I know there’s not a hard set date but what’s the general latest date to send loci by? We’re waiting on something that we can include in loci but don’t want to get too delayed.
Do those who usually get accepted Feb. 1 send LOCIs?
Got this response first week of January to LOCI which was sent Dec 20, the day after deferral.Is it similar to the responses you all have gotten? Would this be classified as negative or positive? Please share thoughts.
“Thank you for your continued interest in the University of Michigan. Please be assured that it will be noted in my evaluation of your application and I will continue to advocate for your admission. The University received almost 40,000 early action applications this year, which was record breaking volume and as a result, admission was very competitive. Be assured that we use a holistic and comprehensive review process and looked at all aspects of your application before a decision was made. We considered your grades, curriculum, test scores, essays, extra-curricular involvement, and personal background as part of our evaluation.
Before we can make a final decision on your application we need to further evaluate the strength of the regular decision applicants, as well as the yield rate of our admitted students to determine if we have space for you in the freshman class. As stated in your deferral letter, please submit your mid-year grades no later than mid-February so they can be considered as we continue to assess your application. Otherwise, there is nothing further we need from you at this time and we ask you do not send in any other additional information. As stated in your deferral letter, we will have a final admissions decision for you by early April.
Again, admission to the University of Michigan is the most competitive it has ever been this year, so while you are a strong candidate and I encourage you to keep the University of Michigan as an option, I always encourage all deferred applicants to also explore the other opportunities available to them.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions or concerns.”
It is a templated response that everyone is getting. No more, no less.
The response to my LOCI - which I sent on January 4th - did not contain any copy-paste template mentioned by others. It contained a direct response to something addressed in the letter. Not sure if this is good or bad, wondering if anyone else had responses without templates.
some of my friend loci said that they will continue to advocate for their admission but mine didn’t say that 
A little late to the game.
COE Deferred. Michigan is my first choice.
OOC (U.S. citizen living abroad)
SAT 1410
GPA 4.1 unweighted, 4.6 weighted
IB Diploma candidate (3 HL, including Physics and Chemistry; 3 SL)
Class Rank: Not applicable.
Female, Caucasian
Both parents (one COE) and a sibling are Alum.
NHS Member. Long time volunteer at Refugee Shelter. Play violin; Concert Mistress twice in honor orchestra festivals. Violin Tutor as well. Varsity athlete in Basketball and T&F all throughout HS; Captain of BB team this year.
I had a FT interview with someone in a neighboring country; we talked for more than an hour. My LOCI response contained a grammar error (“you” versus “your”) but otherwise seemed template. My LOCI did not have the “continue to advocate” line, either.
Disappointing response to LOCI :(. It just reads -
"Good Morning XXXXX,
Thank you for sending in your updates and for your continued interest in The University of Michigan.
Sincerely,"
We didn’t even get the template!
We sent it to the “Find Your Undergraduate Counselor” at: https://admissions.umich.edu/contact-us
Is that the right person?
Yes it’s the correct person. Just a different letter or template. It will be put in your chart . It’s all good.
@Knowsstuff - how many of the 40K or so early apps. were deferred, do you think? Do you have an educated guess?
Question for @Knowsstuff & others: if the deferral letters and LOCI responses are templates anyway, is it possible to be considered for this upcoming Feb 1st wave if 2nd quarter grades aren’t back to the AO before the end of this week? Meaning - has anyone heard of an instance where they got the template letter that said “please submit mid-year grades by mid-February so they can be considered, etc.” and gotten a decision earlier/before they were turned in?
2nd quarter grades just closed on Friday and my daughter’s HS guidance office said it takes 10 days for transcripts to be updated/sent to schools. Trying to determine if this means she won’t get a decision until March now as a result.
She already sent a LOCI/got a response - would another email stating that she maintained 4.0 uw for the first 2 quarters of senior year, 4 APs, etc. but transcripts are not available to send to them until 2/4? Or is an additional email at this point breaching the “most successful candidates are the ones that send only what we require”?
Sincerely,
Parent who can’t believe they need to start this process again in a couple of months with their Junior
@JBStillFlying - I believe the number that was thrown around earlier was that for last year ~8000 admissions were made in EA (see post #250 in the EA 2023 thread, http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21839702#Comment_21839702), leaving 32000 either deferred or rejected.
While I don’t believe that was an official number, it seems pretty reasonable if you assume that they would only want to fill ~1/2 the class in EA and they get a yield of ~40%. The math goes: 8000 admissions*0.4 =3200 enrolled which is about 1/2 the target size of the incoming class.
For clarification, the “almost 40,000” EA apps amount was from an officlal UM announcement for the Class of 2022 on the UM admissions blog. @SingingBusDriver (UMich insider) provided the approximate number of EA acceptances of 8,000 apps. So, @ckd022 is correct.
UMich’s overall yield is about 43%, I would think that the EA yield would be higher. UMich seems to be able to identify EA applicants that will more likely come to the university. But I’m speculating with no facts.
@sushiritto Thanks for the clarification. I agree these numbers are all speculation but I would also imagine they are in the ballpark. Unless admissions releases a lot more details (which I’m sure they won’t), this is as good a guess as any.
I agree that EA yield is likely higher, but I could make arguments to the contrary as well, only admissions really knows!
Anecdotally, EA admits include primarily high stat Michigan residents, and some OOS legacy and other hooked applicants. Yield for in state admits is close to 70 %. Yield for OOS admits without a connection to UM is much lower (in the 25-30 % range). For this reason, EA yield is probably well above that of RD.
Thank you all for for your information. I would like to know specifically how many you think are deferred. My son applied regular decision. Trying to figure out how big that regular pool will be.
@JBStillFlying No rejections were posted on CC in the last EA admissions cycle. However, most students and parents of students here skew high. @SingingBusDriver is on record as stating that there are EA rejections, but no specific numbers are available.
For the Class of 2022, there were roughly 66,000 total apps of which 40,000 were EA. So, if you assume either accepted or deferred in EA, then there are 32,000 apps plus another 26,000 RD apps for a total of 58,000. But you have to assume more apps were submitted this season, then for the Class of 2022.
If half of the applicants are accepted EA and half accepted RD, then 7,500/58,000 or about 13% acceptance rate. However, it’s probably much higher since there are rejections in EA.
I think you’re good as is. Stand pat. If I were an AO, then I’d assume your student is maintaining fantastic grades and you will just send them in post-acceptance (think positive!).
im in the same position because our semester ends on jan 25 but counselors send out official transcripts feb 10 at the earliest. i don’t think it should be an issue