<p>It seems like everyone that applied EA either got accepted or deferred. Did anyone actually get rejected? If not it seems like a deferral is fairly meaningless for most people.</p>
<p>doesn’t seem like anyone did. Has anyone heard of any rejections?</p>
<p>On the UM website, it was mentioned that a rejection [in addition to an acceptance or a deferral] was possible, however I have not heard of a single rejection. But a rejection is obviously very possible for an applicant who was deferred from the EA pool and placed into the RD pool.</p>
<p>I would guess that there may have been some rejections but likely not posters who are on these forums who, in general, are well qualified.</p>
<p>Let’s see… 17,000+ applied EA and how many posted on CC?</p>
<p>people don’t tend post rejections I guess</p>
<p>GoBlue- Maybe 100-150, but it’s still a sample of the total. Do you trust political polls because the percentage participating is about the same as this. I don’t think there were.</p>
<p>We live in Ann Arbor. I personally know of two people rejected (applied to Engineering). In both cases the result wasn’t a surprise.</p>
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That’s a difference. You are more likely to give an answer if you are asked (like in exit polls or phone surveys). Besides, as edwinh pointed out, people don’t tend to post rejections.</p>
<p>Look at it logically. There are more than 10,000 who were not admitted during the EA round; admissions will have to re-evaluate ALL the deferred at certain time during the regular round. Why would they want to do that for the clear rejects?</p>
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I know of several early round rejections last year. Why would this year be any different?</p>
<p>We have not heard of anyone in our neighborhood (NY suburb) that has been rejected - even those that are clearly not qualified - I’m not sure what’s going on this year but it’s not right to give someone false hopes when there are thousands that are deferred - what is the point of early action if most applicants are being considered RD</p>
<p>I wish if some of you know of rejections you will update us.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of any actual rejections yet?</p>
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Read post #8.</p>
<p>I don’t trust the people that say they know someone who was rejected because they may just take a deferral as a rejection. We still haven’t had one single person on this whole forum say they were rejected so I have to believe that there were none.</p>
<p>if you go back throught the old desicions thread for EA there are some rejections… not many but a few…</p>
<p>I agree with eziamm- I don"t trust - “a friend was rejected” - no opne has actually said they have been rejected from what I saw.</p>
<p>The two cases I know of were out-right rejections. In both cases the applicants had applied to Engineering. In both cases I have strong reason to believe that statistically they were well below the 25th%-tile for the overall University, much less Engineering. Neither applicant possessed any of the classic “hooks”. As I said, given that Michigan Engineering has an average admitted GPA around 3.8 with standardized test scores consistent with that sort of GPA, it wasn’t shocking to hear these two students had been rejected.</p>
<p>I agree that in this first year of the new admissions regimen Michigan seems to be very reluctant to reject applicants in the EA round. That said, I suspect that there are more than a few out there who have been rejected because they never had any realistic chance of acceptance; whether they’re members of CC or why they don’t want to post their results I couldn’t begin to say. Personally I don’t see how knowing that some people were or weren’t rejected in EA changes a deferred candidates acceptance outlook.</p>
<p>around these parts, for the past few years, students have been instructed by their guidance counselors to consider a deferral from UMich in EA as a rejection for all intensive purposes; Nobody has been accepted in the RD round after a deferral since records have been kept…even with straight “A” midyear grades in all AP courses and above 75% ACT/SAT scores…</p>
<p>surprisingly, though, there have been RD acceptances outright with lower stats for some unusual situations like legacies…</p>
<p>that being said, this year is different…there may have been rejections…but that doesn’t change the above point…</p>
<p>^Actually, the evidence on past years of this thread would suggest differently. Several deferred students were later accepted, although I think it would be fair to say the “majority” were either ultimately rejected or wait-listed.</p>
<p>Personally I don’t see how knowing that some people were or weren’t rejected in EA changes a deferred candidates acceptance outlook. </p>
<p>The reason it is helpful to know if there were any out right rejections is to know if everyone who wasn’t accepted was just deferred or if some actually were weeded out</p>