@WolverineGrad Like others have said, from what I’ve seen the opposite is true. The speculation is that many high-reaching students shooting for ivies and the like might apply to Michigan as a quasi-safety (not promised, but a good school that isn’t Ivy-level selective) and Michigan would prefer to increase EA yield. The line of thinking assumes that Michigan will defer high-quality candidates who don’t show a particular passion or connection to the university.
Why they would be more tolerant of that during RD I couldn’t say, but that’s the word on CC anyway.
My child is now a soph at UM. At least 40 students in his HS class applied EA. In the initial acceptance round in Dec, 12 students were accepted of which 10 were legacy (we’re OOS). Another 5 including my child were accepted before the RD notification. Some heard in January, Feb and mine heard in early March; so don’t interpret a deferral as a rejection.
Which year are you referring to and where did you get that info? It does not match what I found for 2015 freshmen admission stat at least for the first part.
Most of the EA applicants got deferred to RD. Unlike previous years, the EA admission rate and RD admission rate are not too far off in 2015.
@McKilla99 Correct. Graduated high school and entered as college freshman in 2015. Class of 2019 in College Confidential and U-M terminology (#Victors2019).
@danloeb Those look like enrolled numbers not admitted numbers. The total admissions are usually around 13-14000. Admit rate is 32% so that would mean around a little over 14,000.
@danloeb Thank you for this detailed information, I am impressed by your access to information. Not sure I wanted to really know how low the acceptance rate was, but I guess it’s better to be prepared. Nothing we can do now but wait. And hope. #goblue#hailtothevictors#wishingeveryonegoodnewsondecember18
@gluttonforstress Those are admitted numbers. 7,813 admitted during EA, plus 2,608 from EA that were deferred but admitted later, plus another 3,190 RD applicants that were admitted equals a total of 13,611 students admitted.
@danloeb It is interesting info. (RD accepted who deferred or rejected at EA)/(applicants who did not accepted EA) is exactly same as RD(accepted who applied RD)/(applicants who did RD).
@danloeb great info, thanks. So of the EA pool of 27,357, there were 7,813 admitted and 19,544 either rejected or deferred. Do you have the deferred/rejected breakdown? I have read on this thread a few times that almost no EA applicants are rejected outright but that seems very unlikely. Where are you getting these numbers - they look accurate but just curious about the source. Thanks again.
For people who are nervous about deferral: Most schools that are the same size as Michigan do Rolling admissions because of the sheer size of the applicant pool. Michigan, if they did Rolling, would have no deferrals and would accept or reject fairly quickly. In an attempt to remain elite, they have specific decision deadlines and notification dates, forcing them to defer a LOT of applications. They just purely cannot read all of the applications at that time.
The information can be pieced together from the National Center for Education Statistics website: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ and the U-M Planning and Budget office site: http://obp.umich.edu/.
@futureco2020 I’ve seen that rumor float on this forum and it is absolutely not true. Michigan definitely reads all of their applications before making EA decisions. They have over 100 people reading applications around the clock during EA, so they manage to get through them all.
For whatever reason, they choose to not deny students during EA and defer everyone into RD. I’m guessing it’s the same logic behind them offering the waitlist to 10,000 students each year instead of denying more students.
Just because some students with outstanding stats weren’t admitted early, people jumped to the conclusion that there’s no way Michigan would have passed on them, so they must not have had time to get through all of the applications. I think the increase in application volume, and yield, has really just brought Michigan to the point where their selectivity is getting closer to the Ivies or highly selective privates than what people are used to seeing from a large public school.
Michigan often passes on students with outstanding stats because they know these students are treating Michigan as a safety, and are not going to attend if they are accepted. They would rather give that spot to someone who would actually attend, increasing their yield and making them look more selective and desirable.
It feels surreal to know that a week from today I could potentially know if I got in. When I first submitted my application it felt like this day would never come. If I get deferred, I’m not sure how I will be able to wait any longer.