<p>I wonder if this is the only thing that's going to change next year. It'll be interesting to see if they'll keep ER/rolling admissions, if they'll change it to an EA/RD (similar to that of UChicago's), or if they'll just have one application deadline (like the UC's). For some reason I have doubts that UMichigan would ever do ED/RD.</p>
<p>I expect applications to soar and admission percentage numbers to fall. The days of Michigan accepting one out of two applicants will soon be history.</p>
<p>^yep pretty much hit the nail on the head.</p>
<p>If I was part of the admission committee I would disagree with switching to common app, you’ll just have a ton of people throwing in U of M for the heck of it and having a hard time to figure out who truly wants to go there.</p>
<p>collegebound, among elite universities, only Georgetown and MIT haven’t joined the common app. Cal hasn’t either, but Cal is part of the UC common app. If Michigan wants to weed out applicants based on how seriously they want to attend, they just need to add an essay in the supplement section.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about this, but why will admission percentages fall?</p>
<p>"If I was part of the admission committee I would disagree with switching to common app, you’ll just have a ton of people throwing in U of M for the heck of it and having a hard time to figure out who truly wants to go there. "</p>
<p>Why is that? Almost everyone on CC thinks it’s too easy to get into Michigan right now. U-M is just joining a large group of universities that have done this for quite some time. I am sure there are a ton of people who throw in many schools all over the country.</p>
<p>“I don’t know much about this, but why will admission percentages fall?”</p>
<p>More applications mean more rejections. The university isn’t going to accept more students just because more apply.</p>
<p>there isn’t gona be any significant drops in acceptance rates though. still, it’s good that michigan will be using the comm app.</p>
<p>I agree square. Michigan’s admissions aren’t going to drop significantly for two reasons:</p>
<p>1) Michigan has shown historically that it is averse to rejecting applicants. I expect the University to admit more students to keep the acceptance rate high</p>
<p>2) The yield rate will drop slightly because Common App applicants are generally less committed to attending the universities they apply to.</p>
<p>This said, I do believe that Michigan’s acceptance rate will drop from 45% to roughly 35% in the years to come.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate could possibly drop but with a higher volume of qualified applications it can also increase in order to equal out their yield rate. If acceptance rates were to drop, and yield rates too then the university would have a smaller class than expect… therefore accepting more applications.</p>
<p>Hmm. I still think Michigan admission rate will drop by at least -15%. If they advertise well, they might as well follow UChicago’s path… from +40% acceptance —> less than 20%</p>
<p>Of course, no statistical evidences. Just my gut feeling.</p>
<p>“This said, I do believe that Michigan’s acceptance rate will drop from 45% to roughly 35% in the years to come.”</p>
<p>Starting next year Alexandre. It might not drop 10 percent, but it will drop.</p>
<p>"Hmm. I still think Michigan admission rate will drop by at least -15%. If they advertise well, they might as well follow UChicago’s path… from +40% acceptance —> less than 20%</p>
<p>Of course, no statistical evidences. Just my gut feeling."</p>
<p>I agree Jamiecago. So many other schools have used the common application as a way to make their school more difficult to gain admittance. It will be no different at Michigan. Honestly, why else would they do it?</p>
<p>You guys are all assuming that they keep the current ER/rolling admissions model. I think that the number of applications would not stagnate much if they switched to an EA/RD model. Many OOS students use UMichigan as their ‘safety’ because it has rolling admissions and they can know relatively quickly whether or not they get admitted or not. There are other factors at play, but, again, you can’t make any conclusions until you know whether or not they’re keeping ER/rolling admissions.</p>
<p>^^^Excellent point motion12345. I never thought about that possibility.</p>
<p>UMich is instituting an ED policy according to recent info session…</p>
<p>This is excellent news! It’s about time Michigan stopped lagging behind its peers in selectivity and appeal and started doing more to attract strong applicants.</p>
<p>awesome. It should cut the ER crap, adopt ED, set a precise decision date, and it should be on its the right track :)</p>
<p>The next question is - will they move up the deadline to January 1?</p>