@mckate Thank you!
@suchagrind Demonstrated interest matters. I emailed my ao regularly and visited campus (i’m from NY so it probably impressed them i came from so far). My GPA and EC’s are similar to yours in quality but I had a 31 ACT. I’m hispanic too but idk if that impacted anything. make sure u show interest. it goes further than u think. good luck!
My daughter was deferred with great stats all the way around. She isn’t stressing because she knows they deferred a lot of kids and it’s not over until it’s over. She goes to a private school in CA and of all the people she knows that applied and got in were classified as minorities.
Not making a blanket statement at all but wanted to see if anyone else has seen that as well.
Does anyone have a guess when hard-copy acceptance letters will arrive for in-state admitted students?
@suchagrind - having an OOS son who has top-tier statistics who was deferred despite expressing Michigan as his first choice (contact with AO, visits, connections to Michigan described in essays) and looking at the posts and seeing some similar kids getting deferred and others admitted, I have no idea what a deferral means for top-tier kids. Bottom line is Michigan did not deem them worthy of admission at this time and while you can hold out hope that Michigan might later admit your child and submit LoCIs which my son will do when he sends his first semester grades to Michigan, I think it is time to put your efforts and focus on other options. As a parent, it is hard to guide your kids through their disappointments in life and part of that involves trying to help them understand reality and get them to focus on moving forward, which I am trying to do with my son. While it is tough to convey to them that their dream school may not be the one they thought, giving some perspective and guidance is about all we can do.
Good luck. Also congrats to everyone who was admitted - it is quite an accomplishment!
@MLG2019, @CaptainRonnie Keep in mind that, as mentioned earlier, a deferral doesn’t mean Michigan ‘doesn’t deem them worthy of admission.’ It could mean they’re looking at past data and assuming your child actually applied ED somewhere else. But I completely agree that it’s best to encourage your child to focus on getting other applications in, just in case. What a roller coaster. Seems like there should be a better system, for sure.
@Mezric11 Right in time for Christmas 
Not sure how many 2023 EA applicants. Could it be that they may not be able to review all the applicants just yet so send deferral to those whose applications were not fully reviewed to RD phase?
Were there any denials at all?
I actually disagree with you. The same thing happened two years ago when my daughter applied. UM received so many applications that they didn’t have enough people to review them so they defered everyone until they had time to get back to review their applications. Have you noticed that no one has been rejected. They just need more time to get to people. Many of the people that were accepted were legacies. My understanding is that the legacies go in a different pile. Many of my daughters friends were accepted once they got to their applications. That year the school even sent letters out to college counselors letting them know they had such an increase in applications that they weren’t prepared. I heard the same thing happened this year. With that being said, my son and his friend, both legacies, were accepted and several of their friends with very similar statistics were deferred. Hope this helps. It is definitely not over.
@mckate said…
I honestly think they get far more applications that are ‘worthy of admission’ than they can possibly accept, so even a denial does not mean they deem you unworthy. I know it can feel that way, though.
If this thread is anything to go by, UMich certainly seems to weigh stats comparatively lightly, and pay close attention to your essays, personality, and the cohesiveness of your application. I got in as a completely unhooked OOS applicant, with good stats (35 act, 4.0 unw), but in my own opinion not as good stats as some that were deferred (Can’t say if they were objectively better or worse because I had a unique high-school path, but still).
Re. the question about indicating legacy: as part of the Michigan-specific school questions on the Common App, they ask “have any relatives ever attended Michigan?” they also ask “are any of those relatives a Grandparent?” edit: Ah, I see this was already addressed above.
Folks, last year for the Class of 2022, UMich accepted almost 8,000 EA applications of the almost 40,000 EA applications, that’s a 20% acceptance rate. UMich accepted a total of 15,468. UMich cannot accept every high stat applicant in EA. I’ll speculate that EA apps probably increased this year too.
If you look through this thread, there were plenty of high stat applicants accepted as well, not all were deferred.
Accepted into LSA OOS
GPA: 3.77 UW 9-12 (3.9 10-12)
APs/honors taken: geometry h, bio h, chem h, world lit h, modern European history AP, calc ab AP, stats AP, gov/micro AP, Us history AP, biology AP, AP environmental science, AP latin 4
ACT: 32
@mckate, @CaptainRonnie, my son was accepted to another ranked school that usually defers OOS. He has “Top Stats”. UM is his first choice and he has visited UM… Expressed his desire to go to UM during his alumni interview. Expressed his desire to go to UM in his essay.
He didn’t apply to MIT, Georgia Tech, CalTech, or Stanford because he wanted to go to UM CoE. With this deferral, he is now applying to the other schools.
It has to sting knowing that people with lower scores, a lower gpa, not as many APs and not as many ECs got accepted. I know that we are talking about way above average potential students, but they are still 17/18 years old and human.
@NovaDad052019 It’s a gut-wrenching process, there’s no question about it. I’m sorry your son has to scramble and apply elsewhere…that really stinks. I hope he gets accepted to UM or whatever school is the best fit for him. (FWIW not all high schools offer a lot of AP classes, and UM takes that into account. But I totally get what you’re saying.)
Sorry if this has already been asked but I have nearly 200 notifications from this thread and cannot bring myself to scroll through all these pages. But is deferral kind of like rolling admissions/a waitlist that you can be picked off randomly? Or do we all have to wait until the spring? I have received many mixed answers.
I can understand that UMich is a kind of backup to many very strong students, and it’s inconvenient for UMich to accept them all EA. What they really need is a new kind of EA/ED decision which basically says “we’ll accept you if you commit before Jan 1st”. Not likely to happen though.
@novadad052019 @mckate and others - To clarify when I said “Michigan did not deem them worthy” for admission I qualified it with “at this time.” I did not intend to suggest that those deferred are “not worthy” as I am sure most are and certainly did not intend to impugn their character and qualifications. I was just acknowledging that they were not to Michigan at this time. I am not sure if the Michigan AOs read the apps that were deferred because they had too many and will get to them later as some have suggested or as @sushrito has suggested since many high stats kids were accepted that the deferred may have good stats but are missing other components Michigan is looking for. We do not know what really happened and will never know. The reality is that the deferreds were not accepted and need to start thinking about other options, which most likely are pretty darned good even if they never get accepted by Michigan.