Hang in there everyone. My daughter went through this last year. She applied early (Nov) and heard the last Friday in March! She was 2nd out of 440 in HS (OOS) and had a good hook being a world class Irish Step dancer. She thought her credentials were good and stressed over the wait. She finally got in and loves UM. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest universities in the country. Don’t give up hope. I am sure the students that don’t get accepted will have good options since they must have excellent credentials or they would’nt be applying to UM.
Good Luck everyone. It will work out the way it’s meant.
They are expecting to admit 13000-14000 (down from ~15000 before last year) to aim for a class of ~6000 at the end as the yield rate has been going up steadily. Last year, they thought that could make use of the waitlist more by admitting less in EA & RD (13611). At the end, they pretty much met the goal on May 1 that they did not need to admit much from the waitlist. So it is likely to admit even less than last year this time. Last year, around 1/3 of the admission was offered to EA and deferred ~85% of EA applicants. The last big batch of admission should be announced this week. So, don’t give up home until then. Even after next week, they are still sporadic admissions and likely to admit some more from the waitlist later on if everything work out as planned.
@gottaknwnow - look at this page (scroll down and open up the "+"s):
http://admissions.umich.edu/apply/freshmen-applicants/selection-process
Also, if you expand “Application Rating” then click on the blue words “rate each applicant,” you can see the actual form admissions uses.
I know that coming on this website becomes a sort of addiction. For those of us that still haven’t heard back, it’s quite nerve-wracking. We could spend hours on here looking at the people that have been accepted thinking "Wow, my scores are way below that, I’ll never get in. " or comparing ourselves to those that have been rejected thinking, “Man, my scores are kinda close to that person’s…”. I applied EA and was deferred. I applied to UMich, MSU, Georgetown, and Harvard EA. All aside from MSU deferred me. I was so set on pursuing a degree in International Relations, however, being deferred opened my eyes. I had always been in love with art and without being deferred, I would’ve never applied to the College for Creative Studies (and be accepted with a helpful scholarship). Right now I’m coming to terms with the fact that it is all out of my hands. The last few months of high school forever are coming to a close and I’m not going to spend it wishing I had done a few things differently. I refuse to spend any of the little amount of time that I am left in school over whether or not an Admissions Officer thought the numbers beside my name looked nice or that the words I typed were crafted beautifully enough. You are all such talented individuals. I want you to all remember through this that Rejection or Waitlist are not death sentences, on the contrary, they just mean that you’ll be living life a little differently than you once thought. I wish all of us luck.
@blprof Didn’t even know that page existed. Really interesting stuff…
@tooscared You sound like a success story to me. Good words. You are exactly right! Thank you.
Is it possible that a deferred EA applicant can then get waitlisted for addition stress, or will they definitely get a response this month?
@Much2learn I believe you will definitely get a response this month and the response will either be accepted, denied or wait list. And from what I’ve seen per collegedata.com 12,000 kids were wait listed 2015 and only 91 were finally accepted off of it. Just don’t put all your eggs in one basket. That’s what I’m telling my son. Good luck though, you never know.
Once deferred from EA, it would be considered in RD just like other RD applicants. Only a fraction of them will be waitlisted at the end. Last year, they offered guaranteed transfer in sophomore year to some waitlisted students.
Thank you so much @blprof!
@Lurdes777 I’m sorry I’m just seeing this. I’m in state. So Michigan.
@blprof sorry I’m a bit late but I just saw your post where you linked us to the template that UMich uses for admissions. I’m in complete awe! I would have never thought a school would release this to the public! I wonder how many other schools use this template or some variation of it. It was a great find thank you so much for sharing it!
I’m very surprised at some of these categories though, I thought UMich was need-blind, looks like it isn’t if it takes into account socioeconomic status. It really does seem to look at applicants much more holistically than other schools, there are many many more things in here than grades and GPA and APs.
Is the last batch coming out this Friday? Or is it just the majority of the batch?
Friday is Good Friday, not sure if that makes a difference…and next Friday is April Fool’s Day, which I think is a particularly bad day to release decisions. Would they wait until April 8? That seems awfully late. I can’t get S to commit to the school he will be attending until this last shoes drops and the wait is driving me nuts, since I strongly suspect there is a rejection coming anyway.
They input the decisions on Thursdays and the Friday release is automated, so I doubt Good Friday will matter. And April Fool’s? I’m pretty confident that won’t make one whit of difference in their decision to release or not release. 
Today I got a reply from my regional counselor for my letter of continued interest.
She said that they had a record 30000 early action applicants. She also said that I’ll be getting my decision in early April.
Btw international applicant here.
"Dear Applicant, we have received a record number of EA applications this year. The good news is that you are deferred in good company. We have decided to defer your application for an additional year, until March of 2017. We believe that if you truly want to be at UMICH you will wait that long for your notification. We appreciate your stoic patience. May the odds be ever in your favor. . . "
Did you really get an email saying that?
@MrGupta When did you send in your letter…if you don’t mind me asking. I never got a response back since sending a letter a month ago. [-(
My son’s original deferral letter said he’d get a decision no later than the end of March. The response from his regional counselor to his letter of continued interest said by early April. I’d like to believe he (and everyone else) will hear this Friday or next, but I’m really afraid it’s going to be another 3 weeks before final decisions come out. Anyone else get two different timeframes?