<p>From the Michigan admissions website:
All final admissions decisions for 2012 will be released by early April. This includes students who have previously been deferred; final decisions will include admit, deny, or waitlist. All decisions will be posted online; please continue to check your status online via Wolverine Access. Waitlisted students have until May 15 to accept their spot on the waitlist.</p>
<p>early april is not an official date, this is a misleading thread title. it has also been known since before the time of applications that all the last decisions would be released in april.</p>
<p>Yeah, the “early April” decision time frame is common knowledge - it’s the same every year. Early April isn’t even a date - it’s a time. </p>
<p>Besides, the overwhelming trend the past few years is for the last of the decisions (mostly waitlist) to still be coming in at the very end of April, so as a former applicant and current student, I advise readers of this thread to hope for the best - early April or before - but prepare themselves for another month of waiting.</p>
<p>The title of this thread is really misleading - it’s going to get people excited, thinking that there was some new release of information, when all this is is vague information that’s been on the UM Admissions website for months. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone. I know how hard the waiting game can be.</p>
<p>I would think the assumption is if you are hanging around after May 1st than UofM is your first choice and you WOULD accept ultimately by May 15 you just haven’t gotten around to it so who cares if other colleges want to hear by May 1 because UofM is going to give decisions in mid-April…it just means you have more time to say “yes.” If you are waistlisted in April then you need to accept another college on May 1st anyway because being waistlisted doesn’t mean anything other than if a college has seats left open in summer you might get one. I’m not seeing what the problem is.</p>
<p>so they are just making it look like they are giving you 30 days to decide.
It’s still really 15 days, because you have to make your decisions about other acceptances by May 1…</p>
<p>If it helps, I called admissions yesterday asking about when the last acceptances will come out. I was already accepted (March 15th), but my twin was deferred at the same time as I was in February. So my parents didn’t want to plan to visit Michigan until we knew for sure what my brother’s status was. The admissions office told me that it is very unlikely for any more people to get an acceptance and that I should book a flight asap. I am assuming that if you have not yet heard, you are either waitlisted/rejected. The last Campus Day is April 16th, which would make it very hard for anyone to actually visit if they are accepted on April 15th.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is an upsetting email, but I’d recommend for anyone who doesn’t have Michigan as a top choice to move on. It’s better than waiting for something that will probably end up in disappointment. And if it doesn’t, it’ll feel much more gratifying.</p>
<p>“And what’s the point of having until May 15 to commit when most other schools have May 1 as their deadline.”</p>
<p>You are missing the point. The May 15 deadline is to accept a position on the Waitlist. Once you have decided to accept on offer from another school (by May 1), you then have 15 days to decide whether you want to go on the UM waitlist. If you clear the waitlist, you then will have a few days to accept UM’s offer. Most schools allow you to accept a spot on the waitlist after May 1 because they would rather not clutter their wait list with students who subsequently got into a school that they prefer more. BTW, it is perfectly acceptable to accept admission at another school and then subsequently reject it, if you clear the waitlist at your preferrred school.</p>