I sent mine to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions yesterday and received a response this morning
I sent it to my regional counselor yesterday should I send it to the office of undergraduate admissions too? If so can someone post the email
was the response something super generic like “oh we’re sorry you’re waitlisted we had _____ number of applicants this year and will let you know if anything opens up”?
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@EthanAz1… Nice… Good Luck
ughhh I’m so worried. Last year’s waitlisted students said their buttons disappeared on May 2. have any of your buttons disappeared on ur portal?
Yikes haven’t checked…I’d rather just sit and wait in despair for the e-mail than stress myself out even more but now I’m stressed
I emailed yesterday and just got the generic response now, like “thank you for your continued interest. We had 65,000 applications… we encourage you to make plans at another university as we do not usually admit from the waitlist until late May…” basically just what’s on the waitlist FAQ website ! Best of luck to you guys
Yah I got the same response.
Looks like last year they starting admitting off the wait list on 5/6 - 5/7. Are we thinking this weekend might be the first round?
I hope so! But also, I know Michigan got A LOT of applications this year and people are saying they didn’t have time to read everything so they just waitlisted everyone. I feel like there aren’t going to be too many admits off the waitlist this year, but I hope I’m wrong. Any thoughts?
Where did you hear that they just skipped sole applications due to high volume? No offense just curious
Some*
Other threads. I personally don’t think its true and that people were just trying to justify rejections and waitlists, but I do know they had a lot of applications.
@gogreen7 I’d be shocked if that’s true. They wouldn’t risk having good candidates commit elsewhere just because they ran out of time to look at applications. I am puzzled by the size of the wait-list though. No chance they “need” to keep so many students on it if they are going to take only a few percent. Assuming that they have ranked the list (even within the colleges/geographic areas or whatever criteria) they would be more than safe cutting half the kids and issuing a rejection.
Last year was a pretty good year for the waitlist, right?
I’d have to look back at older posts - but I think I saw somewhere that it was less than 10% (which was much higher than the prior year). It must be very difficult to “guess” how many of the kids they admit will actually go. With a fluctuating “yield rate” a couple percent swing can change things by a couple hundred kids.
If memory serves, U-M made offers to 2%, 1% and 11% of its wait-listed applicants in 2015, 2016, 2017, respectively. (These stats are somewhere on its website; can’t remember exactly where). Although an 11% offer rate is much higher than in previous years, it’s still quite low. I hope everyone on this thread has happily accepted offers elsewhere and thinks of an offer from U-M at this point as quite unlikely and, if it happens, an unexpected bonus. I wish everyone the best in their academic and professional careers!
My friend from school got off the waitlist around 10 am today
For what major???