Lengthy article from the Michigan Daily
Finally the numbers are out. It seems there is not much room for the waitlist again this year. They admitted 15985 instead of 13000 as planned. The attending number (by deposit) is ~200 less than last year when it was ~300 over enrolled. So it would be very close to the maximal capacity at the end this year. The admission rate is 32.14% and the yield rate is 40.69%.
This is disappointing. So it’s business as usual again…
I read the article. It says 2014-2015 admissions. I took that to mean the class of 2018 not 2019. Did I read it incorrectly?
@96blue You are right. This look like data from last year. Also, the interactive figure on the bottom is misleading. It looks like it has the same total number of applicants and they admitted less students last year. The reality is the number of admitted students are more consistent from year to year, it is the size of applicant pool increased over the years.
Those are last year’s figures. Michigan will not publish official figures for the current year for some time. I guestimate 53,000 applicants and 14,500 admits (13,000 is way too low), which would mean a 27% acceptance rate.
@Alexandre Do you know why they are not announcing the admission numbers yet? They usually have that on newspaper by the end of May.
I only trust the CDS, and that won’t be released until January 2016.
So you are not saying they would not release the numbers to Ann Arbor News this year.
I think some figures will be released soon, but they will not be official figures.
I was told by my admissions officer that 2000 fewer students were accepted this year compared to last year.
^ That would be in the ballpark of 13,500-14,000.
Impressive!
I wonder if this year Michigan’s acceptance rate really did dip into the 20’s…
@eyo777 It got to be in the 20s (upper 20s though) if they don’t want to over-enroll again this year.
“I was told by my admissions officer that 2000 fewer students were accepted this year compared to last year.”
At a yield of 40% or so that would imply a reduction in class size of around 500 kids…any reduction would be useful.
“That would be in the ballpark of 13,500-14,000.”
At the yield rate of 40% that would imply a ceiling of around 5,600 versus around 6,300 in prior classes. Again, any shrinkage would be useful as the class should be much much smaller than it has been in the prior 10 year.
@blue85 The enrollment target has been ~6200 in recent years while they usually overshoot slightly. If the enrollment goes below target, they did admit some from the waitlist to fill the spots. The yield rate (by deposit numbers) has been climbing up though in the last few years though. It was ~42% last year that over 6700 admitted students paid the deposit although only 6505 attending at the end (which was still ~300 over target). In any case, admitting less (below 14,500) and make use of the waitlist would be a right move to avoid over-enrollment again. Nevertheless, this may prolong the waitlist admission process this year.
Billcsho, where did you get the 6,200 target figure? I always thought Michigan’s target was 5,800 or so, but overshot it by 600 or so each year.
The article was fascinating. We will be at orientation starting Wednesday for my daughter. It will be interesting to see if they report any statistics.
I enjoyed the article too. Orientation starts tomorrow for me and I’m already wondering if I want to get a look at my application sometime this fall.