@Crivelo I understand what “feeder” means - I wanted to know how you got the information, that’s all.
How many students apply to Ross under preferred admissions?
Any ripple today?
Does anyone know if the order in which decisions are being released is based on anything? Is it alphabetical? Maybe based on the time the application was submitted?
Nothing as Simple as the alphabet.
Too many piles of varied interests and such to manage just alphabetically. Each school likely has a set of piles they review independent of one another based on an applicants declaired interest. They then likely subset according to selected major etc. Give those piles major specific consideration etc in an effort at reaching some targeted number of admits per area of interest/program. Guessing each set of piles are divided into IS and OOS. Likely addressing each based on likely Yield and desire to keep top IS applicants in state.
They then likely Holistically accept the best fits/applicants for each school/program over time. Constantly rebalancing over time taking into consideration things like yield protection. So best fit in the beginning may not consider a certain set of applicants through say ED1 or ED2 who might likely pull their applications. So these EA applicants could easily get pushed out into the RD deadline and it means nothing in the end as far as their overall fit etc. Still a placeholder yet to be notified so to speak.
They then likely have some Simultanious Holistic review process whereby they balance out the school with undeclared/undecided applicants.
Bottom line likely more than 1/3 of all offers yet to go out as the EA deferred are considered with the many RD applicants. So unless you have been denied your chances of getting in are still relatively the same.
Does anyone know when the last day that they are accepting people to the school of engineering is?
I think it’s going to be the last wave for all the schools - 4/19.
I’m curious about that 4/19 date, @batatachal – that seems awfully late in the game for a regular (not wait-list) admission! Is there precedent for UM / COE waiting that long, giving students less than two weeks to make a final decision?
Yes U Mich typically releases decision into mid April for regular decision and waitlist decision come back even later after decision day into as late as mid to late June
Yes, 4/19 should be the last “wave.”
Posted here last year, a student came off the waitlist on 7/5. Crazy.
It seems like they offer around 23% of applicants a place on the waitlist, which is around the same as the acceptance rate…
Last year, ultimately 7% were accepted off the waitlist (out of those who accepted a spot). Hopefully it will be close to that number again this year (or 2017’s 11% acceptance), and they won’t be back at pre-2017 (1-2%) levels.
I just wish they had a clear break down by school, but I’m guessing COE’s rates will be way lower.
I think you’re right. CoE will be tougher.
Also, while the numerator of waitlisted applicants may or may not change, we’ve heard that applications are up to almost 70,000 this year.
What’s interesting to me is that last year 6,000 accepted their waitlist offer from about 11,000 offered. 55% seems like a high number for a large public institution, although I do realize some just click just to see the end result.
Seriously
23% offered the waitlist
And
7% accepted off the waitlist
That’s much higher than I would have ever guessed. Are you saying as many as 420 get accepted off the waitlist? That’s not such a bad waitlist. Many colleges lists are just imaginary waiting cues.
Once on the waitlist, how do they choose who is to be offered admission? is it all about class profile?
I’m assuming that anyone admitted from the wait list won’t be eligible for any scholarships beyond the automatic (in-state) ones. I’m wondering, though, about those admitted between, say, 3/29 and 4/19. Does anyone know if scholarships are a possibility at that point?
As I was typing I realized that they must award lots of scholarships to students who don’t end up enrolling, right? So they maybe re-award those scholarships in late April or even after May 1 when they are informed about who actually plans to enroll? I wonder if any of those might be awarded to late-admitted (but high-stats) students.
For comparison sake, in 2017-2018 UC Berkeley admitted 2,045 students from their waitlist. I couldn’t find the 2018-2019 CDS for Cal.
As @batatachal mentions above, here’s the # of students admitted from the waitlist for the last 5 years at UMich:
2018-2019: 415
2017-2018: 470
2016-2017: 36
2015-2016: 90
2014-2015: 91
Just a wild guess, but maybe the last 2 years, UMich tightened up (lowered) the # of acceptances during EA and RD and thus offered more admittances from the waitlist.
Holy Toledo
2,045
That’s a Bunch
I think that number will be less. Seems like their doing things differently this year. Having that many students on a wait list doesn’t help anyone.
What happened if I paid the deposit and can’t enroll later on for unforeseeable reason? Is that deposit binding?
@Micc
It is not binding, in the sense that they can’t make you attend. If you don’t attend, you will almost surely forfeit your deposit. What you should not do is “double deposit.” That is making a deposit at two schools and holding both seats past May 1st to get more time to make a final decision. This is considered unethical. If you make a deposit and decide to attend elsewhere, just be sure to cancel the first enrollment at the time you make the second enrollment - and have this all done by May 1st. (This gets more complicated for folks on waitlists, and there is somewhat more understanding.)