<p>For a top 30 school, a 50% acceptance rate sounds awfully high. Anyone know why this is?
Is UM known for accepting a lot of people?</p>
<p>It was 42% last year, not 50%. Michigan is a very large school. It’s classes are often times thousands of students larger than other elite universities. For example, UVA has about 13,600 undergraduates. Michigan has over 26,000. They have to accept more students simply because they have a much larger class to fill.</p>
<p>probably because UM ‘has’ to accept so many in-state students.</p>
<p>ha once we go private, it’ll be down in the 20’s.</p>
<p>The UCs (such as UCLA and Berkeley) receive over 40,000 applications every year because they are located in two popular destinations (LA, SF). This large number of applications drives their acceptance rate down, even though their undergraduate student body is similar to Michigan. </p>
<p>U-M does not receive as many applications (at most 30,000).</p>
<p>UC’s also use a common application for all their campus’. All anyone needs to do is check which schools he/she wants to apply to with a pencil. Imagine a state with 37 million people in it and you can apply to up to nine campus’ with a single application. No wonder their admission numbers are so low!</p>
<p>I agree exactly; Michigan does not have a common app with MSU, Eastern, etc. If it did it’s admit rate would be 30% and under!</p>
<p>Oneguy, Michigan’s acceptance rate is high because it is not as popular (relative to its size and its peers located in more “popular” areas such as East or West Coast) and does not attract as many applicants (again, relatively speaking). </p>
<p>Until 3 or 4 years ago, the University of Chicago used to accept 40% of applicants and until 6 years ago, Johns Hopkins used to accept 40% of its applicants. Michigan’s acceptance rate will drop in time.</p>