<p>Just because you said you weren’t trying to sound pretentious doesn’t mean you didn’t anyways haha.</p>
<p>So… wait 1 more month!</p>
<p>You guys all need to chill out. If you don’t get into Michigan it’s not the end of the world. I realize that waiting is hard, but you guys need to do something productive with your time. It’s your last year of high school, enjoy it. I know I am.</p>
<p>It is just really hard to wait until the 15th. Basically, I have heard from three schools and the rest by April 1 except Michigan. I still need to visit so will have one weekend to visit (april 23 & 24) . Airfare will be crazy expensive because it will be last minute/not to mention rental car/hotel etc. Other schools are sending postcards that the quicker you send in decision the better housing /blah blah blah you get/ quicker you get on the list. So I have to wait til April 1/maybe go visit one of those schools and waste more money because I won’t hear from Mich til the 15th and then have one weekend to visit. Lots more money will be spent… Michigan not my safety/more a dream but I still want to see it /I guess I could drive ummmmmmmmm like 15 hours. Not to mention I need to go see other schools after April 1 if I get into any of them as a back up in case I am rejected from Michigan. WWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH</p>
<p>Dazdnconfuzed, I do know that waiting sucks. But try not to think of a visit as a waste of money but research for the future. Eg. why not figure out a cheap way to visit without acceptance being a pre-requisite (eg. Greyhound anywhere for $99; try to bunk in with a student – they do have an ambassador program). Then, if you like the school and are accepted later, great. If not, you’ve still gotten a sense of UMich, to which you might return for grad school one day, or alternately, reapply as a transfer.</p>
<p>You might be able to reduce your frustration and stress a little by just taking some kind of action and letting the universe do the rest.
Cheers.</p>
<p>For those who says “you should have applied EA if you wanted to find out earlier,” I actually DID apply to UMichigan early, and got deferred. And I was like What is WRONG with Michigan? I am not trying to be pretentious, but Michigan was definitely one of my safeties since my SAT score is 2240. But, I don’t really get why they deferred me. I’d rather get denied, getting deferred by the safety school just sounds lame. I’m not going to Michigan ANYWAYS, so I don’t care anymore. But wouldn’t recommend anyone applying to Michigan as a safety. They seem to know that many students use Michigan as a backup.</p>
<p>xeno, Michigan is obviously not a safety for you. A safety would accept virtually 100% of applicants who qualify. The thing is, even applicants with 4.0 GPAs and 2300+ SAT scores do not have a 100% chance of getting into Michigan. In fact, the acceptance rate of valedictorians into Michigan is under 70%. So even students ranked #1 in their class should not apply to Michigan as a safety. Universities with top 15 academics should never be approached as safeties.</p>
<p>stop whining xeno, you’re an international</p>
<p>Good point ali. Michigan received 7,000 international applications this year and will accept only 1,200 of them. That’s a 17% acceptance rate!</p>
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Whoever told you that you have to wait till the 15th to get your decision is misinformed. Michigan has already released a batch of decisions in early February, and someone has reported an acceptance a couple days ago. If last year is any indication, Michigan will continue to release decisions in the second half of March; most of the admit decisions will be released on or before April 1.</p>
<p>There are still some admit decisions coming on or after April 15. My guess is those are for spots opened up after the matriculation data come in.</p>
<p>“But wouldn’t recommend anyone applying to Michigan as a safety.”</p>
<p>BINGO! Btw, I’m sorry you feel so “lame” getting deferred by one of the top schools in this country.</p>
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If you are implying that Michigan practices “Tufts syndrome”, I can ensure you that they don’t. Michigan has neither the time nor the resources to do that. Btw, I know of at least two people with 2300+ SAT score and several with 43+ predicted IB scores from my area who were admitted EA to Michigan.</p>
<p>girl in my school applied EA and hasn’t heard back yet.
It’s so rough and nerve-racking for her. She doesn’t even have bad stats either.</p>
<p>What do you mean she did not hear back? Do you mean she was deferred or that Michigan has not communicated with her in any way since she submitted her application. If it is the former, I would not worry about it as she will hear back soon. If it is the latter, then her application is incompleted and is not being processed.</p>
<p>xeno-It’s not a safety school for anyone as we’ve pointed out. Michigan accepted the best applicants in the EA round, sorry you didn’t make it.</p>
<p>Okay, I admit that Michigan should not have been “safety” for me since it seems like they’re more picky than I thought. I considered Michigan as my safety since my counselor told me to apply there (as a safety school) even though I’ve never heard of it before. Also, mychances . net said 98% acceptance chance based on my gpa and sat score, so I thought I would get in easily. I blame on the counselor and mychances then.
Anyways, Michigan is not one of my colleges options anymore, so I wouldn’t care if they accept or deny me.</p>
<p>Counselors are not qualified. They should only process papers and send off transcripts in a timely manner!</p>
<p>Too bad Michigan is no longer in contention for you xenosidesaga. I can honestly say it was an exceptional and unique experience for me. Looking back, I cannot imagine having gone to college anywhere else.</p>
<p>Also according to the undergraduate admissions office, Michigan will reduce the size of the next freshman class to about 5700 or less.</p>
<p>plain and simple:</p>
<p>1) if you didn’t get in EA, then you weren’t “good enough”. quit blaming everyone else (i.e. University of Michigan) and blame the fact that you didn’t work as hard in high school. quit thinking you’re so spectacular.</p>
<p>2) what month is it? last time i checked the calendar, it was MARCH. as a previous poster stated, UM will be sending out decisions by or in APRIL, which means **** and wait.</p>
<p>also, as a remark. i feel like everyone leans too much on test scores to “rate” how well a student is and/or use as a standard predictor of how well the student will succeed in college. i feel like people use it way too much in predicting whether or not a student will get into college as well. it’s much better to have extraordinary extracurriculors (no, not president of a club. more like internships, research, study abroad), binding that you have pretty decent test scores. hell, i can hardly see legitimacy in a 33+ ACT anymore, considering there are two types of students with these types of scores: students who have 33+ ACTs out of pure intelligence and those who obtained them through $1200+ and countless hours in tutoring. the former are usually self-made and may perform well in college (as long as they work hard also, and they usually do), while the latter depend so much on other people wiping their butts that these are the people that swarm tutoring sessions in bunches since they can’t study by themselves and usually fail. besides, i know a handful of friends who are well into their sophomore/junior years in engineering (such as EECS, yes it’s NOT easy) who had 24-28 ACT scores and are now earning 3.7+ GPA. I also know many 33+ ACT students well under 3.2 GPA. hmmmmm?</p>
<p>^ as a remark, I completely disagree with you.</p>
<p>lrose, I don’t see how you can disagree with baseballa:</p>
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<li>Most successful EA applicants were either excellent academically or had a unique/special trait/gift</li>
<li>Michigan is not obligated to respond to any deferred EA applicant or RD applicant until April</li>
<li>Michigan could not care less about SAT and ACT scores. Michigan would pick an applicant with a 3.9 GPA (unweighed and having taken a challenging course load) and a 2000/28 SAT/ACT over an applicant with a 3.5 GPA and a 2300/34 on the SAT/ACT. That is a well documented fact. Michigan has always maintained that excelling in the classroom is the best predictor of college success.</li>
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