why hold off on rejections for people who applied early action months ago? you would have been rejected earlier this month. you will be accepted or waitlisted for sure. makes sense right? here’s hoping : )
They are overwhelmed with the application reviewing process and the admission process. One thing they have the lowest priority is to notify the rejected students even they know who is absolutely out.
@billcsho But that’s based on your assumption? I’m not sure if that’s necessarily accurate, but we will see…
I suspect billcsho is right. Colleges want to get word out to accepted students as quickly as possible to give them ample time to decide whether or not to enroll. Getting rejection letters out probably isn’t at the top of their priority list. Good luck though.
Last year, they announced a large batch of rejection and waitlist on 3/28. Before that, you see mostly acceptance notice.
I guess I’m just trying to cling to a bit of hope, but it’s hard too…
I’m sure a rejection email is just a batch list of names with some basic varied responses of oh sorry so time sending out shouldn’t be a factor. also I am a little tired of hearing the overwhelmed admission theme. this is a top notch university and admissions is something they do every year. my tax guy starts getting a lot of work in march too but he handles it. I believe they have the manpower to do the job the time frame is used to protect the yield.
Believe it or not, Umich has been overwhelmed with applications in the last few years. It just breaks another record this year. Last year, they could not even finish reviewing the EA before the deadline for announcement that delayed (not deferred) many applications submitted around the deadline for a couple weeks. I guess your tax guy do not handle 50000+ accounts per year.
True, @billcsho, but I don’t think anyone was caught off guard the past few years. Seems like all of us on CC knew there would be more applications this year. 
The increased revenue from the higher number of applications could be used to hire more people in admissions.
As long as they can finish the review by April 15, I don’t think they would consider it a problem. The school would not hire more people to get the job done far ahead of the deadline. Last year, the admission was pretty much done around the end of March when they released the rejection and waitlist notice.