<p>With all due respect, with over 70,000 applicants to U of M for approx. 15,000 acceptance offers to the incoming freshman class, Michigan receives far more qualified applicants than they have openings. Or said another way, there isn’t any “space available” to all of the qualified applicants who submit their applications on time. This summer there will be MANY qualified students, who submitted their applications on time, either on the waitlist or rejected by Michigan. I think the admissions person you spoke with was being polite and you’re obviously free to send in an application whenever you want. But for the sake of the 70,000 students who applied on time, hopefully they would receive consideration first. Sorry to be direct, but it seems that you should have been looking at Michigan a lot earlier and applied on time.</p>