I don’t understand the frustration either, and I have a deferred kid. They can’t get back to us any more quickly, because as they stated, they need to compare deferred students with their RD pool, and the RD deadline hasn’t even arrived. I hear there is usually a mid-Feb wave of acceptances, and even that sounds early to me, considering they’ve only had the entirety of the RD pool for two weeks by then.
In S’s case, thankfully, the wait makes it easier, not harder, to get excited about the schools he’s been admitted to already. He “feels the love” from the schools who have accepted him with merit, and continue to send him swag. I realize there are other kids who would be turned off by this (“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept people like me as a member.” - Groucho Marx)
Personally, I am grateful M doesn’t reject in EA and that he is still in the running, but from S’s point of view he never mentions M and I think he may have forgotten all about it. If M eventually accepts him it will be a happy surprise. Nothing to be done about it now, anyway.
Perhaps frustration is not right word. Impatience is probably the more accurate description. There are people still thinking the EA has not completed and treated deferral as a delayed/extended EA process and therefore feel frustrated. In reality, deferred applicants are just like other RD applicants. It is deferred not because they need more time to review the application.
I am a parent of a COE sophomore. Wanted to chime in here because my child was deferred 2 years ago. Decent GPA, very high test scores. OOS. Legacy. It was an agonizing wait, but eventually was accepted on first Friday in March. Of my child’s current UMich friend group, most had been deferred EA.
My child sent a letter (email) of continued interest indicating new activities, expressing interest, etc. Also called the counselor and left a message. Honestly, I don’t know if this was ever considered. Never received any response from the counselor. Was told by the admissions office that they are busy, and if your email doesn’t bounce back, assume it was received. That didn’t exactly give us a warm feeling!
So be patient, and let admissions go through its process. My child is happy at Michigan, but could’ve been happy at a number of other places. I believe that to be true for others as well.
Note that most deferred EA and early RD applicants would not receive the final decision in the first few rounds. The rolling admission process is not really FIFO. It is just that it has multiple rounds of admission notices and it will start before finishing reviewing all applications.
@Whitman6838 It is not clear to me if the timing of the status update may link to certain outcome. The removal of EA deferral status on WA should happen when the application is being reviewed in the RD and perhaps at a later stage.
Looking at the results from those deferred last year, there is a fairly clear correlation between the disappearance of the “view decision” in late January tab followed by an acceptance soon after (First week of Feb.). There is no way of knowing if this pattern will follow this year, but I am hopeful since my view decision tab is gone. Have any other EA applicants view decision tabs been removed recently?
For sure the new decision would be posted after removing the EA deferral decision info. It is just not clear if all that have the old decision removed early would be admitted soon.