<p>29 ACT, 3.96 GPA… Wait listed. :(</p>
<p>did you all look on the WA for decisions?? I have not received any e-mail from U-M regarding decisions. Does that mean i have been rejected??</p>
<p>Ugh… waitlisted. Heck, even our school’s VALEDICTORIAN was waitlisted! …It was a good run, and thanks to everybody here that was so encouraging to me. God, some people told me I was “certain to get in” because I’m an Asian - ha! Sure. </p>
<p>Oh well, all bitterness aside, I’m perfectly satisfied with going to Michigan State, I’d say they are just as good for Pre-Law studies. I’m just a little disappointed, I guess. :(</p>
<p>Sapharadon, I’ve been watching for your update all day. I noticed you hadn’t said anything since last night and I was afraid that it meant it didn’t go as you had hoped.</p>
<p>I think that you are going to do amazing at MSU. You are bright, articulate and motivated. They are lucky to have you! At some point, you might want to consider transfering. But regardless of where you end up, I wish you all the best!</p>
<p>Pretty disappointed about being wait listed but at least i got into NYU, GW, BU, UMass, and Fordham.
I wish they could explain their decisions a little more clearly. Was my GPA (91.4) too low, or were my SAT’s (1970) not up to par? Did I not do enough extra curricular’s (4 years of high school baseball, state and international tournaments, homeless shelter service, food pantry service, 3 years of working in the summer, 3 years of sailing, etc)?
It’s all good though, because Im going to do well wherever</p>
<p>2200 SAT, 90.63 gpa,
fairly competitive school, no APs
unfortunately waitlisted. but the competition was greater this year. aha.
and so…!!!
GRATS TO ANYONE WHO GOT IN! (=
and good luck to those who have not received a decision.</p>
<p>I’d like to say BIG CONGRATS & BIG HUGS to everyone on this thread. Ottowa Al, as a Kines. alum, I was following your journey quite closely and I am sorry that you didn’t make it. Please PM me if you have any career questions as you start your journey towards working in Sports, and I will give you any advice I can. </p>
<p>Step-daughter was wait-listed this morning. As an alum, I am taking it MUCH harder than she is. She declined the wait list and put her deposit in at Pitt around Noon today. She is VERY excited about attending Pitt and we are very proud of her. I have no doubt that she’ll do great things, and hey! lucky for me the colors are similar so I already have some ‘gear’ to wear to the Pitt athletic events. 
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<p>All of this being said, I think Admissions did a very poor job communicating with all of the deferred applicants this year, and I promise each and every one of you, I will address what went on this year (especially with the deferred kids) with every person in a position of power that I come across in the days, weeks and months to come. This process was horrible, and it really didn’t have to be this way. </p>
<p>To those that haven’t even heard yet, I have no words. I am so sorry this is going on.</p>
<p>proik - please take your comments out of this thread. This thread (a support for deferred students) is not where that comment belongs. </p>
<p>Feel free to view the ‘race in admissions’ thread that is in another forum.</p>
<p>@laurendog</p>
<p>I’m sorry about your step-daughter but pitt is definately not something to be upset about!</p>
<p>I agree the communication was awful. As someone who still hasn’t heard back, i can’t describe the anxiety. All of my friends found out today, everyone keeps asking me and I can’t give them an answer.
I want to go to umich with all my heart bu I don’t think i’ll get it. I just want some closure but I feel like they are just dragging me along and toying with me :/</p>
<p>rejected, but i had already committed to another school. congrats to everyone accepted, and best of luck to everyone on the wait list!</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who has been very kind to us students. :)</p>
<p>Frankly, I’m just happy I KNOW now. That alone is a nice thing.</p>
<p>Laurendog, sorry to hear about your d. I don’t blame you for giving feedback to encourage them to consider what the experience was like. But I will say that believe it or not, from this vantage, it appears to actually have been smoother and in general, EARLIER this year thn last year, when many students had not heard by the promised “early” April and instead many ant wait listed students didn’t hear until mid-April.</p>
<p>And to those wait listed – just remember that to even be wait listed means you were actually recommended as an Admit. You will all go on and do well, whatever your status, believe me!</p>
<p>laurendog and Dyingforsecision, I guess that I disagree about the communication from admissions. They told the deferred students they’d hear by early April. It seems that most have heard by March 29 and there are a few more still waiting. IF they get decisions next week, I’d still consider that early April. It’s much more in line with other selective schools than they’ve been in the past. I feel bad for those that are disappointed with their decision, but I’m not sure what more you were expecting.</p>
<p>dan - we are going to absolutely have to disagree. And, for the record, my consternation with the process has nothing to do with the decision. I know it’s easy to say “this alum didn’t get the news she wanted” but really, that’s not it. I think the way that UChicago, UCLA, Northwestern, The Ivies, etc. did things was much more sane. There was ‘a date’ that they released the news. Students got their news on one day, and then could either make plans to attend, or start moving on, the next day. Everyone knew the news was coming and ‘braced’ themselves for it. </p>
<p>To be told (as my Step-daughter was) that after her mid-December deferral she would be notified of a further decision “anytime between February and Early April” is not a kind or sane way to do things. If the process worked for you, please call Admissions and let them know. The process (for my family) was nothing short of a level of Dante’s Inferno and I intend to let the powers that be know.</p>
<p>I completely agree Laurendog!!! U Mich was disorganized and insensitive. First, the number of deferrals from EA suggests that they didn’t/couldn’t give a comprehensive/appropriate review do all the EA applications. Rather than acknowledging this, those deferred candidates were left to believe they didn’t “make the cut”. Next, the Admissions Office gave unclear and misleading information about when decisions were going out. “MidApril” is not an honest answer when you could have said “a batch, but not all, is going out this coming Friday” or “nothing is coming out this week”. These kids have been staying up late/getting up early and crazily checking WA for information (btw we have all discovered that the email notification system being 2 day behind is a joke). My son did get in, but the warm, good feelings are damaged. His follow-up letter of notification came 2 weeks later. Also, without a decision, people, particularly those from OOS can’t make plans to visit, etc. Finally, U Mich is still reviewing applications!!!</p>
<p>CollCraz - Amen to everything you posted. All of that is EXACTLY why I am going to follow up with the people at UMich and let them know what you, and I, and many others went through. I am very active, very involved and I love my school. However, this was a completely unacceptable process. Especially for those parents who are located OOS as you duly noted. All of that being said, I hope your son does choose UMich (because I dearly love it) and if you have any questions at all, please feel free to PM me and I’d like to ‘sell him on it’ (if need be )</p>
<p>laurendog, I didn’t mean to suggest that your viewpoint was different because of your legacy connection. I feel that Michigan has been upfront about their timeline, so I’m not sure how you can say they’ve had poor communications about it. It seems to me that your issue is more with how they elect to run their admissions process.</p>
<p>From the information session that I attended, Michigan said they use a modified rolling process. Apply Early Action, receive a decision by December 24. Get deferred or applied Regular Decision, you’ll hear by early April, released in a couple of batches after February. If you approach it like you’re not expecting to hear until early April, and you can get a decision a few weeks, or a couple of months early, that’s just a bonus.</p>
<p>Of the other schools you list, only UCLA receives more applications and they’re part of a statewide application system. Michigan receives more applications, has a regular deadline (February 1) a month after everybody else and still gets their decisions out in a similar timeframe by April 1. UCLA has an 11/30 deadline and didn’t release decisions until the same week as Michigan. Other than not knowing if they might hear early, I don’t see how U-M applicants are disadvantaged by comparison.</p>
<p>It really seems that the vast majority of applicants have heard by now. I’ve seen maybe three posters in this forum that said they still haven’t heard. Sure there’s likely others as well, but it seems like a very small percentage. We also don’t know the circumstances. When did they complete their application? Did the admissions office request additional information that they received late, or not at all?</p>
<p>CollCraz, to suggest they didn’t read all of their Early Action applications is inaccurate. Every application was reviewed. Those that weren’t admitted DIDN’T make the cut for EA admission. Michigan has a limited number of spaces they can offer early. With more applications coming in each year, they’ve become more selective each year and have been deferring more students that seem like great candidates. To suggest that means applications weren’t being reviewed is unsupported.</p>
<p>I feel like Michigan is a very unique school, in that it is the top choice for many in-state students and those with alumni ties. They are also in a position of being a back-up to students that would prefer to go to an Ivy League school. So they attract a lot of great students that miss the cut for the Ivies. Michigan is sort of a cross between a selective large public and a small highly selective private. I’m sure that Michigan loses many of their EA admits to the Ivies. It makes sense that they admit another batch of students in February. If they wait until late March or early April, they have less time to get those students to campus and recruit them. It also makes sense that they have a later regular deadline. Students that get rejected from the Ivies early still have time to apply. </p>
<p>The argument about late notices making it difficult to visit campus is no different at U-M than most of the other schools you’ve brought up. Check their websites. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Columbia, Penn, Northwestern, Cornell, Berkeley, UCLA, and Dartmouth all list that they release regular decisions at the end of March or early April. From what I’ve seen in these forums, that’s pretty accurate. Michigan seems to be consistent with those schools.</p>
<p>I got accepted! Me reapplying to LSA made the difference I think.</p>
<p>Congrats dlambert!</p>
<p>congratulations dlambert! That’s great! </p>
<p>dan - you can type as many words as you want (and you sure typed a lot of them) but whatever you type is not going to change my experience with this process. As I suggested, if you had a smooth and easy process, you should definitely call the Admissions office and let them know. </p>
<p>I spent the majority of February and March in Dante’s Inferno and I intend to spread the word. We are a great university and we do NOT have to have an admissions process that operates in this manner. </p>
<p>And, to your point about Cornell, Harvard, Columbia etc. the problem is: Michigan has been s.lo.w.l.y. admitting deferred applicants since late February. As people have been admitted, they have been signing up for admitted students days. Little, by little, by little, those spots have been gobbled up. Now, with more (BUT NOT ALL!!) deferred students getting an answer, there are often not ‘workable’ spots for OOS state students to come and enjoy the campus. The visit days have been filling up, filling up, filling up. With the other schools you mentioned - EVERYONE found out on the same day, so they all had the same ‘crack’ at the visit days…</p>