What is the Ad of Umich like???

[wgan]

I recieved an email for UM three days ago...The first paragraph is as below.

 

It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been recommended for admission to the University of Michigan’s Master of Sciences degree program in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences beginning
Fall Term 2013.  Please accept our warmest and most enthusiastic congratulations on this recognition of your academic achievement.  Your admission offer will become official upon certification by the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.  You will be contacted by Rackham in the near future.

 

What does it mean by saying "be recommended for admission " ???

[whatshername]

It means you are admitted. Congrats!

[tarrman]

The way admissions work is that the department you apply to evaluates your application and decides whether to accept or reject. If the department wants to take you on as a student, they then recommend you for admission to the graduate school administration. Then the grad school administration double checks your app to see if it's alright for you to attend (mostly applies to international students) and makes sure there aren't any major discrepancies between your transcripts, GRE scores, etc. and what you wrote on your application.

 

In short, it's great new! Congratulations!