanted in the freshman class. So acceptance rate could then be 37%.</p>
<p>Just guessing, here.</p>
<p>dadinator, that’s solid thinking but michigan tends to over-accept and over-enroll year after year. i would expect a 38-39 percent acceptance rate, but really they are close enough that the difference is negligible (unless of course you actually go, in which case you have trouble getting dorms and choosing classes)</p>
<p>Ooh thanks guys. An acceptance rate of ~38% is quite a drop from last year of 51%. Maybe this will help UMich move up on the rankings next year.</p>
<p>Last year, Michigan admitted 41%. However, acceptance rates do not affect rankings, nor should they as they are not a determining factor in academic excellence.</p>
<p>For USNews, Student Selectivity is 15% of the overall ranking (with most of that score coming from SAT scores and percentage of entering class that was in the top 10% of their high shcool class). Acceptance rate is only 10% of the 15% Student Selectivity portion:</p>
<p>[Methodology:</a> Undergraduate Ranking Criteria and Weights - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/09/12/methodology-undergraduate-ranking-criteria-and-weights-2012]Methodology:”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/09/12/methodology-undergraduate-ranking-criteria-and-weights-2012)</p>
<p>Student selectivity does affect the rankings.</p>
<p>sure, but only 1.5% of that is based on acceptance rate. choosing the brightest students however, is and should be an important part of determining the quality of a university. things that skew usnwr undergrad rankings toward private schools are things such as class size, graduation and freshman retention rate, financial resources per student and alumni giving rate. all of these are expected to be higher in smaller and private schools, due to the amount of money it takes to attend in the first place (better alumni giving rate/per student financial resources) and the ability for students to really choose their own fate in such a large public university environment (no pampering to students leads to lower retention and lower graduation, as do graduation requirements that allow students a lot of leeway for transferring schools).</p>