<p>Are waitlist decisions for this year any different than waitlist decisions in previous years? Last year, there were 1500+ students who accepted a spot on the waitlist, and 5 were admitted. In the previous 3 years, no one was admitted. Is that number 0-5 going to be the same this year, or is there a chance that much more students on the waitlist will be admitted this year, than in previous year's past?</p>
<p>I'd imagine it all depends on yield. Our models are supposed to be getting better, which means I suspect we won't so severely overenroll as to not possibly have room for any waitlist applicants (as has happened the past two years), and it's also a good sign that even when we were insanely overenrolling like last year, we still took 5 people off the list. So I'd be fairly certain in saying this year will be at least as generous as last year with who it takes off the waitlist, though it isn't saying much. At the very least, Michigan has the potential to take way more people off this year if their models work (as they should, after two straight screw-ups and absolutely NO room for mistake this year).</p>
<p>Yes this year is different. </p>
<p>A dorm was taken offline, so the number of freshman the campus can handle decreased by 1,200. Plus the housing situation was streched to the limits, so there is no room for error, given their guaranteed housing policy.</p>
<p>However, I've heard that the matriculants are currently over what was already anticipated, so I would not get your hopes up. Since the campus was over enrolled last year, the 5 students taken off the waitlist were either for a specific program such as in music or due to some technicality like an admissions error.</p>
<p>This was the worst year in recent memory to be an applicant to Michigan, applications spiked and capacity drastically fell, therefore the qualifications went way up, to about a 3.8-9 and 1300+, 29+.</p>
<p>kookie, where do you find these stats on our large number of matriculants and our "applications spike"</p>
<p>also I thought Mosher-Jordan only housed ~500 students?</p>
<p>It is a myth that the reason that the number of admits is down this year due to limited housing. Yes, a dorm is offline, but because they converted some of the apartments from graduate to undergraduate housing, there is more than enough housing. Maybe not for another class of 6000, but they have room for more than the number of students who are expected to be freshmen in the fall.</p>
<p>I'm confused with my waitlisting is there any way to talk to the University to get the reality of getting in off the waitlist, and to see how many ppl are on it? How do I know what is happening here, my stats were fairly good but my SATs weren't really so amazing in comparison (I don't have over a 1950) so I mean, why didn't they just reject me? Not saying I wanted them to, but if they have NO INTENTION of bringing tons off the waitlist why waitlist everyone? Sounds to me like a cop out, I haven't heard of any deferred rejections feel free to dispel this.</p>
<p>I don't think the deferred rejections have come yet, since they are sent by mail. I know I haven't gotten my decision yet.</p>
<p>maybe you got in?</p>
<p>See I'm a more typical waitlist candidate than these people posting, I applied in december and my SATs just weren't high enough, people who are complaining about their waitlist when they applied days before the deadline did it to themselves by not applying earlier, their arrogance was their undoing.</p>
<p>A2Wolves6, the number of waitlisted students just decreased by one :) I logged into the website and told them 'I wish to decline your offer of waitlist'. Anyways, good luck to you man :)</p>
<p>KMOIN i know alot of people that applied in november/december inlcuding me that were waitlisted.</p>
<p>I applied in octiober and got waitlisted, after being deferred</p>
<p>I just got a waitlist offer too. I applied in January, though, so I'm thinking maybe I have a chance. But this is a bummer, as Michigan is pretty much my first choice. Reading the above facts on admissions off the waitlist is really disheartening too! Do you think it would be helpful to do stuff like write them a letter, call them, have someone else write a letter, call them? Or are they one of those schools that hate that kind of stuff?</p>
<p>Regardless of if they are one of those schools or not, writing them is useless. The point again of being waitlisted is so you can commit to a different college, and in the slim chance that an open spot is given and they revert to the waitlist, then you may have a chance, but writing a letter is a waste of your time, and a waste of theirs since it will give you no better shot than the next person who accepted their waitlist offer.</p>
<p>Really? I would think that people who show more interest in going to the school would make a better impression.</p>
<p>chibears- i used to work in admissions and still recieve some information from the office</p>
<p>snorky- yes housing was converted, but that was to accomodate the large influx of students the past two years (about 6,030 each year). The campus can not take the chance of recieving that many students again, therefore the number of admits is down due to conservative enrollment planning. There just is no where on campus to house any extra influx of students.</p>
<p>I agree, I think especially with Michigan it wouldn't really help at all. From the letter I got when I got deferred they seemed pretty strict about preventing phone calls and more academic stuff to be sent in. The only thing you could send in would be your 1st semester transcript, if it hasn't already been sent in because I know they request it of the people on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if there is some way to know how many are on the waitlist now, how many are accepted, rejected, how many applicants total and all that good stuff?</p>
<p>Yes. Some people know. But they can't tell us. You just gotta wait til september for that stuff.</p>