<p>Yes, I'm waiting. I know a lot of people here can empathize with me.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering whether Michigan pulls this every year.</p>
<p>It's rude and inconsiderate. Students are expected to enroll somewhere by May 1. There are bigger schools and more selective schools, and I can't see any reason why Michigan isn't getting back to thousands of kids by a decent date.</p>
<p>Yes, they do. They get enough applications that they don’t care if you move on.</p>
<p>I know, it’s completely ridiculous, the wait is. They supposedly have these “rolling” admissions, but from what I can tell, they accept people mostly in December (early decision) and March (regular decision) and those who were deferred (like me, and I assume you) just have to wait. And wait. And wait. </p>
<p><em>Sigh</em></p>
<p>I was deferred too and it is a bummer to wait but the letter did say that they would let us know by mid April…I assume it will be a reject so have made other plans.</p>
<p>im pretty lucky to receive my decisions early apr cuz i applied feb 1… though there are some that got accepted in early march when they applied feb 1 as well…
i feel bad for u guys ~~ but hey, few more days, its over 
gluck!</p>
<p>in response to the OP’s question: yes, this happens every year…and that’s why many, many guidance counselors recommend that students who are deferred in December use that as a rejection and move on to other choices…in December…and if you really want to eliminate UMich from your list, some recommend withdrawing app after the deferral so you don’t “wait” until May…great advice IMO</p>
<p>there is no need for michigan to speed it up. It is just not cost efficient to do so. Michigan is not going to cry over some high school kids moving on because they got deferred, or get sick of waiting; nor are they going to care if you dont want to come here anymore. Michigan does not lose anything by you not coming, but you potentially do. </p>
<p>They have enough high caliber applicants to just replace you with equally qualified student. Just think about this from an economics point of view, what’s the incentive for michigan to take on the extra cost to speed up the process?</p>
<p>Michigan takes a long time in its decisions because they have a very meticulous admissions system. Its simply because they want to pick the best students. They will send out decisions at least a week before May so that you will have the chance to accept their/other schools decisions in a timely manner.</p>
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That’s very poor advice. Would you withdraw if you are deferred at your ED/EA schools? You should look at Michigan’s Early Response as another form of Early Action. I’ve known of several student getting in after being deferred at ER. And there are students reporting the same on CC.</p>
<p>I wasn’t deferred. I applied Nov. 7 to the LSA with a 31 ACT, top 10% class rank and a 4.1 GPA and everything else. I live in-state, so there are a lot of other kids at my school who are waiting. Only 1 of them was deferred in December. There’s more than a dozen of us waiting.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a bunch of kids with 27 ACTs and 3.5 GPAs from my school got accepted in December. I don’t get it.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that sometimes Michigan is really irrational with their admissions process, and they’ll accept crap students while rejecting better ones.</p>
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That’s incorrect. The first batch of decision came out around the second week of November. And I’ve seen students admitted pretty evenly from December through March (except for January).</p>
<p>Purple…if you are in-state I’m assuming you had the benefit of an invitation to a Michigan info night last summer? At that session (announced to anyone who’d expressed an interest in the school) the counselors made it abundantly clear that you needed to apply BEFORE Nov. 1 to hear Early Response and that if you applied any time after that date you could very likely wait until mid April to get a decision. (Unfortunately, you missed the ER deadline by a week!) If you were not given this information, you may wish to inform your guidance office so that your upcoming juniors can benefit from what must be a painful and frustrating wait for you.
While I appreciate your frustration, rest assured that Michigan is not likely to have accepted “crap” students and remember that “stats” are quantitative, NOT qualitative. MI performs a QUALITATIVE review.
Good luck!
Cheers,
K</p>
<p>I applied end of december for Preferred admit to Ross and I still haven’t heard back. I went on ‘Live Help’ available on the UMich website and the person told me that UMich was on its final stages of reviewing my application. </p>
<p>I don’t understand why it is on its FINAL stages of reviewing my application when every other university, including UT Austin which receives a large number of applications, has replied already.</p>
<p>To respond to the idea bearcats brought up a few posts above, we are applying to an educational institute, its first responsibilty lies towards its students. It is not a matter of what is economically effective but rather a matter of what is right and what is wrong. Not giving a student enough time and notice to decide which college is best for him/her is wrong, making students wait with NO update on their application is wrong. Sure UMich may have many others to replace students but the ideology with UMich is currently following is wrong and if not corrected, it surely has the potential of serious future problems for UMich.</p>
<p>Bearcats, that remark was impolite, unnecessary, and quite frankly wrong.</p>
<p>Michigan does not have to cater to the needs of a few students, but that does not mean students who apply should have to wait until late april to get their decisions. May 1st is a reasonable time to require deposits, but that is because most decisions are given in early April. </p>
<p>As for Michigan not caring about students who decide to move on? That may be true, but the part about the university “losing nothing” by students deciding to move on… that’s just ridiculous. The fact of the matter is there are better universities out there that give decisions earlier, and there are excellent students that decide not to go to Michigan because of the ridiculous wait time. A top notch university like Michigan should be able to comply with standard application considerations (Early April??).</p>
<p>The valedictorian at our school (whose #1 choice was Michigan) was wait listed by Cornell, accepted by Stanford, Princeton, and UVA, and still has not received her decision from Michigan. Needless to say, she’s moved on to a better school more considerate of the applicants’ short decision time (Deciding between Stanford and Princeton). Several students at my school who have good enough applications to be admitted still haven’t received their decisions.</p>
<p>LOL Ahmedkokar. Your valedictorian is chosing between Stanford and Princeton, and isn’t even going to UVA! Don’t you think Michigan knew they had no chance of getting him/here? I’ll agree that Michigan needs to work on the speed of it’s admission notification setup, just as soon as you agree that UVA is inferior in engineering.</p>
<p>So sorry for not being clear; our guidance counselors recommend moving on if UMich is not at the top of your “list”…if you want to wait until the middle to latter end of April to wait, that’s your choice; many, many kids around here were accepted to higher ranked (better fit) schools WAY before that time so eliminating Umich when deferred makes logical sense…</p>
<p>finally, and this is my last post on this thread (because I didn’t mean to start a rant, but only to answer the OP’s Q), around here, we have not had one student deferred and then accepted in five years…so that also leads to the GC’s recommendation…</p>
<p>and as I have posted many times over the last year or so, many deferred here last year ended up at Ivies and top 20 schools…easy to say bye, bye to Umich looking at our Naviance plots…</p>
<p>Why would anyone “move on” if they’ve paid to apply for admission? My daughter has been accepted to schools higher on her wish list, so the chances that she’d choose UMich are virtually nil, but I feel as if I paid to have the school consider her application, so I want to see what they come up with, even if it takes until late April.</p>
<p>Do you get your application fee back if they don’t answer by May 1? That would be only fair, to my mind…</p>
<p>This is yet another reason why, I will never apply to Michigan.</p>
<p>“around here, we have not had one student deferred and then accepted in five years…so that also leads to the GC’s recommendation…”</p>
<p>I don’t know where you are from, but it happened with quite a few others that I know just last year.</p>