Colleges where applying RD may not be worth the bother

sushiritto
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:52:43 +0000

In terms of the “other side of the coin” from the OP, Michigan likely wouldn’t be on this “RD may not be worth the bother” list.

I haven’t seen the numbers in the past two cycles (Class of 2024 and 2025), but prior, Michigan would accept roughly 50% of their class in EA (7,500-8,000 acceptances) and the other 50% during RD.

The one caveat with Michigan is that since the pandemic began, they have pushed back their EA decisions from releasing them just prior to Xmas to the new norm of late-January in the past two cycles. I assume this helps with their EA yield to wait until after other school’s ED.