University of Michigan Class of 2023 Early Action

@plue11, in most cases, Michigan won’t know who got into their ED school until after Christmas. Most schools with ED programs give the accepted students a week or two to review/consider the financial aid package. For example, Wash U issued ED results yesterday, but does not require a response until Jan 2. Northwestern also released decisions a day or two ago, but does not require a deposit until Feb1. ED agreement for Common App schools states that accepted applicants must withdraw other applications “promptly” but there is no hard deadline, and many applicants wait a week or two to notify other schools.

Does anyone know how many students they accept for LSA EA round?

Last year decisions were released at 3pm on that Wednesday 12/20/2018. The email came out much much much later than when they were initially released, I had to go on the portal itself to get my decision, and there wasn’t any email telling me my admission decision was ready like some of the Ivy+ schools do.

For last year’s class, there were roughly 8,000 admissions for almost 40,000 EA applications. About a 20% admission rate for EA. Also, there were 15,468 total admissions granted, which means about 1/2 of all admissions are EA. Overall admission rate was 23%. Overall OOS admission rate was 19%

As just one data point, my kid received their EA acceptance via email at 10:43 PM PST on 12/20/18. The first post here on CC was 12:03 PM PST.

@sushiritto I would also note that overall in-state admission rate is much higher - something like 41% in order to get to the overall admission rate of 23%.

It would be interesting to know how many of the 40,000 EA applications were OOS. For overall applications, the numbers I saw for 2018 were something like ~81% OOS with only 19% being in-state. It would not surprise me if even a larger proportion of the EA applications were OOS. That would tend make the deferral rates for OOS look really large as well.

FYI - my DS was accepted to the COE from OOS in EA in 2018.

@ckd022 about 15,000 are in state each year, with more than 10,000 EA. I found this interesting article about last year
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/06/university_of_michigan_receive_8.html

Is there any consideration for an applicants stated major of interest - or do they not care beyond LSA/CoE? Are there LSA majors that are less popular and therefore advantageous to be interested in?

@Busybee01 I saw that article, I agree it was very interesting and gave some good OOS vs IS stats. I didn’t see anywhere that it said more than 10,000 in-state EA applications though.

That would be interesting as it would put the in-state EA percentage at ~25% (10,000/40,000) which is higher than the overall number which was around 20% (12,521/65,684) per that news story.

@ckd022 Ya, sorry about not listing in-state info, the overall and OOS numbers are always rolling around in my head. :))

As I noted above, the overall acceptance rate was 23.55% (15,468 admissions for 65,684 applications).

https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/freshmen-applicants/student-profile

@sushiritto I was pretty sure you were aware of it, but for people just wandering onto this thread, just seeing the stark difference between admissions rates for in-state (41%) and OOS (19%) helps explain a lot of the difficulties for OOS prospective students.

Thank you for link @ busybee01

What’s amazing to me is that of the 65k or so total applications, only 12k were in-state according to that article. This is incredible for a state university

So what time would decisions come out? Eastern Time?

yes, michigan is in the eastern time zone. typically they start releasing at 3pm but not all are dropped at the same time. happened at my school last year.

Best estimation is 3:00 PM EST 12/19. No guarantee.

I’m actually really worried. I am somehow classified as an out-of-state student even though I’m definitely in-state. The residency office claimed it didn’t matter and that all applications are reviewed the same but we all know that’s not true. I don’t know what to do. It takes 8-12 weeks for them to fix it and I applied at the start of November so it’s still going to get done very late. Any suggestions? Will they look at the rest of my Application and know that I’m in-state?

@ckd022 Unfortunately, the other challenge for OOS is that admissions likely attempts to build as diverse a student body - so they are looking to represent all other 49 states - Perhaps not all to the same degree, but a further dilution nonetheless.

@projectmgr - we’re in-state and I think counselors here strongly advise under qualified kids not to apply. She told my son that in her whole career, she heard of only one student with 6 AP classes that was accepted. She advises anyone with less than 8 not to apply and look into more realistic choices. My son took 9AP 8Honors, 35 ACT 800 SAT2s (he was accepted to Johns Hopkins 20 min ago :-bd) and his counselor said U of M… no guarantee!

@Busybee01 my son was accepted to COE last year and he only had 5 AP classes. It’s a smaller school in state and limited AP classes offered.

@projectmgr - I am on this thread as some students I work with have applied to Michigan, but my own daughter is at Hopkins and loves it! Congratulations to him, and best of luck to those who have applied to Michigan!