@BreakfastClub1 My son’s waitlist message is different than yours:
Thank you for your application to the University of Michigan College of Engineering. After an individualized and comprehensive review of your application and all related materials, a decision has been made. We regret that we are not able to offer you a place in our upcoming class at this time. However, you have been placed on a waitlist. Should an opening become available, you will be notified immediately. If no openings are available, you will hear from us by the end of June.
Thank you, @Knowsstuff. I think waitlists are managed at the college level (LAS, CoE, etc.) and consequently there may be different messages. Therefore, I don’t think the message itself matters much. There is no good or bad waitlist message.
@ReyDad… It is what it is… Very slim chance of getting off it so get excited about the opportunities you can control. If you happen to get an acceptance letter in June then you will just have another choice to make.
I’m one of the people who hasn’t heard back yet, but it honestly seems that there’s two possible things that this could indicate and neither are bad: Either they haven’t gotten to our application yet (we know they had a record number of applications this year) or they’re on the fence about whether to accept/waitlist us. If they weren’t sure whether to waitlist/reject us it seems likely they’d just waitlist us and come back later as anyone they have “doubts” about or need to think about more go on the waitlist. Overall, I doubt this shows that we have more of a chance of being rejected simply because if they were going to reject us, they would’ve done it in the last wave where it seemed like EVERYONE was getting rejected.
We went to Campus Day today. The admissions office said they had over 40,000 early action applications & over 65,000 total this year. I think they mentioned the freshman class would be around 6600. I could have misheard, but last year’s class was 6700 so that is in line. With those numbers, approximately 50,000 students will not be accepted.
That’s so hard to comprehend. From reading all of your stats - Michigan had SO many qualified applicants, but they can only accommodate a small fraction. Good luck to everyone! May you all find that perfect college fit even if it wasn’t what you first imagined.
Not sure if anybody else has said this, but I called the admissions office yesterday and the woman told me that decisions will be released all throughout mid-April. I also haven’t received my decision yet.
I was rejected Thursday night to the school of kinesiology after being deferred
OOS Female
30 ACT
4.0 GPA uw
Valedictorian
4 year varsity athlete
decent extracurriculars
Lots of volunteer hours
(apparently not so) great essays
Not offered waitlist, just rejected.
Was told yesterday that at the very latest, I could hear back by April 15th, but they were trying to get all decisions out by the end of this week. So I’d say plan to hear by this week