I’m not on those platforms. Thought CC would be helpful and provide answers but hasn’t been. Will not be on here for my next college-bound child.
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Yes, I wish there was more comms from the LEAD scholarship program. My kid hasn’t heard anything back so at this point, I am not expecting anything further.
We are volunteers just trying to help. We know a lot but not everything. Lead is very specific. This site is a microcosm of the real world. Just not a lot of Lead talk on here for years.
Michigan should be able to answer your questions.
Good luck.
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I’ll bet this has been posted before, but I’ll post again.
Discussions of the LEAD Scholars program on this or any site, that’s not UMich, are going to be minimal. Very little info has been asked, answered and/or posted on this scholarship going back a long time.
I strongly believe that most users that do find their way to this website do appreciate the contributions made by its plethora of experienced members.
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Once more with feeling…
Thank you @sushiritto and @Knowsstuff for taking the time to keep tabs on this thread and for offering non-University affiliated guidance and support to students and parents. I believe the value of this site is not in providing answers to questions that can be found on the school’s website or with a phone call to admissions. The real value is the unofficial, off-the-books information shared by parents of current or past students who have been involved in or have observed multiple years of college admissions. To all who stick around and contribute to this thread, thank you and carry on. Those who stay will be champions!
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Thx. Go Blue!! 
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Both kids committed to UMich!
GO BLUE!
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Congrats! My kid also committed. And my wife switched her allegiance from Berkeley Blue and California Gold to Michigan Maize and Blue 
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Funny the kids’ BS is blue (and white) but the cheer is also Go Blue. So we don’t even have to memorize a new thing. Good for my smooth brain.
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They will need to memorize Mr. Brightside.
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Or an oldie but a goodie.
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My D committed to UMich!
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Fortunately they’ve loooong since memorized Mr Brightside!
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My son committed to UF a few weeks ago. He’s very excited and decided to pull his application from the Michigan waitlist. How do schools record pulled applications in their acceptance rate data? He wasn’t accepted, but not fully rejected. Just asking out of curiosity!
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For those who have accepted, does any one know when the typical move-in dates are for housing and for MLCs? The classes start on Aug 26 (Monday), so I am thinking weekend of Aug 17-18.
I want to start to plan the tickets/stay for move-in and family day.
In the acceptance rate calculation, a waitlist is the same as a denial. Acceptance rate = accepted students/total applications.
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My daughter is graduating this year, so you may want to check on the Facebook page for more recent experiences, but when she was an incoming freshman we were able to choose her move-in slot during the week prior to classes.
I think they calculate percentages based upon acceptances and everything is is treated as a rejection because not accepted.
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Move in has started on the Wednesday before classes for the past two years. My D22 was in a MLC as a freshman and they did not move in early, but they were given priority to move in on the first day of move in because mandatory programming for the MLC started the following day.
I don’t know if all MLC’s do the same thing, but that’s how it worked for D22.
One nice thing about being in a MLC was that my D22 didn’t really have any of that awkward “I’ve moved in, now what?” time … there was a lot of mandatory MLC stuff that kept her busy and helped her meet people right away. And, also, they had a group chat already established before move in … when D22 got into her room, she texted the group chat and a swarm of peer mentors showed up and helped her to loft her bed … it took them like 3 minutes. It was great!
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Thanks for this. Generally speaking, if a kid’s drop-off is Date X and you’re traveling in, would you plan to arrive the night before, move them in on X, and leave that night? Or would you stay over and leave X + 1, understanding that you may not see your kid that night.