Umich 2017 Admissions Data

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The data for 2017 admissions is finally available. It’s weird that it was never published online in Michigan Daily like other colleges. Here is the link
https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/freshmen-applicants/student-profile

Here are some changes I’ve noticed:
-The freshman entering class this year is huge!! 7023 students. Almost catching up to MSU’s freshman size. The acceptance rate was below 25% before waitlists came out and I wonder why Umich enrolled so many students this year. Yield definitely went up and acceptance rate is now 26.5%. I know that the Honors class overenrolled this year and that not all honors students may receive honors housing. I wonder if there is enough housing for all the freshmen.
-Average ACT scores increased to 31-34. However, SAT scores decreased probably because of all the changes with the new SAT coming out in March and most students just relied on the ACT instead.
-More geographic diversity. lol now there are 2 students from Wyoming! Pretty good representation in all 50 states for a public university.
-Undergrad size increased and will probably increase to over 29,000 students in the future. Hopefully, the university has the resources to handle this.

Also, tuition has increased. 2.9% for residents and 4.5% for non-residents, which means over $47,000 tuition for out of state students. Umich sent an email yesterday explaining tuition increase because of decrease in state funding. Even though state funding has increased 1.9% this year, it decreased 40% since the 1970s when the state funded 65% and now only funds around 15%. Umich said that it ranks low in the top public universities in amount of state funding, receiving only $6600 per student from the state while UNC Chapel Hill receives $16,700 per student from the state. No wonder UNC has such a large percentage in-state enrollment and the cap on out-of-state students.
https://publicaffairs.vpcomm.umich.edu/key-issues/cost-cutting-budget-update/

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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-limit-nonresident-students-20170306-story.html This is an interesting article about the UC funding problems and the proposed cap on out-of-state students. I wonder how this will affect UC Berkeley and UCLA’s prestige compared to Umich.

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7023 is large but they won’t all actually start in the Fall - #summermelt

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@Eeeee127

I have been saying this for awhile on CC. Michigan has aimed to increase class size for about a 4 year period, starting with the class entering in Fall 2016. I had a pretty reliable source tell me this.

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I thought Michigan was trying to keep its class size at 6600

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@Eeeee127

I know for a fact that two years ago there was a plan to have a 4-year increase in first-year enrollment. I have friends who were in conversations with UM officials about this. I suspect that there would be some publicly available information on this (or it could be requested).

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I know some people got assigned to apartments as their dorms

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@thickmancollege

When you say apartments, do you mean Northwood or off-campus apartments? Were they freshmen?

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Yes freshman and off campus

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@thickmancollege

Are you sure? I was under the impression UMich housing guarantees housing for freshmen, and that they were still in the process of placing them in residence halls.

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That’s what they said in the class of 2021 Facebook group

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My friend said that when he was a freshman in 2014 they didnt have enough housing for everyone i think west quad was still being renovated so they had to put some students in courtyard apartments.

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I think they should have just kept it smaller. It ruins the freshman experience if not all freshmen are in dorms