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04-12-2008, 02:37 PM
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#46 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 12
| waitlisted...
college - lsa
turned in app during early decision pool.
sat 1860 - reading 650, writing 650, math 560 (weakkk i know)
unweighted gpa 3.9, weighted 4.7
rank 10 out of 250
4 APs at a school that only offers 6
all-state violinist of 5 years
was born in michigan, but of course don't have residency anymore because i moved. i live in south carolina now.
come from a single parent home and low income family, don't know of that matters at all.
not to worried about it, staying in state for a couple of years on a full ride and then transferring somewhere better than michigan, i heard undergrad there sucks anyways because classes are huge and usually taught by ta's, not worth out of state tuition. | 
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04-12-2008, 02:51 PM
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#47 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 133
| "um yeah...
im kinda in shock..
whatever, igot into Upenn and berkeley and USC and northwestern and much better schools than u mich!
4.0 uw, OOS, 35 ACT yup."
then maybe your perception of what is a better school is skewed | |
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04-12-2008, 03:05 PM
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#48 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 14
| Friend got waitlisted
3.7/4.0 GPA
34 ACT
I feel like Michigan is being awfully harsh with it's admissions this year..... | |
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04-12-2008, 10:32 PM
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#49 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Posts: 11,848
| dietcoke, none of the schools you got into at "much better" than Michigan. In fact, none of them are even slighty better than Michigan. Michigan is roughly as good as Cal, Penn (same peer assessment score) and Northwestern and it is better than USC.
This said, you got into awesome universities and you are going to do great. But there is no need to take Michigan's decision so personally. | 
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04-12-2008, 10:48 PM
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#50 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 103
| There's no way that a person with a 4.0 and 35 ACT got rejected. Either that is a lie, or they are leaving out something. | |
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04-12-2008, 11:03 PM
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#51 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 663
| yea there is. a funny little thing called "tufts syndrome"...
p.s. i applied in november, had a 4.0, 32 ACT, have gotten into WashU, Brandeis, Hopkins, and waitlisted at Penn and Columbia. Now I just found out I was waitlisted at umich. Tis good for their yield numbers cuz im not gonna go there. go figure. | |
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04-12-2008, 11:16 PM
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#52 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Posts: 11,848
| tryintobecool, Michigan does not operate that way. But it is pointless to debate on this thread. In this thread, Brandeis, WUSTL and USC are much better than Michigan and Michigan suffers from "Tufts Syndrom"! LOL! | |
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04-12-2008, 11:32 PM
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#53 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 273
| WL!
31 ACT
3.7 UW GPA
tons of ECs that would have helped a lot in their holistic process
applied EA and was deferred way back then
I declined the WL and will be attending another big ten school-Wisconsin!
at least four other people were WL at my school, some with much better/similar/worse stats and all with lots of ECs
A girl who applied super early was accepted at my school, but that is the only acceptance I have heard of. no rejections. | |
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04-13-2008, 12:27 AM
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#54 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,041
| Lots of bitter people on this thread.
Good for Michigan. I love to see my school getting more selective. Although, I have a feeling this year is gonna be repeat of 2006 (lots of waitlist acceptances). | |
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04-13-2008, 12:34 AM
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#55 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ann Arbor
Posts: 1,748
| ^^ haha I totally agree.
How do you know there were a lot of waitlist acceptances in 2006? None of the kids that I know that were also waitlisted in 2006 managed to get in. | |
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04-13-2008, 12:36 AM
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#56 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,041
| Well, for one, I was accepted off the waitlist in 2006, as were something like 500 other people, which is a lot considering Michigan rarely every accepts more then a few people off the waitlist. | |
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04-13-2008, 12:38 AM
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#57 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Posts: 11,848
| CCRunner, if my little corner of the globe is any indication, I don't think so. This year, out of 13 students admitted from the UAE, at least 10 are enrolling. Most of them are turning down other top universities, like Emory, McGill, NYU-Stern, Northwestern, USC, Vanderbilt and WUSTL (to name a few) to attend Michigan. And two of the three undecideds are also seriously considering Michigan, one of them over Rice and the other over Georgia Tech. The only one who turned Michigan down for sure got into Penn ED and is bound to go there.
However, I hope that Michigan does accept a few from the waitlist this year. So far, from what I have heard, Michigan has received close to 30,000 applicants and accepted roughly 11,000. It is very likely that we will have a sub 40% acceptance rate this year. It was only a few years ago that Michigan used to accept 60% of its applicants. At this rate, in 3 or 4 years, Michigan will be admitting fewer than 25% of its applicants! | |
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04-13-2008, 12:41 AM
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#58 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,041
| 25% would be ridiculous.
If it were up to me, I'd just turn UM private and have 70% OOS population. Our endowment would probably get a lot bigger. | |
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04-13-2008, 12:45 AM
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#59 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 43
| waitlisted
3.8 umich gpa, 32 ACT, OOS, double legacy, applied by october 31/deferred in december | |
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04-13-2008, 01:10 AM
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#60 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,976
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How do you know there were a lot of waitlist acceptances in 2006?
| Based on U-M's common data set 2006-07, 2776 accepted the invitation to stay on the waitlist, out of which 525 were eventually admitted.
2006-07 was an anomaly. Historically Michigan took very few from the waitlist. Last year, Michigan took none (actually a handful). I'm still scratching my head why Michigan admitted so many from the waitlist in 2006 ... since Michigan over-admitted by 500 or more in the last couple years.
I agree with CCRunner that Michigan may take a bunch off the waitlist this year ... since they were under the constraint not to over-admit again this year. | |
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