<p>***?!?! is it really true that u of m, msu, and wayne are gonna shutdwon their admissions as of now? they cant possibly stop it can they, because that is the jist of a lot of articles i have been reading online... so someone tell me if the uni will relly shut down admissions for a while to sort out this proposal 2 mess....</p>
<p>As far as I know all they're doing is seeking an injunction to use their admissions policies for the remainder of the cycle. They would rather not have to do it this year both for ideological preference and the ease of the process until a more convenient date.</p>
<p>proposal 2 is awesome</p>
<p>^^^Irrelevant to the discussion.... nice job contributing</p>
<p>As MJB accurately stated, the three research U's in the state have asked to be allowed to complete the admissions cycle under their old system. If that isn't approved, then all three will have to come into compliance as of December 22nd. I predict things will be greatly slowed for a time if that happens--they have to retrain every reader and make some adjustments to other parts of the process--but that's a far cry from shutting down admissions.</p>
<p>ok, yea i didnt mean shut it down completely, just suspend admissions for a while. so when do u think this mess will get cleared up by? january hopefully? the main reason i ask is because my dual enrollment class final is actually today, and my school classes end by mid january, so i wanna kno if they would reup their regular admissions process by then because i wanna send in my senior grades, hopefully to sway the committee.</p>
<p>Honestly I don't get the whole argument about "fairness" when talking about having two different systems.</p>
<p>Theoretically, Prop 2 made the University of Michigan more difficult to get in to...so we are supposed to feel sorry for people who would have gotten in under the old system but not the new?</p>
<p>As for the argument about not being ready to switch, they first said they were going to do this nearly two years ago. UM should have known it would pass and should have prepared to change their system.</p>
<p>No, I disagree. It would have been questionable for U-M to deploy institutional resources to devise a system for a proposal that might not even make it onto the ballot, and then when made onto the ballot might not have passed. Not when its current system is (was) lawful, effective, and in compliance with the highest court in the land. Plus it's just not that simple. You can't retrain readers and then say "But don't use this system....just reserve all this training, and throw a switch inside yourself (if needed) on December 22nd and start evaluating applications differently on that day." Some of U-M's systems (like for the common app) aren't their own, either, and U-M can't ask other organizations to make changes that may never go into effect.</p>
<p>I don't think the public perception is that U-M will be more difficult to get into under Prop 2. Frankly, I think one thing that appealed to people is that it would be easier for some people to get in. It will eliminate the preferences for some relatively small number of students, but not for the majority--and I got the impression from much of the public discourse about that many people are hopeful that this will open up places for the Jennifer Gratzes of the world.</p>