UofMorMSU - perhaps you’d be happier if you got off this website. It doesn’t seem to be helping you deal with the wait. Nothing that Michigan has done is “unfair.” They tell you upfront that you will hear by April. If you didn’t like that long wait you shouldn’t have applied. This is the way Michigan has done their admissions for years. As dreamforivy pointed out, most of the top schools will not release any decisions until late March. To answer the question posed by your user name, perhaps MSU would be better for you.
@blprof Thank you for understanding where I was coming from! I actually really appreciate it.
@UofMorMSU Nothing about the admissions process right now is “unfair.”
The reason they release acceptances earlier is to try to get you to want to go to their school more (i.e. likely letters)! And think about being in the seat of an admissions officer… After receiving a number of applications, you know exactly who you want to accept, but you’re not quite sure about who you want to reject, so you have to compare those applicants to others. Instead of waiting until you decide who you want to reject, you are going to hand out the already-made
decisions to accepted students to relieve some stress for them and yourselves and also recruit them to UMich as much as possible! Then, the rejections will come out a bit after, so they can be for sure who exactly they want to reject. Also just one point, if UMich’s system really irritates you that much, then withdraw your application and allow for someone else to be considered over you. That’s the only logical thing to do at this point. Let someone else receive that acceptance letter who’s more patient and can handle waiting. It sucks to hear this, but waiting is inevitable in life. We ALL will have to go through waiting in our lives, and sometimes the waiting kills us, but as we mature we have to lean how to handle it better. I hope you get in and I wish you the best with any other college decisions in the next month or so.
@blprof I’m just here for the popcorn-worthy material. Also, Michigan has the latest release date of any school (probably in the US). No other school just says that it’ll be out sometime in mid-late April.
@DreamforIvy Lol fat chance that I’m just gonna withdraw my app. I’ve waited months. I can wait another few. You don’t really care if I get in or not, you don’t have to pretend. Y’all are just random internet people to me, and for the most part I don’t care if you guys get in or not. I know you don’t either; there’s no point in taking some BS moral high ground. Also, College Confidential is a website to vent. So let me vent. This process is a killer, and I knew it was gonna be when I went in. Maybe you have other schools that you can just count on, but not everyone has that option. Just saying.
@DreamforIvy @blprof Wew lads, looks like we’ve got ourselves a good 'ol fashion CC circlejerk here.
@UofMorMSU is right in the sense that decisions should be uniformly released. EA decisions in December and RD/deferred EA in April. It would be better for UMich to act like all of the other top schools (because it certainly is one of them) and wait until April as the 4 month limbo period with few acceptances does a majority of applicants a disservice. Universities already hold enough power over students and their families as it is without making the application process much more difficult/stressful than it has to be. Waiting is not a bad thing, but making students wait for the sake of waiting coupled with the lingering possibility of an acceptance is totally unnecessary.
@Filthy_Frank Ok, so even if you believe @UofMorMSU is correct in complaining about UMich’s admissions process, is this a forum to discuss dates of decisions and other application inquiries or a place to complain about how sucky UMich is? If you can’t wait an extra month (like most do with top-tier schools), then seriously consider withdrawing. If all you can do for the next month is hide behind your keyboard and just constantly complain over and over about how UMich is unfair and should change their process, then you need to reevaluate your life haha.
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What are you going to do it about it? Nothing? Oh that’s right. You can’t do anything because you aren’t a part of the admissions office.
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It’s your senior year and you have 2.5 months left of high school! Get out and go hang with friends because you most likely won’t see these people a ton in about 5 months when we are all packing our bags, headed on our separate ways.
In the end, what’s really unfair? UMich holding off rejections until a reasonable date like Duke, Ivies, Stanford, etc. or you getting accepted over someone getting waitlisted who was willing to wait and didn’t complain?
@DreamforIvy you seem to forget that this website is for more than just discussing admission dates, it’s about college in general (yes, even the negative things). Believe it or not, you can disagree with a process (and express it) as well as be apart of it. Frankly, I don’t mind waiting another month because I have another school lined up if I happen to not get into UMich. Also, the fact that any of us spend an ounce of our free time on CC is extremely autistic to begin with regardless of what we’re posting. Yet, we’re still here. Stop pretending that your humble bragging and virtue signaling is any better than someone else complaining. It’s not.
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Didn’t say I was going to do anything about it. What’s your point? It doesn’t look like you have one.
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It’s 4:00 on a school night. What else am I going to do besides go online? Party with friends?
Check the structure of your last sentence, it’s barely readable. Regardless, complaining has no impact on whether someone does or does not get in, it’s merely an expression. If you actually read my post, you would know that my gripe is not with the final date in April, it is with their inconsistency.
“Also, the fact that any of us spend an ounce of our free time on CC is extremely autistic to begin with regardless of what we’re posting.”
How old are you? Are you sure you’re even old enough to be applying to college? This sentence was so disrespectful and can offend so many people.
“Stop pretending that your humble bragging…”
*you’re
“Check the structure of your last sentence, it’s barely readable.”
Or you can just reread it lol Maybe get some glasses?
“Didn’t say I was going to do anything about it. What’s your point? It doesn’t look like you have one.”
My point is that your constant complaining is getting you nowhere and it’s annoying.
Good luck with your future college decisions and let’s just hope that everyone else on this thread can deal with your whining about UMich. Yet, I’m still a bit confused as to why you’RE whining and complaining a bunch, but you still want to get in… Hmmm… Because that makes a lot of sense. “I hate how this school is so inconsistent with everything, but PLEASE still accept me because I want to go!” Lol bye!
@DreamforIvy You forgot to @ me. I’m most likely older than you. Like you said yourself, I should be hanging out with my friends because senior year. Going on CC is the opposite of that and is by definition similar to autistic behavior (not a bad thing until you put the negative spin on it). If you’RE so offended and annoyed by my comments, just report me or ignore me. You’re not being held at gunpoint and forced to read them.
Let me break it down for you real simple like. I don’t agree with how UMich conducts themselves with admissions, but I would still like to go there. This is just like how I disagree with things the U.S. government does, but I would still want to be a citizen. You don’t have to agree with everything an institution does to be apart of it. Authority is supposed to be challenged (more or less). Stop passively accepting things simply because they are dealt your way.
Also, the your in my previous post was a possessive, not the contracted pronoun. Nice try.
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@DreamforIvy @Filthy_Frank Now this is why I’m on CC
ye my new school has no drama whatsoever. i cri
I wish today’s generation could time travel back to the mid-80s and await word from its chosen colleges. No discussion boards, no e-mail, no online portal. Just waiting for that big thick envelope to arrive saying yes, or the depressing thin one saying thanks, but no thanks. But we survived! 
@DreamforIvy Have we really resorted to correcting people’s grammar to prove a point? We are on an internet thread not a damn spelling test.
https://blog.■■■■■■■■■■■/blog-0/class-of-2021-regular-decision-notification-dates
- scroll down to review RD Notification Dates by College...
@hpcsa good info. Thnx.
@Filthy_Frank umich is a public university and they used to do rolling admissions and release decisions starting November before all the out of state people started applying. Umich wants to accept their in state residents early in December and not keep them waiting until April because umich is not a private school. Many Michigan residents have wanted to go to umich since they were 5 years old and are way more loyal than out of state ppl so umich has a right to release acceptances to their in state ppl early in December. If ur out of state u have many wonderful options that Michigan residents don’t necessarily have. Umich only received 11,000 in state applications but 45000 out of state applicants so of course out of state students should have to wait longer since they give priority to their in state students. Also if your stats are below just expect to b rejected and look into other options
Congratulations - You have All been Admitted! (at current) - based on Schrödinger’s Cat experiment:
http://admissions.tufts.edu/blogs/jumbo-talk/post/you-have-all-been-admitted/
@DreamforIvy what do you mean they’ve had 2 rounds of acceptances already? I’m sorry I haven’t been on CC since EA decisions were released so I’m definitely not caught up]
HAIL Interview information received from Michigan Engineering today. Applied Early & Deferred OOS. The interview window is Feb 27 - March 26. It therefore seems to be obvious that we are not even remotely close to final admission decisions.
my friend who works with admissions said that this year umich received 10,000 more applications than last year (increase comes from out of state applicants) and they had to cancel a holiday party because they were so behind on applications and had to work from 8 am to 8 pm reading applications the last few weeks before they were released in december. umich is becoming so popular with out of state applicants. it used to get only 20,000 applications and now it gets around 60,000 acceptance rate used to be 60% until all the out of state ppl started applying.