Has Michigan announced how many EA applications it has received?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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Last year, I believe Michigan received 27,000 EA applications. I wonder how many it received this year? Anybody know?

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Someone posted that they called admissions and were told they received 30,000 this year

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How many did they accept do you think?

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Let us wait and see woah. We really have not facts so far. We need to hear it from the admissions office before we start speculating. 30,000 seems a little high. We had 25,000 two years ago and 27,000 last year. I did not expect more than 28,000 or 29,000 this year.

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I got this email…

“I am sorry to hear about your disappointment; we have received a record breaking 30,000+ applications this year and it is shaping up to be our most competitive year in our history. We are only able to fill 50% of our class through Early Action, so we had to defer a lot of very strong applicants in order to make sure that we had space in the class during Regular Decision”

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If those figures are accurate, they admitted roughly 7,000 out of 30,000 EA applicants…or 23%.

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I thought they only admitted around 5000 last year in the EA round. They used to admit more in EA though.

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I think Michigan will admit 14,000 in total this year. So if they admitted half the class already, that would mean roughly 7,000, which is more than last year. Last year, Michigan only admitted a third of the class in the EA phase.

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It appears that this is a slight modification of the strategy from last year. It looks like U-M is locking in more of the high stats folks this year, with the confidence that they will enroll, as opposed to deferring more of the high stats applicants in an effort to bolster yield. U-M is in the sweet spot now where they can bolster both the statistical profile of the class AND the yield. It’s quite masterful.

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From the response so far, it seems they do admit more this year in the EA. Prior to last year, around 2/3 of the admission was from EA. However, I don’t think they will admit more than 14000 totally this year as the yield rate is getting above 45%. Taking more high stay students in EA may be an attempt to balance out the further increase in yield rate.