so if I was deferred and haven’t heard back since December, but other kids in my grade have (on both febuary first and march first) are the odds that I’m not getting in…?
also, because it’s a state school, does demonstrated interest matter? i never had a chance to visit but i would go if i was accepted!
@chrys1 I agree with you one hundred percent, but don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. Keep your application active. You deserve an answer.
@billscho, you seem to have extensive information on the University of Michigan and was wondering where you are getting your statistics?
In part, (because there are way too many random statistics quoted) please explain:
“Around half of the RD admission are from the deferred applicants.”
“The fact is they have admitted the target number of students in EA”.
As we are all anxiously awaiting admissions information, please advise as to the origin of the above.
@billscho So whats the scoop on more Ross decisions? Should I change my name to @givinguphope?
@JohnGaltIII
Perhaps not EA rejections, but batches of rejections along the way with the acceptances they roll out. I could be wrong, but I am under the impression that most (not all) programs at Michigan have not sent out rejections. They must have a VERY big pile of rejections that could have gone out already and thus put some students back on a track to another school. With 70,000 applicants they are giving false hope to those that will be rejected and in turn will probably be angry in the end. Not good for Michigan.
@billcsho
I understand UofM wants all to be patient, and that they are living up to their promised timeline. I think what most are saying is that the timeline needs some tweaking.
Berkeley released just now
Has anyone’s “view decision” tab dissapeared?
@UMichparent17 Indeed, I don’t think having most of the admission notices released way ahead of the deadline would give people more false hope than the single release date in late March or early April like other schools. For the other schools, the applicants to be rejected also have false hope until the rejection notice. The earlier release of admission should actually lower the false hope of the other students still pending a result. Again, the common goal for the school and the students is admission. You only make decision based on the admission offered not the rejection received. Again, the earlier release of admission would actually help the students to plan for admitted student visit. For schools that have only RD admission release in late March, for sure they will need to have the admitted student visit scheduled in a daily base. UMich just spread it out over a month as they have most of the RD admission release before early March.
I agree that mid April notice guarantee is late. Perhaps what people really want is to move the schedule a week or two earlier.That may mean moving the RD application deadline to mid January. I don’t see the early release of admission notice should be blamed.
This is exhausting! UM is only trying to protect its yield. It is not fair to have these kids wait and if they do end up getting in they have no time to revisit the campus. Admissions hasn’t sent an email or even tweeted words of encouragement. @billscho You seem to defend UM no matter what - can you not appreciate the stress this is causing. Even if they are releasing April 15 can’t they just announce that?
@NJMom123 1. Half of the RD applications were deferred from EA and by counting the number of responses in this forum. 2. From difference sources locally.
@billcsho
if we havent heard back yet does that mean well get rejected?
@billcsho People arent blaming the early release. Respectfully I think you’re missing the point. Most students aren’t on this page. As a parent I haven’t been here in weeks. The kids are in their schools with other kids who have heard and are going to visit days and who are wearing their sweatshirts. I’m guessing youve forgotten this phase. The unfair part is having such a deep lag between waves. And also having such a late guaranteed date. I personally am a fan of the schools giving a set date to release them all at once. We knew RPI would release on a certain date… Then everyone just knew it once and didn’t have to keep checking portals. The other schools that did it in way did it close together so at least students only had to wait days between the first student learring and the last. The University of Washington said all decisions would be released between March 1st and March 15th. In reality I believe they came out on the 10th through the 12th. But it was clearly communicated and it was a nice surprise when they were out slightly before the 15th. And it gives the students who were accepted plenty of time to visit and evaluate before the May one commitment date. As another poster commented I believe the timeline needs tweaking but also the communication of it. Nowhere on their website does it say that decisions will be released in waves up to 3 months apart, or beginning in Jan The “wave” talk all comes from this website and from people like you who have gleaned it from watching the process over years. Most students again are not on this website. The lack of transparency in the timing of the release leads to all these rumors and needless anxiety. I think we can all agree they could do better than this.
My “view decision” link (which has been there since the EA decisions were released) is still there.
My link is still there
Still a bit early for disappearing links. It usually happens around 8:30 pm EST, if it happens at all.
@NWhummingbird I would imagine it is tougher in Michigan schools where kids have wanted to go to Michigan since birth and wore UM rompers as babies seeing mates get in as they suffer week after week. In my case, my kid researched schools and UM had a lot of what they wanted. There had been a lot of folks from his school attend and say great things about UM in previous years. My kid is still interested in UM and wants to wait before making a decision but he has gotten into some other schools that also have great programs.
Umich is almost the same cost as schools like WashUSTL, Rice, USC and others for OOS. It is too bad they treat their applicants worse.
As to my sources on the EA applications not all being read, one is on staff at Ford at Michigan.
Rejected by Duke, hoping for some gud news from Mich
My D rejected from berekely and Duke, is michigan expected today?
@whoomst This year you can really say it is not you , it is them. Marketing by many of the Top 40 schools to increase applications so they can brag about lowest acceptance rate and scared kids applying to ten and more schools has led to increases in applications at most of the top schools. There is no way these school scan screen as holistically as they would like and there is no way they do not miss on a LOT they let in and a lot they leave out.