By Katie Plona Daily Staff Reporter High school seniors across the country and around the world recently completed college applications hoping to get into their dream school. For many students, that dream school is the University of Michigan. In the ensuing weeks after the Feb. 1 deadline, the University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions will make its final decisions on whom to welcome as the class of 2001.
College applications go through many hands before finally receiving an approval or denial.
Admissions standards and the University's appeal have remained constant, according to sources ranging from potential students to University officials. The University's status relative to other national institutions varies between different high schools. Jim Burke, a guidance counselor at East Brunswick High School in East Brunswick, N.J., said the University ranks among the country's top five public institutions. Michigan is also very well-rounded. Theodore Spencer, director of the University's Undergraduate Admissions Office said many different factors come into play when the admissions staff sifts through the hundreds of applications that come into the office each day.