UMich Fall 2025 Entering Class Stats
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Anonymous
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New stats released: https://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/factsfigures/firstyearsprofile_umaa_2025.pdf
From Fall 2024 to Fall 2025, the University of Michigan saw a significant increase in applications and enrollment, though its yield rate slightly declined. * Acceptance Rate: Despite a 10.8% surge in applications (from 98,310 to 109,112), the university became slightly less selective. The overall acceptance rate increased from 15.6% in 2024 to 16.4% in 2025. * Enrollment: The incoming first-year class is substantially larger. Total enrollment grew by 12.4%, increasing from 7,278 students in 2024 to 8,178 in 2025. * Yield Rate: The percentage of admitted students who chose to enroll saw a slight drop. The yield rate decreased from 47.3% in 2024 to 45.7% in 2025, indicating a slightly lower conversion of offers into enrolled students. TLDR, my thoughts: was this an issue with yield management? It's strange that they grew their class size by 900 students, or maybe they're trying to fill a revenue gap? Early decision is going to do wonders for yield and I wouldn't be surprised if they can get the acceptance rate down to more in the 12-14% range |
Anonymous
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It’s all revenue.
Everyone including Duke and Dartmouth increased class sizes. |
Anonymous
Makes sense, was it 10% across the board at these places too? Would these dollars fund grad students who had funds cut? |
Anonymous
| Yes, they messed up their waitlist yield. They admitted kids off in two rounds (smaller initial round and then a large second round) and the second round had to scramble for on-campus housing until late August. I'm not sure if everyone ended up with a spot or not. |
Anonymous
Dartmouth is up by 24 students year-over-year but this was not purposeful. They had a higher than expected yield and did not go to the waitlist. |
Anonymous
| The acceptance rate going is up worrisome for that long term reputation I don't know why they let more students in |
Anonymous
I hate this attitude. It’s the reason kids with 1500+ SATs scores struggle to get admitted to college. Michigan has been rejecting lots of top-notch kids. Admitting more top-notch kids won’t hurt their academic reputation. And frankly people who think colleges should be nothing more than country clubs, defined more by the people they exclude than the people they educate, will always and forever look down on Michigan for being a state school. |
Anonymous
lol. Really? |
Anonymous
No, it isn’t. This is very stupid. |
Anonymous
+1. My 3.98/1560 kid was waitlisted and not admitted to Michigan this past year. Now, there are reasons (applied RD, which was a mistake) but whatever Michigan's yield algorithm is, it did not detect that he would have attended. He is attending a more highly-ranked school instead, a mid size private also off the waitlist, but if he had been admitted to Michigan in RD, he would have committed and would not have made the switch to the other school in summer. While he landed in a great place obviously, I think Michigan was more his vibe and he didn't realize that until late in the game. Michigan's loss. |
Anonymous
| OP, I think the increase class size is about revenue and the decreased yield is about weaker financial aid to out of state kids. |
Anonymous
| Whats thr test score avg? Is the 25th percentile still a 1350? |
Anonymous
It is a lot easier to gain admittance from in-state. |
Anonymous
They have not released this data yet. |
Anonymous
Why do you think that the value of a institution or the quality or value of an education can be summed in a single number -- the undergraduate acceptance rate? |