<p>It is interesting how the article describe the numbers. First, UMich admitted 15,000+ students, not 6500+. It is the yield rate that brought it down to ~6700. Second, they did not find out there is not enough dorm space after the admission. They are all aware of that and they had a target of ~6200 in the freshmen class from the beginning according to previous news release. Although the yield rate has been around 40% in the recent years, but it still does bounce up and down by 1-2%. Having less EA admission but more RD admission may actually make the yield rate more unpredictable as RD applicants tend to have more pending applications to consider. I guess they just need to lower the admission rate a little bit and make use of the wait list when necessary. I don’t think it is realistic to shrink the freshmen class size to 4500.</p>