<p>Recharge, I hope Michigan’s acceptance rate never drops too much below 30%. I want Michigan to be the type of university that accepts good students, not lucky students. Schools that accept under 20% of applicants don’t have better students, they have luckier students. All they do is turn down many very qualified students and end up breeding the sort of culture I would hate Michigan to adopt. This said, it is inevitable that Michigan’s acceptance rate will drop to 30%-35% in the next 3-5 years.</p>
<p>For one thing, Michigan will achieve a similar acceptance rate of the University of Virginia. Nobody can be sure if Michigan can go below that…</p>
<p>They will still have rolling admissions, and one can still apply there and a private university early because its public, right?</p>
<p>I understand that Michigan will be moving to an official Early Action plan, so you can still apply to an Early Decision or another Early Action plan, but not if it is restricted. In the past, you could even apply to restricted Early plans because Michigan’s Early Response program was a modified version of rolling admissions. I do not believe that is any longer the case.</p>
<p>I’m wondering how much the common app will affect in-state students in terms of admssions; I would hope to a lesser extent than it will oos’ers.</p>
<p>Did someone ask for a link to the application figure mentioned in the OP? </p>
<p>['U'</a>; officials: This year’s application numbers up | The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://content.michigandaily.com/content/u-officials-say-number-applicants-has-increased]‘U’”>http://content.michigandaily.com/content/u-officials-say-number-applicants-has-increased)</p>
<p>So I could not apply to Stanford and UM early?</p>
<p>I asked for it Alexandre. But I did a quick search on the Michigan Daily and found the article, so I edited my post and deleted it. Thanks anyways.</p>
<p>If Michigan still has rolling admissions, you can apply to Stanford EA and to Michigan EA. However, if Michigan no longer has rolling admissions, I don’t think you can.</p>
<p>Someone wrote on another thread that Michigan will change to Early Decision next year, according to what they heard from the information session. More than one person said that … I can’t verify it though.</p>