<p>So when do regular decisions (rolling) start coming out? I heard this week...</p>
<p>I’ve been hearing Friday this week (and it was the first Friday of February last year for 2015) but according to this thread I started a week ago:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1280515-umich-rolling-admissions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1280515-umich-rolling-admissions.html</a></p>
<p>It may not even be until April this year cause of the application increases…</p>
<p>This is why rolling admissions isn’t always the greatest idea…</p>
<p>Sure it gives the people who get accepted earlier an advantage and sense of relief, but it keeps the other kids waiting forever with no sight of closure.</p>
<p>what do you guys think of this first friday of february thing? i applied back in october, so i think i would be in that pool if it did indeed exist… what do you guys think are the chances that it is true?</p>
<p>Since you applied in october, wouldn’t you be in the EA pool which got their decisions in December? (unless you were deferred like so many people)</p>
<p>still hoping its tomorrow…</p>
<p>Even if they start coming out tomorrow, not everyone will hear back. Hopefully someone on CC finds out so we know they’re rolling out already!</p>
<p>Yes in October I would have been ea, but I did restrictive early action and wasn’t totally sure, so I did regular rolling decision at Michigan. Really hope it’s tomorrow</p>
<p>Please don’t get your hopes up. I was an applicant last year and it was mentally devastating. I would attempt to calculate possible dates of decisions and would go through guesswork from years prior. It is completely unpredictable. </p>
<p>I got deferred on the last possible date for EA decisions and then I was waitlisted on the last possible date for those decisions. Take the idea of your decision and shove it far in the back of your mind. That plan has done well for me this year as I attempt to transfer. Remove CC from your bookmarks too.</p>
<p>I was told by an admission counselor that a decision will be sent by mid-April. If that turns out to be true my daughter will have about two weeks to make her final decision on where to attend college. That’s hardly enough time to make such a big decision especially when you have to consider finances. Michigan was a top choice but with so many other offers coming in sooner, I feel she is losing interest. Why are they waiting so long?</p>
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<p>Really!? I thought ‘yes’ or ‘no’ would come at the same time.</p>
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<p>Expect longer. Expect only one week to make your decision unfortunately. I received my waitlist decision April 24th of last year. They have tens of thousands of applications to review and it only gets larger each year; I myself am applying as a transfer student so add that on to the application pool as well. </p>
<p>I wish the best for you and your daughter, the college application process is a grueling process.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you, albo23. It has been grueling process for my daughter as well. I thought Senior year would be the time for her to kick back and have some fun. But the stress of waiting for decisions and keeping up her grades is taking its toll. It seems as if other schools with the same number of applications get their decisions out earlier.</p>
<p>Look, unless I don’t get any offers from other schools that I like, I am definitely not waiting until late April to make my decision. If UMich really wants me, they’ll accept me earlier on in the process. Otherwise I’m going somewhere else! No reason for me to torture myself waiting for this one school.</p>
<p>…Okay</p>
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Most of the admitted students were notified on the first week of April or before. Those who were eventually placed on the waitlist were the last to hear.</p>
<p>I’m thinking that if they really want my daughter at Michigan she will be notified earlier rather than later. Two students from her school have already been accepted. They had top testing scores and grades. Although my daughter’s stats are well within the reported stats of Freshmen, there is still a strong possiblity she won’t be accepted. And waiting until April to find that out won’t be fun.</p>
<p>One thing that everyone needs to understand is that it truly does not matter when you are accepted once you get to whatever college you go to. It’s not like I go around asking people “were you accepted or deferred EA?” or “when did you hear back about getting in rolling?” It really does not matter. If Michigan is where you want to go, just wait it out and whatever happens will happen. And it REALLY does not matter how much a school wants you. Once you’re a student everyone is treated the same and you should go where you want to go.</p>
<p>I think posters would do well to realize that as an institution with more than 39,000 applicants, all who are self-selecting insofar as likely to be in-range statistically unless really naive, doesn’t actually get down to “really wanting” any particular candidate when there are literally thousands more available at any given moment. (Some recruiting excepted, some GT schools excepted, etc.)</p>
<p>It’s unfortunate that UMich has not learned to be a little more responsive to its applicants in terms of final decisions, and I personally feel it should reject more freely than it waitlists, but at the end of the day, it’s not healthy for candidates to say to themselves “if the school really wanted me it would let me know when I want to know.”</p>
<p>That sets up an unnecessary negative feeling that is likely neither true or valuable as far as the candidate goes…because if in the end, they are accepted, then obviously UMich “wanted them.”</p>
<p>So folks, although it’s natural to allow emotions to infuse your angst and impatience, don’t let it cloud your judgment of fit or value 
(I am thinking of the student poster who said they would not “wait” til April…)</p>
<p>I am in total agreement with kmcmom13.</p>
<p>My child did get accepted early decision in December but planning for her to get into a school like Michigan went on years before (freshman-sophomore years in high school). i fully understand that not every student in their freshman/sophomore years know where they want to go to school, courses they are taking, activities getting involved and forseen circumstances do arise BUT they (and their parents) have to realistic: when applying to top competitive schools like Michigan the competition is rigorous. Those students that are able to by the end of their junior year put themselves in a position such as having your BEST SAT/ACT test scores complete, excellent gpa in difficult courses and activities with leadership are just going to have a definite leg up on other candidates who have to use their senior year to boost their application to “play catchup”. I do NOT agree with Michigan deferring as many candidates instead of outright rejections when many students probably have little or no hope. That being said I also feel parents and students really have to be realistic on what the odds are. BOTTOM LINE for freshman and sophomore high school students :If possible, plan years ahead for admission to competitive schools like Michigan. It can put you in a much more preferable position.</p>
<p>Just curious property manager, is your child in state or out of state? Unfortunately, for some out of staters they did all that preparation that you refer to but still got deferred due to high application volume and stiff competition from their own school…Michigan is only going to accept a certain number of kids from one school no matter how qualified.</p>