<p>Admissions Counselors are assigned to different regions, they don't go from one to the next.
You may qualify for EA, depending on when the ACT scores where post-dated. Everything must be post-dated before the 15 Nov. I kind of doubt your score was mailed by Nov. 15 since my ACT + Writing was only available Nov. 17.
And I seriously doubt the majority of students are accepted with the first two waves of admissions.
As a side not everything of mine was received by 10/20 and I received a response 11/20. I'm from Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Oh, OK. Right, I'm sure that some counselors are behind others in reviewing and making decisions.</p>
<p>Hmm, well I just found this on the website's Q&A section: </p>
<p>"If you are taking the ACT or SAT for the first time in October and still wish to be considered for the Early Response deadline, you must postmark the rest of your application by November 1 and we will begin the review of your application once your ACT or SAT test scores have arrived. On the day of the test you must indicate that you want your scores sent to the University of Michigan so that we receive them as soon as the scores are available."</p>
<p>Hopefully this applies to me!</p>
<p>hell, i live in ann arbor and i haven't heard back yet. most of the people in my school applies there and probably only 5 % if that, has recieved some form of decision. i submitted my stuff late october, on the status check the latest date was thw 24 of october and my act was just sent. still waiting....just hope that i don't get rejected.</p>
<p>but i did have residency issues...i just moved to michigan and i had to file the residency classification form...hope my app won't get held up too long.</p>
<p>yeah pretty much from all i have heard ramen noodles, your statement is blatantly wrong. Not only are many regions behind, there is no way that yu mich has released the majority of 8,000+ acceptances in the first tow batches. try not to make a statement and act like you nkow what you are talking about if you truely don't/</p>
<p>Good to know everyone here is attacking me before I voice myself. Well, I'm just basing it off my personal experiences with what happened last year for the Class of 08/Class of 2012. My friend from high school's father is a University of Michigan Alumni Representative for my area or whatever you call it sort of like Alexandre is in region of Dubai on this website I believe. He could probably explain to you the position in better detail than I could. Basically alumni reps are very knowledgable about what goes on at the University of Michigan including admissions processes, timetables, athletics, URM, and multiple situations and they receive the lists of acceptances in the area. My friend's father happened to know people in high places at Michigan as well as some of the top donors at Michigan. Therefore, I feel that I can trust his opinion on things and he was dead accurate on everything that happened last year. Based off of last year, I remember him telling me the majority of kids that got accepted heard by the end of November(before everyone attacks me) FOR OUR REGION/AREA in mid-michigan(could be different around the state). Basically, Michigan has Alumni Reps everywhere that call the accepted kids and ask them questions about Michigan and other things. The majority of the schools in my area, the people that got accepted into Michigan heard before the end of November, except for rare cases. However, as you all have said, that could be different for many regions around the state of Michigan and it's possible very many qualified students haven't received their acceptances yet. Obviously, if your son/daughter or you yourself are a student and you have a 30 ACT and a 3.9 GPA and you applied early you are getting in. I was addressing the more borderline kids, with 26-28 ACT's and 3.7 GPA's, with borderline stats if you haven't gotten in at this point I don't believe it will happen. I hope you all prove me wrong and that you all get into Michigan, but I am just voicing my opinion based on previous experience sorry for distressing anyone or making anyone feel like I know everything because I don't really know anything. However, I do feel I have the right to voice what I think will happen based on past experience.</p>
<p>No I wasn't attacking you Ramen... </p>
<p>thank you for sharing your experience. I have a SAT score of 2170 -- just hopefully not too borderline for an international as yet.</p>
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Well, I'm just basing it off my personal experiences with what happened last year for the Class of 08/Class of 2012.
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I have to disagree. Last year was the first time Michigan implemented Early Response. It was widely reported that admissions was surprised with the overwhelming response. It couldn't process the ER applications fast enough that it missed the committed response deadline by a few weeks. How could they have admitted the majority of the class by end of November if there were still piles of applications to be read in December?</p>
<p>thanks for your response rammonoodles. So if the residency clarification is processed really slowly , would it affect my rolling application process? Would it decrease the chance of me getting accpeted>?</p>
<p>hmm, does it make me a borderline applicant with a 32 ACT and a 3.7gpa?</p>
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For the rest of you, if you live in the US and haven't had a residency application problem or anything and haven't heard from Michigan yet, I hate to break it to you but your chances of getting in are very slim.
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<p>I would remind people that often times advice posted here comes from people who do not have inside information about the admissions process. I cannot state firmly enough how foolish it would be to start making plans based on this.</p>
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<p>As U-M adjusts to the change in application flow stemming from the early notification option, one must be cautious about assuming year-to-year comparisons are valid. </p>
<p>So far, U-M has made FEWER admits this year than it did last year at this point. I would say significantly fewer.</p>
<p>pseudovirus...i just got in with the same stats. i would say you definitely have a good shot, especially if the lower gpa is due to tough courses.</p>
<p>also...i do believe that there are still a lot of acceptances to be alloted.</p>
<p>Hoedown, I encourage you to read my full posts instead of quoting specific sentences that make it seem like I'm stating that no one else is going to get accepted when I clearly had no intent on making such a statement.</p>
<p>man this state residency thing is killing me, still havent heard back yet... I turned it in last day of september.</p>
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So far, U-M has made FEWER admits this year than it did last year at this point. I would say significantly fewer.
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Glad to hear that U-M has made significantly less admits compared to this time last year. This is good news for people filing after the ER deadline.</p>
<p>ramennoddles,
At this time last year U-M admissions was still scrambling to process the ER applications. They missed the committed response deadline by a few weeks. How could they have admitted the majority of the class when they still had piles of ER applications to process?</p>
<p>FWIW, all but one of the admits in my area came after this time last year.</p>
<p>GoBlue you didn't read my post, I said for my area, the majority of the admits came by this time last year.</p>
<p>that made me feel a lot better, thanks :) and yeah, the lower GPA is due to AP chem last year..ugh</p>
<p>ramen, I have just as many arguments with your paragraph in toto as I do with the brief part I quoted. But to comply with your wishes, I'll requote the entire paragraph.</p>
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For the rest of you, if you live in the US and haven't had a residency application problem or anything and haven't heard from Michigan yet, I hate to break it to you but your chances of getting in are very slim. The majority of people that get into Michigan get in through the first two decision batches, and I think today/last night was the 2nd decision batch. December decisions are usually deferrals/rejections, although some people do get accepted.
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<p>Even with the added sentence about the "first two decision batches," your statement is still not sound advice. Not only is it not true this year, it wasn't true last year either. In order for the "majority" of people to have been admitted, MI would have had to have issued over half its admits by that date--or by the first two decisions. They didn't. If your alumni contact informed you this was true, then your alumni contact is mistaken. If you have a report showing admits to date that indicates that over 50% of resident admits were issued by this date, then it is a forgery. If you're just guessing based on what happened to you, then you're guessing wrong.</p>
<p>I read your later caveats, but the fact remains that you posted, to all readers, that their chances were "very slim" when (a) you didn't really know that and (b) it isn't really true. You can add later qualifications about how good your info sources are, or discuss how its true for people in your zip code or whatever, but it doesn't make the information better.</p>
<p>I appreciate that you are prodding students to be realistic and I think that's valuable. But you're overstating how tight admissions gets after late-November.</p>
<p>agreed. not many people have even been admitted yet.</p>
<p>This is getting annoying. All of my materials were received on Oct. 16th and I still haven't heard back, yet.</p>
<p>Some kids from my school applied later than I did with worse stats, and got accepted already.</p>
<p>Not picking on Ramen here but do wish to point out that this is the FIRST YEAR UM is using new admission process with Dec. 21 EA date...so it's not AS ROLLING as previously. I spoke directly with a counselor in this regard and asked specifically about it.
Cheers, all, and good luck.
K</p>