Does anyone know where to find UMich EA acceptance rate? Or what the acceptance rate is last year? :-/
Last year I believe it was 26%
As for this year, it hasn’t even been the 24th yet (or w/e the last day is)… There’s no way to know till then, and honestly speaking I doubt they’d release numbers about that until after RD
26% was the overall admission rate including EA and RD.
Michigan does not release EA vs RD acceptance rates, but in the past the EA acceptance rate was significantly higher than the RD acceptance rate…until last year, when the opposite happened. From what I hear, Michigan admitted admitted only 19% of EA applicants last year. This year is hard to predict, but if I were to guess, I would say between 15% and 20%.
Where did you hear this? If the Admissions office isn’t giving statistics, where do these numbers come from? Other applicants? Speculation?
The admissions office announced last year that it would admit no more than 5,000 students EA. It also announced that it received 27,000 EA applications. Hence the 19% acceptance rate figure. It is not official, but it is about right. As for this year, the 15%-20% is purely speculation. I do not even know now many EA applications were received.
I tried to find that news article but failed. I remember around 1/3 of the total admission was from EA last year. That’s why so many students were complaining about deferral last year. So the admission rate at EA was actually a bit lower than the RD last year.
From the relative response frequencies of admission and deferral, I think the EA admission rate this year may be higher than last year.
Thanks guys!
could be higher since last year it was said they had a severe housing shortage and wanted to get a handle on yield before admitting too many
then again, that could have just been a smokescreen for wanting smaller classes going forward
@steellord123 The housing shortage was real in 2014. They need to ask ~300 returned students to trade their dorm space with luxury apartments with meal plan. The lower admission rate was a smart move in 2015. At the end, there are still near 6200 students enrolled which has been their target. The class size has not been reduced.
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Freshman enrollment per registrar report: 2011=6251, 2012=6171, 2013=6225, 2014=6505, 2015=6071. Enrollment dropped by more than 400 students in 2015 after the housing crunch of 2014. Target enrollment is around 6000. http://www.ro.umich.edu/report/15enrollmentsummary.pdf
^ Comparing to 2014 is meaningless as that is the year with 300+ over-enrollment. 6257 is the average enrollment since they joined CommonApp in 2008 (6215.5 if exclude 2014).
http://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/almanac/Almanac_Ch2_Sep2015.pdf
^yes but there has been suspicion they want to shrink the overall undergrad in the long run, perhaps to privatize in the end, or at least rise in selectivity, and the housing shortage was a good excuse
@steellord123 It will not be privatize, period. They would not shrink the overall undergrad class either. Indeed, they have increased the freshmen enrollment by several hundreds within the last decade. The housing shortage was due to over-enrollment and the sequential closing of dorm buildings for renovation in the last few years. Now the renovation is done and they have enough dorm rooms that they decreased the usage of Northwood apartment for undergraduates this year. In addition, multiple luxury apartments have been built in all around the campus within the last few years and more are coming for those upperclassmen than can afford them. They will not reduce enrollment or they would have increase the tuition significantly.
@billcsho i’m aware of the buildings popping up. That hardly means UM has to care about what landlords want, and there is a large demand for those apartments from young non student professionals anyway. It’s really a city growth thing, which has caused controversy (urban creep and all)
If UM wanted, it could simply make available the existing dorms to a smaller population, including upperclass and grad students. At many private schools, like harvard, this covers almost 100%. UM could shrink the undergrad by thousands and you wouldn’t see unused dorms.
As for tuition, that would be more than offset by it becoming more exclusive and not having to reserve spots or offer hugely reduced tuition and larger grant $ to in state apps
Let’s not forget that the North Campus dorms are due for refurbishment. That will remove lots of spaces.
There is some environmental complication with Baits. It may take years before they figure out how to deal with those empty dorm buildings. The other dorms are considered renovated recently. I don’t think there will be major update any time soon.
what is the overall engineering acceptance rate for umich? what about ross school of business?
MayiqueCynthia, you can find those details on the respective websites:
Ross Pre Admit:
2,480 applied
389 admitted
16% admit rate
3.7-4.0: Mid 80% high school GPA
3.89 average high school GPA
33 average ACT
1480 average SAT (CR+M)
Ross Regular Admit:
1,284 applied
473 admitted
37% admit rate
3.4-3.92: Mid 80% UM GPA
3.67 average UM GPA
College of Engineering:
24% admit rate
3.9 median high school GPA
33 median ACT
1450 median SAT (CR+M)
LSA and the CoE have similar admissions data. The main difference is the heavier emphasis that the CoE puts on Mathematics and Science.
https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/bba/class-profile
http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/about/facts
For CoE admission in 2015:
13461 applied
3182 admitted
1286 enrolled
23.6% admission rate
The mid 50 ACT should be a touch higher than LSA. The 2015 enrolled freshmen mid 50 ACT is 31-34 but the admission mid 50 is usually higher than the enrolled freshmen mid 50. The UMich overall admission mid 50, which is mostly contributed by LSA, was 30-34 last year.
http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6915/screen/19?school_name=University+of+Michigan