<p>Pffffff. LSA.</p>
<p>Well, a higher acceptance rate would be a higher ranking. And a higher ranking could only help us. </p>
<p>Now we just change the 2:1 ratio and we’re golden</p>
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<p>Which just goes to show that admissions has a pretty good handle on what they are doing. A 1% drop the first year the common app came along is a good signal.</p>
<p>MOTB - yes, a pretty good handle but, for 2011 admissions, apparently the appeal of Michigan was even greater than the Admissions Dept. expected. They must have expected the yield to drop further or they wouldn’t have over enrolled again.</p>
<p>And I grow ever less confident about my chances of admittance for next fall. Le sigh.</p>
<p>Oh well. All I can do is wait…and smack my interview out of the park :D</p>
<p>Interviews generally do not alter admissions decisions, they merely complement them. This said, Michigan does not contact interviews. However, applying EA does help.</p>
<p>Even for SMTD? The interview I was referring to is required (and in lieu of an audition). I would think it holds more weight than your average interview. Could be wrong though.</p>
<p>The school of Music is obviously different. I do not think the interview is as effective or heavily weighed as an audition, but I am not sure.</p>
<p>Today’s Michigan Daily talks about the growing student population:
University student enrollment at record high
[University</a> student enrollment at record high - The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://www.michigandaily.com/node/62574]University”>http://www.michigandaily.com/node/62574) </p>
<p>My impression that fewer were admitted for this years class came from our campus visit in the summer - the admission people were saying that the fall class of 2010 was purposely smaller because the entering 2009 class was larger than expected. What they didn’t say is that both classes were much larger than previous levels … I didn’t realize this.</p>
<p>^^ Hmm…, perhaps Michigan is now accepting more transferring students from OOS…? I know that TOSU accepts something like 20% of the transfer application both IS and OOS, making the overall undergrad enrollment much larger despite only accepting roughly 7k incoming freshman per year. Nonetheless, I applaud Michigan joined the Common App. and think Ohio State should do the same in the future.</p>
<p>Michigan’s transfer classes tend to be relatively small (900-1,200). That has not changed in recent years. The problem has been regular freshman classes. Every year, the admissions office announces their intention of enrolling 5,500-5,700 freshmen and instead, they end up with freshman classes of 6,000-6,300. I assume that is their true intention because with the use of waitlists, it is pretty easy to hit the mark, I just don’t understand why they keep insisting on announcing that they want to admit smaller classes.</p>
<p>That’s right!! I totally forgot the impact of the wait-listed students could have on overall enrollment of the school. Thanks for the explanation Alex, and very sorry to the Wolverine fans about the unnecessary ‘roughness’ of Gholston in our last game (as a State alum, I am truly ashamed…). =.="</p>
<p>Michigan (and public universities in general) does not make use of the waitlist. With the exception of two years, Michigan has accepted none of its waitlisted students in the past decade. Every year, Michigan underestimates the yield as though the previous year were an exception and accepts more applicants than necessary.</p>
<p>As for Gholston, he hurt his team more than he did Michigan. MSU is going to have to face Wisconsin without him. Besides, winning ugly is one thing, winning dirty is another entirely. In the recent Michigan vs MSU rivalry, MSU is committing the vast majority of personal fouls. Back in my day (90s), the Michigan vs MSU game was always hard-nosed but never dirty. For this reason, I can believe your sincere appology.</p>
<p>Just to clear things up a bit, Michigan is EXPECTING 50’000 apps this year. And is reducing the number of acceptances from 15’000 to 13’500.</p>
<p>thank you Sr. in high school…</p>
<p>ajhhs, 50,000 applicants is certainly possible (I estimate 48,000), but 13,500 acceptances seems a little low. Michigan admitted 16,000 each of the last two years, I see the University admitting between 15,000-16,000 this year. The admission office is aiming for a slightly smaller class (probably 5,700), but as the same time, the yield is probably going to drop slightly.</p>
<p>I don’t know man, I talked to Ms. Sanders a couple days ago. She said they were expecting 50000 apps and would be cutting 1500 spots.</p>
<p>@PurpleDuckMan: My mom works in CoE admissions…</p>
<p>ajhhs so do you know when decisions will be released if your mom works in admissions and those numbers I think make us all very nervous</p>
<p>No. My mom is not at liberty to discuss these things with me. I get the same generic answers you would get were you to call admissions.</p>
<p>And yes, regardless, these numbers are extremely high.</p>
<p>dddsss, we won’t know the number of students who applied until after the deadline, probably sometime in late February of 2012. We won’t know how many of those will be admitted until May or June of 2012. </p>
<p>This said, ajhhs’ numbers are certainly not unbelievable, although they would represent a worst case scenario for this year’s applicants! 
Whether Michigan receives 48,000 or 50,000 applicants, and whether it accepts 16,000 or 14,000 does not matter. Either way, Michigan will be much tougher to get into this year and going forward.</p>
<p>Alexandre, if you had to give an estimation of the percentage of admits for this year, what would be your guess? Do you think it will go down as far as the mid-20%?</p>