<p>I have heard that next fall's freshman class is planned to be the largest ever. Is this true? Wasn't their a plan to increase dorm space?</p>
<p>I know that there’s a newly renovated hall opening up, so that could explain a lot. And increased enrollment makes sense, given the hard economic times. It’ll be interesting to see if they start accepting only the bare minimum for in-staters, meeting only the requirement for government subsidies…</p>
<p>Though quite frankly, I don’t know why U of M is still public at all.</p>
<p>Is there really a need to open the private/public can of worms discussion again?</p>
<p>CronoTriggerfan, that’s because the money from the state effectively makes 14,000 instate tuitions out of state tuitions.</p>
<p>To the OP, considering the current freshman class is about 6000, I doubt they’ll make the next class bigger.</p>
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How is it a can of worms at all? It’s simply a topic of discussion, and a valid one at that. If U of M’s acceptance trend is increasingly favorable towards OoS applicants, it could mean a systematic alteration of some sort, one viable change being privatization.</p>
<p>I hope not… The school admits to many students already…</p>
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Yeah, I get that. But with the state Michigan’s economy is in, that money isn’t exactly guaranteed anymore. Not to mention that all that cash comes with strings attached.</p>
<p>so is it true that u-mich is starting to accept more OOS than in-state?</p>
<p>^^^ I really don’t know for sure, but all the UC’s are mainly because the economy in California is so screwed. Thus, they have publicly said they’ll be willing to accept more oos applicants. Therefore, I’d be willing to bet that UM is sorta in the same boat.</p>
<p>Well, Michigan has been on economic straits for far longer than California, so I’d say even more. Although U of M does have an endowment bigger than some small countries…</p>
<p>Yeah Michigan’s economy needs whatever help it can get.</p>
<p>Michigan generally aims for classes of 5,300-5,700 but ends up enrolling classes of 5,800-6,200. I have not heard that Michigan intends on increasing class size anytime soon, and I hope it doesn’t. This said, I am fairly certain Michigan will be aiming for a class of 5,700 this year, which means it will end up enrolling a freshman class of 6,200.</p>
<p>yeah, cause i was recently looking at the stats of the people that got accepted, and a lot of OOS with pretty low stats are getting in, while some in-state people are getting deferred.</p>
<p>My daughter, a Junior at UM, has heard the school has increased the capacity for housing incoming freshmen. This does not necessarily translate to a plan to admit more students, but it would make sense to do so for financial reasons. Or at least take the chance that it could happen by extending more offers of admission. I don’t think the Admissions dept will favor out-of-staters numerically because the 65-67% in-state quota is etched in stone. If the stats of incoming out-of-state freshmen seem low compared to prior years, it could be that holistic application review favors some such individuals or even that Michigan is lowering its standards in anticipation of being unable to compete for getting as many top students to even apply. Or maybe the stat postings on CC are unreliable or unrepresentative.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Michigan’s dorm capacity is actually shrinking, not getting larger because their renovating Couzen’s Hall (which houses about 560 students) and North Quad only holds space for ~400 students. </p>
<p>So I dunno where’d they’d house all the new students.</p>