<p>so does ANYONE get rejected or how does this work?</p>
<p>by the way what triggers email 4/4, if i got 3/4 and my school just sent in the transcript yesterday, does anyone know when like Ill be able to plug in the UMID and a password i guess and check this mysterious "WA"?? is all this stuff on email 4/4?? Thanks!</p>
<p>bump. has anyone else heard?</p>
<p>has anyone responded to their offer and paid 200?</p>
<p>From what I know, nobody has recieved decisions since Tuesday. Additionally it's unlikely/impossible they'd release decisions on a weekend (since they don't work)</p>
<p>I am going to wait and see what my financial aid package looks like before I accept my admission. Hopefully Ill get a scholarship or something.</p>
<p>do you think there are gonna be some released tomorrow?</p>
<p>My application was just completed today. How long should a decision take?</p>
<p>it might take a while...my app was totally complete on oct 26...and I dont have a decision yet...so you might need to wait for december...</p>
<p>do you really think more desicions will be released this week,my app was also complete on the 26th , should i be hearing soon?</p>
<p>oct 26 was not even 3 weeks ago. unless you are superior (i stress superior) candidate, don't expect a decision for a while.</p>
<p>well mine was complete on the 18th and i got accepted last tuesday. so you never know......you might be getting it in the next couple weeks.</p>
<p>The reason that some people were accepted so quickly (i.e. kmys007) was that UMich was in a rush to release as many admissions decisions as possible before Proposal 2 passed, so they'd have a legitimate court case against the state for being forced to admit applicants under two different standards.</p>
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<p>That may help U-M in its request to forestall changes in the admissions procedure. (Assuming a judge buys it. I wouldn't--I'd say U-M is already going to have a student body accepted under differing standards, so what difference does it make if it has a single class accepted under different standards? Don't get me wrong, I'd be happier if their argument worked, but I don't think it's persuasive. Not that my opinion counts.)</p>
<p>But what I really wanted to point out is that you can't say that's the reason why people who applied early were accepted early. Not the only one. U-M has been accepting people in October and early November for years and years, even in years when there was not some pre-election "rush" of any kind.</p>
<p>hoedown, forgive me for being cynical but the fact that the first batch of admissions decisions was released on election day was no coincidence. I think it is obvious that Prop 2 played a very significant role in the timing of the initial round of decisions. Add to that the fact that a URM received a UM merit scholarship with his admissions packet on November 7, a scholarship that would now be deemed to be illegal under Prop 2, and you can see the pattern.</p>
<p>I'm not saying that UM did anything wrong, I'm just saying that the substantial impact of Prop 2 is everywhere in the admissions process. I can just imagine the panic in the UM admissions office when the computer problems arose. "Oh no, not this year of all years. We HAVE to get some of these decisions, and all URM based scholarships, out by 11/7."</p>
<p>First of all, the Proposition 2 prohibitions are not immediately effective, so November 7 was not a magic date that UM had to make to admit URMs and secondly, you don't know that the reported scholarship to the "URM" had anything to do with his race or gender. You are just jumping to that conclusion. Perhaps he or she merited a scholarship for his achievements.</p>
<p>See my scholarship thread, fredmar, more info on that URM there</p>
<p>fredmar, I suggest you go to the UM website and listen to Mary Sue Coleman's speech which can be found on the home page. It had EVERYTHING to do with Prop 2. She discusses that U of M is suing to not be forced into using two different standards in one admissions cycle - pre 11/7 and post 11/7.</p>
<p>Prop2. does not become law for 45 days after passage so until it becomes law U of M can (and legally probably only option) continue to use old admission process.</p>
<p>This stuff is going to be very messy - in a sense a University lays out in it's prospectus it's broad admission policies and criterion ... so unless and until they come out with a new one what else are they going to use ? Also students tailor their responses to those policies or even their decisions on whether or not to apply to a certain school. In a practical sense at least for this year it seems to me that the only logical thing is to stick with the old approach.</p>
<p>Maybe so many people got admitted so that they could build a better case for SBDad's reason.</p>
<p>I smell conspiracy. I hope the university is not sacrificing quality applicants for something as ridiculous as AA...</p>
<p>mearcat1, can you direct me to a website that says that Prop 2 does not become law for 45 days after passage. I'm not disagreeing with you, but I can't subsantiate that anywhere I've looked. And UM is sure acting like it came into effect immediately.</p>