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Applicants for fall 2025 and onward will have the option to select the Ross School of Business as a First-Year Admitting Unit on the Common Application, the school’s admissions team announced over the summer. This differs from previous years, where first-year Business School applicants had to apply to another University of Michigan college or school and select the Business School through preferred admissions.
While applications to the Business School have been on the rise, the number of freshmen enrolling in the B.B.A. program will remain at 500 students.
Blaire Moody Rideout, director of undergraduate admissions at the Business School, explained that she believes the change will better advertise the opportunity to study business as a first-year student.
“I think the biggest change is that students can find us,” Rideout said. “It’s more accessible. It’s streamlined so the students are applying directly to us. It’s very similar to other business schools, streamlining the process a bit to match other business programs across the country.”
However, because students will be applying directly to the Business School, they will not have the chance to be admitted to LSA if they are rejected from Ross — a departure from the previous admissions process. Business sophomore Lucy McLean told The Michigan Daily that she did not believe the admissions change would benefit prospective students.
“If someone doesn’t get into Ross, they won’t have the chance to choose another major at (the University),” McLean said. “Through the preferred admission pathway, I would have ended up at (the University) regardless of getting into Ross, but now students rejected from Ross won’t have that option,” McLean said.
Business sophomore Sophia Rich told The Daily she believes the admissions change could be helpful, although the preferred admission option worked well for her.
“When I was applying, I still wasn’t sure what I wanted to study and applied to Ross out of curiosity and general interest,” Rich said. “If I had gotten into just LSA, I still would’ve gone to Michigan. So for me, not having the direct admission option worked really well. I do understand how it could benefit those who are passionate about business and won’t choose Michigan if they aren’t admitted to Ross. It will also probably improve Michigan’s yield rate, given that some students who aren’t admitted to Ross but admitted to LSA have gone elsewhere in the past.”
Another change to the admissions process is that prospective Business School students will receive decisions earlier. In the past, students used to get Business School decisions two to three weeks after early action decisions were released, around mid-February. Now, applicants in the early action pool will hear back at the end of January and those in the regular decision pool will receive their decision in early April, according to Rideout.
“Often when they hear earlier, they feel like they can make a decision earlier,” Rideout said. “So I think it’s just really helpful for students.
While the mechanics of the application submission will be different, Rideout emphasized that the application itself and decision process remain the same.
“We’re still requiring a portfolio, we’re still reviewing the entire Common Application, so not a whole lot has changed with review and decisions,” Rideout said.
Daily Staff Reporters Sachi Gosal and Violet Boyd can be reached at sgosal@umich.edu and viboyd@umich.edu.
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