Just seems odd that only four people on threads say they got acceptance decision today. Seems awfully low.
I WAS ACCEPTED TO LSA THIS MORNING RIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! Many others from my school heard too. I’m so excited I’m going to be a wolverine! Hang in there guys!
If past behavior holds true, UM releases decisions throughout the day. When my kid was accepted 2 years ago after being deferred EA, the decision came through around 6 pm on a Friday night and other students had been hearing since early the same day. Be patient and stay hopeful!
FYI - They are on break next week. Not sure if that will impact the decision release or not.
Very frustrating. I’m a mom too.
No decision for me either in Ohio. I am so tired of waiting. Especially because Michigan is my dream school 
My S was accepted off the deferral list, found out about 5-6 pm, East time, Fri Feb. 5 if that helps anyone for timing.
I contacted the counselor and she had to say this regarding the decision date
Hello,
All students are guaranteed a decision by the end of April. We will continue to release decisions but the time frame is not the same for everyone.
Thank you
@friendslover does she think we’re stupid? She knows exactly what we mean, yet she provides the same generic stuff that all of us know.
I know U of M is a highly respected, highly competitive school that uses a holistic admissions process, but I think making students who meet the Nov 1 EA deadline wait and wait and wait for a decision is ridiculous. Why even have EA if you can’t get to all the applications and are just going to defer 2/3 of the applicants to RD anyways? I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but this is just beyond frustrating. My son applied to 5 schools, got acceptances within 1-2 weeks from the other 4. And here we are, almost 3 months later and still no decision from U of M. And if he’s denied, then I’d rather they just tell him now instead of making him wait any longer.
The Ivies and most other top universities do not give ANY acceptances until the very end of March, including for deferred students. Some of those schools defer an awful lot of students as well. Michigan has to evaluate over 50,000 applications, and it its process is holistic. Many schools with much earlier admissions just consider GPA and test scores, making it much easier to process everything more quickly. Michigan tells you upfront that you may not hear until April. It is better to just expect that you won’t hear and then it is a nice surprise if you hear earlier. There is no point in getting angry or frustrated. It just has a negative impact on you and does nothing to speed the process.
I guess my point is if U of M isn’t able to get through the number of apps they get in EA, then maybe just do away with EA. To have students put in extra effort to meet the deadline only to be deferred to the RD seems like a waste of their time and U of Ms. The process is flawed. Also for some students their final school choice can’t be made until they know what their financial aid is going to be. Not even getting an admission decision until April and then an offer of aid some time after that really does pose a problem for many students.
@McKilla99 I know that frustration when you read the same response again and again when the counselors precisely know which results they will release and when… and what’s killing me is that a classmate of mine got into UMich on 5th February even though he applied on the last day of RD submissions…and here we are waiting since 1st Nov.
You’ve got to be kidding me about your friend
The idea that Michigan defers people because they can’t get through the EA process is pure speculation. Students who are deferred are usually deferred because the institution wants to evaluate the full pool of applicants and the institution wants to appropriately manage enrollment. Again, there are MANY schools that do not issue ANY decisions until April, and their financial aid packages will not be able until then. That goes for just about all of Michigan’s peer institutions. If that is a problem, then students should not apply to those schools. Here is a list of notification dates from another thread:
American by April 1
Amherst first week of April
Boston College week of March 13
Bowdoin College: By April 1
Brandeis University: April 1
Brown University: March 31
Bucknell: March 25
Columbia University: March 31
Cornell University: March 31
Dartmouth College: March 31
Duke: March 25
Georgetown University: April 1
Georgia Tech: March 12
Harvard University: March 31
Haverford early April
JHU: March 18
Lafayette mailed by late March
Macalester College: March 30
Middlebury: March 19 after 8pm
MIT: March 14
University of Pennsylvania: March 31
Princeton University: March 31
Reed College: April 1
RPI: March 12
Rice University: By April 1
Rutgers: February 28
Stanford University: April 1
UC Berkeley: February 12 (2000 RDs being notified), March 24 for all others
UC Davis: March 15
UCSB: March 22
UCSD: March 15
UIUC: February 5
U Penn by April 1
Vanderbilt: April 1
Virginia Tech: By April 1
WashU: By April 1
Wesleyan University: March 25
Yale University: March 31
@rjp456 No I am not joking I am SERIOUS…there seems to be no order/method in which Umich is releasing decision which is not expected from a big public university
I was accepted yesterday to LSA after being deferred in December! I checked WA around 10:30 AM, not with a very hopeful attitude but was ecstatic to see a view decision link and then it being an acceptance. Received an email around 3:00 PM. I am in-state, have a 28 ACT and am heavily involved in the extracurriculars I partake in!
I have trouble believing they really follow their holistic approach. From what I see, some with low stats and no activities, not much checked off Michigans list get in fast. While others with higher stats and can check everything off Michigans list are still deferred.
How can you explain this? I really am having trouble believing they really follow their so called holistic approach.
With the number of application readers they have to have to say there is a holistic approach, there are definitely going to be inconsistencies. You never know what will intrigue a particular viewer of the application. No point in trying to figure it out or rationalize it–all you can do is focus on yourself here. Good luck…
I get frustrated with folks continuing to say they “just didnt get to the deferred apps”. Saying that is taking away from all the kids who did get accepted EA. Just accept that with the deferred apps, they were not ready to say yes to you without more comparison shopping! Even the kids who got accepted EA to Michigan got deferred at other places. Don’t take away from others to explain away something unknown.
As for the stats differential, that is the whole point of holistic admissions. They saw some combination of factors they needed. Maybe it was legacy, or URM hooks, maybe they have a talent related to their major you don’t have. And some colleges require higher stats than others…
Just be happy they didn’t see your app and put it in the reject pile, bc thousands and thousands were outright rejected.