Also we are from Illinois so that doesn’t help. . . .
In regards to legacy admissions, a UMich official is on record as saying that they do not consider it anymore.
Based on the last couple years, I have to agree. There have been quite a few legacies that have not been admitted here on CC. I personally think the legacy gets a small bump in the admissions category of “demonstrated interest.”
A lot of UMich admissions come from IL, specifically the Chicago area. My kid’s freshman roommate came the area along with about a dozen of the roommate’s friends too.
When students are deferred, I have heard of them sending a LOCI (Letter of Continuing Interest) to admissions, But I haven’t heard of an LOI being sent prior to the EA decision in December. I know that students, when writing their essays, have made it clear within their essay(s) that UMich is their #1 choice.
Where have you seen applicants sending in a LOI? I easily could have missed it here.
One more thing. Do you know the admissions record of your HS to UMich? And the yield? I believe this is crucial to admission.
For example, even though we’re in CA, our local public school has a good record in terms of acceptances and yield to UMich, which I think helped my kid a couple years ago.
Folks, what’s the current theory on the interview requests? My daughter got a request for the interview right after with the portal link. Is it an indication of anything whatsoever? Thanks in advance!
@sushiritto Michigan admits about 20percent of applicants at our high school and on average one third attend. Not sure if that’s considered a good yield or not? Do you think my daughter with a 3.8 and 31 even has a chance of not being deferred? I told her to assume a deferral given how difficult it is to get in to UM.
@Mimigirl My guess based on almost no information? I think the chances are she’ll be deferred. And that’s mainly because roughly 4 out of 5 EA applicants are deferred or rejected. Most students and parents that post here skew high, so no rejections seem to get posted here in EA. Now RD is another matter. We do get rejections posted here in RD.
EA statistics aren’t great, since most post “accepted” or “deferred” during EA, with no accompanying stats. Hopefully, I’ll remind students and parents to do post stats this year.
Here’s a short thread (3 pages) of EA (December) results from the Class of 2023:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/2117611-university-of-michigan-class-of-2023-ea-results-thread-p1.html
However, I did track stats/posts here during the RD waves. I’ll repost the 1st wave, which was around February 1st and the 2nd wave, which was around March 1st.
I hope this helps.
Anyone have tips for taking my mind off of the decision. I’m driving myself crazy waiting!
Thank you so much for your input @sushiritto. Yes I assume she will be deferred unless they see “something” in her- her essays are really well done so we shall see. What is considered a good yield from a high school?
The 20% acceptance rate seems a little low to me.
The overall yield is 46%. So, I’d think, for an OOS yield, something in the range of 1/3 to 1/2 would be “good” to “really good.” But it’s pure speculation on what UMich thinks of as “good” yield." I would think instate yields would be on the high (other) side of 50% bringing the average to that 46% overall yield.
Maybe someone else has a better number.
For everyone watching here, @SingingBusDriver is an admissions insider of some type. He or she has posted here the last couple years around the time of EA release with timing and some basic rough stats. I hope he or she will be back this year.
I would for sure send it to her regional rep. For my older daughter we were told by all of our reps that if anything of significance happens after the deadline to email and they will at it to her file to take into consideration starting at that point. We were told this by both USC and UC schools and we did just that she got into all. We always received a personal email back saying thank you and it was received and added to her file.
Does Michigan offer alumni interviews? do they require first quarter grade?
@gummybear202 no and no
@Eboone2020 “no and no”… Ehhhh. My daughter got a request to go to the interview… Right after she got her portal info.
From the UMich website regarding interviews:
UMich does not require first quarter/semester grades (of senior year) in order to make their EA decision before Christmas. However, if an applicant is deferred in EA into RD, then UMich MAY request your 1st Quarter/Semester grades in order to make an RD decision. UMich has asked some applicants for first Quarter/Semester grades and not others.
Same here. CoE HAIL interview
@michaelsterling @ElenaParent @Eboone2020 CoE gives interviews, but LSA doesn’t.
does michigan release decisions in waves or will all the decisions come out on the same day?
All (or extremely close) EA decisions will be released before Xmas. I’m speculating the day will be Wednesday 12/18 (same day).
RD (including EA deferred, then considered RD) decisions are released in “waves” on or about 2/1, 3/1 and 4/1.
Also, every admissions cycle, probably going back a decade, a theory gets floated by someone who’ll say that the reason UMich defers so many applicants is because they simply don’t have the time and personnel to review the roughly 40,000 apps (less than that years ago) in 7 weeks time.
I can’t prove this theory wrong or right. However, you gotta assume that UMich in the Year 2019, with a $12 Billion endowment and all those new and reconstructed buildings on campus, their USNWR ranking improving from #27 to #25, can afford to hire a few extra human beings and program their computers to spit out answers on every EA applicant. 