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<p>Actually, my essays and my recs both sucked. I figured that based on my stats, I would get in. Will that affect my chances any? I'm sure that I could convert into a wolverine eventually.</p>

<p>I suppose that those shortcomings may raise a red flag to the adcom (the recs. especially), but I really don't know how things work inside of the admissions office so don't take my word for it.</p>

<p>Maguo - you are simply incorrect in stating that UM lacks funding. It has the highest endowment of any (yes, read any) public university in the nation, and has double the endowment of Duke, and triple the endowment of Brown and Dartmouth (it is about equal to Penn's). It is double that of Cal Berkeley and UVa as well. I believe only Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn and MIT (and then Penn and MIT only slightly) have higher endowments (Harvard's is obscenely higher than anyone else's by billions and billions). </p>

<p>I might add that I went to Duke and am still involved with the school, and am absolutely confident in stating to you that Michigan is the equal to Duke and schools of that type for most programs of study (and even better in some respects, because the choice of majors is so vast). I am really glad my daughter has chosen UMich - and for the best of reasons - she was so impressed by a visit there - and the people she met - she feels there is no place better. Make your decision based on data that you can verify and check out yourself - and not on some "branding" perception - and certainly not on an inaccurate view of their funding and endowment. There is a reason UMich only receives 7% of its funding from the State of Mich - it has lots of $$ on its own. And by the way, UF is a fine school, but it is not in Michigan's league in terms of challenge and opportunity - a good deal, but not the same deal. Make the most of wherever you go.</p>

<p>Also, on the matter of funding, U-M isn't as poorly funded as the 7% figure might seem. That 7% is if you include the hospital budget, which is HUGE but isn't connected to the rest of the budget or to undergraduate education (so it wouldn't effect the average student).</p>

<p>Michigan will squeal about appropriations cuts, but it's in excellent shape to weather them given a number of factors, including its endowment and its research funding (which, through indirect cost recovery and other means, CAN impact undergraduate education). Sure, we'd like more money from the state, but we're hardly the impoverished, underfunded state university some may think!</p>

<p>Their "The Michigan Difference" campaign has raised almost $2 billion I think.</p>

<p>Okay, I give up. I guess UM would be a pretty cool place to go. There are adcoms on this site?</p>

<p>I do not believe there are Michigan adcoms on this site.</p>

<p>I figured that UM being such a large school, Adcoms won't really care to visit this site.</p>

<p>I wouldn't say that's the case.</p>

<p>hoedown, you work for Michigan, right?</p>

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<p>At this time of the year? You've got to be joking. Some of them may be too busy to read their morning newspapers ... but you never know, some people are addicted to the CC site 8^).</p>

<p>There is an adcom (benjones) on the MIT site. He leaves some very helpful comments from time to time, and avails himself to answer questions from the forum.</p>

<p>Well, its good that Benjones makes it obvious that he's an adcom. I'm just worried about some sly adcom here who's trying to trace me down. And Hoedown, do you work with UM in any way? Be honest.
And why do you say that adcoms won't be busy. I figure that UM has like 30,000 students, which means a ****load of applications.</p>

<p>Maguo, nobody on this forum will use what you write against you.</p>

<p>Alexandre did you get my PM?</p>

<p>So, does anybody know how UM will let me know if I'm in? Will they send me an email? Will it be posted on Wolverine access? Will I also know my finaid statement?</p>

<p>No risk of me being dishonest. I do work for Michigan. I am not an "adcom." I do not review or make individual decisions on students' applications, and even if I did I'd consider it ethically questionable to use what is said here to influence any admissions decision. </p>

<p>I wasn't arguing with the idea that adcoms are not busy. I didn't agree, however, with the assertion that adcoms "wouldn't care" to be here "because Michigan is so big." Perhaps I misunderstood your meaning. Yes, they are busy, but in my experience the admissions staff are quite interested to know what students' concerns and impressions are. I have at times shared information from here with officials, but never about individual students. It's more things like "word is out about targets being lower" or "students don't understand the Ross process." General impressions like that.</p>

<p>As for how you will be notofied, it is my understanding that the email notification system is now up and running--you will likely get an email before the mailed letter reaches you. Financial aid would be figured after you are admitted, so I'd expect that later. Luckily this year Michigan is using "Profile" so you can find out earlier. When they used FAFSA they wouldn't get the FAFSA data from the government until February. Profile data is available now.</p>

<p>Oh, was I supposed to submit the CSS? I better get my parents to do that. When I talk about adcoms on here, I just want to be sure that an adcom won't try to trace down my IP and all and figure out which application is mine.</p>

<p>If you want to paranoid, it wouldn't take IP logging. You've revealed enough of your academic profile that you could be readily tracked down in the admissions database.</p>

<p>But you shouldn't worry about that, because I can't imagine why anyone would think it was warranted. </p>

<p>If you admitted a murder, that might be a different story. But just slamming the school or its employees? I suspect most of us can keep that in perspective. LOL</p>

<p>You think that Lloyd Carr will let me waterboy? Or even Tommy Amaker?</p>

<p>I'll let you come do my family's laundry. How's that?</p>