HAIL interview is only for CoE prospective students, correct?
@joelen09 correct.
My son also just got the HAIL interview request after pulling the interview in November due to high demand.
Does anyone think there is going to be a wave February 15th?
I am fairly certain there will be a wave, but I’m just going off of a hunch. Plus I have had enough of the waiting.
My original Post #489 on Feb 1st:
“1st Time Parent poster. I was told by a personal friend, who is a very reliable source and has a strong personal and professional connections with the University of Michigan and has a personal lifelong friend that is an admissions counselor, that the next wave of acceptances for EA applicants for LSA will be notified by Friday Feb 15th(no time of day for release was given). However, I did make them aware that this current CC thread had mentioned possible decision of today, Feb. 1st b/t 3-5pm/est. They reiterated that mid February is the next wave of EA acceptance. Let’s hope the students get a decision before then. Good luck to everyone and Go Blue!”
So if I got an interview request then I prob won’t get a response in the next wave, cuz it’s before my interview.
@bluenohio Thank you for the insight! Do you know anything about Kinesiology release dates?
when will kinesiology decisions come out? they didn’t seem to be a part of the previous wave. I got deferred EA
How do I know if Michigan got my first semester grades? I don’t think they filled out the mid year report on commonapp bc it doesn’t say submitted and idk where to check in the wolverine portal. Is it under credentials? Bc I don’t see it there either.
@shiftbro it’s under Credentials. When they got mine, the date of “Transcript High School” updated.
Sounds pretty promising for a release wave on Feb 15th. I’m excited.
Thanks! Just checked again and it hasn’t been updated yet. They probably still have to process it or soemthing. Yes, im hoping for a wave the 15th!! I think it likely bc of the days off at the end of january.
Has anyone who got accepted on 2/1 received their admissions package yet?
@2019md I’m OOS and haven’t received mine yet.
@sushiritto @Knowsstuff @brantly - please settle a debate. My wife firmly believes based on her discussions with her girlfriends whose kids got into Michigan and other good schools, that Michigan and other schools monitor their portals and judge interest in their school by the number of portal visits. They say you need to log on to your portal daily to show interest. Our OOS S rarely goes on his portals and my wife is convinced that is why Michigan and other schools he applied to have not accepted him even though he has a 1590 (one sitting) SAT, 800 Math SAT II, decent ECs, good recs, works 2 jobs, and 13 AP classes from a top Public high school. I say his 3.72 UW GPA and possibly his essays which were done at the last minute are why he has not been accepted yet and think the portal views are a bunch of hooey. BTW, he visited Michigan in November and took an official tour of the campus and attended a Ross info session, sent 3 emails to his AO expressing that Michigan is his first choice - 1 right after visit; 1 shortly before EA decisions; and a 3rd time with his mid-term grades (including 3 APs) which were excellent.
I couldn’t find the article I was looking for but this one states a few ways to i show demonstrates interest. Opening emails from colleges that track that. Interesting. The article I was looking for was when did the student make an ID. Also some schools in theory tracked how many times a student actually used their website.
Not sure if colleges still do this.
But if any of you think this is true I would think the earlier the better. If you think doing something now out of desperation is going to help then no. If your wife’s friends have proof then great.
My son visited. Met with 2 professor’s and did the school tour. Met his AO at a fair. Went to a regional talk that Michigan was part of with other schools. He also had a unique, personal and interesting essay. Essays count at Michigan.
Seems like your son did all the right things.
Thanks for your thoughts @Knowsstuff . Although debate is not solved.
@CaptainRonnie I wish I had a “good bead” on admissions. My kid (very high stats, but 7-ish AP’s) expressed no interest in UM, beyond the EA app. I sincerely doubt a portal or email was checked, or website visited. Not a legacy either. But we got an OOS EA acceptance to UMich.
UMich’s CDS states that demonstrated interest is “considered,” but not “important.” While perusing a few prior EA deferred threads I noticed many kids posting about constantly checking their portals and at least some of them were ultimately rejected.
So, while I think everything helps, in the case of UMich (other schools like Tufts, WashU, ND, etc. have a reputation for being aware of demonstrated interest), I would speculate that demonstrated interest does not override pure hard stats and the propensity of the high school to matriculate students to UMich (aka yield). So, I’d probably agree with your hypothesis, maybe it’s your son’s GPA (but 13 AP’s!) and/or essays. His HS’s yield maybe? But I did see a few “EA deferred” students who were admitted with 3.7x GPA’s.
Literally, he’s done everything, including the kitchen sink, from my perspective. He deserves admittance. Best of luck.
My opinion is that SOME schools do this – especially those for whom demonstrated interest is important. I’m not sure it’s the portal, though. They track whether you open emails and then whether you click the link provided in the email. They track whether you follow them on FB, Instagram, and Twitter. I told my kids to follow all the colleges they applied to and to open all emails from them. But again, it’s only some colleges, and it would only be a piece of the picture. And I really have no idea if Michigan tracks interest this way. Each college has its own data that informs them about the likelihood of a candidate’s enrollment.
@CaptainRonnie Perhaps your son has not heard yet (was he deferred from EA?) because his stats are high enough for more selective colleges. They think Michigan’s his safety. He should have his guidance counselor call his/her contact at Michigan to say that he will enroll if admitted. It’s a much stronger statement coming from the GC. GCs have a lot at stake for themselves and their schools if they’re not transmitting reliable information. Applicants, OTOH, experience no consequences by promising more than one college they will enroll if admitted.