<p>Can you give Fall 2013 applicants current information on admissions decisions datelines?</p>
<p>Thanks RJ, for asking the million dollar question. A lot of us are just spinning our wheels here waiting to something to happen. What happened to that whole “rolling” thing? </p>
<p>I didn’t like the result with WUSTL, but I did like the way the did it. Early, electronically, and all at once.</p>
<p>As far as I look through the threads, someone got acceptance letter April 5th last year. But it said that all decisions will be released by April 1st this year.
Seriously, I don’t like the way they are doing this. It is kind like a torture. All the other schools not only I apply but also my friends apply give an accurate date of sending decisions. Now I cannot even focus on my school works. But there is nothing we can do about it and I really want to know the datelines for last year, too.</p>
<p>Nothing can be as bad as two years ago when people didn’t find out til April 15th</p>
<p>Does this person really exist? I have yet to see any response to my question.</p>
<p>^In fairness to the brave soul who joined this discussion board, I’m not certain that they could accurately or confidently answer your question, given the past history of management when the volume of applications spike. Eg. that particular adcom might have his or her caseload well in hand, but that wouldn’t mean that others do, etc. In their shoes, I’m not sure I’d know how to respond ;)</p>
<p>In another thread, the poster had noted they were told that UMich applications were up by 23,000 over LAST YEAR’S applications. If that is indeed true, UMich would not have been likely to anticipate that much of an increase (as it seems even higher than what other schools experienced when switching to the common app.)</p>
<p>However, for those wanting to know, there is a “For Deferred Applicants” and “Students Awaiting A Decision” posts on the admission section of the UMich website. Both those reference “EARLY APRIL” as the time frame in which to expect to hear.
( [University</a> of Michigan Office of Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.umich.edu/home-page]University”>Home | University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions) – see “News”)</p>
<p>So, FWIW, the official party line at the moment is Early April…not April 1st. Just so you know.</p>
<p>If applications are by by 23,000, Michigan will be expecting 65,000 applicants this year. That seems unlikely. I was anticipating 50,000 applicants.</p>
<p>"^In fairness to the brave soul who joined this discussion board, I’m not certain that they could accurately or confidently answer your question, given the past history of management when the volume of applications spike. Eg. that particular adcom might have his or her caseload well in hand, but that wouldn’t mean that others do, etc. In their shoes, I’m not sure I’d know how to respond ."</p>
<p>I just posed any question to see if I would get a response. ;-)</p>
<p>“If applications are by by 23,000, Michigan will be expecting 65,000 applicants this year. That seems unlikely. I was anticipating 50,000 applicants.”</p>
<p>Could you imagine the amount of applications Michigan would receive if they didn’t require a supplemental essay like Vanderbilt or WUSTL? The acceptance rate would plumment!</p>
<p>I’m very skeptical that Michigan received 65,000 applications, all numbers were pointing towards 50,000, a ~16% increase over last year. It may have been a typo or some sort of miscommunication in the admissions office or maybe even a misinterpretation by the poster, but a 50% increase of applications in just a single year is unlikely to say the least.</p>
<p>Anybody know (approximately) what the freshman acceptance rate would be with 50k applicants?</p>
<p>@coquimom ~31%</p>
<p>Well, historically Michigan has admitted 15,000- 16,000 students, expecting about 5,500 to enroll. Last year was a big year and they don’t want to increase the class size so let’s say they admit 15,500 freshmen (last year they admitted 15,551). With 50,000 applications, that would be an acceptance rate of 30%. This is down from a 36.5% acceptance rate last year. My estimate on the admitted students may be a little conservative for this year though…</p>
<p>Thanks, guys. :)</p>
<p>They do seem to be posting decisions in batches. A fair number of students on CC heard a couple of weeks ago. There could easily be another round this weekend. Good luck, everyone!</p>
<p>Sorry I can’t find the post where the student reported the conversation…think it’s buried somewhere on the deferral thread. In the post, the poster was told they’d now released 10,000 acceptances as well, meaning roughly 2/3rds. The numbers reported were pretty specific, which doesn’t mean, of course, that they weren’t in error ;)</p>
<p>I think that student misunderstood. While a 50% increase is not impossible, it is highly unlikely in a case where a university is already receiving over 40,000 applications. If it were indeed accurate, Michigan’s admit rate would drop to 23% this year! But honestly, I am expecting a 48,000-50,000 applicant pool, with a 30%-33% admit rate. We will hit 65,000 applicants, but not for another couple of years.</p>
<p>Just got back from Campus Day and they said apps were WAY up this year, I believe around 55,000… Also said most competitive applicant pool in history of UM.</p>
<p>55,000 applicants would be significantly more than I had anticipated, but still within the realm of possibility. I am also not surprised that it is a competitive group. Michigan has always had a strong applicant pool to choose from. Given its less-than-favorable location (let us face it, no matter how great Ann Arbor is, the Midwest is still the Midwest), only serious candidates apply to Michigan. If the applicant pool is indeed 55,000, expect a sub 30% acceptance rate this year. We’ll find out soon enough.</p>
<p>ugh. they just have to do this the year that i apply right… i am so not prepared to get rejected from michigan. i dont know what ill do. ill prolly get severely depressed n do some crazy stuff</p>