<p>Based on both my own experiences and the posts of others on this forum, it seems the general consensus is that Michigan's process is unnecessarily slow, far closer to the 5/1 deadline than any college needs to be and, in the cases of some people, even cruel. I would like to e-mail Michigan to give them my feedback on the process however I have been unable to find any address to do so. Is there a proper channel for this or do I need to call/write them?</p>
<p>Son applied early and received reply in November! With rolling admissions, the early bird catches the worm!</p>
<p>Micahg asked a question in a civil manner about a subject many here are upset about. Many others applied early rolling admission and after being deferred are still just hearing now.
Gloating is not called for.</p>
<p>I applied and had everything turned in mid-sept. After being initially deferred, I didn’t get a response till last week. “The early bird catches the worm” does not apply in these types of situations. This is completely a flaw of the Michigan admission process, not the applicant’s timing.</p>
<p>University of Michigan
Office of the President
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<p>I agree that it kinda sucks hearing this late and may ruin the plans of many prospective high school seniors. But it is to my knowledge that Michigan has had this policy of giving out decisions at this time for as long as I know (which only happens to be the past 3 years). Feel free to write them, but i’m sure many people have done the same many years past and obviously to no avail were their complaints taken all too seriously.</p>
<p>It appears as though they waitlist sometimes upwards of 8,000 applicants (more than the entire freshman class) and sometimes accept less than 10 kids of the list. Apparently, they won’t reject people who are every bit as good as people they’ve already accepted. This is some sort of principle of theirs. But it’s messed up. The college admissions system was pretty brutal to me (rejected at Wesleyan and Northwestern, waitlisted at U-M, but accepted at my safety schools MSU and Mizzou). It seems like all I’ve done the past few months is worry myself to distraction. It sounds really lame, but I feel comfortable saying this with the anonymity the internet gives me: I’m going to be crying myself to sleep tonight over U-M, like I’ve done every night for the past two weeks.</p>
<p>Please complain to U-M, only make it more eloquent and composed than anything I could manage.</p>
<p>I get that it sucks for all of you but I have to play devil’s advocate because no one is defending mich. They have SOOOOO many more people apply. They have more than every other school that people apply to except other large state schools. The class size is 5600 or something like that if I am not mistaken. Most schools of the caliber of Mich have 6000 for the ENTIRE school. not 20,000! To go through the sheer number of applications and make GOOD decisions it takes such a lot time. So while if u wanted them to finish faster, then you’ll have to be prepared for their admissions officers to be much more likely to reject you. Them finishing faster will give them less time, and make the admissions officers less likely to battle over students. They will try and reach and earlier deadline and thus will just blaze through the decisions and just rejection people. Like yea it sucks that people have been getting responses so late. But it’s like 50% you’re fault so to speak. You had the option for early response. If you REALLY wanted to go you could have opted for that. And you would have heard by dec 24th. Everyone knows, or at least SHOULD know, that if you apply for a state school, the early the better. So just keep all that in mind</p>
<p>Obviously the decisions are tough, but a top notch college should live up to top notch standards, even when concerning admissions decisions. Stanford receives a larger applicant pool and gives decisions much much faster than Michigan. So there you have it, a higher quality school that has less class size and more applicants with a much faster decision.</p>
<p>Also, Mediabob, you fail to recognize the many people (might even be the majority of early applicants) that applied and were deferred, only to be troubled by this slow response. </p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better at all, I am giving up my offer of admission from Michigan to go to William and Mary. I have also heard of many other students turning down Michigan’s offer of admission/WL.</p>
<p>I’ll defend UM. My application was complete on September 23 and I was accepted on Halloween night…so I waited just over a month. I don’t want to **** anyone off, but you guys should have applied much earlier than you did. But obviously if you were deferred, there’s nothing you can do.</p>
<p>Lol I applied mid January and got accpeted in the beginning of Febuary. Sucks for you guys.</p>
<p>It’s true, they have a very flawed admissions program.</p>
<p>I applied February 3,2009 and received my acceptance March 5,2009.</p>
<p>I was very glad, but even I felt bad that people who have applied before december are still waiting!!!</p>
<p>DRMAN, how did you apply Feb 3rd, they cut off applications after Feb 1st?</p>
<p>It’s your guy’s fault for not being luckier! Maybe if you had just bought that stupid rabbits foot for $3 last year, you would have heard back 3 weeks after you applied! But no, you figured you’d spend that $3 on McDonalds instead! That’s not Michigan’s fault!</p>
<p>Seriously though, I have no advice to offer.</p>
<p>Lol ^^^</p>
<p>I have no idea. On the wolverine access page it says Feb 3rd.
I remember sending in the app February 1st like borderline midnight. i was so sad when it said feb 3rd, because I figured this was a lost cause.</p>
<p>But you like, it’s everyone’s fault for not being lucky. I picked up that heads up penny I saw on the street the week before. :D</p>
<p>Drman…your date was most likely the date they downloaded from the server. Sometimes it takes them a day or two to download and that is what shows. Your file was most likely time stamped with the correct time/date Feb 1.</p>
<p>Let’s put this in perspective:</p>
<p>If you apply to Tufts ED and you are deferred, you will get your decision on March 31, not a day sooner.</p>
<p>If you apply to Tufts on Nov 2, you will get your decision on March 31 and not a day sooner.</p>
<p>If you apply to Tufts in mid-January, your application won’t even be considered.</p>
<p>Similarly, if you apply to Michigan ER and you are deferred, you shouldn’t expect a decision until April as rolling admission no longer applies.</p>
<p>If you apply to Michigan after Nov 1 and you are deferred, you shouldn’t expect a decision until April as rolling admission no longer applies.</p>
<p>If you apply to Michigan in mid-January, you shouldn’t expect a decision until April as you know you should have applied earlier.</p>
<p>Now if you apply in Nov/Dec and have to wait till April for a decision, you have every right to complain as this is billed as “rolling admission”!</p>
<p>Personally I would like to see Michigan get rid of rolling admission after Early Response and posts all regular decisions on April 1. I would also suggest that Michigan moves up its regular decision deadline to January 1 like everybody else.</p>
<p>Applied ER, application completed October 8. ER deferred letter Dec 26th. Waitlisted notification on WA April 16.</p>
<p>The process is flawed.</p>
<p>So I’m sure that all of you guys would favor Michigan taking money from their FA budget and putting it towards hiring more admissions officers, right?</p>
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Why is the process flawed. If you apply ED/EA anywhere else and are deferred, you wouldn’t get a decision again until around April 1… and you may still be waitlisted.</p>
<p>I think it is Michigan’s high of arrogance of holding back application decisions so late and then releasing majority of them as Waitlist. If they feel that people will hold on to the waitlist, they are wrong. They will realize this year that they have nothing to be arrogant about. There are much better schools around releasing results earlier.</p>