<p>The most appealing plan for Michigan would be an early deadline (like early action) and a later deadline (or two deadlines) for people who elect to apply later.</p>
<p>When Michigan finalizes any such plan, among the first people it will notify will be guidance counselors.</p>
<p>maybe it wont beablet to get into effect for another year or so....</p>
<p>bunny.. we have hope</p>
<p>yes lets hope!</p>
<p>i am in the same boat as both of you so i am hoping as well!</p>
<p>I'm hoping for continued rolling as well, but isn't sort of a win-win if Mich is your top choice and they impliment EA/ED and can identify who is really serious about going?</p>
<p>Well, if they did ED it might be, but if they did EA it would only make it tougher because isn't EA even harder than regular decision?</p>
<p>I think rolling admissions will soon be a thing of the past. It worked when Michigan was getting 18,000 or 20,000 applicants. But now, Michigan has over 25,000 applicants and I think it will hit 30,000 next year. I think Michigan will move to a regular decision admissions process in the next year or two and will put in place an ED option...to start with. EA is too non-commital. I think if Michigan starts with an EA option, most applicants will apply EA rather than RD and things won't change much. Once Michigan's new RD/ED system is well in place, I can see Michigan swapping the ED in favor of the EA option.</p>
<p>Alexandre, does Michigan have a statutory limit on the number of OOSers? If so, what is it? I assume those 30,000 applications be competing mostly for OOS spots... and that the application numbers will hit a cap much quicker than a private university... your thoughts?</p>
<p>There is not cap as such, but clearly, Michigan likes to keep in-state representation for undergrads at the 65%-70% range.</p>
<p>anyone hear anything new on this topic?</p>
<p>I would just like to say that I would not be a prospective student until 2009 but I really hope this doesnt happen. I had friends who have no stress about college because they got accepted in November. I would love to have this same experience</p>
<p>I don't think ending rolling admissions really makes a huge difference compared to how U-M is doing things this year. From what I've heard, a lot of people with good/borderline stats who applied early have been deferred (including myself)... so applying early doesn't seem to give this year's applicants much of an advantage (acceptance-wise, anyway). A strong applicant who was deferred early on in the process isn't going to have any advantage over someone with similar stats who applied late.</p>
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<p>Not quite so. If Michigan has to choose between two similar deferred applicants, they would accept the one who applied earlier over the one who applied later. They tell students that "applying earlier helps" and they hold to that when it comes time to decide which deferred applicants, if any, are admitted in late winter/spring.</p>
<p>Rolling is great. I hope Michigan doesn't change.</p>
<p>I like rolling, the only thing that I wish they would change is their notification system. I wish they would tell you if they are missing something, because it could be a really big factor for borderline applicants to have their application delayed a month, not to mention the stress.</p>