<p>I've been waitlisted and it seems as many many other people were.</p>
<p>I have been to the waitlist FAQ on the Michigan website but there are no statistics at all about how were placed, accepted and finally taken out of the waitlist and accepted. All it says is "The number of students waitlisted each year varies depending on the size and credentials of the total freshman applicant pool."</p>
<p>Does anyone have any information on this?</p>
<p>Is anyone knows the chance for waitlisted people to get admit?</p>
<p>According to this website ([Waitlists:</a> What to Do if You’ve Been Placed on a Waitlist](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/theartofgettingaccepted/f/waitlist_faq.htm]Waitlists:”>What to Do if You've Been Placed on a College Waitlist)), about 19 percent of waitlisted U of M students get in.</p>
<p>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Number waitlisted: 8,385
Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 2,776
Number admitted from waitlist: 525
Percentage admitted from waitlist: 19% </p>
<p>Not sure what year that’s from.</p>
<p>It varies from year to year. In 2006, they took a lot of people off the waitlist. Other years, they’ve taken no one.</p>
<p>I heard on one of the other threads that they over-enrolled and that so many decisions were late because they were waiting for people to decline - and probably why there’s a lot of people who were wait-listed last night.
If that’s true, I don’t think they’ll be taking many off the waitlist.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know whether or not they’re over-enrolled, but the decisions this year didn’t come more than a couple days later than they did last year, and wait-listed people made it in last year.</p>
<p>yea those stats were from 2006. IN 2007 i think no one got accepted from the waitlist. and i think a few people got in 2008 (I think I saw somewhere it said 33 people?)</p>
<p>Sorry, they actually accepted 300 kids off the waitlist last year, but that was because they had a conservative admissions process in 2008.</p>
<p>If they really did over accept this year…then I dont think many, if any, will get accepted from the waitlist.</p>
<p>well i dont think its so simple. i was reading in the other threads that a lot of really qualified people that would have been shoo-ins gave up on the decision process and made commitments to other schools prior to the Michigan decision being released. so regardless of the fact that their acceptance is comparatively high, i think their yield will be significantly lower because those acceptances would have been delivered to people really late, so as to increase the probability that they committed to another school. i would imagine that this in turn frees up a lot more spots for people on the waitlist.</p>
<p>thoughts?</p>
<p>asura- You’re right, but wouldnt the yield % still be the same pretty much every year? Highly qualified students drop out every year and choose other schools.</p>
<p>but i do hope their yield is much much lower</p>
<p>yea, but i was just using that as an example for a threshold. but think of it this way: suppose every student has a relative numerical “value” for each of the schools they apply to indicating how favorable it would be to them to attend that institution. obviously for students who are shoo-ins and are pulling acceptances from stanford etc, the relative value of this desirability figure is sure to be low. but what about the other kids? the kids who are putting u mich as a number 3 choice, a number 2 choice, or even something vying for a top choice. it seems that over time, the desirability number of michigan would decline for these people who have other options available to them. a lot of these kids have already exercised their other options, or are not willing to work with the time constraints given to them by michigan.</p>
<p>in otherwords, the only pool of students that actually would not view this decision as a deterrent (significantly enough to commit to another school) are those who are die hard michigan lovers. im betting that this pool is probably a lot smaller than michigans usual acceptee base…the kids that choose a school after some degree of deliberation are probably a lot more numerous than those who say OMG MICHIGAN **** YES IM GOING THERE. this, in turn, would mean that the yield would be a lot lower for michigan, dependent on what percentage of their applicant’s decisions were released during this last wave (im hoping its a large chunk). this logic applies to the waitlist also: given how pathetic michigan has been about this notification process, how many people will really want to put up with it for several more months on the waitlist? desirability goes down once more, and the waitlist population shrinks to really small levels–hopefully these effects create a synergistic desperation vacuum on the side of Mich, and the waitlisters get delivered to freedom. </p>
<p>that said, this may be all wishful thinking. i, for one, am one of those die hard michigan hacks who got waitlisted, so we can only hope that michigan ****ed enough people off to spare us.</p>
<p>How does the U-M waitlist work? Is it ranked? And is there a way we can find out our rank?</p>
<p>im with u asura…im sticking with it till i see a final rejection. even then, ill try and transfer.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/491849-people-who-got-waitlisted-please-post-your-stats-here.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/491849-people-who-got-waitlisted-please-post-your-stats-here.html</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/492453-waitlisted-dont-bother.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/492453-waitlisted-dont-bother.html</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/491816-waitlist-statistics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/491816-waitlist-statistics.html</a></p>
<p>Some threads from last year</p>
<p>qwertykey- thanks for those links…they had a ton of stats/info from previous years</p>
<p>The whole process was messy, and there were several questionable cases of admission and rejection (in my opinion). My best friend that I was going to room with (If we had both chosen to go to Michigan) got wait listed, which is tough to swallow considering his acceptance into Stanford and Cornell. I know these cases happen, and you just have to suck it up, but now that it has happened to a good friend it really concerns me.
And I don’t mean that in an arrogant, too good for your school way, I just really feel that he was as qualified as almost ANY student that received admission.
3.96 GPA
2240 SAT (1520)
Eagle Scout
Leader of 3 school clubs
Captain of varsity golf (also plays b-ball and soccer)
150 Community Service Hours</p>
<p>I think that Michigan’s use of rolling admissions is not working.
Qualified applicants are being rejected or wait-listed solely because they applied “late” (late being early December onward) or worse - because they were deferred and by the time the admissions committee got back around to their apps, all the spots were filled.</p>
<p>Ahmedkhokar,
When did your friend apply (the one who’s waitlisted)? I’d like to know as it can serve as a benchmark for future applicants.</p>
<p>I know of a similiar case but she applied in the last week of January.</p>
<p>Mid December, same as me. I got my decision in March, but he didn’t. His former first choice of Mich isn’t even in the running any more, which is disappointing because he would have been my room mate for sure (If I had decided to attend.) He’s now going with Stanford, because they helped him out financially.</p>