When my daughter added U of M I was curious as to why… sure good school etc.
It’s all about the Major for her which is always the best thing to focus on when deciding on a school.
After I looked at the major/program I was so Impressed I too am now sold on U of M and it has passed a lot of very good schools in my thinking…
Someone on reddit reportedly got into LSA for CS today…there is still hope everyone…we can do this…go blue
This next release will be telling. Keep in mind they are building a class can’t have all 4.0, 35 Act students. Also the essay is very important and recommendations as stated. Being interesting is key and unique and making it all personal. Everyone’s kid is great but only so many seats per year. It’s frustrating to say the least. I believe a letter of intent(loi) is important “before” a letter of countined interest (loci) goes out. But even though it says don’t send more information have you noticed that Michigan has a form letter for it saying it will be put in the chart for later review.
@calspeed People on the Applying to College subreddit just discuss their acceptances etc, however there is a subreddit called uofm which has more stuff but that’s more for enrolled students
Another acceptance noted on the subreddit - someone applied for econ but was admitted to cs… Idk if that’s real or not considering how competitive cs is and how unlikely it is for the admissions office to make a mistake like that. Granted, both are LSA and they don’t admit by major if I’m not mistaken?
is this wave of ‘disappearing tab’ just an exception? I am not seeing that many.
Yes…
70,000 applicants with 15,000 acceptances/offers and 1/2 that who will enroll.
The numbers prove it’s highly Competitive and Holistic.
Thank God my daughter gets that and she is very Pragmatic in her approach and expectations.
I sound like a broken record, but I truly think another piece of the decision puzzle is the HS’s record of matriculation.
I’ve heard from a few posters over the many months, asking about why their son or daughter haven’t been admitted. I always ask about the HS’s yield to UMich and generally the yield % isn’t good. For example, there may be 5-6 students using UMich as a backup, holding on to their admissions even though they have no intention of going to UMich. Unfortunately, that hurts the student who REALLY wants to go to UMich, in my estimation, especially if it happens year after year at that particular HS.
UMich simply rewards the schools that have been good to them.
Although in past years u mich has not released decisions other than corresponding with Ross releases I believe they will release some this Friday
I applied EA, got deferred and haven’t heard back since, however, I never had a vied decision tab on my portal, even when I received my deferral I couldn’t see that from my portal, only the email. Is that a problem?
Generally, when you don’t have a view decision tab, it means you applied RD. I have seen a few reports of students who state they’ve applied EA and were deferred but with never having a view decision tab. However, I don’t have an explanation for you.
Is it possible that you may have had a view decision tab at one point, but you never noticed it?
I also have never seen a decision tab. I emailed my admissions counselor and she said that is because they never made a decision. The email was requesting your grades, but until they make a decision we won’t have a tab. This is very odd to me because almost everyone else has a tab but it is what it is.
It would be nice to have a tab though so I would have some idea of when I would hear something 
hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
Where you go to college does not define you
@jfghveriuaga Absolutely. You are correct. Everyone, including yours truly, needs to occasionally remind themselves of that.
I sent a LOCI 2 weeks before the March 1st wave and was sent a response saying that the interest will be considered when reviewing my application.
OOS Accepted March 1 to LSA
SAT: 1520
GPA: 3.8 UW 3.95 W
@sushiritto my son was accepted EA into LSA along with 1 other from his high school class. Historically our school has a very low acceptance rate and even lower admission rate for UMich. Just never know.
This may simply be a coincidence.
The two biggest UM decision waves - the Friiday before Dec 24 and the Friday before April 1 - typically correspond to the start of Winter Break and Spring Break at most in-state high schools.
If this is intentional, it’s compassionate timing to allow kids the breaks to recover from bad news. Yes, in-state kids have higher odds of getting in. But, that makes negative news harder to process - it seems more personal and less likely to be due to the vagaries of the admissions process.
Also, over the past couple of years, the percentage of in-state kids has been dropping by two or three percentage points per year. Last year, the stats were 51% in-state, 49% OOS. I wonder if the trend will continue and the stats cross the 50% threshold this year?
Regardless, good luck to everyone as we wait on the April 1 round of decisions!
@UMich4567 Keep in mind my D is applying OOS. If U of M is accepting that high of OOS kids I would be pretty annoyed if I were a Michigan resident. CA schools were doing that a few years back and got in trouble because they were purposely taking more and more OOS kids because it was making up for budget cuts. In state kids should always be the first preference and then fill in the last 20% or so with OOS. It’s the right thing to do. If my D doesn’t get in because the school already filled her kind of profile with in-state kids, so be it and good for them.
@MLG2019. That is NOT the case with Michigan. Not even close to 80/20 instate vs out state. Many schools changed what they have been doing like the California schools, IUIC, Georgia Tech, etc in recent years. Michigan needs the OOS funds and people are happy to pay it. Once that stops they will have to reavaluate. But with like 11 billion in endowments I think they will be fine for years to come. But with that much funds a small tuition break would be fine to me.
I’ll re-post this statistic that I posted pages ago, which is from the UMich CDS:
Freshman OOS % (from CDS):
OOS % has been going down, while the # of OOS applicants has been increasing.