<p>Firstly, it was ridiculous how Michigan sent different types of defer letters to different students, some got better "sounding" letters than others. I got one of the better sounding ones and still haven't heard yet...</p>
<p>It's even worse that they are holding out some EA decisions to mid-april. Yes admissions are competitive, but when every other top-tier university i applied to promised to notify me by April 1, Mich can definitely at least let all of its EA apps at least know by then. I can safely say the way they handled admissions has changed my impression about them.</p>
<p>We took the time to show Mich a little love, we need some back. lol</p>
<p>Just because you applied EA and got deferred doesn’t mean you hold some advantageous status over people who applied RD. You’re all on the same level now.</p>
Um…what? It’s not like you’re supposed to know that there were different letters and neither one sounded any better than the other. You just convinced yourself that you had the better one so you should hear soon.</p>
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When you are deferred you are thrown into the RD pile. There is no special consideration for originally EA applicants. They said from the beginning that everyone will hear by April 15. That hasn’t changed. Michigan has absolutely no obligation to be like other Universities. You shouldn’t be offended by how admissions went this year. You knew this going in. If you got deferred, you were thrown into the RD pile. They laid out all the dates before hand and you agreed to them by turning in the common app. You sound pretty ridiculous about now.</p>
<p>I’d say the admissions office has done a better job this year despite the record number of applications. </p>
<p>All the EA applicants received a decision (admit/reject/defer) on or before the promised date of Dec 23. Since then, many (both RD and EA deferred) have been accepted in February and around mid-March. And according to a poster on the “official Michigan class of 2015 decisions” thread (#3518), Michigan is sending out decisions in batches of 400 up until…</p>
<p>(Disclaimer: the following is pure speculation on my part.)
I believe this year most of the acceptance decisions will be posted on or before April 1. If previous years are any indication, Michigan does have the “annoying” practice of holding off waitlist decisions until the last moment (April 15 or later). I believe they are waiting for more spaces to open up as matriculation data come in. In previous year, there were definitely people (though not that many) admitted after April 1.</p>
<p>If you think Michigan should abandon rolling admission altogether in favor of two decision dates, I can certainly agree with that.</p>
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If you don’t get a decision before April 1, feel free to assume that you are waitlisted.</p>
<p>the whole way mich set it up doesn’t really make sense to me i guess. whats the point of EA in rolling admissions? Might as well just make it all rolling as the whole point of rolling decisions are it’s advantageous to apply early.</p>
<p>haha guys, there’s no need to call someone “ridiculous” just because he or she is simply voicing their frustration. </p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think what ksonty is trying to say is that he or she really wants his or her decision because Umich is on a rolling admissions system and it would make sense that EA applicants would get their decisions before other applicants because they submitted their applications earlier. Yes, everyone is on the same level now, but I think what he’s trying to say is that after reviewing some applications, the admissions office should go back and review the deferred applicants and send out decisions, because the whole point of being deferred is that your application is compared to other applicants that applied in the regular pool right? </p>
<p>And at eziamm, ksonty didn’t “convince” himself that he got a “better sounding” deferral letter, there was speculation on other threads that a deferred applicant had a better chance of getting accepted if he or she had a certain letter - but then again, it was just speculation. </p>
<p>Well he either convinced himself that he had the “better sounding one” or posts on another thread did, either way there is no “better deferral.” He shouldn’t feel entitled to a response yet because he thinks that he got a “better sounding deferral” when there wasn’t even a difference in the first place.</p>
Michigan admissions did exactly that. That’s why many EA deferrees were admitted as early as February, and more were admitted in March.</p>
<p>When you are deferred from EA, you are placed in the regular pool. You no longer has any advantage over any of the RD applicants, including those applied on the last day.</p>
<p>I was wait-listed…they told me to accept the waitlist letter, and hopefully an opening will come through by May 22! I have been acceptance to Jacobs-IU and Thornton-USC, Michigan was my first choice - should I looking at making another choice ?</p>
<p>goblue, you cannot read or you do not have a brain? ksonty was saying that he deserves a final decision than just a deferral, considering UM’s claimed rolling adm. He is not requesting any advantage over RD students. DO NOT TELL ME “DEFERAL” IS A DECISION!!! HAVING MORE THAN 1/4 EA STUDENTS DEFERRED WAS RIDICULOUS!</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who got deferred and received their acceptances a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps the OP has gotten wait-listed and Michigan just hasn’t sent out the email?</p>
<p>I applied to Michigan EA on October 21st, I was deferred, and although that does put me in the regular pool, it is unfair and unprofessional to be a rolling admissions school and to withhold my decision for 6 months…</p>
<p>To all the complainers- You are not entitled to anything by Michigan other than a final decision by mid-April. That was set out from the start. They can defer how ever many applications they want, it’s their University. In the end you aren’t really in a position to be complaining as you are the one trying to get into the school. Michigan didn’t ask you to apply.</p>
<p>"I applied to Michigan EA on October 21st, I was deferred, and although that does put me in the regular pool, it is unfair and unprofessional to be a rolling admissions school and to withhold my decision for 6 months… "</p>
<p>Why is that unfair/ unprofessional? As soon as you were deferred, the rolling stuff went out the window.</p>