<p>i was waitlisted at Umich and was jsut wondering how many people are on waitlist....</p>
<p>many, many people</p>
<p>In the past it has been somenthing like 7-8,000.</p>
<p>@prpdd That number sounds like total BS to me. What’s your source?</p>
<p>^ maybe the numbers were from here: [Waitlists:</a> What to Do if You’ve Been Placed on a Waitlist](<a href=“What to Do if You've Been Placed on a College Waitlist”>What to Do if You've Been Placed on a College Waitlist)</p>
<p>according to <a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning; it was 5500+ back then</p>
<p>wow, i cant believe no one got off the waitlist in 2008…</p>
<p>I was waitlisted as well :(</p>
<p>@howiegrange</p>
<p><a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning;
Offered 9,409
Accepted 3,724
Admitted 79</p>
<p><a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning;
Offered 8,926
Accepted 2,440
Admitted 100</p>
<p><a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning;
Offered 5,662
Accepted 2,067
Admitted 0</p>
<p>For last year, it looks like about a third was waitlisted. Assuming there were 38,000 applicants, the waitlist has got to be between 10,000 and 15,000, probably closer to 15,000 though.</p>
<p>Putting that many on a waiting list is a joke;
Getting 0 admitted is just more than a joke.</p>
<p>I believe they never carefully read/reviewed certain group of students’ applications (those near the border line) and simply rushed sending them “DEFERRED” or/and “WAITLISTED” decisions. They count on the next 4 months to work on your applications, in a way to the university’s benefits.</p>
<p>OMG, I can barely believe it. I got deferred in the early Feb, and got waitlisted yesterday. Can’t they just give me a direct decision?</p>
<p>^ Don’t feel you are special. There are, as someone estimated in the earlier post, ~15,000 others at the same position as you. </p>
<p>Cann’t believe that, at a time UMichigan already got too many competitive applicants, declined too many outstanding applicants in the past, and it claimed it didn’t intentionally improve its rankings by practising some ugly things other colleges did, but why it bothered to join the Common App to attract more applicants?</p>