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NEWS ...................................
OPINION ..............................
ARTS .....................................
CLASSIFIEDS.........................
SUDOKU................................
SPORTS................................

ARTS
Cameron Crowe’s
‘Roadies’ fizzles

Writer-director’s look

at the music industry

underwhelms

>> SEE PAGE 6

NEWS
Students compete in
A2 Health Hackathon

Competitors prototype

solutions for healthcare

>> SEE PAGE 2

NEWS
‘Ban the Box’ may
cause discrimination
Employment reform has
unintended consequences

>> SEE PAGE 3

OPINION
The ethics of
going driverless

Columnist David Mertz

discusses the ethics

involved in an autonomous

future.


>> SEE PAGE 5

SPORTS
2016 NBA Draft

Caris LeVert was the 20th

pick of the first round by

the Indiana Pacers

>> SEE PAGE 12

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Vol. CXXVI, No. 122| © 2016 The Michigan Daily
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Faculty and students discuss factors that
contribute to Engineering’s achievements

Increase driven by
growing number
of out-of-state
applications

By BRIAN KUANG

Summer Daily News Editor

The University of Michigan

expects to yield a freshman class
size of 6,600 for the class of 2020

— an increase of about 500 from
the class of 2019 — potentially
making it the largest freshman
class in University history and a
reflection of the rapid growth in
applicants to the University since
2010.

After enrolling 6,505 freshmen

in 2014 — overshooting a target
class size of 6,000 — administrators
expressed
frustration
that

over-enrollment
was
straining

the
University’s
housing
and

instructional resources. To combat

this over-enrollment, admissions
procedures were changed for the
subsequent freshman class by
reducing early admission offers
and making greater use of the
waitlist. As a result, only 6,071
freshmen entered campus in 2015.

For
the
2015-16
admission

cycle, 55,500 students applied
for admission to the University,
a 6.7 percent increase from the
previous year. Of those who
applied, 16,100 were admitted for
an acceptance rate of 29 percent,

and the University estimates 6,600
freshman will be on campus come
September — a yield rate of 41
percent. This represents a three-
point increase in the University’s
acceptance rate over the past
admissions cycle and a four-point
decline in its yield.

Also of note was the disparity

between in-state and out-of-state
acceptance rates. Of the 10,959
Michigan residents who applied
for admission, 42.2 percent were

CAMPUS LIFE

See ENROLLMENT, Page 9

See ENGINEERING, Page 8

University increases freshman
class enrollment by 9 percent

Research, student
groups and career

resources strengthen

the program

By ALEXA ST. JOHN

Daily Staff Reporter

In fall 2015, private gifts to the

University of Michigan College of
Engineering totaled nearly $46.5

million.

Nearly all of the 12 College

of
Engineering’s
departments

ranked in the top ten engineering
departments
in
the
country,

according to U.S. News and World
Report.

And
while
the
University

itself has an acceptance rate
of 26.2 percent, the College of
Engineering’s
acceptance
rate

for fall 2015 was 24 percent —
providing the 13,461 first-year
applicants a less than one-in-four

chance of acceptance.

These extensive private funds,

consistent
nationwide
and

international rankings, and low
acceptance rates are the tip of
the iceberg for the University’s
College of Engineering.

With 397 total tenured and

tenure-track
faculty,
6,351

undergraduate students and 1,742
graduate students, the College of
Engineering has topped ranking
lists since its establishment in
1854, including being ranked the

sixth-best engineering school in
the United States by U.S. News
and World Report.

Twelve departments and 17

undergraduate
programs
of

study — 14 of which have received
specialized
accreditation
by

the
Accreditation
Board
for

Engineering
and
Technology

— are clearly part of what
distinguishes
the
engineering

school from hundreds in the
country. But what else helps it

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