This is the official discussion thread for University of Michigan Class of 2029 RD applicants. Ask your questions and connect with fellow applicants.
Welcome to the RD thread for Michigan.
EA decisions will most likely be Jan 31 at 3:00 pm Eastern time. The reason that I mentioned that is everyone that isn’t accepted or denied will be put back into the RD pool automatically, as postponed. Enjoy. The water is warm. 
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At that point you are no longer considered EA. Even when you applied earlier.
February 1st is the RD deadline for those that didn’t apply EA.
Does EA applicants have an advantage in EA? Debatable.
Does everyone in EA get reviewed. Yes until proven otherwise.
Sometimes Michigan wants to see midterm grades before making a decision.
Do you need to write a Letter of interest if postponed. Debatable but I would. Michigan only started to do it since so many people wrote one anyway to their AO. But if showing interests counts, this is one such way. I would also do it sooner than later.
Only send information that Michigan specifically asks for. If they don’t ask for it, they don’t want it and it will just be put in a file unread.
To those applying for the first time by February 1st (don’t wait do it sooner. You make us parents kinda nervous), welcome. The above doesn’t apply to you.
For RD the decisions are in April.
The outcomes are Accepted, Denied or Wait listed. For wait listed you usually don’t find out until mid June or around.
Also Michigan is very tough to get into. Good time to start looking at Michigan but also look at other schools clubs, activities, culture. I would let go of having a “favorite” school. Have one that is a good fit and affordable. So many great colleges out there.
Some schools within Michigan have different requirements. If you applied to those you will know what those are.
Good luck.
Requirements & Deadlines | University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
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For Ross Business school applicants.
The “big” change was if your applying to Ross as a direct admit. If you don’t get accepted you can’t then apply to another school at Michigan. I personally don’t like this rule, since there are many opportunities to go into Business as a career that don’t involve Ross. This with some of the other direct admits schools will lead to an overall higher rejection rate instead of people being postponed to RD.
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Lastly for Ross…
Can you apply to Ross “after” getting accepted into another school at Michigan. Yes. But applying as a cross campus transfer is very challenging and competitive. They only take 100 students to make their 500 students total.
You have to take some common prerequisites also. You doing this at the end of your freshman year.
https://michiganross.umich.edu/undergraduate/bba/admissions/transfer-applicants
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This is being repeated from the EA thread for all you RD applicants.
So Michigan beat #2 OSU a few weeks ago being a 21 point underdog. Today, they just beat #11 Alabama and were a 17 point underdog without their 4 star player’s who 4 of them will be in the top 25 of the first round of the NFL draft. 2 in the top 7 possibly.
Why do I mention this?
At Michigan. Anything is possible. Leaders and Best. It’s really a real thing. Sometimes you have to just believe in yourself and bet on yourself when no one else does! This is what you will need when you attend Michigan. It’s a very difficult school. You will need your whole team to help you do thing’s you never thought were possible. Your team is your advisors, professors, study groups, graduate students, math /science /writing labs. Some of the best players(cough) … Students… Use them all the time.
No matter what school you end up at,make sure to use your team to reach your goals. Go Blue!
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From Inside and behind the numbers (Oct 19, 2023):
We admitted 818 applicants this year. This is lower than the 860 applicants we admitted in 2022. We admitted fewer in hopes of not over-enrolling our incoming class due to our high-yield rate. We seek to enroll a class of 500 first-year students, and last year, we enrolled 546. Thus, we decided to give fewer admission offers to get back to our target class of 500. Our yield formula worked, as we enrolled a class of 502 students this year.
I read that as the 500 do not include the 100 students who apply end of freshman year as a cross campus transfer. They hope to have 500 freshmen. 100 cross campus transfers are not coming in as freshman. How do you figure the 100 transfers are taken into account for the 500 Ross freshman?
I am not and will have to find out. It’s the freshman plus the 100 coming in later. I didn’t say the 100 were freshman. During the pandemic everything went south numbers wise. They now have control due to the pre admits.
So now that I am back home. It’s 500 for the freshmen class. Sophomore class is 625. Usually 100 cross campus from Ann Arbor I believe and 25 outside transfer students.
I hope that is more clear.
Yes, that makes sense. Originally, you had said “They only take 100 students to make their 500 students total.” My understanding is that they aim to have a freshman class of 500. The 100 cross campus transfers are admitted as sophomores. They likely have a few transfer out of Ross after first year, or transfer from Michigan to another college/university. So if Ross has a sophomore class of 625, it takes into account the cross campus transfers in, the transfers from other colleges/universities and those who transfer from Ross to another program or out of Michigan altogether.
I also believe that there will be fewer freshman applications to Ross this year (certainly less than than 9,000+ last year) given it is now direct admit. While the acceptance rate was just under 9% last year, this stat is sure to go up, given the number of direct admits will go down. Anecdotally I know several students from my high school who applied LSA instead of Ross, who would have applied to Ross last year. They were not 100% certain on business and also scared off by the Ross competition/felt they would have a better shot at LSA. Will be interesting to see how this pans out.
Totally agree. It will be interesting. But also… Lots of students go into business without a Ross degree at all. So depends what the end goal is
Moving over here now. Son was postponed today.
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Does an in-state applicant have a significantly greater chance of being accepted after being deferred than their oos counterpart?
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No one knows the answer, except admissions.
In-state acceptance rate is 39% (2023)
OOS acceptance rate is 14% (2023)
In-state yield is 76% (2023)
OOS yield is 34% (2023)
It’ll depend on the yield projection numbers over the course of the next 2+ months.
So if the in-state yield rate is a lot higher chances for in-state deferred students will most likely be higher?
First, remember, RD apps are due by 2/1. So all those applicants who were deferred are now in the RD pool.
Second, again, if their in-state yield rate is running higher than normal, then Michigan may be less likely to choose an applicant from their in-state RD pool. And vice versa.
Michigan typically attempts to achieve a freshman class with 52% from their in-state admissions, so it’ll depend on how those yield numbers are breaking down in late March.
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When do the first rounds of RD decisions come out? Do the deferred applicants have priority in getting decisions first or no? I’m sorry for all the questions and an grateful for all the help!
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They say early April. And, no unfortunately. They’ll treat the application now just like a RD application.