<p>if yes, how much?</p>
<p>University</a> of Michigan - Office of Undergraduate Admissions</p>
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Will an application for Early Response be reviewed differently than an application submitted for Rolling Admission?
No. All applications are reviewed using the same guidelines – we will not be awarding priority in the review of an application simply because it was completed in time for Early Response. Check out our admissions process page for more information regarding how applications are reviewed.
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<p>So the answer is no. The purpose of Early Response:</p>
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The primary goal of implementing an Early Response deadline is to give students a guaranteed decision date. For students who look at Michigan as one of their top-choice schools, a decision of admit, defer, or deny before the end of December allows the student to plan accordingly.
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<p>You send in your app by Oct 21st and get a response by Dec 21st.</p>
<p>The answer is 1000x yes.</p>
<p>People who applied before the ER deadline at my HS = mega high acceptance rate.</p>
<p>People who applied after = 0% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>However, that is among in state people, for OOS people it appeared that many very very good candidates were deferred to the regular pool.</p>
<p>^ I agree that it demonstrates interest.. but if you read Michigan's page on ER, they repeat over and over that the purpose is to offer a set response date and not to increase the chance of getting in.</p>
<p>colleges tend to lie as well. i saw that on their website, but i want to know what happens in real.</p>
<p>My point is what reality was -</p>
<p>3.5 GPA (about 14th %ile) 26 ACT no sports = in ER (heavily involved in Spanish club though, and did deserve to get in IMO)
3.75 GPA (about 7th %ile, but only 1 AP total) 28 ACT some EC's = in ER</p>
<p>3.7 GPA (10th %ile, 10 APs) 34 ACT pretty solid EC's = waitlist non-ER
3.75 GPA (about 7th %ile) 30 ACT decent EC's = reject non-ER</p>
<p>This is in-state though.</p>
<p>^ interesting......four candidates don't represent the whole population pool though</p>
<p>There are more examples at my school, but no, that isn't the whole population. The majority of ER people were well qualified, and I don't have a problem with any of the people that got in. My problem lies with the people who applied after the ER deadline and didn't get in.</p>
<p>Most definitely. Since UMich is rolling, the earlier you apply the better! Especially because of the large class sizes these two years, competition will be fierce. I applied on the very last day I could (Feb 1). Bad decision! My rejection letter said UMich couldn't offer me admission b/c they didn't have enough space, not b/c I wasn't qualified.</p>
<p>Yeah, it definitely helps to apply early.</p>
<p>From what I've heard my HS is the same as DSC: everyone who applied early got in and everyone who applied rolling got waitlisted, and this is at an elite OOS public HS.</p>
<p>Our high school, everyone who applied ER was deferred and then, subsequently, waitlisted....Competitive NJ Public.....Top Gpa's, Top Class ranks, top SAT's/ACT's</p>
<p>yeah most schools lie though about their application processes, for example tufts has repeatedly said that they do not have "tufts syndrome" although evidence might say otherwise..</p>
<p>Wait, if I apply ED to another school, can I still apply ER to UMich?</p>
<p>^i dont htink so..</p>
<p>wmmk, I could be wrong, but I believe that ED doesn't prohibit you from applying to other schools; it just requires you to withdraw all your other applications if you get accepted to your ED school. So as long as you haven't been accepted ED yet, that's perfectly acceptable.</p>
<p>But again, I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Definitely helps. I was a low reach applicant, applied late, and got waitlisted(pretty logical). However a girl in my grade, who got into: Stern, CMU, Georgetown, also got waitlisted cause she applied really late(late january). Whereas I was reading about someone with a 29 ACT who got in early.</p>
<p>So yeah, applying early does help. Go look at UM threads, there are hundreds of kids with 2100+ SAT's and decent GPA's who got waitlisted for applying late.</p>
<p>Like 53% of the incoming class has UW 3.9 or higher, though. (23% has a 4.0)</p>
<p>from my experience this year, if you don't apply by the oct 31st early response deadline, your chances of getting admitted are extremely low. I'm not sure how it is out of state, but thats how it is for in state. </p>
<p>actually now that i think about it, i don't know of anyone who was accepted who applied after the oct 31st deadline. Several of my friends with 3.8-3.9 GPA's (at an full IB diploma school, so 3.8-3.9 is pretty hard...) with many EC's/leadership and high test scores were all waitlisted who didn't apply ER, while several of my other friends with 3.3-3.4 GPA's (downward trend too..) few EC's/leadership, and mediocre test scores were all accepted who applied by the ER deadline. </p>
<p>if you want to go to michigan, my advice would be to apply as early as possible. Otherwise, you've just made it much harder on yourself.</p>
<p>I live in ann arbor and 20% of my school ends up going to michigan. From what I'm seeing so far, definitely apply early. It is not binding so you can do early decision at another school. (I know several students who got in Early action with 3.6-7, and many students with 3.8-9 that got waitlisted regular)</p>