I see 19 and 24 dec from posts above did applicants get different dates? The email we got was dec 24th.
@airway1 The email we got said “by 24.” It’s unlikely that decisions will actually come out on Christmas Eve.
You will get notified “by” December 24th. Historically it has come out prior. There is a person that has been correct on that date the last few years so when he/she says the 19th, people take notice.
@mckate it is just an estimate after being here and reading the last few years. Most schools have like close to 50% acceptance letters sent out during this phase but you don’t know how many kids will accept especially since you have till May 1 to commit. It just seems like everybody gets deferred and that is somewhat tongue in cheek statement. I just like the students to know that being deferred seems to be more the norm for Michigan. They received a lot more applications the last 2 years and it seemed they deferred kids since there truly was not enough time /personal to do a proper holistic review. Would you want Michigan to rush through your application? Of course not.
@brantly what’s your take on this?
@kyledad seems like a nice schedule. Grades matter so have him keep getting great grades. They will have to send in midterm grades at some point then the transcript later on. All schools want to see kids not let up. We told our kids… “this phase you are preparing for college. College is really that much harder” Especially at Michigan
I am willing to bet it will be released on December 14th. They always try to release it on a Friday as to not deal with questions the next business day. December 21 doesn’t work because the next business day is Christmas Eve so no one will be there to help when the weekend is over making the 14th the most reasonable choice
@belliebean it’s fun to guess. I think the last two years it was on a Wednesday though. 
Refer to an earlier post by @SingingBusDriver. Wednesday, December 19, 2018 is the date. The first result post, a deferral, was posted at 3:03 EST last year. Bank on it!
I told my D19 about busdriver’s post and she’s got her bet with you - next Wednesday.
Good luck. Hope you get good news.
@sushiritto do you have the stats of how many people get accepted with EA? I know something like 50% get acceptance letters but how many accept? I know they have till May 1st but the stats should be somewhere how many accept EA. Didn’t see it in the alamac.
Same thing happened to my son. He emailed the AO for our state and asked for his UM id so he could access the portal and also took the opportunity to express that UM is his first choice (which it really is). A day later he received an email with his UM id.
Per @SingingBusDriver from last year:
That’s from almost 40,000 EA applications for the Class of 2022, so that’s roughly a 20% acceptance rate (8,000/40,000) during EA. How many accept their EA acceptances? That I don’t know.
@Knowsstuff A very large percentage of OOS applicants are deferred from EA to RD. Michigan is keenly sensitive to yield. During EA they admit the qualified candidates whom they believe, based on data, would be likely to attend. That includes legacies and applicants who fall in the sweet spot of GPA/scores. Those who seem like strong candidates for Ivys and other highly competitive schools may be deferred.
That’s good to know! Hopefully I fall into that sweet spot perhaps – not applying to any Ivys…. 
@brantly What are the sweet spots for OOS applicants? I had no idea about the deferrals for OOS applicants until I started reading this thread. Thanks.
“Those who seem like strong candidates for Ivys and other highly competitive schools may be deferred.” Very interested in this (and a little concerned!). My daughter seems like a strong candidate for U of M (SAT 1550 with an 800 on the Math portion, 4.0 GPA with 12 AP classes). Even though she is OOS, we’re hoping her genuine interest/connections – Chemistry camp there the summer of 2017, two parents who graduated from U of M law school, one who went there undergrad – shine through. I have heard that U of M places a LOT of emphasis on whether they think a student really views it as their top choice.
This is largely true. As your D is a legacy, she fits into one of the data-proven demographics of applicants very likely to enroll.
Michigan is very aware that a good proportion of their applicants from the NE competitive areas are using Michigan as a safety school. In many high schools Michigan is sort of a throw-away application, as in, “Yeah, I might as well apply to Michigan.” It’s a great school that’s a frequent back-up for students applying to HYPS. Those are the ones who Michigan has its radar out for.
There’s no precise number. It’s subjective. Let’s say an applicant is #1 at Stuyvesant HS (NYC) or TJHS (NoVa). 1580 SAT. Intel competition finalist. Concert pianist who also composes and conducts music. First generation college student. Amazing references, engaging essays. If you were the admissions officer, would you think this student’s first choice is Michigan? Or would you be thinking this student has applied REA to, say, Stanford or Harvard, and has applied EA to Michigan as a back-up? Certainly you’d want that student at Michigan, but there is no indication that he/she would attend. So … let’s defer the student and see what happens. Will she follow up with a letter of continued interest? Will the guidance counselor call on her behalf to say that the student will definitely attend if admitted? Will the student communicate with the regional rep to follow up? Or will Michigan never hear from her again because she was admitted to Stanford?
Anyone applying for preferred admission to the BBA program?
I think @brantly has it right with respect to OOS deferrals. Michigan does not want to admit a strong OOS applicant only to subsequently hear the applicant was accepted ED to an Ivy, Northwestern, Duke, etc. Yield protection is important. UVa uses a different admissions strategy to accomplish the same goal…by waiting until mid January to notify EA applicants.
Thanks @brantly . Very helpful. My son might be in the sweet spot as his scores are good enough for anywhere but his unweighted GPA is a bit lower than the Michigan average so the Ivies are a long shot. He has expressed interest in emails to his AO and visited Michigan and it (Ross) is really his first choice. Fingers crossed.
Does anybody know how you can express interest while still sounding genuine? (And without going halfway across the country, I can’t spend that money now, I need it for tuition )