“Never”… It’s crash proof… But interesting they’re getting messages today…
We are in state for Pennsylvania but my daughter went to Michigan.
There are so many factors, like major, job goals, and your financial situation, that will impact your decision.
My daughter had a full merit scholarship to any school where she was accepted and wanted to attend. She was accepted to Penn State, but it was never a favorite of hers, and she obviously chose Michigan instead. She graduated recently, had an amazing experience, and is thrilled with her decision.
If she had not had the flexibility of an outside scholarship, there is no way we would have chosen Michigan. Her 529 would have been wiped out quickly and we would have been in debt.
Penn State students/alum love the school, their career services is among the best in the country, and there are tons of great opportunities available. We couldn’t have stomached an additional $200K and her job field wouldn’t have supported big loans, but others are in a different situation.
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I’m not saying it would crash, just that having a buffer longer than a day would make since.
Maybe their getting notices today to get them to be excited about something since the OSU game is tonight 
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So what are the chances it will come out on Friday?
I wish they would go back to the pre-Covid days when they released EA decisions before Christmas. The end of January stinks.
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Watch to the end.
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wondering the same thing. Seems like “usually” the portal being shut down like this is an indication it will be this Friday? Or are we just being overly hopeful. Don’t even care about a deferral just want to move on to the next stage!
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So in 2022, the portal actually shut down on the Monday two weeks before release, from around midnight to 10am–but then it reverted back to normal. Then a week later it shut down again but permanently, starting the Monday before the Friday release. This didn’t happen in 2023 or 2024 though, according to the CC threads.
So if portal stays closed, then hopefully decisions are this Friday, but if it reopens anytime and goes back to normal, then it’s most likely next Friday. I wish they would just announce the decision date like most other schools.
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I think they will release this Friday just because of the portal update. When looking at information from the last two years, we can assume that the portal was only updated the Monday off. Then again, we don’t know due to the overwhelming number of applications the university receives each year.
I agree, and it’s not just Michigan. So many schools have pushed EA notifications until after RD applications are due. It means that so many kids have to continue applying because they don’t have (m)any of their EA decisions…which, of course, means more revenue for the colleges. It’s an anti-student policy, for sure.
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Deleted. Sorry, wrong thread.
I thought that might’ve been misplaced 
Doing two things at once. Again, my apologies.
thanks for sharing
You’ll get no argument from me!
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I don’t think the delay was primarily to move it to after RD. Schools have acknowledged that a good part of why they do it after Jan 15 is that most of the ED schools give acceptances around December 15. Those kids who get in ED technically have 30 days to withdraw their other applications (assuming they are following the rules). Waiting until after January 15 allows those withdrawals to happen so they aren’t giving acceptances to kids who got in ED elsewhere and can’t possibly attend.
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Colleges were issuing ED decisions at the same time (typically mid-December) in 2020 and prior, and schools like Michigan chose to announce EA in December anyway. Yes, switching to January also improves their yield, but that’s again a school-friendly and not a student-friendly reason for changing.
There might not be much else to discuss this week besides portal astrology, but we are veering off-topic for this thread, though, so I won’t belabor the point.
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I won’t belabor it either but earlier notification is not the only thing that can be student friendly. It’s absolutely student friendly to wait until people who cannot attend clear out of the pool. It’s not student friendly for a school to decide that they’re going to accept 5,000 kids early and defer, waitlist or reject the rest and find out that 10% of those acceptances went to kids who’d been accepted ED elsewhere if waiting 2 weeks means more acceptances go to kids who can actually attend. It’s absolutely student friendly if the move results in more actual candidates getting those acceptances.
Back to the discussion. I hope Friday is the day.
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I agree with all of that. OTOH, more students have to apply to more schools because so many EA schools don’t make admission decisions before the holidays anymore. When that was the case, if a student knew they were in at Michigan or Wisconsin or wherever, that often resulted in that student sending fewer RD apps. Michigan has chosen this calendar knowing all of that, and knowing it will impact their yield on the back end (RD) rather than in EA.
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