University of Michigan Waitlist 2024

Ross wave is tomorrow and some other schools. Then they will start looking at the wait list after May 1st since kids have till that time to commit.

Does anyone know if UMich accepted more applicants this year because they projected a decline in yield due to COVID? USC, Middlebury and some other colleges have said that they accepted hundreds/thousands more students because of this. If UMich had about the same acceptance rate as previous years, I would expect their acceptance rate from the waitlist to be unprecedentedly high because they would need to fill spots.

Hi, my son is in state accepted EA. He submitted his deposit in January. He was surprised that very few of his friends in his High School who were either deferred or applied RD were eventually accepted and only a few were waitlisted. Obviously this is a small sample size. The University of Michigan has open EA and use it for yield control. They get a lot of EA applications. IMHO the essays are designed to figure out how likely you are to say yes quickly. Recall that the COVID situation was developing well before the RD decision deadline. $300 deposit is not a lot of money compared to some deposits. I suspect that they may have had a very high EA yield. If you are a wealthy auto exec in SE Michigan do you send your daughter to USC in the middle of COVID? Does she even want to go anymore. No. If there is an outbreak you just need to drive 90 miles and pick her up. So I suspect UofM did not admit more than usual and they simply expect higher in state yield to cancel out lower out of state yield (and they may already know). UofM is rich, they will just take the hit for a year. I would expect wait list action to happen after orientation signups close. You have to pay for a (now online) orientation in the summer. In past those were in person June-Aug. Those who decided to go elsewhere, or not go at all, will be drop out then. So I would expect waitlist admits to happen later in the cycle.

@superspectral, you may be right! We are EA applicants, wait listed and more over OOS.

@knowstuff - My Daughter got denied for Ross but still waitlisted for LSA? If she gets accepted to LSA later, will she still have chance for Ross admission?

@redd123. No. She’s already denied at Ross so she doesn’t get a second chance.

@superspectral - when do you think the waitlist will be? June? July or late in August?
Thanks.

Ross decisions are out right? anyone on here get off the waitlist?

how common is it to get off ross waitlist? I didn’t even know they had one

@superspectral It will be interesting to hear numbers. Michigan definitely has a big endowment, but those have guidelines of what they can be used for. I will be surprised
if Michigan didn’t accept more this year. All colleges will have trouble because of Covid & we will see how it all plays out. Michigan with it’s huge size and large lecture hall classes could be more affected. The loss of football revenue will be a big hit as well.

did anyone get accepted today?

My cousin teaches at a college (NOT UMichigan) and she says that college is thinking 2 scenarios:

  • students go online for Fall and come back to campus in January
  • let students come back in August/September - students leave in October/November
    when COVID-19 rebounds - and come back n January

I was waitlisted for the school of kinesiology, but I am okay getting in for LSA and will commit if I do get off the waitlist. Would it help to send an email about this to my admissions counselor, or does this have little to no effect on my chances of getting off the waitlist?

Where should I send my LOCI if I want to send one? to the UMich undergrad counselor of my state?

@Dc6688 That would probably be the right person to send it to, though it is not recommended, and they specially take note of it on their Waitlist FAQ. They request waitlist applicants not to send any external documents, as they already have the required materials to make an informed decision.

if anyone sends to just the Umich undergrad email did they say they added it to your file

They will put it in your file or they will at least “tell you” that they did.

Yes it should go to a year University of Michigan counselor but read the instructions, following instructions is also part of the process.

@Knowsstuff By instructions, would you be referring to the guidelines given on the Waitlist FAQ page?

yep