you can add me to the deferred OOS list (since oct for me), which makes me #6 of the 18 i suppose. i've never posted before, but i've felt so compelled to post because of what a huge let down it has been. reading these last few posts, esp yours greg87, pretty much demonstrates exactly how i feel. since i applied, i KNEW i wanted michigan, and i made it very clear i would come. I feel like it has been a 4 month roller coaster of anticipation followed by major let down, with this last deferral being the hardest to take. i really thought that "highly desirable" meant just that, but after reading these twitter posts/SDN reports about the ridiculous deferred OOS stats, I really feel pathetic. having the stats seems nice but really they make me feel like a neurotic, second-guessing, skeptical, pessimistic, twitter addicted freak. vancouvergeorge is dead on-- it's an illusion of transparency. plus, it's totally unnecessary to know the exact minute of our waitlist notification-- did it really affect anyone's day by knowing that this would happen between 4:30 and 4:45??
as a flavor of my pessimism, womp, do we really know what to expect? Not a single person was accepted from the waitlist one year. this is bad news. nosimplehighway-- 49 other people besides you also think they are "competitive". this many students hasn't come off the waitlist in over 6 years!
