- Posted July 20, 2011
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U of M receives record number of applications
ANN ARBOR (AP) -- The University of Michigan says it's received a record number of applications from aspiring freshmen for the fifth-straight year.
The school said last week that 39,570 people have applied for the 2011-12 freshman class, up 25 percent from last year.
The projected size of the incoming class is about 5,970. The university says that's a drop of about 500 from last year as officials work to decrease the size of the class to maintain a relatively constant undergraduate population.
Overall, 16,046 of the applicants were offered admission to the Ann Arbor campus as of the first week of June.
The university says it got 4,265 applications from African Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders and Hispanics, a nearly 15 percent increase from last year. The school accepted 1,576, a 3.7 percent decrease.
Published: Wed, Jul 20, 2011
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