My son has applied to Sport Managment which I know is a long shot. Is it possible for him to be denied for sport management but be accepted by Michigan for LSA? I assume no, but just confirming. Thanks
It is not a feeder school. I attend a small private school in a rural town of about 1500 people. Most years, around 3-4 students are accepted from my school of 250 students, with an average graduating class of 60.
Find out what the stats of those accepted but can’t imagine better than yours. I think your in a good position but nothing is ever guaranteed. Good luck
My son got really good grades in his senior semester. Should he send those grades? Would it matter?
It depends. Did Michigan ask for them? Usually if you are deferred there is an opportunity to send a midterm update. My sons school, at the time was the top school in Chicago, would send all scores to all schools they applied to automatically. Talk to your schools counselor and see what you are their policy is. Getting good /improved scores in senior year is important. It shows you are getting ready for college. The Aos are really busy now. Some will accept them and put them in your file. You can also call Michigan admissions and ask them what they would like you to do.
If an applicant submits to one school and is denied admission, then another school isn’t going to separately evaluate the applicant for admission at the alternate school.
Dual degree programs, at two schools, for example, Kinesiology and Ross BBA, may be different.
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For the EA decision, no, first semester senior year grades will not matter. If postponed to RD, then yes, submit, they’ll matter.
I remember that U Mich does not require senior first semester grades for postponed applicants. But our high school is sending anyways. My D25 has a B+ in it. I hope U Mich won’t look at it even if sent their way.
My sons school as I posted did the same thing. Why wouldn’t you want them to see a B +? It’s a great grade. You don’t need all As to get into Michigan. Most times if it’s not requested it would just be put in your file.
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Correct, the University of Michigan does not require senior first semester grades for postponed applicants, unless they specifically ask for them, which they may do. I only said to send them in, if postponed and they help one’s file.
Michigan does encourage applicants to submit their “mid-year” grades (first-semester senior year), if they’re available. They can strengthen one’s application as their file is being reviewed in RD.
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Although a single B+ senior year is likely fine, I wouldn’t go too far with that advice. The data would not support that they are looking for B+ students.
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I get that but a few Bs really doesn’t change much in real life. They don’t want to see students slacking in senior year. I read it as a “class” dropping to a B+. If it’s the whole senior year grade then yes it’s an issue. Michigan also doesn’t use +/-.
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From experiece, when a student applies to a top tier school; one who rejects many applicants with 4.0’s, a B+ (a B in their world) to start senior year is not ideal (but likely not devastating). I appreciate what you are saying, but it is truly not accurate. The good news is that it is hard to know if U Mich will truly use the semester grades. It is also hard to know how they calculate the gpa’s on common data set (although it does seem that B’s are quite rare).
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Not disagreeing. About 92% of grades are 3.75 -4.0. Taken from the CDS.
We also know when calculating grades they don’t use +/-.
We also know if the student is deferred to RD they do request mid year grades.
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Semi-related quirk re: grading at UMich. Profs can and do give A+ grades, but, they are no different in terms of your GPA calculation than an A. Both are a 4.
That’s different than all other letter grades with a +/-, which change the GPA calc for the +/-, including an A-.
So postponed /Deferred what does it mean. One of the best blogs on this is from Rick Clark from Georgia Tech. I will post that and can refer what I posted above.
Many people get deferred. Just means you need to wait a bit longer till you find out your results.
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My daughter got an A+ in a Ross class last semester and it counted as 4.3.
According to the Ross website, an A+ is assigned 4.0 grade points.
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interesting. would you please clarify how michigan looks at the transcripts/calculates grades of high school applicants? i have heard a few different answers on the subject.