University of Michigan 2023 waitlisted applicants

So the roller coaster continues for another day! Still hope… Good luck and I hope people on this thread get contacted

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/06/university-of-michigan-approves-1
.9-percent-tuition-rate-hike-for-in-state-students.html?outputType=amp

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ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan’s Board of Regents approved a tuition increase of nearly 2 percent for in-state students for the upcoming academic year.

The Board of Regents approved a 1.9% tuition hike for in-state undergraduates and a 3.7% increase for out-of-state students during its annual budget meeting Thursday, June 20.

The increases, which take effect in the fall, will put freshman tuition and fees for Michigan residents at $15,558 in the lower division - up from $15,262 in 2018 - and $51,176 per year for non-Michigan residents - up from $49,326 last year.

Are we expecting anything this week?

End of the month is next week…according to what they said to me. Almost there.

Just a week more everyone (hopefully), hang in there!

Also, how many international students are on here (except me)? Extra good luck to you people as well!

For those waitlisted - it does seem that they are still granting admissions from waitlist. They haven’t posted the new apply/accept/enrolled stats, and last year those came out June 13. Also, just got back from the parent and freshman orientation, and they repeatedly told us they had more than 70,000 applications this year! That’s a record. Getting on the waitlist alone is very tough. Fingers crossed that you get a “you’re in” email soon! Best wishes to you all!

sooo what do we do when CC is down?? When will it be back up??

@jdag11. You will get an email at some point anyway. Your life shouldn’t revolve around CC, (says the one that is always on it?)

Go outside and have some fun. It’s summer! ??

@Colbuscus As a mom of a white male son who has been waitlisted at his dream school (UM), who lives in a nice neighborhood, I can tell you that my son has a million advantages over kids from a disadvantaged background. And if given the choice between coming from a disadvantaged background (■■■■■■ schools, no money, little parental involvement) and going to UM or coming from a privileged background and getting into a school that is perhaps less prestigious than UM, I can promise most kids are still going to choose the privileged background every time. Any parent who is telling their kid that test scores and EC will “get you in” is misinformed. In my district, privileged kids with 1450+ SAT and 4.0+ GPA, captain of the blah blah, president of the volunteer club, etc. are a dime a dozen. Our college counselors are very clear with kids that getting the high test scores, etc. will get you a look but there are no guarantees.

All of that said, I think Michigan has been horrendous in their treatment of their applicants. My son applied EA in October, was deferred in December, waitlisted in April and still hasn’t heard anything. It is gross. They’ve had 9 months. Do they want him or not, for Christ’s sake. Luckily he is excited about his backup but I know the whole Michigan thing is still hanging out there in the back of his mind. I have two more kids coming down the pike and I would encourage them not to even apply.

Another parent of privilege here with a kid with outstanding grades and test scores–who figured daughter would likely get into Michigan. But here we are, on the waiting list, unlikely to get off, and now daughter is still working to make her peace with the back-up school she chose. They can’t admit everyone qualified and they are right to compose a class that is diverse in all ways. All will be well for my kiddo both near and long term. But this process has been horrible. Should not be dragged out this long–the initial notifications and the waitlist notification are too far behind the rest of the schools. Michigan needs to get game on the operational side of its admissions practices. Other schools have giant applicant numbers–like the UC system–and they have figured it out.

I’ve copied and pasted from the following post from the UCLA forum, posted on 6/15/2019:

So, UMich is running at least 10 days behind UCLA, as an example.

As noted upthread by @UMich4567 , there are a couple of things that may be fundamentally different this year.

https://umich.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2081/~/faqs-for-waitlisted-applicants

I am not siding with Michigan but it clearly states they will let applicants know at the end of June. Close but it’s not the end of June yet. They are doing what they said they would do. Waiting sucks but their policy on this is very clear.

Just another example, but UW Madison’s waitlist is still open and folks over there have similar complaints.

I guess we should be happy that our sons didn’t get in because they live in a nice neighborhood. In fact, I would encourage everyone to abandon any standards for university and instead enroll children based solely on skin color, gender and how bad they have it. Surely, universities ought not look at preparedness for college, or likelihood to success in academics and instead use college as a to for social redistribution. Hopefully this will spread to work as well and people will he hired on how unlucky they were in birth rather than aptitude or experience. Within a generation or so we could have a completely equal society. Of course, you might not want your doctor to be where he is because he grew up in a bad neighborhood rather than because he aced his boards and was naturally intelligent and hard working. But you life is nothing compared
To the value of overall social justice, so accept the malpractice without complaint. Right?

/snark. If someone refuses you white son admission solely because they don’t favor his skin color, that should bother you just as much as them not allowing a black person or Asian admittance because of their skin color. And if we are punishing children because their parents stayed married sober and employed, then our incentive system is completely
Upside Down. In fact, the actual Upside Down in Stranger things had more logic to it.

Besides, what UM has done is an end run around the Supreme Court decision upholding the ban on race based admissions. The Adversity aindex is just a way to continue affirmative action in violation of Michigan law. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/us/supreme-court-michigan-affirmative-action-ban.html

It’s not just a bad idea, it is very likely illegal at least in spirit if not by the letter. I happen to know they had admissions quotas this year based on adversity. The administrations goal is not serving all kids; it is redistribution of wealth or social justice if you will. I don’t recall that being the primary purpose of a state university.

Someday it will likely be litigated, but in the mean time, my children are getting shafted. How any parent can watch this happen to their children and not be enraged is beyond me.

I really don’t understand how any kid is getting shafted just because they didn’t accept your kid yet. Over 70,000 well qualified students applied this year. They can’t take all of them. The wait list ends end of June. My kid didn’t get accepted to all the schools he applied to. As I say he got accepted, rejected and wait listed by some great schools. It’s all a game and you really can’t take it personally. No one took anyone’s spot. There are simply more applications then ever before. Yes, there is a change in approach with more international and getting better aid for people that can’t afford college. I get it… It sucks… But if any school wanted certain kids they would of taken them EA. Again, it’s a game and don’t take it personally.

@Knowsstuff it may be a game but it’s time for the game to be over one way or another and provide closure to the waitlisted applicants. UM should re-evaluate their waitlist processes - 11K offers when at most they may take 100 or so off? Provides false hope to so many. Same with their EA process with most just auto deferred to RA. What was the point of EA then?

I have so many thoughts on this ridiculous situation with Michigan, some of them conflict with each other, and all of them are frustrating. Bottom line is that Michigan has been the least transparent, most elusive, most arrogant, and most disappointing school that we have dealt with in this admissions process. Other state schools (like Penn State) got over 100,000 applications and somehow communicated with applicants in a timely, considerate, and supportive manner. Michigan’s first letter (EA deferral) was offensive and arrogant. Then they took forever to waitlist these kids, and now its mid-June and they have thousands of kids waiting in limbo (with very real consequences to family stress, inability to plan ahead, and potential loss of significant money since we’ve all had to put deposits down elsewhere). There is absolutely no reason to string these kids along forever. We applied in October. You told us we’d have an answer in December. It’s mid-June and we’re still waiting. I hope that everyone who is disappointed with this process (whether they were accepted, waitlisted, or rejected) takes the time to send their feedback to the admissions office, the President, and the Regents.

I agree with you completely. Clearly, UMICH is not relying on statistics. If they know they can only accept 400 or so kids, then why waitlist so many students? Also, why is it taking so long to understand how may students paid deposit when the deadline was May 1st. Don’t you think, with a good computer software, they should be able to know these details at Midnight on May 1st?

I’ll use round numbers. For the Class of 2022, there were 66,000 applications., 40,000 of those applications were submitted EA. There were a total of 15,000 acceptances, with 8,000 of those 15,000 acceptances in the EA round. That’s roughly 50% of the Class of 2022 were accepted EA. 50%! How much more of the class does UMich want to admit EA? Zero, if you ask me for my opinion.

So, 32,000 (40,000-8,000) of those EA applications were either deferred to RD or rejected. We have no statistics for how many EA applications were rejected and deferred.

UMich had multiple rounds or “waves” of RD admissions on 2/1, 3/1 and 3/29. If you use CC as a guide, with the 3/29 “wave”, UMich began rejecting and waitlisting students., which was actually earlier than other years. Personally, I prefer the early RD “waves.”

The UC’s and CSU’s here in CA don’t do EA or early “waves” of admissions. Cal and UCLA release decisions in late March and then waitlist thousands of students. Cal, for example, for the Class of 2022, waitlisted 7,824 students.