<p>I know that its great, it is second tier in selectivity and prestigue perhaps.</p>
<p>As someone mentioned before, it's second tier in selectivity by default as a large state school....as far as prestigue goes, obviously many would consider harvard-yale-princeton, and a few other ivies to be more respected, but if Michigan is second tier so is Georgetown, Northwestern, Cornell, Berkeley, and more. Also don't think I'm trying to argue with you or anything, since we both agree it's a great school.</p>
<p>yeah but Michigan is at a status where it should not be 2nd tier in selectivity and they have to eliminate rolling becuase they admit weaker applicants and have to reject significantly stronger ones becuase of space limiations. Having ED, and setting a date for appls instead of rolling will allow Mich to go into the selectivity it should be in. As for Prestige, i definitely dont consider it to be 2nd tier as MICH is top 10 in many things and allwos many studetns to go to top companies like Microsoft right out of college.</p>
<p>If Michigan indeed does get rid of rolling admissions, coupled with the end of affirmative action, it will make michigan jump in selectivity next year.</p>
<p>Yeah that's true, who knows if this will really happen</p>
<p>o please no!</p>
<p>i planned on applyingin august hoping that will give me the extra push since my stats are below average</p>
<p>hahaha it might take a few years for a change like that to happen but then again schools dropped ED in a one year span so it might happen</p>
<p>I would assume that they would have said something by now.</p>
<p>Michigan would not go to an ED system. EA is a possibility.</p>
<p>I find it amazing that people are actually calling Michigan a second tier school. All because it lacks the selectivity of an Ivy institution (which is understandable, since it's a state school) does not mean that its academics suddenly lose their quality.</p>
<p>Don't forget the fact that it's freshman class is about 10,000. With the same admit and yield numbers as, say, Cornell, it would need about 86,000 applicants. It's a BIG school.</p>
<p>I always thought of Michigan as a safety in the earlier years of high school, but when I seriously considered it, I realized how amazing it was. Now I am here, and I realize there are very many smart kids here and a few that are truly brilliant. In no way is it a second tier school.</p>
<p>Michigan's freshman classes only have 5500-6000 people, not 10,000. I doubt there is a school in the country with a freshman class of 10,000 That is unless you're talking about the number Michigan ADMITS.</p>
<p>Michigan State has 35,500 undergrads. UT is about the same. Michigan only has 25K undergrads.</p>
<p>Oops, sorry, So they need 51,600 applicants with Cornell's accept and yield rate.</p>
<p>wouldn't it be posted on their website if they were ending rolling?</p>
<p>Many things are leaked or rumored before they are announced.</p>
<p>SBDad, Michigan's freshman class is no where near 10,000 students. Rather, Michigan shoots for a class of approxmately 5,500 students each year. Michigan needs to ADMIT a little more than 10,000 applicants because of yield. Many of those students will not attends.</p>
<p>EDIT: I didn't realize that this was already posted.</p>
<p>Alenxandre,</p>
<p>Can you confirm this?</p>
<p>my god, i really really hope they don't. i'll be applying next year and i was counting on the rolling admissions to help me get in if i applied early enough. ugh, this makes me want to die, lol.</p>