@letsgoblue1234 - she sent an email
@letsgoblue1234 i would relax about who you sent it to and what form of mail. if it reaches them, they won’t throw it out or disregard it. if you don’t hear a response soon contact them again. otherwise, you’ll be fine lol
@exga3969 thank you for your help! I sent it in December 22, so should I follow up yet?
@letsgoblue1234 I would suggest waiting until the end of this week just because you sent it right before break and it probably took longer bc i believe you said you sent physical mail. but yes, if you don’t hear back soon, definitely follow up. I’m currently in the same boat, except I sent an email so it’s even more puzzling.
To all…don’t fret. If you sent in your Loci then leave it alone. Don’t call /email to see if they got it. They never said they would answer you back. They got it. They are fast at work getting ready for February 1st (end of January). This is not the time to bug them. They know you want to go there. Sit tight.
@letsgoblue1234 I would definitely send in another email to your regional admissions officer (found online). I remember last year that someone recommended not to do it by mail due to slow processing but that could be just hearsay. I recommend sending an email though because it’s nice to get an email back acknowledging that it’s in your file. Again, I’m just a student but that’s what worked for me!
If you already did formal tours I wouldn’t say to do another one. I just did it because it was my first time on campus and at the end I could speak to her! I would say that you could stop into the same building that holds the tours and ask to speak to an admissions counselor. It’s informal and basically a good time to ask any questions and show your interest! Perhaps call and see if a time would be available to chat. But I recommend that only if you live close! Pretty much no sense in investing in a long flight!
Hope this helped!
Great, thank you all for your help!
Hey y’all! I was deferred, and ultimately decided to submit a LOCI to my counselor. They replied the next day, and from her response I would say that you’re probably safe submitting one as well. Nothing about the reply seemed negative, and they mentioned noting the continued interest in my file. So overall, I’d say in my personal experience (so far) that the LOCI did more good than bad. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!
My son submitted an email explaining his freshman year and our move from overseas. His Admission counselor at Michigan thanks him for the update he was happy about it
send an loci and accept that at this point, we’ve done all we can. with that being said, good luck to all. see you guys in a few weeks, let’s hope we all get good news!
hi everyone,so just to confirm i should send my loci to my regional coounsler, that i can find on the u of m website?
@kigem on this link I’d you scroll to the bottom you can find yours
https://admissions.umich.edu/contact-us
@kigem it’s under “Find Your Undergraduate Counselor”
thanks sm !
Are you guys sending your LOCI to the director of admissions, your regional admissions counselor, or both?
regional admissions counselor
@tireddad Definitely send a LOCI to U-Mich if the school is her number one.
I had a friend last year who’s top school was U-Mich. She was deferred: OOS female, 1500 SAT, 4.2, no school rank, National Merit Commended Scholar, AP Scholar, (virtually all of the same stats as your daughter’s). After being deferred, she send the office of admissions a LOCI and in Feburary she found an acceptance email from them! Soon after, she visited the campus, was admitted to the Honors Program at U-Mich and committed almost immediately after!
On the other hand, I just submitted my EA app this year and was admitted early in December. My stats were lower (3.8 weighted, 1410 SAT), and while its ironic that I was admitted before my friend who had higher stats, I spoke with my regional admission officer and he said U-Mich look a lot at fit. Students (like your daughter) probably would do well at many schools, but part of what these want to do is protect their yield, meaning that if they admitted a student with such high stats, they want to make sure they would actually attend. While applying early does show interest, they cannot distinguish between all the students who truly wants to attend versus those who may be admitted amongst many top schools they are admitted to. Because if they admit too many students with high numbers, what could happen is all of these students choose to attend a higher ranked or better school. U-Mich doesn’t want to give away so many spots and have this happen, which is why the deferral exists. This allows the office of admission more time to evaluate these students, and it gives the applicant time to really compare and see if U-Mich is somewhere they actually want to go.
Chances are this is why your daughter was deferred with such high stats. My advice is to write the Office of Admissions a Letter of Continued Interest, involving updates on her application, new awards, an increase in grades. The content doesn’t matter as much as your daughter showing why she is so adamant on attending U-Mich. I wish her the best of luck. Go Blue!
Does anyone know when the first wave of deferral acceptances/rejections will be? I’ve heard Feb 1. Also, do your chances get worse as the waves go on?
File under “additional data point”:
Our daughter received a response today from the LOCI she sent earlier this month to her AO…as stated earlier by others, 90% of the text is consistent with the standard language shared elsewhere on these boards (and much of it copied from an FAQ on a blog post at the U Michigan Admissions blog page from last January).
There were a couple of extra sentences pasted into the template re: continuing to advocate for the application and encouraging her to keep UoM as an option, but who knows if that means anything.
While likely meaningless as a predictive factor in a possible admission decision, it does appear - that like the deferral letters themselves - there are multiple versions that go out to some applicants who submit LOCI, although I’m not sure if this variability is in-state vs OOS, Editorial decision by individual AOs, etc.
Will find out in the coming months either way 
I’ve also heard February 1st, and I was looking through the discussion from last year and a few were accepted