<p>Last year my sister applied IS, Feb 1st, and got her acceptance on March 28, a Wednesday. So it’s not entirely impossible.</p>
<p>izzya219, Son’s EA decision was posted on WA a day before he received the email.</p>
<p>I would love to get my decision early- i applied EA but then got deferred automatically cause of missing sat scores. AHHH</p>
<p>I just hope everything works out for us all. :)</p>
<p>It’s now February 15th - has anyone heard anything yet? I checked, and I have no decision yet. Guess I’ll check next Friday!</p>
<p>More on this issue over on the deferred thread. Nothing coming today, apparently.</p>
<p>Ah, don’t get your hopes up guys 
I just spoke with a rep from the Undergrad Admissions office at UMich, and she said that the rumors about Regular/Rolling decisions being released any earlier than April are not true at all. We all have to wait until April best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I was on campus today for tours. I was told by admission rep in CoE that they offered admissions to 2/3 of their 3000 total during EA. they will admit 3000 to meet their goal of 1200-1500 freshmen in the CoE. He did also confirm that there would be a decision release sometime soon, as they met again yesterday. Overall acceptance rates during EA are at an all time high. Typically they admit 50% during this time, and for class of 2017 it is greater than 2/3 of the class already.</p>
<p>Wow. At this rate, they might as well accept everyone from EA and demolish their so-called “rolling” decision.</p>
<p>… Sorry. I just need to vent.</p>
<p>chefmomm, that can’t be right…well i guess it is :(</p>
<p>i wonder if i’m part of EA cause I got auto-deferred? haha</p>
<p>That would not surprise me. Michigan has always given preference to early applicants. Even in the days of rolling admissions, before EA, Michigan gave priority to students who applied in the September-November period. That is not unusual. Most universities with ED/EA will admit a disproportionate number of early applicants. At Cornell and Penn, ED admits make up 40%-50% of the entire freshmen class.</p>
<p>Would that mean that someone who ATTEMPTED to apply EA would get this bias towards them if they were deferred, during the RD round? Or do you think they’d basically be put on the same platform as everyone else?</p>
<p>That’s a common question Sapharodon. There is no way to know for sure. Some speculate that having applied EA gives deferred applicants a slight edge over RD applicants, but there is no data to prove it one way or the other.</p>
<p>“Choosing to apply through Early Action does not make it easier or harder to gain admission to U-M—it is merely a way to get your decision faster.”</p>
<p>I call bs :(</p>
<p>I would not know. Admittedly I WAS an EA applicant who got deferred (nobody in my school even made it in EA except for one girl going into the visual art school). Still, I don’t think it’s fair that it’s weighted so heavily like that.</p>
<p>True elunium. I do not know why universities deny that they give preference to ED/EA applicants. There is no shame in giving priority to students who care enough about a university to apply early. Students who apply after the EA/ED deadline generally do not take the university seriously.</p>
<p>@Alexandre, I completely disagree with you. How does one applying to a school regular decision rather than early decision/action constitute a lack in sincerity in really wanting to attend the school and “taking the university seriously?” There are many reasons people decide to apply under regular decision, and I have never heard of anyone applying under regular decision who “doesn’t take the school seriously.” That’s a load of crap, if you ask me.</p>
<p>^ichoosehouse: You speak my mind.</p>
<p>ichoosehouse, I did not mean to say that all RD applicants do not care or are insincere. But EA is non-minding, and most qualified applicants who consider Michigan as their absolute dream university will generally apply EA. If such applicants are qualified, they should be accepted without hesitation. This is the type of students Michigan wants; highly gifted and passionate about the University. The same can be said of any university with EA/ED options. At most universities, the EA/ED acceptance rate is twice, if not three times higher than the RD acceptance rate and with good cause. Put yourself in a university’s shoes ichoosehouse. A RD applicant has an excellent GPA and a high SAT/ACT score taken before November of her/his senior year. Do you honestly think the admin committee will not wonder why that student hasn’t applied ED/EA? Why should a university admit a student who has not proven that it is his #1 choice?</p>