<p>pretty sure michigan asks a hell of a lot of people to apply</p>
<p>Okay let me rephrase it: Michigan doesn’t care whether or not you, individually, apply. They get plenty of applications and yours on its own isn’t of real importance to them. I don’t know how much stuff they send to people based of PSAT scores or whatever, but I didn’t get anything and I scored pretty high. Even if they send materials to you, it’s more advertising the school, not saying we need YOUR application. In the end, you have to sell yourself to the school and they make the ultimate decision at their leisure. Not the other way around. Whenever you hear back, you will still have the opportunity to choose between all your offers as it will be before May 1.</p>
<p>Most of the upper tier colleges don’t spend large quantities of money on advertising, simply because they don’t have to advertise as their names are already widely known. However, any college wants large quantities of applications, and not so that they can choose who they want to accept, but more so who they want to deny in order to get those acceptance rates lower</p>
<p>^Michigan has shown over the years that they are not a school who is just striving for a low acceptance rate to gain some sort of manufactured prestige. They are a school who is more concerned about the actual quality of education and facilities than undergrad acceptance rate. This shows in the multiple World University rankings that have Michigan at 15 in the world, as opposed to the completely dysfunctional USNWR rankings who have Michigan at 29 in the country, below schools like USC, Wake Forest, and Tufts. Nothing against those schools, it’s just that after my whole college search, it would be hard for me to find a way to put those schools above Michigan for any reason other than selectivity.</p>
<p>no one’s asking for an “advantage” everyone just wants a decision and a deferral as How2Pay said, is NOT a decision. LOL I don’t understand why everyone’s bashing on each other, it’s really not that big of a deal, it’d be a lot easier if we could comfort each other or encourage each other. </p>
<p>None of us represent Michigan so I don’t think someone should be saying Michigan doesn’t care whether or not we as an individual apply. </p>
<p>ksonty, I’m also an EA applicant that was deferred, so I know how you feel 
don’t worry! We’ll get our decisions soon</p>
<p>Ballinallday, Michigan is not really allowed to ask students to apply. Public universities are restricted in how much advertising they can do. I know WUSTL is notorious for asking students to apply by the thousands, but schools like Michigan can only do so much in this regard.</p>
<p>ask yourself, if you are that upset, would you rather withdraw your application or wait?
If the answer is the latter, then stop complaining. It doesnt help. At all.</p>
<p>lets all stop getting upset at each other ha. Personally, I thought admissions weren’t handled well. I applied to 18 schools, some bigger and some smaller than Mich, and I’d definitely rank Mich as dead last</p>
<p>^^^I dunno Alexandre, I’ve gotten 3 letters from OSU… in the span of a week (all telling me to apply)</p>
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When does it say that if you are deferred from EA, you will be considered on a rolling basis based on your INITIAL application date? As far as I know, Michigan made no such promise.</p>
<p>When you are deferred, you are placed on the regular pool. Michigan will review your application again AFTER it has a chance to review applications in the regular round. So technically, you will be placed with the group applying on Feb 1. Why would the OP “deserve” a final decision before April 1?</p>
<p>Michigan only promised that “the latest you will receive a final decision of admit, deny, or waitlist will be mid-April.” (Deferred FAQ’s)</p>
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Let’s be fair. Many EA deferrees were admitted in February through mid March. Please name some EA/ED schools that have done that.</p>
<p>Put it in another way. Let’s say you were deferred ED at Cornell. Would you complain because you have not received a final decision yet? If not, why would you complain about not getting a decision from michigan on March 26?</p>
<p>EA deferrees are placed in the regular pool. Michigan will review their applications again AFTER it has a chance to review other applications in the regular round. So technically, EA deferrees have the same priority on a rolling admission basis as those applied on Feb 1.</p>
<p>I can’t remember when I first took the PSAT, but from that point on I got TONS of college mail. Pretty much all spam. I got good schools and bad schools. Private and public. IS and OOS. But I never remember getting anything from Michigan</p>
<p>And holy hell stop complaining you guys, geez. No one really gives a **** if you’re mad at Michigan. And you know who cares the least? Michigan</p>
<p>IUPA re:
</p>
<p>The waitlist for piano performance is TOTALLY different than anything goes on in the regular UMich programs. It means they want you but have too many offers out for the studio. Decent chance of getting off the list, but USC and IU are also awesome music schools. Call the advisor/admission or registrar (eg. ask for Dee Dee) at the SOM and get advice about how to proceed – eg. see if you can accept one of your others to hold your spot and stay on the wait list – but to be within integrity, you’d also want to let your “other” SOM know – technically you’re not supposed to double deposit.</p>
<p>At any rate, good luck! Awesome acceptances!</p>
<p>Go find today’s NPR story on Amherst’s admissions. You’ll feel better. Kids get in or dinged by minor wording in essays.</p>
<p>kmcmom13:</p>
<p>Thank you so much for the information and the advice! Thornton and Jacobs have given me until May 1st, to accept or decline…I may plan to hold off as long as possible (late April) in hopes that I hear from Michigan. Glad to know that there is still a chance! Again- Thanks!!</p>
<p>i was just wondering what the “better” sounding deferral letter sounds like versus the one that doesn’t sound as good…also i got a deferral letter but i didn’t apply early…i applied rolling…</p>
<p>mine said something like </p>
<p>“we believe you have something uniquely valuable to contribute to our campus, but could not admit you because of so many other EA applications making it more competitive than in recent years”</p>
<p>at this point for me it’s just a matter of comparing financial aid offers between Mich, NYU, Brandeis, USC, and Emory (if i get accepted to this one!)</p>
<p>My son got quite a few emails from U of M…remember the one that said “EA dead line is coming soon, you know you want to be a Wolverine, so just do it” or something like that to get him to apply. He has a 4.0 UW(all honors/college prep) from one of the top three distrists (big feeder schools) and was deferred. He was accepted everywhere else and scholarships get bigger every day. He wisely accepted at another school as he was disgusted with U of M’s EA admissions process. I think the individual defending UM/bashing others represent the exact reason many kids are now turned off by the elitist attitude of a public university. It didn’t used to be this way. My whole family went to Michigan…it ain’t all that it’s what you do with it :P</p>
<p>Ask yourself if you believe it is elitist because your qualified son was deferred. Would you feel the same if he was offered a full ride? Would your son be disgusted if he was immediately accepted and courted and thousands of others were deferred indefinately? How would that have made it any less elitist? </p>
<p>I’m sure you and your son were put off by his individual situation and I can understand the difficulty dealing with that. But, was it the overall Michigan approach this year or your individual situation?</p>
<p>Just got home from an event for admitted students, and there were 2 admissions representatives present. One of them said “there have been 2 decision releases in March, and we think there will be one more before mid-April.” </p>
<p>I hope that is helpful to those of you still waiting.</p>