I feel so stupid because up until this year I thought it was still Rolling admissions like when I applied in the dark ages 
. Since the deadline was Feb. 1 I totally put it off, and then my GC found out I didnât submit it in mid-Jan and she freaked out. âYouâre OOS!! What are you thinking!!â Oops, so I sent it in, and got my acceptance letter on Feb. 4th. Whew!
Totally possible that the kids my son saw were the same. He had no idea which schools the admitted kids had applied to.
I absolutely agree with this ^^^.
The issue with this year is that the only RD âwaveâ was a ârippleâ of targeted in-state applicants on Friday 2/25. That is strange to me. Michigan obviously needed a few more in-state applicants since the EA release.
Finally broke down and reached out to our GC. In her experience she does not expect to hear anything for any of their postponed kids until the last week of March or first week of April. We are an in-state, private feeder school with a large number of postponed kids every year.
So we are going to book a couple of admitted student days elsewhere while we wait. I hope some of you hear before then, but itâs nice to know what to expect from our schoolâs experience - your schoolâs experience may be different.
But I do long for the days when my oldest was accepted before Christmas!!
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The only problem with that logic is that most people (that I know anyway) arenât going to commit until closer to May 1 as they are currently still waiting for other schools, aid packages, scholarships, etc. So U-M isnât really gonna get a meaningful âsee who commitsâ look on the 1st and 2nd Fridays of March.
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What do you mean by targeted? Targeted as in in-state or something else?
But then when do rejections come out? Theyâre going to just dump thousands of rejections at once? I know thatâs what most single day decision schools do, but itâs harder if youâve been watching friends and classmates get accepted for months and realize your door is slowly closing 
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Iâll take the counterpoint. 
First, you must be thinking about OOS numbers. In-state yield is/was 70+%, so theyâll likely have an excellent read on those numbers. Like CA, most kids will attend their state school.
Also, youâll have to remember that most programs are highly ranked at Michigan. For small schools, like Kinesiology, Ross, Taubman (Architecture), STAMPS, Nursing, etc., spots are extremely limited and much sought after spots.
For example, if admitted to Ross, youâll have a few deciding between Wharton, Haas or Ross, etc., but how many are there of those applicants?
For CoE, which only has around 1,400-ish spots and is ranked in the Top 10 (I think #6), youâll have some applicants deciding between MIT, GT, CMU, Berkeley, Stanford, etc., but it canât be a huge crowd of applicants. Many will go with Michigan, because itâs a great school fit for them.
Now LSA is different to me, thatâs probably where the enrollment numbers are a little more speculative IMO. And itâs the biggest school. But I think Michiganâs algorithms are pretty good at predicting yield by now, especially with all the EDâs (SCEAâs and REAâs) with acceptances having cleared out by now, hopefully.
And then there are the ALDCâs (athletes, legacies, deanâs interest list, children of faculty) too. I canât forget them. Athletes alone make up about 300 or more spots in a class of 7,000.
According to posts here, back around 2/25, Michigan had a very small wave of in-state applicants admitted, but the admittances appeared to overlook large in-state feeder schools. If Iâm mistaken, then I apologize.
No, I was just curious what you meant. Thatâs all.
There have been rejections already along the way.
But the last waves in pre-pandemic years were roughly here on CC: 20% acceptances, 40% waitlists and 40% rejections. But thatâs the last wave on or around 4/1 and here on CC, which skews very high stat. This year? Who the heck knows.
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at this point, in your opinion are they only going to do one wave? on 3/11,3/18, 3/25, or 4/1? which date is most likely?
Or maybe theyâll release on a day other than Friday!
You know, just to shake everyone up.
No clue but they last day to apply for Honors (LSA) is April 7. Not sure why they have one for tomorrow when it doesnât seem they released many acceptances between last deadline and tomorrow.
Do you mean for admitted students ?
Yes
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Ok thatâs pretty much what I was envisioning. If/when you guys all get a bunch of celebratory decisions in the next week or two and we get crickets, Iâll know weâre pretty much out 
and thatâs fine.
Honestly, I donât know. Sorry.
I applied and got into UVA. Super transparent process with frequent updates on twitter, tiktok, Instagram, and blog. If I chose to attend will stop by the admissions office (if they let me into the office) to say thank you.
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I applied and got into UVA. Super transparent process with frequent updates on twitter, tiktok, Instagram, and blog. If I chose to attend will stop by the admissions office (if they let me into the office) to say thank you.