<p>Does anybody have any statistics regarding UMich's waitlist? Would like to know how many usually accept a place on it and the number of those who eventually get admitted (if any)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Fall Year 2004, 2005 and the latest year 2007, almost zero number were picked up from the wait lists (precisely 5 students in 2005 and nil in other years) of thousands.
The only exception was the year 2006 in which 525 lucky ones got in from waitlist.</p>
<p>So, going by last year, I suppose, it is time to move on.</p>
<p>Source for the above:CDS</p>
<p>that can't be true...my friend go waitlisted last year..and then he was accepted..his stats weren't great either: 1750 SAT, international etc..
keep your hopes up!!.(p.s. im yet to hear from Umich...but probably gonna go to UVa if i dont hear by tomorrow)</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://sitemaker.umich.edu/obpinfo/files/umaa_cds2008.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://sitemaker.umich.edu/obpinfo/files/umaa_cds2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>lol you're picking between mich and uva? uva ftw! what major though..</p>
<p>engineering... ECE....i just got a waitlist which im not going to apply for o im just fed up of umich...do u guys think i should go to UVa, Purdue or UMCP for engineering??</p>
<p>I got waitlisted too...right now I don't even think it's worth it to dwell over UMich still.</p>
<p>Umich needs to explain to all of us why wait list such a large number-in thousands-when they know very well that they are not going to dip into the wait list.</p>
<p>They have the yield data of several years on which to manage their numbers(which they appear to be doing quite well). </p>
<p>So it just doesn't make sense to give false hopes, at a time when the kids should be settling down to their academic plans.</p>
<p>Is it some kind of PR exercise? If so it is actually backfiring!</p>
<p>Waitlists everywhere are bloated because colleges are worried about the ripple throughout the admissions system of Harvard/Princeton eliminating ED (driving many kids to apply to EA and rolling admissions like Mich. who might not have in prior years, pending HP decision), HYPS dramatically changing the financial aid world (and many LAC's consequently going to all grant finaid) such that many middle class kids who would otherwise have committed to their flagship state U. applying to HYPS instead and using the flagship as a safety. Prior years yield data is obsolete and irrelevant this year. I don't think there is any intent to give false hopes or to do PR manipulation.</p>