<p>I know that applying early in the rolling admissions process was an advantage before, but now that Michigan has changed to early action do you think that advantage still exists? Also, do you guys think that switching to the common app will make the competition a lot higher? Do you expect the acceptance rate to drop as well? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m pretty sure early will still definitely be an advantage. The acceptance rate will probably drop, not sure how much though. I think the competition will be a little higher, but I don’t think there will be a huge increase.</p>
<p>Please correct me if I’m wrong as I am not up to date. Other users have been saying Michigan will still go by rolling admissions so applying early is still an advantage. You can also apply ED/EA to other schools. Switching to the common app will increase the number of applications. acceptance rate will drop I am unsure about competitiveness. Maybe they will get a lot more students with the average stats applying.</p>
<p>I have never understood why anyone thinks that the number of applications will increase just because Michigan began using the Common Application. Adding in the Michigan Supplement to the Common App, are there fewer essays than last years app? Why would using the Common App decrease the difficulty or increase the number of completed applications? BTW - didn’t Michigan also increase their application fee and tuition rates this year? Will that have any effect on the number of applicants?</p>
<p>^ I suspect there are two reasons people make this assumption. #1. I believe there is some kind of statistic floating around out there that suggests every college that joined the common app experienced a substantial increase in the number of applications, especially over the first two years. Can’t site the source, but know at some point I read something authoratative-feeling along these lines. #2. Michigan does not exactly spend gobs of money on targeted marketing, and spends very little on national campaigns compared to private (loosely) peers such as USC. By virtue of being listed on the common app, I suspect a greater number of seniors from OOS will consider Michigan, rightly or wrongly, as an Ivy safety. Students applying to ivies will enjoy the convenience of not having to complete another entirely independent online application. Eg. Chicago experienced a substantial increase in applications after switching to the common app, I believe, even though the supplement was just as in-depth. So I think there is a lot to be said for “top of mind” and “one-stop-shopping”.
Just my thoughts on it. We’ll see soon enough if it holds true.</p>
<p>^^
You may be correct. However. considering how UMs total number of applicants has been steadily (rapidly?) increasing each year before they switched to the Common App, it may be difficult to discern if another increase should be attributed to the Common App or just the “usual” increase. Perhaps reviewing the percentage of increase on only the OOS applicants (where UM is not as highly recognized) might be more telling.</p>
<p>40k apps at least, i think for this year.</p>
<p>I’m so glad Michigan switched. Too many unqualified students have been admitted previously.</p>
<p>^^
The Common App is going to change this how?</p>
<p>it will simply offer a larger applicant pool, i don’t think this will affect the instate pool as much as the out of state pool. I just hope they know how to manage yield correctly. I actually think Michigan should make the early action binding, it will help with yield management.</p>
<p>^At the end of the day it still has to function as the michigan state flagship school. Making ED the early option is not in their best interest.</p>
<p>I doubt the common app will change the instate applications rates all that much. The OSS costs are high enough that it somewhat limits who applies. It’s already abit of a lottery school for high need OSS kids with borderline stats with regard to financial aid potential.</p>
<p>Also, if applying early action, how many of your senior grades are even seen in making an admission decision?</p>
<p>None, unless you are deferred and they ask to see 7th semester grades. All of your grades are seen, and you may be revoked admission if you decide to slack off after you get that acceptance, but no senior grades are seen in making an admission decision (usually).</p>
<p>aren’t early action and early response basically the same thing? i mean i was reading on michigan’s website about “the change to early action,” and i thought it was the same policy and thing as last year.</p>
<p>Early action is basically the same thing as Early Response. The change may impact the ability to apply elsewhere SCEA. I think the change was made primarily to conform the choices provided in the common app.</p>
<p>With early action, they’ve expressed that they would be starting to hand out admissions decisions in early November, then continue with decisions on a rolling basis until the deadline for a decision. With early response, it seemed to be that people were getting admissions decisions as early as mid/late September.</p>
<p>Any ideas on if it’s ACTUALLY early November at the earliest for a decision?</p>
<p>Sounds reasonable to me. Even in years past kids who got their apps in late in Spetember for the most part didin’t hear anything for 4-6 weeks. If they hang onto some notifications and start releasing on a targeted date in November makes sense to me. It’s somewhat how they’ve operated in years past dribbling out letters in November and December for their other early response initiative. They’ve probably just tweaked their process slightly and changed the name. It will make the kids sitting here in mid-December crazy but that’s not “new” either.</p>
<p>Now that we’ve all submitted apps, I was just wondering anymore thoughts?
(Bump)</p>
<p>on the commonapp umich page, it says “Downloaded: 11/02/2010”</p>
<p>i submitted my app around 8:00pm yesterday. did i miss the deadline?</p>