I hear ya, @CO1234 – I wish they’d just rip off the bandage already.
If it’s true (as some here have written) that UM will wait until 4/19 to release the final wave of rejections (and some acceptances?), I really hope they’re only holding on to a small percentage of apps that they truly feel still have a shot at getting in. If they’re waiting until then to inform several thousand deferred students that they didn’t get in, that seems deeply unfair to young people trying to make some already difficult decisions.
For the Class of 2022, the wave that occurred around 4/1:
Accepted 21%
Waitlisted 43%
Rejected 37%
A couple things. These are rough numbers based on CC postings and students here are likely statistically higher than entire UMich RD applicant population. I’d also guess that the estimated last wave of 4/19 would skew more to waitlisted and rejected candidates. But it’s just a guess based upon being the final “wave.”
@TwoHearted I completely agree. Between deferred EA and RD, there are tens of thousands of applicants that won’t be admitted. Holding that information is just senseless. Let people move on.
I actually have a pamphlet that is handed out by my counseling’s office from u mich that contains many useful stats such as exact number of applications last year and exact acceptances as well as the new “admissions requirements” such as stats for the current year
Keep in mind that the last wave had rejections. I don’t remember seeing rejections that early in the last few years. I think that fact alone is very telling.
Thinking more about how UM handles the waitlist, so I went back about ten pages (to posts 1794-1800) and found the stats that @sushiritto posted, then looked up how many were offered / how many accepted the waitlist option:
2018-2019: 415 got in (of 14,783 offered / of 6000 who accepted)
2017-2018: 470 got in (of 11,197 offered / of 4,124 who accepted)
2016-2017: 36 got in (of 11,127 offered / of 3,970 who accepted)
Can anyone explain (or even theorize) why UM offers the waitlist option to SO many students at a point when they believe the entire freshman class may already be filled?
@batatachal and @J123D123 point out that both the number (415) and the percentage (7%) of those accepted off the waitlist last year are encouraging, in a sense–much better, certainly, than MIT’s acceptance of a grand total of zero waitlisted students last year. But if you were one of the 5,585 or 93% who accepted a spot on UM’s waitlist and kept your hopes alive all summer, only to be rejected, the whole process had to have felt a bit heartless.
@TwoHearted. If your wait listed, you move on. Put your deposit down on the college you decided on and start getting excited about that college. If for some crazy reason you get off the wait list then you have a choice to make. I would be very surprised if the WL numbers look anything close to the last 2 years. They seem to be doing things differently this year.
Also for all, start looking and getting information about your other great college choices. If you get accepted then great. If you don’t then you have a head start learning about your other choices and it makes that transition much easier and seemless.
I’ll take a guess. The unknown of the admissions churn is like musical chairs. Someone gets into the Ivy League and notifies UMich they’re not coming. And then another student comes off the UMich waitlist. Big state schools, like Cal Berkeley do churn or go through their waitlist.
You can’t really compare UMich to MIT. MIT has a class size of around 1,100. UMich has a class size of 6,600-ish. Also, MIT is, well, MIT.