@einsteinsmom
Thank you for your application to the University of Michigan College of Engineering for Fall 2016. We are pleased that you have applied and are impressed with your achievements. However, our high application volume, coupled with the very strong credentials of our applicants in recent years, has contributed to an increasingly competitive admissions process. As a result, we are writing to inform you that your application is currently being deferred for further review.
While this is not the answer that you were hoping to hear, your application remains under consideration. All final admissions decisions of admit, deny, or waitlist will be made no later than early April, 2016.
Strong fall semester or trimester grades may improve your status in the deferred pool of applicants. Therefore, please ask your high school counselor to forward them when they become available. Beyond that, we are confident that the information you have given us is more than sufficient for a final decision. The most successful candidates send us only what we require. Please refer to the website https://umich.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2080 for FAQ’s about the admission process and what to do next.
We hope your interest in Michigan continues. You have our best wishes for an enjoyable and successful end of your senior year.
@MJShao I called the admissions office. They told me that they are still reviewing my app, which is probably due to the 30,000+ apps they received. Additionally, I sent my app in one day before the deadline. They said that it will happen by tomorrow 5pm
We don’t really know but it would seem that the first one mentioning legacy and mentioning that no more info was needed would be better IMO. Those receiving the second one won’t even be evaluated again until after Feb 1. Those will be in the RD pile. Those receiving the first letter are being evaluated again even as we speak based on the tone of the letter. Perhaps waiting for those that have been accepted ED to drop off as many will.
@traw2016 Admission decisions could still be coming out today as the admissions office doesn’t close until 7. I have a friend who got his decision at 7 pm on Friday last week.
Appreciate your sentiment, but no one at our house is waiting for UM to offer my D admission in RD. She is already in UChicago EA which is by any objective standards a better (after Harvard, Princeton and Yale in rankings) and a much more selective school (8-9%). Hence no interest any more in a UM admission.
It is mildly amusing she got deferred at UM - there is clearly a lot differences between what UChicago looks for and what UM does. Had she been accepted at both, hands down UChicago would be her choice so the issue of a UM RD decision is irrelevant from our point of view. Congrats to those who got accepted, good luck to those awaiting a regular decision admission. We will probably withdraw our application from UM to improve chances for others.
@subkartik Congrats on your daughter’s EA acceptance to UChicago. While I understand why she would go with such a great choice, I disagree that the selectivity makes it a better school than Michigan. Some would argue that their selectivity to some extent has been created with the smoke and mirrors of marketing. Hopefully the selected major at UChicago is of a greater standing than that of Michigan. The allure of Michigan is that it is so highly ranked in so many disciplines. That’s is why many are willing to wait. Good luck to your high achieving daughter. She will do fantastically at UChicago.
Thanks. UM has great rankings. Overall though UChicago has a much higher ranking. Is UM a terrific school? Sure. As is UChicago. As I’m sure are all the Big 10s and private schools in the Midwest. Will our kids get a better education at one or the other? I don’t know - depends on the kids experience. I really think all these schools are awesome.
But at some level the decision of which school to attend is one I would have to defer to some external ranking. UChicago is in at around the top 10 locally, nationally and globally. Tough to decline that any more that she would decline Harvard or Yale. No major to declare as AFAIK they get to choose only after they finish the Core over the first 1.5-2 years - common to all students.
She isn’t done with her applications and is still looking at Yale, Brown, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Tufts where she did not do EA/ED. If some of them come thru it will be a tougher choice. But we will cross that bridge when we come to it. She may change her mind.
Can’t think of a better school than Michigan to get it all (if you want it all) … power academics, big 10 sports, gorgeous campus steeped in tradition, incredible college town. No wonder 50,000+ apply every year and the admittance percentage keeps going down. No other place like it.
@subkartik Congrats! UChicago is an amazing school, great for her! I saw earlier you posted about withdrawing the app, and I think you 100% should if she definitely is not going. Michigan is my first choice and I was deferred so I find it unfair when people who are definitely not going to Michigan keep their app available and take the spots of kids who would love to attend!
