Early Action or Regular Decision ?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>I'm a senior this year and Michigan is my number one choice. I was born in the University hospital and my dad is a business school alum. I'm torn whether or not to apply early. I switched high schools between sophmore and junior year, I moved from Geneva Switzerland to Phoenix, AZ. My grades in Geneva were ok, all A's and B's probably a 3.5-ish area, it's hard to tell. My first semester junior year grades were terrible- 3.2 weighted, second semester much better- 3.9, I took APUSH and AP English 3 and my ACT is a 28
English-31, Math-26, Reading-26, Science-28. I got 4's on both my AP tests and as of yet I have straight A's. Should I go ahead and apply early? Or should I wait for my 1st semester senior grades, hopefully giving me a 3.76, another ACT probably a 29 and apply regular? help meeeee.</p>

<p>go blue!</p>

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<p>If you feel you can produce a good quality essay package before Nov 1, there’s no disadvantage to applying early. If you’re not admissable EA, they’ll ask you for your 7th semester grades and reconsider you once they’re received.</p>

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<p>Do EA apps have a better chance at admission than RD apps?</p>

<p>I saw a line in a cc thread where the poster said that admissions gives priority to EA apps. Maybe that was only in the sense of moving them up in line, or is in the sense of ALSO giving them an extra point or two in admissions scoring (better chances)?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1010026-applied-rollins-mistake.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1010026-applied-rollins-mistake.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>the following from UM website suggests that they give equal chances to EA as RD.
<a href=“http://www.admissions.umich.edu/early/[/url]”>http://www.admissions.umich.edu/early/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Early Action applications have a better chance than Regular Decision applications due to fact there are more spaces to fill and this allows them the ability to be slightly more generous with marginal students. As spaces dwindle, it becomes more and more competitive.</p>

<p>If you are a strong candidate for admission, the chances go down significantly less between EA and RD.</p>

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<p>thanks, jjjust. Seems reasonable. Other than reaonableness, on what do you base your statement? Are you a student who went thru the process, UM staff?</p>

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<p>It’s not based on anything more than reasonableness and the (predictable) train of human thinking.</p>

<p>I did go through the admissions process but I didn’t do EA.</p>

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<p>I saw the following blurb on the UM website. It explicitly says here that there is not extra consideration to an EA app vs a RD or rolling app. this is contrary to the above. Is there anywhere posted the admit rates EA vs RD at UM?</p>

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<p>[Office</a> of Undergraduate Admissions: Early Action](<a href=“http://www.admissions.umich.edu/prospective/applying/earlyresponse.php]Office”>http://www.admissions.umich.edu/prospective/applying/earlyresponse.php)</p>

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<p>If you apply in November with a 3.6 and there are 5600 spaces left, you are more than likely to get in than if you apply in January and your app isn’t read until March and there are only 300 spaces left.</p>

<p>The more spaces there are open, the more students an admissions manager can say “ehhhh, we can take a chance on him/her” without dropping the numbers or having to admit 3 more people to compensate.</p>

<p>It’s just how life and admissions works and it’s not something a college is going to readily admit because you’ll hear screams of “well that’s not fair!”.</p>

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<p>ah, the subjectivity of it all. the kentucky wind. You mean I can’t trust what the website says? Well that’s not fair. :slight_smile: Probably better that humans are doing this than computers. I’d still like to see the admit rate experience under EA and the admit rate under RD and rolling.</p>