<p>another question: is it true that worse schools sent out admission letters earlier?</p>
<p>^ by worse schools, I mean safeties schools</p>
<p>As far as I know, that has nothing to do with a school’s academic quality, it only means that the school does rolling admission, which happens to be adopted by a lot of state schools.</p>
<p>some schools have “early writes,” where they send certain applicants an acceptance letter well in advance of the regular admissions date. This is done at a number of top schools.</p>
<p>^In most of those cases though, it’s an unofficial admit. A Likely Letter or an Early Evaluation.</p>
<p>Besides that, there are schools with rolling admissions. None of the tippy top schools (HYPSM) have rolling admissions, but great schools (eg: UMich) that cannot be regarded as safety schools by the vast majority of students, do.</p>
<p>agree^^ some guy at my school said UMich was his safety. i practically screamed. dont know if he got in or not yet. but UMich is def. nOt a safety</p>
<p>i got an early admit letter [one week before rejected/waitlisted letters came out] and a likely letter two weeks before. it was a private university LAC [not at the HYPS level]</p>
<p>=P hope this helps</p>
<p>bumble: I’m fortunate enough to have grown up in MI and went to a very competitive HS. UM would scour my HS for candidates and woo us very early in our senior year. Many of us had acceptances and generous FA offers come November or so. While that doesn’t make UM a safety, it sure made my application season MUCH more easier knowing that I was already admitted to a fantastic school. Everything else was going to be gravy. I now interview for my HYP alma mater back in MI and almost everyone I interview already has a U-M acceptance in their back pocket. </p>
<p>Such is the advantage of being an in-state student who has performed well.</p>
<p>Omega: the Ivies have a standing agreement on the announcement of decisions. Besides Likely Letters and EA/ED notices, everything is announced simultaneously. Many colleges operate on the single deadline model as well. But it’s up to their individual choice. there’s no hard & fast rule.</p>
<p>T2: wow! i did not know that… im sure that must have been comforting to have an acceptance that early =D my earliest acceptance was Feb!</p>
<p>lol… well the guy i was talking about was not a resident of michigan. [i believe he is from alabama] and its a great school… but i think its harder to get into if ur out of state. but UMich was his safety… which kind of scares me for some reason. </p>
<p>my school doesnt have college reps visit very often [live overseas]</p>
<p>Thnx bumble: I honestly can say that my admissions process was very stress free. Frankly I was unaware mostly of how selective college admissions really went. Statistically, I knew my chances weren’t good to the top schools I applied – but since I knew even the worse-case scenario i was going to be at UM, I never stressed about it. As it was, all my “reaches” accepted me and I ended up declining my UM offer. I have tons of empathy for kids I see now in the admissions process b/c I see what they have to endure.</p>
<p>Irony is that years later, I worked there and even bought my first home just near UM’s football stadium. I was converted to being a UM football fan ever since.</p>
<p>stress free sounds great! congrats on all of ur schools accepting you. thats awesome!!! </p>
<p>im trying to get my little sister slightly hyped up about college-- just something to look forward to in the long run. and im keeping all my stuff for her, so that when the time for her admissions comes around, both she and my parents will be ready. [LOL. i read the parents thread, and everyone was gushing about the Gatekeepers. So, I checked it out from the library last week for my parents…]</p>
<p>don’t know if you watched the Ice Dance competition at the Olympics, but Meryl Davis and Charlie White both attend UM =D</p>
<p>I wish I had read the Gatekeepers before I started applying to college. A lot of my questions about college admissions would’ve been answered.</p>