2009-2010 University of Michigan Application Thread

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TheFreak said:
sounds like a day of reckoning as my friend put it.

Very long, deliberative AEC meeting just concluded. Decisions for all M.D. candidates reached--will be reported BY tomorrow at noon.
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I bet 500 bucks I'm rejected. Somebody willing to bet more?
 
consensus: does this imply allocation of remaining interview offers by to-morrow also, or only post-interview decisions?
 
Quicky said:
I'm pretty sure that twitter post is just referring to those who have already interviewed.
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Oh. I thought it was for everyone.

But I'm still no doubt gonna get rejected eventually.:laugh:
 
LAman10 said:
think this includes deferred candidates??
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Yeah -- that's what I'm wondering. I kind of doubt they're going to meet again by Monday (when they said the deferrals would be informed), so maybe we'll hear tomorrow.
 
Did anyone else (pre-interview) get this status update today?

"Application Screening Completed
Your application has been reviewed. At this point we are not able to offer you an interview. Additional reviews may take several months as we compare groups of applicants. Thank you for your patience. "

I'm trying to figure out what this means (is my status any worse than before?).
 
i love cookies said:
Did anyone else (pre-interview) get this status update today?

"Application Screening Completed
Your application has been reviewed. At this point we are not able to offer you an interview. Additional reviews may take several months as we compare groups of applicants. Thank you for your patience. "

I'm trying to figure out what this means (is my status any worse than before?).
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That's been my status for a long time now.
 
mine's still file complete - under review. i sent them an update yesterday.
 
oh man i just looked at the twitter... why must you tempt me UM, i miss cottage inn lol
 
i love cookies said:
Did anyone else (pre-interview) get this status update today?

"Application Screening Completed
Your application has been reviewed. At this point we are not able to offer you an interview. Additional reviews may take several months as we compare groups of applicants. Thank you for your patience. "

I'm trying to figure out what this means (is my status any worse than before?).
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That status didn't seem as foreboding when my friend got it in August. But now that they have reviewed almost every file and given out 90% of their interview invites, I really don't see why they would care to further compare you to the other applicants. They also don't have months left anymore, more like 1 month.
 
JJFoshay said:
DECEMBER DEFERRALS REPRESENT!!! :banana:

I've had that status since October. Seriously, how many other folks here are in this curious conundrum? Let's make a spreadsheet or something to fill the time. :-B
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I am. 😀 I guess we find out on next Monday. Not getting my hopes up too much though since last year most of the December "Highly Desirables" became March Highly Desirables.

Although it's possible that deferrals might move more this year since they are interviewing 100 people less than last year.
 
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womp said:
I am. 😀 I guess we find out on next Monday. Not getting my hopes up too much though since last year most of the December "Highly Desirables" became March Highly Desirables.
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I wonder if they also do "Highly Undersirables." That would totally make my day.
 
This is purely speculation, but I have to agree with smmypnts. People have had "Application Screening Completed" since July and the UofM admissions office said they consistently re-review files with that status. Based on the fact that I haven't heard of anyone receiving an interview after having this status and that they have already given out most of their interview invites, it seems unlikely to receive one now.
 
Edit: on second thought that analysis is insensitive to people with certain recently updated statuses...ugh, I can't win!
 
JJFoshay said:
I think that's what rejections (and probably waitlists) are for. Many schools don't even seem to call rejections "rejections", though; "we've elected not to continue with review of your application", etc. And the term waitlist is definitely imbued with a lot of false hope - a more accurate name would be the "probably not" list. Administrative culture is kind of weird -- treat everyone with opaque pseudo-respect and deference because they can sue you if you offend them but they can't really sure you for leading them on or saying things that are only half-negative. All the Newspeak leaves me with kind of a hollow feeling, though...
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I know, but the phrase would be totally hilarious. "Applicant X's status= highly undesirable. He stinks. Get the **** out.":laugh:
 
JJFoshay said:
I think that's what rejections (and probably waitlists) are for. Many schools don't even seem to call rejections "rejections", though; "we've elected not to continue with review of your application", etc. And the term waitlist is definitely imbued with a lot of false hope - a more accurate name would be the "probably not" list. Administrative culture is kind of weird -- treat everyone with opaque pseudo-respect and deference because they can sue you if you offend them but they can't really sure you for leading them on or saying things that are only half-negative. All the Newspeak leaves me with kind of a hollow feeling, though...
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It makes sense though, many of the post-interview waitlisted/rejected applicants would go on to other medical schools, no point in developing grudges among thousands of future doctors toward your institution. A little tact and hope goes a long way.
 
BlueElmo, man, you are so negative! lol. elmo is happy, but i suppose a blue elmo would be sad.
 
womp said:
It makes sense though, many of the post-interview waitlisted/rejected applicants would go on to other medical schools, no point in developing grudges among thousands of future doctors toward your institution. A little tact and hope goes a long way.
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Too true -- any institution that is blunt in its communication would probably curry disfavor with the recipient. But does that fact mean that stating the true intention openly is an inherently unacceptable approach, or does it mean that members of our society have rather tenuous senses of self esteem and an inappropriate sense of entitlement to the sugar-coating of important life experiences?

Applicants in different, less litigious societies probably don't have so much self-bolstering and reassurance when they fail to achieve something. In fact, people in our society (of a lower social class), definitely aren't handed failure with so much dignity -- they just get pink slips! I think a level of respect somewhere in the middle is appropriate, but a "highly desirable" label that ends in people being on the mid-tier waitlist is inherently confusing. I guess all is fair in love and war and med school admissions. 😉
 
straight waitlist! oh well. was my first interview - I got started quite late this app cycle. course now it's hard not to beat myself up wondering what I did wrong to blow my interviews :/
 
Ze twitterion says the "vast majority" of the accepted deferrals will be MI residents -- they said there were 13 of those. But do they also mean the vast majority OF those deferred MI residents will be accepted? Hmmm, I wish I was one.
 
JJFoshay said:
Ze twitterion says the "vast majority" of the accepted deferrals will be MI residents -- they said there were 13 of those. But do they also mean the vast majority OF those deferred MI residents will be accepted? Hmmm, I wish I was one.
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The twitter reads like a Dan Brown code:

"Deliberations continue on who/how many Monday admits from defer group-update tomorrow-strong trending towards 'vast majority' residents."

Where did you get the 13 number?
 
womp said:
The twitter reads like a Dan Brown code:

"Deliberations continue on who/how many Monday admits from defer group-update tomorrow-strong trending towards 'vast majority' residents."

Where did you get the 13 number?
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A few twitter posts ago they gave the number and breakdown of people with deferred decisions.

Are you from MI, womp?

Also, Blue Elmo, I did a google image search of out curiosity to find the source of your avatar but all I got were pictures of Cookie Monster???
 
womp said:
The twitter reads like a Dan Brown code:

"Deliberations continue on who/how many Monday admits from defer group-update tomorrow-strong trending towards 'vast majority' residents."

Where did you get the 13 number?
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Wow, if I wasn't a med school applicant, I would have no idea what that phrase just meant. But to me, it makes perfect sense. Med school application process has its own language.:laugh:
 
JJFoshay said:
A few twitter posts ago they gave the number and breakdown of people with deferred decisions.

Are you from MI, womp?

Also, Blue Elmo, I did a google image search of out curiosity to find the source of your avatar but all I got were pictures of Cookie Monster???
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Don't worry about it. Just look at my avatar.😉
 
womp said:
The twitter reads like a Dan Brown code:

"Deliberations continue on who/how many Monday admits from defer group-update tomorrow-strong trending towards 'vast majority' residents."

Where did you get the 13 number?
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LOL
'towards' is not a word
'toward' is though
is this generally the case with michigan deferrals? acceptance only given to in-state residents?
 
LAman10 said:
LOL
'towards' is not a word
'toward' is though
is this generally the case with michigan deferrals? acceptance only given to in-state residents?
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Ooooh...I can't remember whether or not the accepted deferred student I met was an MI resident...I know she went to college out of state, but I'm not gonna bother her to ask if she's from MI originally.
 
LAman10 said:
LOL
'towards' is not a word
'toward' is though
is this generally the case with michigan deferrals? acceptance only given to in-state residents?
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Saying 'towards' is not a word is like saying 'colour' isn't a word. Towards is perfectly fine, it's just more common in British English.
 
LAman10 said:
is this generally the case with michigan deferrals? acceptance only given to in-state residents?
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That would be a little silly then to give out all these OOS December deferrals. I'm OOS too, but from an adjacent state.
 
JJFoshay said:
a "highly desirable" label that ends in people being on the mid-tier waitlist is inherently confusing. I guess all is fair in love and war and med school admissions. 😉
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New twitter message:

"Defer candidates either admitted Monday or deferred to Feb--In February either admitted or placed in top tier of waitlist. #'s later today..."

I guess we would all at least be in the top tier. G'luck!
 
womp said:
New twitter message:

"Defer candidates either admitted Monday or deferred to Feb--In February either admitted or placed in top tier of waitlist. #'s later today..."

I guess we would all at least be in the top tier. G'luck!
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So I'm guessing it's safe to assume that no interview yet pretty much translates to no interview at all. Bummer: I was really excited about this school.
 
womp said:
New twitter message:

"Defer candidates either admitted Monday or deferred to Feb--In February either admitted or placed in top tier of waitlist. #'s later today..."

I guess we would all at least be in the top tier. G'luck!
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Cool - that's only fair considering the label they give us now. Again though, last years thread wasn't representative if only 2 of 20+ deferrals posted, so who knows why one of them may have been put on a lower waitlist... This year, I think I've heard only 3 or 4 (out of 40) deferrals posting in this thread, so we may all end up waitlisted and still not convey the reality for MI residents or deferrals at large. I guess the numbers they post later will shed light on how many they actually accept.
 
redsquareblack said:
So I'm guessing it's safe to assume that no interview yet pretty much translates to no interview at all. Bummer: I was really excited about this school.
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Why do you say that? Also for MI, does deferred = post-interview decision? What about pre-interview holds? When do we expect to hear?
 
redsquareblack said:
So I'm guessing it's safe to assume that no interview yet pretty much translates to no interview at all. Bummer: I was really excited about this school.
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they're referring to post-interview deferrals...has nothing to do with the interviews that they have left to offer..which isnt much and will mostly go to MI residents...and maybe they can answer this on their twitter page but is UMich done sending out interview invitations until after the new year??
 
"Defer Decisions will be posted Monday 12/21--tentative plan to admit 12 from the list (10 Residents and 2 Non-Residents)-subject to change."
 
Does anyone know approximately where on the waitlist you will land if you are straight waitlisted and not deferred? Can you be in top tier?
 
eMedStudent said:
Does anyone know approximately where on the waitlist you will land if you are straight waitlisted and not deferred? Can you be in top tier?
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I'm pretty sure you can be assigned to any tier of the waitlist and that they notify you which one you're in once waitlisted, right?

Anywho...

10 of 13 in-state deferrals accepted = very nice odds

2 of 27 OOS deferrals accepted = crapshoot
 
I haven't gotten an "Application Screening Complete" status update yet, still on "File Complete - Under Review". Does that mean they haven't gotten to my application yet at all? Haha, I obviously highly highly doubt that, but the minute differences between these application statuses are kinda confusing!

Barely hoping for an interview invite from here anymore, but man would that be awesome...seems like an amazing place! 🙂
 
bluedevil51 said:
I haven't gotten an "Application Screening Complete" status update yet, still on "File Complete - Under Review". Does that mean they haven't gotten to my application yet at all? Haha, I obviously highly highly doubt that, but the minute differences between these application statuses are kinda confusing!

Barely hoping for an interview invite from here anymore, but man would that be awesome...seems like an amazing place! 🙂
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Mine's still under review, but I'm still very optimistic. As they say, no news is good news.

Until you're rejected, why worry and be negative? eh?

go blue!
 
JJFoshay said:
I'm pretty sure you can be assigned to any tier of the waitlist and that they notify you which one you're in once waitlisted, right?

Anywho...

10 of 13 in-state deferrals accepted = very nice odds

2 of 27 OOS deferrals accepted = crapshoot
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Has anyone found out where on the waitlist they are, either by calling or from an email or the status page?
 
I agree, too. I'm in the same boat...oh well haha


^ referring to BlueElmo and redsquareblack
 
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