I’ve been following this thread for a while but just made an account today.
Deferred from LSA (Residential College)
3.8 uw GPA (my school doesn’t calculate GPAs so I just calculated online)
1420 new SAT
OOS, Massachusetts
accepted last night !!!
oos 31 ACT; 4.0 uw 4.7ish w; 770 us history 790 literature
Accepted yesterday to LSA!!!
OOS act 31 gpa 3.78uw 4.405w and like 600s on the SAT2 lol ; my sister is a sophomore at umich
More than happy about this result!!! (Esp after getting deferred from uchicago haha) GO BLUE!!!
i am genuinely a little shocked by what i have seen as to who gets accepted or not
@sunny_01, thanks for your thoughts. I was a little surprised she was deferred given what I am seeing from other acceptances and given what we had seen from historical acceptance patterns from her high school. She didn’t want to visit the school and fall in love with it, and then find out she didn’t get in, and I wonder if not “engaging” ended up costing her. It also seems like being a legacy makes a difference, which is surprising for a state school, but I guess they can make whatever rules they like. I would be interested in hearing whether people think that the level of personal engagement (visits, contacting the local recruiter) makes a difference.
Did anyone get the LSA Honors program email? I just did.
i did
@yobub34 - i am assuming that your school has naviance and your DD’s dot is above or surrounded by lots of green dots. If that is the case, then I would ask DD’s college counselor to call UMich and ask for feedback on what happened in her case. At my DD’s school, no one with a GPA of 3.9 or above and an ACT OF 31/SAT of 1480 or above has been denied from UMich in the last 5 years. I find the Naviance information of DDs OOS school interesting when I hear of high stats kids getting rejected. On the other hand, my DD visited and liked Tufts but I told her not to apply once we got access to Naviance. For Tufts, Naviance shows red Xs for everything near her stats. Tufts accepts no kids with high stats from her school.
Yobu34, we didn’t visit, The representatives visited our school and my daughter talked to him for a long time. He told her she can visit later. By the way we lived in Michigan before my daughter was born.
After looking at all the results and comments, it seems there is no way to know why one kid got in over another. There are some high stat kids that got in, and others not. There are definitely some lower stats on this thread that got in. I think it really comes down to the entire application. The ECs, essays and recs. My child is OOS, never visited, applied EA with a 4.86 and 36 first and only sitting ACT. We really expected a deferred. Everyone told us that Michigan defers high stat kids that they think will not attend (like didn’t show interest). Well, that was not the case here. I think it had to do with the whole package of my child’s application. She is very happy. I do think that many of the deferreds will get in. I think that is the way it works with Michigan. Good luck to everyone 
So nobody got rejected?
I agree with @hcmom65 . Based on what people at my school told me, I expected a deferral, but I was very specific in my Why Michigan essay and I think that played a big role in it. Reminder to everyone deferred with good stats that sometimes the admissions officers just dont have time to get to every application and choose deferral over making a hasty decision
Very few people were rejected
@kourtorder I received an email but I know anyone accepted to LSA can apply for the Honors College as well. I’m curious how GPA, ECs, and ACT factor into the Honors College application
Deferred.
GPA: 3.962 (According to School); 3.97 recalculated using UMich’s recalculation policy
3 AP classes (World History, Chemistry, and Spanish), Small High School - about 1,000 students
Ranked 12/230 in my grad class
SAT: 1180 (ERW: 570; Math: 610) - SAT would have been a 1200 if my ERW writing did not drop to 570 from 590 when I retook the SAT)
I wrote essays speaking about my hearing loss and my yearly trips to UMich for follow up appointments and programming
Referred to UMich as a second home
Involved in LGBT/Social Issues Club (3 years), Indoles Scholarship Talent Show Crew (4 Years), Part Time Job for 12-15 hours per week (Junior and Senior year), Student Senate (4 Years), Youth In Government (Senior Year)
I also applied Preferred Admission to Ross.
Also had a mix-up with my SAT test scores, they did not receive them until 12/5/16 because my name and address on the SAT and the Common App were different (One had First M Last and the Common App had First Last II) plus I moved over the summer.
UMich is my dream school and I know with my stats it’s definitely a reach.
@guitar321
Cuz I didn’t withdraw and I’m a troll 
I got deferred into nursing with a 1320 SAT and a 3.78 gpa. I thought being a guy and in state should help me but we shall see if it does in the end. May or may not have been crying my eyes out the past day and a half but at least I’m still cute. I just sent in my letter of intent to my admission’s counselor and I registered for the SAT in January at like 11:30 last night before the deadline.
I’m confused about LSA Honors–does everyone get the email? Some past threads said that only some of the people got them (and if they did their chances of getting in were much higher). Is this true? I got the email but I am not completely sure I want to apply.
they send emails out to some ppl who are at the top of the admitted pool (act 33-34 is the median act for honors) but it doesn’t mean preferential status according to the faq @seaotter17
Got the honors application email today. Does that mean I am the top ones? OOS. Do I have chance for merit based scholarship?