Is there any early action policy for UMich?? I know for some schools, you can’t apply to any other ED or EA schools if you apply EA??
UMich has no EA restrictions that I’m aware of in terms of other schools. It’s the other school’s policies that may or may not restrict where else you can apply.
It’s not restrictive early action or single-choice early action. It’s just good-old-fashioned early action. Don’t be surprised if it results in a deferral. Most EA applicants to Michigan are deferred. Not because admissions officers read the application and decided the student wasn’t strong enough for an EA admittance, but because they do not even get around to reading a large proportion of the EA applications. They get too many.
Of course, Michigan emphatically denies not reviewing every EA application.
That might be true for the first couple years when Michigan adopted EA. I understand U-M admissions was caught surprised by the volume of applications that first year. But I’d expect them to build up their staffing accordingly.
Do you have any data pointing to admissions leaving a large proportion of the EA applications unread by mid-Dec? On the contrary, I know of quite a few students admitted in the early round even though they applied practically around the EA deadline.
2014 EA AA news article and UMich Blog post:
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/05/how_the_university_of_michigan_2.html
https://admissions.umich.edu/explore-visit/blog/ea-or-regular-decision-which-best-you
Both of those links just say that EA applicants will get a decision in December. That decision could be deferred.
I do not have something written. I know from GCs who were told this. It is quite believable.
“I do not have something written.”
Then I suggest your future statements indicate the above comment.
“The Office of Admissions promises no special privileges to Early Action candidates, such as giving your application materials a higher priority or a more lenient review. Choosing to apply through Early Action does not make it easier or harder to gain admission to U-M—it is merely a way to get your decision faster.”
Is it true? not easier to get in in EA round.
@f2000sa UMich doesn’t publish acceptance rates by EA vs RD. I toured with D19 in April, when pressed to divulge the relative rates of acceptance, our tour guide said he couldn’t talk about it. When pressed again, he said “we received more applications EA than RD. We accepted roughly same NUMBER (not %) in both rounds. You do the math”.
IF that is true, EA had a lower acceptance rate last year, which would make sense if the overall EA pool were stronger (conventional wisdom, but no facts on this). Also, many get deferred out of EA into RD, so no way to tell proportion of those EAs ultimately accepted either. IMO, if you are a strong candidate, above median GPA/test scores, I would apply EA. Plenty of AOs (not necessarily UMich) have stated that application reading exhaustion is a real issue throughout the entire season, so IMO best to be earlier rather than later.
The link specifically says how they review 50,000 applications (2014). They staff up. Big school, big endowment.
The bulk of all UMich applications are submitted as EA. We were told approximately 50,000 of the roughly 65,000 applications this year (Class of 2022) were submiited in EA. So you would believe that UMich reviews only a few of them and then just defers all the others, because UMich begins their actual review in January due to lack of manpower and/or effort? 8-|
I attended an admitted students day in March of this year and the UMich admissions employee that got up in front of the crowd of parents and students and said they reviewed all EA applications before decisions were released on December 20, 2017. In fact, there was someone from the UMich admissions office that posted on this forum and said exactly the same thing. Three decisions are made in the EA round: admitted, denial and deferred.
I do want to add one thing. If Michigan is anything, it’s well-run and organized IME.
I found one thread with the anonymous Michigan official @SingingBusDriver. In this thread from last year’s admissions cycle, the estimate from the UMich admissions blog was that UMich recived “almost 40,000 EA applications.” And @SingingBusDriver chimes in and says that almost 8,000 of those 40,000 EA applications were admitted, roughly 50% of all 15,468 acceptances for the Class of 2022.
The acceptance rate is roughly 20% (8,000/40,000) in the EA round. And 23.5% (15,468/65,684) for all applications.
We know that Michigan receives more than half of their applicants in the early round. I doubt that we had more than 50,000 EA applicants in 2018 (out of 65,684). Michigan normally publishes the number of EA applicants. Does anyone has the number for the Class of 2022?
As I posted above, the actual number of EA applications was “almost 40,000” per the Umich admissions blog:
https://admissions.umich.edu/explore-visit/blog/youve-received-admissions-decision-now-what
So, this past admissions cycle UMich received about 60% of the apps during EA. My initial number of 50,000 EA apps was what I heard at an admitted students day back in March 2018.
GCs told by their U-M admissions contacts?
^^This is correct. Perhaps in the 2017-18 admissions cycle they read all EA apps. The several years previous to that, they did not. I also beg to differ with this statement:
It depends on what you’re looking at, and it depends on what you are comparing it to. I wouldn’t make a blanket statement. There are many aspects of the university that fall below expectations when it comes to management and organization.