16,000 admitted? What where they thinking?!

Colleges & Universities University of Michigan
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<p>[University</a> of Michigan reports record number of applicants; minority applications up as well - AnnArbor.com](<a href=“http://www.annarbor.com/news/university-of-michigan-reports-record-number-of-applicants-minority-applications-up-as-well/]University”>University of Michigan reports record number of applicants; minority applications up as well)</p>

<p>31,500 applied, 16,000 were admitted. Those are the final numbers for the 2009-2010 admissions cycle folks. Of those 16,000, you will be happy to hear that 7,000 paid enrollment deposits. Michigan’s admissions department has lost its mind.</p>

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<p>wow, 50% acceptance rate. i’m kind of embarrassed.</p>

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<p>There is a thread on this topic: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/952767-u-m-applications-projected-freshman-enrollment-reach-all-time-high.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/952767-u-m-applications-projected-freshman-enrollment-reach-all-time-high.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Michigan should be more selective, especially with instate applicants.</p>

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<p>Michigan does not have the resources to handle 5,000 per class, let alone SEVEN THOUSAND!!! This is really, really, REALLY bad. I am totally schocked. I was prepared for the worst and that was 14,000 acceptances for a class of 6,000. At this rate, Michigan will be accepting 60% of applicants and enrolling 9,000 Freshman by 2013.</p>

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<p>Well I think the logic behind the increased number of acceptances is that so many people are applying to so many schools that yields are going to go down a lot. The final class size isn’t going to be 7,000… its projected to be more like 6,300 or whatever.</p>

<p>I don’t know if this will help me or hurt me for next year, but I’m honestly glad. Schools need to expand themselves to fit the increases in population. (I’m kind of shocked you guys care so much about the acceptance rate… that doesn’t diminish the standards)</p>

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<p>feareman, I couldn’t care less about acceptance rates. I personally do not believe that acceptance rate is an indication of institutional quality. What distrubs me deeply is how is Michigan going to properly manage an undergraduate student population of 30,000!</p>

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<p>There’s a huge housing crisis going on on campus. My friend whose a junior was placed on north campus initially and had a huge struggle to get out of it. They’re placing the freshmen literally all over the place.</p>

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<p>Their minds are in the budget only!! Well I am going to guess that fewer OOS applicants chose to attend MI this year due to lack of scholarship $$ and economically concerned parents that can no longer pay out $50K/year. Minority applications are up because they do get the $$$ need or not. They are huge on diversity and that also includes folks from underrepresented states…you might remember the non-need guy from Kentucky with decent stats…but not out of the park stats that got $20k/year. Many kids also got $$ from Nebraska. They then have to adjust their #'s to accept many more instaters to cover the loss of OOS tuition… Your thoughts on my theory??</p>

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<p>Are they stepping up the number of classes or anything in response?</p>

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<p>This may be the reason why I heard some freshman were unable to get orientation dates lol.</p>

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<p>wow **** umich, im transfering to state.</p>

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<p>What the heck… and I thought the class sizes were unbearable ALREADY…</p>

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<p>this makes me feel ridiculously subpar. 50% got in? I didn’t get in haha. Jeez, and I applied ER too, makes me wonder how I got into UCLA and Cornell… I really wanted to go to UM.</p>

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<p>In an already horrible economy, this is just going to make it even harder to find a job…</p>

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<p>^no, not really unless you major in something that everyone else does (ie psychology, political science, etc)</p>

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<p>lulz, screw going large lectures. gonna learn from MIT Open courses now. Probably better educational qualities anyway.</p>

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<p>How do you figure? It’s not like companies hire everyone that graduates from Michigan. You increase the number of workers applying for a constant (declining?) number of jobs = harder to find a job. Simple, simple math.</p>

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<p>^ You assume that the jobs are only available to UMich grads. Why?</p>

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<p>^ Read my second sentence…</p>