<p>Disclaimer: I have not been following the huge decisions thread so I don't know much as to what is going on, and I know that as an RD applicant there are many more frustrated deferred ED applicants that are having the same issue as me.</p>
<p>However, I am beginning to get frustrated with u of M. I am not trying to sound pretentious or anything but it seems like they are taking forever to make their decisions and leaving some really good students waiting. In the end they are probably going to end up loosing these good students like myself and many others on these boards. I don't know what the problem is. They claim to have rolling admissions. Why aren't rolling decisions being released (I applied on dec. 15 and a friend of mine who was accepted to MIT ea applied around the same time and hasn't heard anything either)? I think that they are handling the decisions process poorly relative to other schools and I am really ticked off about what is going on. </p>
<p>So I was wondering if people who are waiting could vent and share their stories and we can hopefully understand or even make this situation a bit better.</p>
<p>That’s what you guys need. A thread of people saying “why haven’t the accepted me yet. ME! I mean, It’s ME!”</p>
<p>You got at most another month to go, deal with it. If you wanted an early response, you should have applied EA. If you are gonna jump ship now go ahead, there are plenty that will gladly take your place.</p>
<p>We never had good experience with UMI, and never undertsand how it suddenly becomes so “selective”. It is never welcoming. In all of their communications to students, the most frequent phrase they used is “You must do this…” or “you must do that …”, the token is totally different from many others. </p>
<p>One third of EA students were deferred and have been waiting for ever. It is ridiculous!</p>
<p>I know Umich says they’re rolling but damn. Give them a break. Most RD schools release their decisions around April 1st, and you don’t see all those applicants complaining.</p>
<p>Geez, all the whining. Apply early, and if you don’t be prepared to wait till April. UMich has thousands of “really good students” to sort through.</p>
<p>The problem is that many of the kids still being strung along, DID apply early. They were EA applicants. Which means…dadum…they wanted to hear YES or NO early. Even if the answer is NO, at least the kid can then grieve and move on. It’s a horrible way to treat people, to keep them in this uncertainty for months and months.</p>
<p>I understand your frustration, but however you have to look at U of Michigan the school’s persepctive.They get over more than 10,000 something around that to make a class of 42,000. Just wait, I had been waiting too. Especially, it is one of the state school which is competitive, it is harder to them to make a decision</p>
<p>This is nothing new - happens every year and Michigan admissions has tried to change things up address the issues. They just have such a large applicant pool and want to leave room for the top candidates. I think they’d be better off going back to a true rolling system with no promises about when they give acceptances.</p>
<p>Just what is so hard to comprehend about those two sentences? Did anyone get a decision other than accept, defer or deny? Is it mid-April? Whether or not you were perceptive enough to realize it, that’s the deal you signed up for.</p>
<p>If you think Michigan or any college is going to change its published admissions policies to satisfy your childish impatience you’re in for a long, hard life. If you haven’t heard by April 16th come back and complain, until then, grow up.</p>
<p>“What’s wrong with Michigan?” On this issue, nothing.</p>
<p>Vinceh, I think you should get off your high horse and take a chill pill. If you don’t want to see people complaining because the next four years of their lives are uncertain, don’t read these threads. </p>
<p>As a current UMich student who is waiting for friends to hear back (which will determine where I live for the next few years, whether I go to football games alone or not, etc.), I can only begin to feel the stress these deferred EA candidates are feeling. </p>
<p>I think the issue in most of the other threads is that no one expected so many qualified applicants to be deferred, combined with the fact that admissions isn’t letting on to anything in terms of whether they’ve already filled their enrollment, or what they’re even looking for this year. This year is so different that I think it’s unfair to make judgements about these EAers.</p>
<p>To quote your post, “If you think Michigan or any college is going to change its published admissions policies to satisfy your childish impatience you’re in for a long, hard life.” Well, I hate to break it to you, but they DID change their admission policies this year, especially how they operate with rolling admissions. </p>
<p>I feel much less sympathy for those who applied RD and have to wait (especially the original poster of this thread who seems to feel incredibly entitled), but there is a HUGE group of seemingly qualified candidates who have waited as much as half a year for a decision, and have had little communication from anyone. </p>
<p>As far as I’m concerned, if you had “grown up” at all, you would have the common decency to see that these people are frustrated and in one of the most uncertain, crucial stages of their lives thus far, and you would have left them alone. You accuse them of “childish impatience,” and I accuse you of “childish selfishness.”</p>
<p>On what official Michigan page does your sentence appear? Not your opinion, not your desire. Show us the actually University of Michigan pronouncement that says “this year’s different and when we say mid-April we don’t really mean it”</p>
<p>I’m not talking about the mid-April part specifically, but that could be as false as the rest of the things Michigan has done this year. For example, a published answer on the AskMe! site explicitly stated back in November that residency status would not be evaluated until after a student had been admitted. When my friend’s residency status was updated, we called admissions to find out when he would get his letter/email. They informed us that the website was, wait for it, WRONG. They changed the answer immediately.</p>
<p>I’m just saying that they are not infallible, and this year particularly is one of change, so the mid-April release might change too. They have to adjust based on the difficulties with the switch to the Common App, and the mistakes they made last year in terms of class size. </p>
<p>Regardless, there is absolutely no reason for you to be so cold-hearted. As I said, if you don’t want to see it, DON’T READ IT. It’s as simple as that.</p>
<p>Bigshot3008, I’m not sure if you’re referring to me, but if you are, when I said “entitled,” I meant entitled to an acceptance. Like I said, I feel sympathy for him, but I feel more for the deferred EA candidates.</p>