<p>Mich has a much better rep than UIUC, so I would def choose Mich!</p>
<p>^not really</p>
<p>^Overall, I think mickjagger is correct. In terms of Engineering, the two are more or less equal in rep.</p>
<p>Oh my bad I was just talking engineering</p>
<p>Overall:</p>
<p>Michigan>Illinois</p>
<p>Ann Arbor>>>UC</p>
<p>My son was deferred from LSA last week. He is a 4.0 UW from one of the top 3 rated surburban school districts in MI. He was accepted this past week to his first choice OOS school with direct admission into thier school of buisness as a freshman (2 months prior to thier RD). What I think is really horrible is how heavily U of M recruited him only to defer. I think the whole thing is crazy!!!</p>
<p>Well they are only taking the cream of the crop right now. That doesn’t mean they don’t want him.</p>
<p>Just because a student gets some (or even a lot of) mailings from a school doesn’t mean that he was “heavily recruited” at all or even that anyone in the admissions office knows that student’s name. It only means he was on a list that the college board sent to Michigan based on probably PSAT scores that Michigan decided to mail stuff too. This isn’t athletic recruiting where schools sell themselves to the kid, in college admissions for normal people kids have to sell themselves well enough to the school. Many things factor into the admissions process, and ironically none of them are that PSAT score which causes students to get mailings from schools.</p>
<p>Thanks but I think he is officially scared off. Eziamm I think it started after he sent ACT scores/GPA…but I really have no idea 
I just stumbled across this board and am astounded at the credentials of the kids being deferred…I think I am scared off too…lol…but it did make me feel better to see he was in good company.</p>
<p>I am turning down my offer to U of M to attend the United States Military Academy (West Point) next year. Good luck to all who want to go to Michigan, I know a very qualified applicant will take my place!</p>
<p>Post decisions here!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1052663-official-university-michigan-class-2015-decisions-only-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1052663-official-university-michigan-class-2015-decisions-only-thread.html</a></p>
<p>If they are only taking the cream of the crop right now, why have they accepted people in upper 20’s and lower 30’s ACTs while deferring people with 33’s and 34’s who have more APs and ECs than the ones accepted?</p>
<p>“I am turning down my offer to U of M to attend the United States Military Academy (West Point) next year.”</p>
<p>That’s very impressive kjang0613. Best of luck to you! :-)</p>
<p>@jora</p>
<p>yeah, that “cream of the crop” argument is not substantive at all.</p>
<p>I think they simply ran out of time and just deferred all the applications they hadn’t reviewed yet. There have been a couple posts here saying that they got deffered Tuesday and accepted a week or so later, so maybe UMich is just still working on the thousands of apps they received. Because as far as I know, no one has been rejected and that was not UMich’s original plan (and it would be very disheartening if it is their modified plan. Guaranteeing an early response and providing a vague one is not professional at all).</p>
<p>Hopefully UMich is working on these deffered apps right now, and we’ll hear more decisions this week. Anyone else agree/think differently?</p>
<p>I think the Admissions Office is closed for the holiday.</p>
<p>I spoke with them last week and they reaffirmed that “no RDs will be released until April”.</p>
<p>^
that
sucks</p>
<p>why did they defer everyone. gah i’m so mad :(</p>
<p>They picked the best kids. There were a few slip ups. Or those kids u saw had better ec, were “diverse”, applied to a different umich college, etc.</p>
<p>ipoppills- the “ran out of time” argument is obviously not true and frankly ridiculous. I know for a fact that every decisions counselor had to have all of their decisions done a few weeks before they were released so they could be looked over for any errors. Also Michigan has literally never rejected anyone in their early round so it’s not surprising that they didn’t here either. If you look at the stats of those accepted and those deferred, it makes sense 99% of the time. Most people complaining about getting deferred have a high weighted GPA and probably don’t know that they have a low uw GPA. That’s the killer.</p>
<p>I have a low weighted GPA (96) but I was still admitted, so I don’t think GPA is THAT big of a factor, considering my ECs are average and my standardized test scores are average.</p>
<p>96 weighted gpa is pretty high if you uw gpa was still in the 91-93 range. It’s hard to say how they look at the gpa’s that aren’t on a 4 point scale though.</p>