Anonymous wrote:It sucks that they accepted deferred ED kids that likely spent their entire break doing RD apps and their ECI. Oh well, maybe Michigan will lose some of those kids when other acceptances start coming in.

Yep. The deferral (different school) cost $1,100 to complete 12 other RD applications and a wasted Xmas break.

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Anonymous wrote:No news for my EA kid who applied engineering.

Same here

Another same.

Anonymous wrote:+1 would love to see some stats for the acceptances in this wave, including unweighted GPA, test scores, major, in state or out of sate, and ED or EA

Kensington, MD resident. DS accepted today. 3.9 unweighted, 1530 SAT, major of statistics. Good APs, extracurriculars, but no hook.

DMV public HS, ED deferral just accepted at LSA for poli sci. 3.9/1500/12 APs.

A little more stress than an initial acceptance, but in the end it's nice to be able to consider multiple options.

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Anonymous wrote:No news for my EA kid who applied engineering.

Same here

No news for my EA kid who applied biology.

Anonymous wrote:No news for my EA kid who applied engineering.

Same here

Anonymous wrote:No news for my EA kid who applied engineering.

same

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Anonymous wrote:While it seems likely that this was simply an issue with time to review the ED apps, for the most part, the fact that this wave is not bound is interesting.

Is it possible that UM decided they did not want to give the appearance of admitting a large portion of the class in ED, and instead, gave the ED-deferred applicants an edge in EA due to their high yield likelihood? Just thinking out loud.

+1

That’s a really good point. If they have a substantially higher ED acceptance rate vs. EA acceptance rate, it looks bad from an equity perspective. Normally it doesn’t matter too much, but they’re a public school and state lawmakers already don’t like the OOS percentage.

Agreed. And in addition to external Michigan state politics, there may be internal university politics at play. There may be different factions within the administration and even within the admissions office regarding whether they should offer ED at all. That could also explain why the policy was announced with so little notice.

No news for my EA kid who applied engineering.

It sucks that they accepted deferred ED kids that likely spent their entire break doing RD apps and their ECI. Oh well, maybe Michigan will lose some of those kids when other acceptances start coming in.

Most kids I know want to be done. I agree that the yield will be high among the formerly bound ED kids

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Anonymous wrote:Feeling bummed here. ED deferral that didn’t hear anything today.

It says on the portal “U-M has released an initial wave of Early Action decisions. If you haven’t received a decision yet, this is not a reflection of your pending decision. More decisions are on the way and will be shared by Jan. 30.”

What major?

Ross

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Anonymous wrote:While it seems likely that this was simply an issue with time to review the ED apps, for the most part, the fact that this wave is not bound is interesting.

Is it possible that UM decided they did not want to give the appearance of admitting a large portion of the class in ED, and instead, gave the ED-deferred applicants an edge in EA due to their high yield likelihood? Just thinking out loud.

+1

That’s a really good point. If they have a substantially higher ED acceptance rate vs. EA acceptance rate, it looks bad from an equity perspective. Normally it doesn’t matter too much, but they’re a public school and state lawmakers already don’t like the OOS percentage.

PP. The date may be a clue. This is basically the earliest possible date that would make sense for non-bound EA acceptance, since Friday would have been weird, being over a big holiday weekend. Today's acceptances will certainly stop some of the admitted students from submitting any further apps and I would expect yield of the ED-deferred admits to be very high, perhaps higher now than if UM waited until the end of the month.

Anonymous wrote:While it seems likely that this was simply an issue with time to review the ED apps, for the most part, the fact that this wave is not bound is interesting.

Is it possible that UM decided they did not want to give the appearance of admitting a large portion of the class in ED, and instead, gave the ED-deferred applicants an edge in EA due to their high yield likelihood? Just thinking out loud.

+1

That’s a really good point. If they have a substantially higher ED acceptance rate vs. EA acceptance rate, it looks bad from an equity perspective. Normally it doesn’t matter too much, but they’re a public school and state lawmakers already don’t like the OOS percentage.

Anonymous wrote:While it seems likely that this was simply an issue with time to review the ED apps, for the most part, the fact that this wave is not bound is interesting.

Is it possible that UM decided they did not want to give the appearance of admitting a large portion of the class in ED, and instead, gave the ED-deferred applicants an edge in EA due to their high yield likelihood? Just thinking out loud.

Certainly plausible. They can look at their yield from this ED-deferred wave and tweak for next year.