My friend who applied for Cornell got noticed that the decision will only come out in December. Just think of it as the sacrifices you have to make to get into a prestigious school. And I doubt that competitive universities care about our problems.
I just talked to admissions over live chat today, and asked about accepting other offers. She said that UMich is non-binding, so we are āstill permitted to apply and to enroll at other schoolsā. This is how that conversation went:
Counselor: Hi, my name is --. How may I help you?
Me: Hello, I had a general question about accepting admissions offers
Counselor: okay i can help you with any questions you may have
Me: I have been admitted to another school and they have an approaching
deadline for accepting admission, but I have not heard back about my Winter 2020 application for UMich. Is there some kind of risk in accepting multiple offers? If I do not accept, and am not granted admission, I may lose the opportunity to attend this other school because of these deadlines
Counselor: give me just a moment while i look into this for you
Me: Okay, great. Thank you! I just do not want to risk my chances of attending UMich, but I still need a backup plan in case I am not accepted.
Counselor: our decisions are non-binding
Me: What does this mean exactly?
Counselor: if you get accepted here you are not required to accept. its really up to you how many offers you would want to accept. you should find out if the other offer is binding or non binding
Me: But if I were already accepted into another school, and accept their offer
to cover my bases, this will not affect my chances of acceptance for UMich? My current college counselor says that for some more selective schools that it may not look good to accept multiple offers after getting in
Counselor: Because our decision is non-binding, you are still permitted to apply to and enroll at other schools
Me: The application for the other school was not early decision, it was a
general transfer application
Counselor: can you help me understand your question better? if you accept an offer that is binding than you would have to commit to that schoolā¦ if its non binding than you have leeway. it will not affect your umich chances
Me: Okay, amazing!
Counselor: was that helpful?
Me: That is exactly what I needed to know!
happy halloween guysā¦ hopefully we get a treat at midnight tonight from UMICH 
hopefully! Fingers crossed:)
what time of day do they typically release decisions?
i would expect them to be released toward the end of a business day (5/6pm in the officeās time zone) and if not it will definitely be during regular operating hours
i got my fall admission decision at 11:32am
I am surprised nobody has heard back.
Nothing yet. 3:20 pm cst
Michiganders: Do you have a backup Michigan school, and if you do which major/school?
I am debating on a science (but idk if I prefer chem or bio yet, or small chance enviro), and I have no idea what school to even go to. Prefer UM A2 obv, but idk which other to choose. CMU/NMU are too far tbf, but idk If MSU, UM Dearborn or WSU/EMU are better choices and itās stressing me out that I donāt even have a school chosen, AND still waiting on the UMICH decision.
@rabidkitten I plan on going to MSU (already accepted) if I donāt get into UM. Iām going for Microbiology.
Also going to MSU if Iām not accepted. Iām planning on studying communications
I honestly had zero intentions of going to MSU, but theyāre becoming to be my new backup. I just didnāt want to have to live on campus, thus why UM Dearborn/WSU were my original backup. I received my MSU stuff today, and even their stupid little flag instead of an envelope made me like them a tiny bit more than I used to, making my choices difficult, lel.
Iām just hoping I hear back from UM before having to pay a deposit for whichever school. I swear waiting is so stressful.
Hey I am applying to Engineering, do you guys know if that might take longer or something? Thanks
Applying for engineering as well. Hope it doesnāt take that long, other schoolsā deadlines are coming up.
P.S. anyone from out-of-state like me? just wondering
When I contacted the CoE admissions, they said that they should expect the admissions decisions within six-eight weeks for me, so probably no luck other than to wait. ;(
@PerryHorn Iām OOS too
Yes. Oos. From midwest and big ten school.
I am applying to Engineering Physics, how about you guys?
i am also oos applying for engineering physics from the east coast