I completely agree that Michigan has to do a better job of managing cost of attendance, despite the work already being done. I recommend opening up a new thread for this instead of discussing it at length on this thread meant to discuss the EA experience and results. It is definitely a conversation worth having.
Go Blue!
Again, maybe the airports in SoCal are different, but direct flight to/from SFO-DTW on Delta is $400-$500 if booked in advance. The Michigan Flyer bus to/from campus and the airport is $22
Tuition is $50,000. My kid is living a couple blocks off campus for much less than a dorm, which was $11,500 last year as a freshman. Tickets for football, basketball and hockey is $515.
At an engineering session last summer, the admissions person said EA rejections are rare.
Yes, and your kid goes back and forth 3-4 times per year, hence $1500. Not included in the estimated cost of attendance, (and not including the cost of three of us visiting my daughter only once per year).
Again, here is the link to cost of attendance:
https://finaid.umich.edu/cost-of-attendance/
OOS Tuition and fees for lower division is $51,200 this year, and likely to go up another $2-$3K in 2020-21. Upper division is nearly $55K, surely to also go up $2-$3K next year. Books and supplies $1K, Personal and Misc (food away from dorms, clubs, frat/sorority, intramurals, tickets, etc $2500). Even if living expenses are less than the $12K they project, by 25%, itās still $9K.
All of this ($53K+$12K+$1K+$2.5K) adds up with travel (another $1.5K) to $68K-$70K as a freshman/sophomore, and $71K-$73K as a junior/senior. And it will surely increase annually over the next four years.
Again, Im good focusing on those admitted, but wanted to clarify true costs. This is important.
You can link and cite costs as they exist as a projection. That works for you as someone investigating COA for various colleges. But I know what I spend in reality. And you can find off campus apartments for $500/month. Books and supplies are less than half the $1,000, if that. And you get to sell your books back at the end of semester. Again website estimates versus my reality. YMMV.
What do I receive for my money? Both my kidās major and minor are being studied in top 10 departments in the US. And you get great college spirit in a great college town.
And yes, we should focus on the students who were accepted and deferred in this thread.
And now that weāve created a few extra pages that Iāll have to sort thru in order to generate EA statsā¦ ?
Edit:
Iām getting a deal then! Tuition is due on 1/8/20 for the winter semester and my kid is a 2nd semester Sophomore, but now is considered upper division based on credits. The tuition due is $25K right on the button. But please donāt tell anyone. ?
We know UMich accepts a total of 15,000 kids in total. And they have received 65,000 apps the last two years. Itās hard for me to imagine that they reject nearly all 50,000 apps just in RD.
@Basileus88 do you mean that Michigan didnāt receive their final high school transcript, but they still got accepted? So for those who are deferred, Michigan has received their final high school transcript?
fyiā¦All said and done : $75,000/yr OOS.
@lxhao2000 No, I meant that accepted students had āfinal high school transcriptā as a line on their status page because Michigan needs their final transcript before they can formally enroll. Deferred students had no āfinal high school transcriptā line because Michigan doesnāt need their final transcript (yet), hence the lack of an āXā saying the transcript is missing. Sorry if this was confusing! Hopefully this theory is helpful for applicants next year 
What does āI have the Xā mean ?
@chaks2623 https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/freshmen-applicants/selection-process
Read Postponed student. They want a letter of Continued Interest plus mid term grades.
For accepted students they donāt need midterm grades to make an acceptance since they already are accepted. They just need their final grades once they click their acceptance just like any accepted students. The ones accepted also happen to have a green X as aboveā¦ Ones not accepted didnāt have a green check since they still need them. Got it?
Itās days later and my daughterās acceptance is still sinking in. Even after sending in the enrollment deposit. We were bracing for a deferral with so many more qualified applicants than spaces.
Thinking back on her experience (and my son who was accepted in fall of 2014 and still on campus as grad student, I canāt imagine how difficult it must be for kids and families with decisions to be made about other schools or continuing to wait for RD. In both cases we would have waited for the RD and then enrolled elsewhere for a year with the goal of transferring. If Michigan is the dream then keep reaching. It was easily the best 4 years of my life. Probably not surprising that my children felt the same identification with the school. Oftentimes though students donāt share that sentiment. Some are perfectly happy in other schools.
In terms of the sports attendance, Michigan does have a fun atmosphere but much of the game day spirit seems to come from alums. Football, basketball etc. may not be the top priority of underclassmen especially. During my undergrad career, not one of my friends was a sports fan, and I can recall missing games, as a student, during academic crunch times. Football became more important years later. I had friends from HS who went to other schools who were more sports-events oriented and they wouldnāt have changed a thing. To each his or her own. Michigan is an elite academic institution with good - not necessarily great- sports teams, and sometimes there is a tradeoff with priorities related to these aspects of campus life.
Does anyone know what the Ross acceptance rate is for EA accepted applicants? I see that they have deferred a crap load of people and am wondering if my acceptance really gives me that much of a leg up.
@Paigemonaem nah you sound like youāre as good as into Ross. A ton of deferreds will drop. Insane to wait until April for lsa and then even longer for Ross? Was deferred with 4.0 and 35. Guess I should have taken the act again lol. Congrats on your admission to Ross.
@DG. Sorry for your deferment. Something like 40, 000 applicants apply EA. Lots with similar grades (of course not all 40,000). Itās getting tougher every year.
But a good amount do get accepted in the first 2 waves. Hang in there. ??
Does anyone know how many ppl apply to Ross? I canāt find # of applicants or acceptance rate anywhere.
Edit: oops I see @Paigemonaem just asked this. But still, is there a link to this anywhere?
Lol edit again: for anyone else wondering this same thing, I just found the link.
https://michross-alpha.bus.umich.edu/programs/bba/class-profile
@saltypretzel that link is for fall 2018, here is fall 2019, inching up as youād guess: https://michiganross.umich.edu/undergraduate/bba/admissions/first-year-applicants (scroll to bottom)
does anyone know if those admitted get a packet in the mail? And if so when?
Got invitation to Honors College today. Is there any monetary benefit to it? Debating if itās worth pursuing with another essay.