<p>I was accepted Early Action but I'm just wondering why sooo many people got deferred? Is it bcuz they shifted to the Common App or is it because they accepted too many people last year?</p>
<p>Im starting to think Michigan is becoming more like an Ivy League...</p>
<p>Yea, you’re right: it’s because of the switch to the Common App.</p>
<p>[U-M</a> defers more student admissions as applications increase 18% | Detroit Free Press | freep.com](<a href=“http://www.freep.com/article/20110116/NEWS05/101160561/1001/NEWS/U-M-defers-more-student-admissions-as-applications-increase-18]U-M”>http://www.freep.com/article/20110116/NEWS05/101160561/1001/NEWS/U-M-defers-more-student-admissions-as-applications-increase-18)</p>
<p>A person at campus day said they deferred way more this year because of the combination of over-accepting last year and the switch to the common app which drew way more people. She said this year will be the hardest to date to get into Michigan.</p>
<p>does this also apply for transfer students. im waiting for my decision</p>
<p>No, I don’t think this applies to transfer students.
The upcoming freshman class is the only one getting a large number of rejections I think.</p>
<p>I’m saying this from knowing several community college students who are not doing so well, got accepted to Michigan easily and kind of treated their acceptance as if even with their poor stats, they had no way of not getting in.</p>
<p>thats good to hear. Do you happen to know any of the gpas which your friends applied with?
I have a 3.826 after 61 credits</p>
<p>Its because I fill the awesomeness quota for two classes, so they were able to defer more.</p>
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How bad GPA-wise is “not doing so well”?</p>
<p>Anyone know how many freshman are going to be accepted, or have any idea what the acceptance rate will be like this year as opposed to previous years? I hear the acceptance rate will start decreasing for the upcoming years also…</p>
<p>2009-2010
31,500 applicants
15,700 accepted
50% acceptance rate</p>
<p>2010-2011
37,000-38,000 applicants (projected)
14,000-15,000 accepted (projected)
37%-40% acceptance rate (projected)</p>
<p>^Alexandre, am I dreaming, or do I recall you previously saying UMich’s typical yield rate was 43%??? If so, if they accept 14,000 that would be an entering class of 6020 when they very specifically only want 5700 this year, right? So with a 43% yield rate, I would think they would only offer 13,500 acceptance OR even 13,000 and pull another 150 or 200 off the waiting list…just a theory, what do you think?</p>
<p>You think acceptance rate will ever go below 30%?</p>
<p>Well, Umich is #15 in the world’s top places:
[World’s</a> Best Universities: Top 400 - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities/articles/2010/09/21/worlds-best-universities-top-400-]World’s”>http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities/articles/2010/09/21/worlds-best-universities-top-400-)</p>
<p>I think they’re starting to become more like an Ivy now…</p>
<p>kmcrindle, Michigan has had years where the yield was 45%. However, this year, I am expecting a yield of 38%-40% because we joined the common application. Many of those new applicants applied for the hell of it. Now I agree that Michigan will initially accept 13,500-14,000, but will eventually have to pull 500 or so from the waitlist.</p>
<p>TheLae, there is a good chance that Michigan’s acceptance rate will drop slightly below 30%. Most schools experience a 15%-20% increase in applicants annually for several years when they join the common app. I anticipate that this 20% increase we are seeing this year is the first of many over the next 4-5 years. By the time those 5 years are up, I think Michigan will have an annual applicant base of 60,000, which would mean an accceptance rate of 25% is not out of the question.</p>
<p>smballer, Michigan’s academic rank has always been very high. If rankings were compiled 130 years ago, Michigan would have been considered a top 5 university. In the 1960s, Michigan was still considered a top 5 university. Since then, schools such as MIT and Stanford have steadily improved, knocking Michigan out of the top 5, but the University is still considered one of the top 15 universities in the nation. As such, in terms of reputation Michigan has always been (and remains) “like an Ivy League”. However, I hope it never behaves like one.</p>
<p>^haha.</p>
<p>Michigan is underranked on USN. However, I’m pretty sure that its going to cross the top 15 mark by 2015</p>
<p>For Michigan to once again be ranked among the top 15 in the USNWR, it is going to have to play the rankings game. Either that, or the USNWR is going to have to audit all of the data fairly. Nothing real will have changed, but on the surface, Michigan will have the figures required for such a lofty ranking.</p>
<p>Whatever, sure a good ranking on USNWR would help UM’s image, especially to high schoolers, but “people who matter” and tons of my peers know the ranking is flawed. While Mich may not have the lay prestige, it does have the academic prestige.</p>
<p>well… my international roommate picked Michigan by googling “good engineering schools”, haha</p>
<p>^^^Another win for Larry Page</p>