U. Michigan Seeks to Continue Holistic Admissions
The University of Michigan is seeking court approval to continue its present admissions practices for a year. This would mean waiting until the next application season to implement any changes dictated by Tuesday's passage of a proposition banning consideration of race and gender in public education and personnel decisions, including college admisisons.
University officials say they want to avoid a situation where students who applied before November 7 are judged by different standards than students who applied after that date are. The University has been accepting applications for fall 2007 and making admissions decisions on a rolling basis since August.
Following a Supreme Court ruling in 2003, the University of Michigan ended the practice of awarding additional points to undergraduate applicants for belonging to certain minorities. It adopted a holistic admissions system under which applicants are judged on qualities such as extracurricular achievements, leadership, special skills, life experience, and recommendations in addition to academic achievement.
The University of Michigan is one of the most highly-regarded public universities in the U.S., and among the most competitive to win admission to. For fall 2006, the University accepted 47.4 per cent of undergraduate applicants. The middle 50 per cent of this year's entering class of 5, 399 students scored between 27 and 31 on the ACT and between 1900 and 2160 on the SAT. Over half had a high school GPA of 3.9 or higher.
University officials say they want to avoid a situation where students who applied before November 7 are judged by different standards than students who applied after that date are. The University has been accepting applications for fall 2007 and making admissions decisions on a rolling basis since August.
Following a Supreme Court ruling in 2003, the University of Michigan ended the practice of awarding additional points to undergraduate applicants for belonging to certain minorities. It adopted a holistic admissions system under which applicants are judged on qualities such as extracurricular achievements, leadership, special skills, life experience, and recommendations in addition to academic achievement.
The University of Michigan is one of the most highly-regarded public universities in the U.S., and among the most competitive to win admission to. For fall 2006, the University accepted 47.4 per cent of undergraduate applicants. The middle 50 per cent of this year's entering class of 5, 399 students scored between 27 and 31 on the ACT and between 1900 and 2160 on the SAT. Over half had a high school GPA of 3.9 or higher.
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