When my son was a freshman at Michigan 6 years ago, the Freshman dorms filled throughout June and mid-July, as housing applications were processed and WL students came off the waitlist. So it is possible you will still have campus housing even if you come off WL in mid-summer.
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My child was accepted off the WL several years ago and had no problem getting on-campus housing and ended up in a good dorm on Central Campus.
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You should mentally and logistically move on and accept an offer of admission from another school sometime before the May 1 deadline. If you do get off the waitlist at Michigan or elsewhere, it is fine to accept that offer, then tell the school where you had enrolled that you are withdrawing. You may lose your enrollment deposit (a few schools will refund it, but most do not), but otherwise there is nothing wrong or unexpected about doing so.
Colleges understand that they will see some people change their minds after accepting admission. Michigan will lose a few for the same reason. The only thing that you cannot do it double deposit at multiple schools. That is unethical and could lead to one of the schools rescinding the offer of admissions. What I am describing â backing out after getting off of a waitlist elsewhere â is a different situation.
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Keep your options open if you want Michigan. Youâll need to commit somewhere else in May, but if Michigan comes through in June, and you prefer that, then thatâs how things work. When a student withdraws from a school where he/she has committed after deliberately accepting to 2 schools - well thatâs a different matter.
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They offer a winter cohort for waitlisted Kines. Highly recommend if offered to accept. Looks like a great program. OOS daughter got in last year for Winter 2024 but ended up taking classes at local state school and got in as a transfer for Fall 2024.
My hypothesis is that Michigan doesnât want to antagonize a large pool of highly qualified people who might want to apply for graduate school later.
The problem with my hypothesis is that the vast majority of the students who were rejected are also highly qualified students who would have thrived at Michigan if given the opportunity.
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thanks! does michigan always release decisions in june or do they do it whenever they review your application?
Pretty sure Michigan accepts off of its wait list (1) in May after accepted students decline Michiganâs offer of admission (May), or (2) when students who have previously committed to Michigan then withdraw after being accepted off another, preferred schoolâs wait list. Itâs a chain reaction.
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They have already reviewed your application. Being waitlisted means that they evaluated your application but decided not to admit you to the school during regular decision.
There will be waitlist movement if and when Michigan determines that they will not yield enough students from the group to whom they did extend offers of admission during EA and RD.
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S24 was waitlisted for engineering. My S23 was also WL for Ross. Congrats to everyone admitted - Michigan is a fantastic school that produces great grads. You should all be proud of yourselves.
For the rest, youâll all find your own great school outside of Ann Arbor. Itâs not meant for or meant to be for everyone and thatâs ok.
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goodness this is so stressful. probably like everyone else on WL, i wish i knew straight up if i got in or not 
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EA Deferred
RD waitlist
S24 Kinesology OOS
Accepted 8 other great schools but now deciding between
USCali or Ohio State
and will stay on wait-list for UMich
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Being waitlisted is indeed its own form of torture.
It is easy for me to tell you to mentally move on, but I totally appreciate that it is a much harder thing to do when a school was your first choice.
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Waitlist OOS with a 1460 SAT (770EBRW, 690M) and 4.7 GPA. UCSB it is!!
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Interesting. I donât know they offered that to my kid, but would have to consider that.
Accept your spot on the WL, and then fall in love with one of the schools that accepted you.
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I agree with this advice but as someone with 6 waitlists (including a longtime dream school) itâs a bit difficult to get the potential admission off of my mind. Iâll take a waitlist over a rejection any day but the uncertainty is what kills me. Feels like the waiting for a decision process all over again, but I guess this time I got some minor validation (that I passed the initial âthresholdâ) to kick it off. I am trying my best to mentally move on from all 6 for now, though.
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S24 accepted engineering
1580
4.0 UW 4.7 W
NMF
Strong Astro ecs
Dad is alum so thatâs nice but from Cali so sticker price is too high
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Does anyone know if itâd be beneficial (or even possible) to submit 2 additional LORs to Michigan? I have one from a senior year math teacher and rowing coach that Iâd like to add for some extra info but I donât know if for 1 itâs even possible.
What this doesnât say or tell is that there are large % of people who never cancel their WL after accepting another spot (never plan on going but want to get admitted)
So Iâm betting they reach out to offer admits to greater number than that
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