in the EA thread, someone spoke with admissions and was told we should all know by next friday.
out of curiosity, has anyone in california been deferred then accepted? I haven’t heard of anyone in socal, we’ve had some deferral then rejections at my school but no acceptances apart from ea so far
@petersja I was deferred then accepted, from NorCal though.
congrats bud, its weird i havent heard of anyone from my region, cant tell if good or bad sign
@smilelikeabunny if you dont mind me asking what do i look for in wolverine access when my decision does come?
@petersja Under “application status” next to the “view application data” and “view credentials” links, there should be an additional link that says “view decision.” Wish you the best! 
@smilelikeabunny appreciate it my friend. hopefully i’ll see you on campus next year!
Is the financial aid glitch true? anyone with 2015 and not 2016? Hi5 if yes
Son has 2016 in the financial aid year - don’t know what it was before
There’s no FA glitch. I’m pretty sure we all have 2016.
I can confirm that everyone has 2016 for the financial aid year, including accepted students and those still waiting to hear.
Has anyone heard back today? When is the next batch going out?
no, I am thinking next Friday.
I agree. Last year they all went out during the last week of March. This Friday will probably be the big day for all of us.
You guys think some of us will hear back this friday?
I asked privately on tumblr and they said that they’re doing one more big batch of responses and it’s possible it’ll be before April, but there’s no set date. So it’ll be all of us or none by the sounds of it. Do you guys think it’s unlikely it’ll go out this Friday if they don’t have a set date yet?
It’s not that they don’t have an idea when they will release decisions, it’s a matter of their own confidence to finish a batch. I’m sure they have a date planned out, they just don’t want anything to go wrong and then have to announce a delay. This Friday really seems like a strong bet though.
Good luck to you all.
Haven’t they done this before? Do they have professionals working in admissions? How do all the other schools manage to deal with this, so much more efficiently?
It would be ludicrous to keep applicants, especially those that applied EA, waiting beyond 3/31!
@adkdad , it’s interesting you should ask (rhetorically), “haven’t they done this before”?, because, based on this year’s admissions cycle, they appear to be flailing…They knew going in that the last two years they had too many freshmen…yet there response to that was not to analyze the data (there must be a ton), build a few models, and then project, for example, how many students they needed to reduce their acceptances by. Instead, they deferred a ton of EA students, essentially pulling the rug out from under not only the EA applicants, but also guidance offices around the country. Surely they knew what percent of EA students typically accept (as opposed to play the Ivy wait and see/UM is my safety school game). They knew they needed to reduce acceptances, and instead of doing it top down in terms of just reducing the overall number, they pushed a ton of EA applicants into the RD pool…then asked students to pitch themselves again (letter of burning desire)…not right considering many of these students already put themselves out there (the Why Michigan supplement)…and it’s Admissions job to read between the lines, and make the call on who is serious, who is not…they have way more data than students, guidance offices, etc. and it’s their JOB. Compounding this is their duplicitous statements and irregular release of decisions (some RD students got in with the first EA release, they have rarely given a straight answer on their admissions tumblr, and many of their posts have been tone deaf to the anxiety these poor kids are experiencing). The least they can do at this point is set a date for the release…almost every other school has one (CMU sent out an email to all applicants stating their decision date yesterday). What is clear is that their admissions office is broken (they have an interim director) and they need to fix it fast…at this point one has to wonder what this years incoming freshman class is actually going to look like, but I won’t be surprised if their average test scores and GPA decline…they’ve made such a hash of things, many students are now turned off.
Do you think the majority will be rejections?