<p>I emailed admissions today, I got a reply that in other words said:</p>
<p>''We're not taking anybody off the waitlist this year, please start considering your other college options''.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>instead of paraphrasing, why don't you copy the real letter here and let everyone make their own assumptions</p>
<p>Enjoy.</p>
<p>''At this time we have everything we need for your application. We encourage you to seek out other college options.''</p>
<p>aka nobody's getting off that waitlist.</p>
<p>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo</p>
<p>I don't get it - why WL in the first place then?</p>
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I don't get it - why WL in the first place then?
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<p>Coz the admissions office is soooooo dumb. No kidding. They make you wait an eternity, only to tell you that you've been waitlisted and that there's no chance of getting in off the waitlist. Why not just reject kids rather than waitlisting hundreds of kids? It's so stupid.</p>
<p><strong><em>?? how stupid!...NOW im *</em></strong>ed!!!</p>
<p>''At this time we have everything we need for your application. We encourage you to seek out other college options.''
i mean even if tht were true..u shouldnt say tht!..especially the last bit</p>
<p>"Why not just reject kids rather than waitlisting hundreds of kids?"</p>
<p>Based on last year's CDS, it was THOUSANDS, rather than hundreds.....and I have a better question.....Why defer THOUSANDS back in the fall, only to waitlist 99.9% of them in mid-April...Why not create this bizarre waitlist back in December?? Or better yet, just reject everyone "who doesn't measure up to their standards" when you read their apps and put everyone out of their misery.....</p>
<p>That e-mail was rude and disrespectful.....and, yes, I do feel bad for all of you who waited for this decision.....my d had a "heads up" in January and seeing the results, I am very happy she did......</p>
<p>anybody get the actual letter in the mail yet?</p>
<p>it's rude and annoying. they don't even say thank you for applying.</p>
<p>and the actual letter states that we all got rejected, not waitlisted. "we are unable to offer you a place in the freshman class". however, they say that there is a very very very small chance they may take one or two people off the "extended waitlist" if you want to still not give up hope.</p>
<p>i'm so sick of UofM.</p>
<p>i cant believe this!!! wooow...this sucks!</p>
<p>Wowwww....1 or 2 out of thousands?</p>
<p>I guess I'll just move on :(</p>
<p>Do people not realize what a waitlist is? When you get waitlisted, it's basically saying "you're rejected unless some spots open up". And spots didn't open up.</p>
<p>Dilksy is right -- UMich is just following the usual protocol for waitlists. In fact, the wording is almost identical to that used in the waitlist letter my son received from Northwestern.</p>
<p>The fact is, being waitlisted means they don't have room for you and you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for a spot to open up because it very likely will not happen. You do have to move on and "start considering your other college options" so that you can get a deposit in by May 1 and have somewhere to go next year. Hopefully you do have other good choices.</p>
<p>Well at least UVA's waitlist letter was more kind than what UMich's waitlist letter is supposed to have said. I have never read the actual UMich's waitlist letter.</p>
<p>why do so many get waitlisted in umich...plus I know people with good stats and much worse stats getting waitlisted....stats from all over the spectrum....are the spots getting filled up really quickly...since it's based on rolling admission....are all the spots filled in the early stages...because if umich was actually selective...the people with the bad stats should have been rejected...</p>
<p>Face it 2007 is going to go down in ADCOM lore as the year a prestigious school like Michigan really dropped the ball.</p>
<p>How do you guys feel about the fact that the In state kids that get accepted (and make up the vast majority of the school) have significantly Lower credentials on a whole than OOS? I realize a state subsidized school SHOULD take more In state kids and those kids should have a leg up in applications...but wouldn't an OOS kid with 2250 SAT's and a UW 3.9 want to be with other like minded intellectuals as a WHOLE?</p>
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the In state kids that get accepted (and make up the vast majority of the school) have significantly Lower credentials on a whole than OOS?
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How do you know that? I'd guess that at least the top half of the instate admits are as talented as the OOS. And instate is hardly the "vast majority" of the student body:</p>
<p>Michigan takes in 35% OOS, compared to UCB 7%, UNC 15%, UT-Austin 6%, UDub 18%, UIUC 7%, Florida 6%. UVa 33% and UW-Madison 38% are the only top publics admitting that many OOS students.</p>
<p>salem1, what else did you have to offer michigan besides numbers...list your stats if you don't mind! =)</p>
<p>Are you binding if you say yes to the waiting list?? Do you still have the choice to say no when you get an answer from the waiting list??</p>
<p>this has been previously answered SEVERAL times on SEVERAL waitlist posts...waitlist is NOT binding.......from what i've heard :)</p>