<p>I’m starting to hate UM. Fine, go ahead. Don’t accept my son. We don’t want your top notch school, anyway. And really… what’s a wolverine?</p>
<p>I tell ya… if I wasn’t pregnant I’d be courting a serious alcohol addiction from the stress of this wait!</p>
<p>So frustrated. I had my completed application sent in by the first week of September, and then my first semester grades in by the second week in February. I’ve stayed in contact with my admissions counselor, but she seems pretty unwilling to help. I’ve been waiting for six months now, I just want to hear!</p>
<p>VillageMom, I’ve been in and out of rehab 3 times in last 2 weeks. And right now I got my chardonnay with champagne chaser locked and loaded.</p>
<p>I read somewhere on the admissions website about their review process…which is actually pretty transparent and detailed compared to many schools, including the copy of the rating matrix the reviewers use. I’m pretty sure it said that if the first two reviewers don’t have the same recommendation, then a third reviewer takes a look at the file. I don’t remember the exact details. But it is possible that many pending decisions are going through an additional review. So the first people to hear got either two “no’s” (and notified of rejection) or two “yes’s” (notified of acceptance). Just a thought. I am a volunteer alumni recruiter, but I have no “inside scoop.” Be patient and be glad they are so thorough. Rushed decisions aren’t always the best ones.</p>
<p>villagemom and finalchild - a year from now when the next generation is waiting they will be either very entertained or very confused with all your entries. All the Pope references may be forgotten. However, I am very entertained and able to enjoy it all with a little wine while waiting endlessly for a decision that will eventually come. thank you</p>
<p>VillageMom - derailing this thread for a brief second to say…you have one going off to college next year, and are currently PREGNANT? Oh Heaven Bless you. I can’t even imagine what the college admissions process is going to be like in 18 years! </p>
<p>Keep the faith everyone. If you have given it your all, at the end of this you can always say “I did everything I thought I could do.”</p>
<p>@laurendog
Lol, no she is pregnant not her son</p>
<p>Dang this is so frustrating… I still haven’t heard anything back, and I got deferred from the engineering school on December, 14. I am an in-state student, have a 3.98 weighted GPA, and got a 30 on my ACT. Do you think I still have a chance?</p>
<p>I got deferred oos 4.52 weighted GPA, 31 on ACT many ECs, sports, good essays, good recs… Do I have a chance??</p>
<p>For both of you, uw GPAs and class rank are necessary to make a definitive prediction. Those are the two most important aspects for UMich.</p>
<p>My uw GPA is somewhere in the upper 3.8s, and my class rank is 30 out of 701.</p>
<p>I have a unweighted Gpa 4.00, and ACT 27. Do I have a chance as deferred to get accpeted? Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m still dying…if they release tomorrow will the decisions come out at midnight?</p>
<p>Oneoffonetogo, that’s good advice. </p>
<p>Every year there are the students who get their acceptances early, and others who get them while the rest continue to wait. If you check the Deferred thread from last year, it’s almost identical to this one in terms of frustration and anxiety. I’ve posted that my son was accepted April 5, 2012, after applying in Oct, 2011. It was a ridiculously long wait. We have no idea why it took so long to receive his acceptance. By the time he received it, we had braced for the likely possibility of a rejection or waitlist. Now that he’s at Michigan, he has long forgotten The Wait and no asks or cares when others were accepted. Everyone is on equal footing. </p>
<p>Waiting for decisions is part of life, whether it be your college application, a job application, a business proposal, the list goes on. Try to stay busy, focus on other things, check WA daily, and really think about where you might go in the event you aren’t accepted. Life will go on regardless of the decision. You’re about to embark on an exciting chapter in your life - hopefully at Michigan, and if not, then somewhere else. Either way - you will be okay.</p>
<p>I just can’t believe a school like Michigan is doing this. A lot of my friends who were deferred already heard back. Some of them were admitted and some were rejected. I wish they would just let us know. At this point, I’ll be relieved if I get rejected just so I don’t have to go through this anymore.</p>
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<p>A lot of high schools don’t rank. My daughter’s did until just before kids were sending their apps out this year because a bunch of parents complained that only a couple hundredths of a pct. separated maybe 50 kids. </p>
<p>So she was 10% for awhile and then…poof. To be fair, though, she was one of the 50 and one sleepy test could have knocked her out of that decile too.</p>
<p>does anyone know how they are deciding on who gets their decision letters? is it random?</p>
<p>Basically the applicants are given their decisions based on where they rank. The first ones to find out are either at the top of the applicant pool or at the bottom. Those ones have already found out for the most part. Now its just the rest of us left.</p>
<p>Laurendog, oh. my. gosh… you just made me realize that I’m going to have to go through this again. You’d think that would have occured to me, but I prefer to live in blissful ignorance.</p>
<p>My UM applicant is our first born, thus our first to apply to college. We’re going to be doing this six more times. (?!) My only consolation is that eighteen years from now this new child will be able to answer “Any UM family members?” with “Yes, six siblings. Plus, I’m a hardship case because my mother is drying out at Shady Acres Rest Home”.</p>
<p>Oneoffonetogo (lucky you!), thanks for the perspective that a year from now this will all be but a memory. Hopefully a happy one for everyone!</p>
<p>So essentially it’s like the hunger games but with our apps now. If you think about it a lot of us are likely jockeying for position with one another.</p>