What do you think the acceptance rate for class of 2020 will be? Lower or higher?
Obviously it will go lower. With near 40,000 EA applicants, it may hit 70,000 or more by Feb 1. For around 15,000 admission, it would be close to 20% for overall admission rate. The OOS admission rate has to go below 20%.
I dont know they always figure out a way for it to hover around 26% @billcsho like it’s literally never gone below that number for the past 3 or 4 years - despite applications rising a LOT every single year
The number of in-state students applying tends to remain consistent while the OOS soars. Nearly half of the incoming class is/has been/will be in-state making OOS acceptance rates more elusive.
Near 5000 in state students are admitted with a yield rate around 70%. The final in state enrollment would be close to 3500. The OOS yield rate went up significantly in the last couple years and reached near 30%. Around 10000-11000 OOS student would be admitted for 3000-3500 enrollment. If the total application is above 70,000, around 60,000 will be from OOS. The OOS admission rate would be lower than 20%.
@billcsho , do you have a breakdown by college (engineering, nursing, etc) for in and OOS?
It really depends on the class size that Michigan is aiming for. If Michigan intends to stay at 6,500-7,000 freshmen, it will admit 15,000-16,000 applicants. The applicant pool is expected to rise substantially this year to 70,000. So we are looking at a 21-22% acceptance rate.
In the long term, unless Michigan decides to grow the size of its freshman class, Michigan’s acceptance rate will continue to drop for a while until it hits 10-15%, but that will not happen for another 3-5 years. The applicant pool will likely not exceed 100,000, but the yield rate will likely rise to 50%, if not higher, as Michigan’s acceptance rate drops and it becomes more appealing, and as it improves its FA packages.
@TooOld4School I have the break down for CoE 2016 but not further for in/out state. Around 25% of applicants applied to CoE. The admission rate at CoE was lower (23.87%) than UMich overall. The yield rate was also lower than UMich overall suggesting a larger fraction of OOS admission.
For some reason I feel like every year we say it’s gonna go lower and then UMich figures out a way for it to hover. Does anyone else feel the same way or have any reasons why? For me I feel like maybe there’s a silent stakeholder like the state gov or something who says that Michigan can’t be too exclusive if they want X amount of funding…but that’s just pure speculation like I have no legitimate reason to believe that. Lmk what you think
guitar321, while it is true that Michigan has increased its enrollment by more than most top 20 universities in the nation, its acceptance rate dropped more than all top 20 universities this decade, from 50% to 25%.
True @Alexandre
With the limited funding from the state, there is little bargaining power from the government. The admission rate has been going down each year due to the increase in the number of applicants and yield rate. I don’t see where you got the idea UMich found ways to hover it. Even with the larger freshmen class of 2017, it did not stop the downward trend. Only the OOS admission rate showed a bounce back in 2016 when they increased the OOS admission ratio. With a near 30% increase in EA applicants this year, the total number of applicants is going to have a significant increase too. Therefore, a significant drop in admission rate is inevitably. Particularly, when it is not likely to have another hike in freshmen class size this year.