<p>To everyone who got deferred, don’t be afraid, there’s a good chance you’ll get in. I was deferred last year, OOS 32 ACT 3.92 gpa, and I got in in March.</p>
<p>It’ll be okay</p>
<p>^^Deferral decisions will trickle out until the final date. Send your grades and anything else that will bolster your cause and make sure you have a B plan for another college just in case. If your grades are holding up senior year and you are out of state and you don’t need financial help it never hurts to tell them if they are your first choice and you will attend if accepted. </p>
<p>Does everyone who is selected for the comprehensive studies program need to attend the summer program to go to Michigan? I don’t know why I was put into it but I can’t attend the summer program as I’ll be away. I do have a troubling financial situation so I’m hoping that’s the reason why I was put into it and not because of my grades? I have a great GPA & a 31 on the ACT so I don’t think I need any extra help to transition into Mich… </p>
<p>How much will it hurt me if I choose not to send my grades? I’m hesitant because I didn’t do that well this semester.</p>
<p>As for grades, I got a B last quarter (a 92 btw, literally one mark away from an A) will this hurt me?? It’s only one B and it’s in AP bio. I currently have all A’s so I’m really hoping something like this doesn’t get me rejected</p>
<p>Can I rather send them 1st quarter grades as my semester is done awhile after break. And send them the full 1st semester grades once available?</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2380 (800 CR, 800 M, 780 W, 9 Essay)
ACT (breakdown): 36 (36, 36, 36, 36, 10)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): 780 World History, 780 Biology M, 800 Math II, 800 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0, weighted 4.30 (4.8 weighting for AP Classes)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A, School only ranks by deciles (top decile)
AP (place score in parentheses): Stats (5), World History (5), US Gov (5), Comp. Gov (5), English Language (5), US History (5), Macroecon (5), Microecon (5), Biology (5)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro History, AP Psychology, AP Physics, AP Calc BC, AP Literature, AP Spanish V, Leadership group class taught by principal w/ 6 total students
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing spectacular, National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, All-State/Conference for skiing? 4-time Junior Championship qualifier for skiing </p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Alpine Skiing (junior-senior captain, 4 yr varsity), competed on national circuit, Tennis (JV Captain), Board member of community education fund, Spanish Club (VP/Treasurer 11th, President 12th), Sports Management Club President and Founder, Cabinet Member of Leadership Group of school that provides service opportunities and helps run school events, as mentioned before get to spend an hour of every school day with principal as result, President and Founder of 501©(3) Nonprofit that provides free ACT/SAT tutoring to students who otherwise couldn’t afford it, has grown to 8 tutors, tutored ~100 students.
Job/Work Experience: Worked minimum wage job at frozen yogurt shop for about a calendar year total between sophomore and junior year. Listed on common app.
Volunteer/Community Service: ~ 400 hr total through multitude of tutoring programs, hospital volunteer program
Summer Activities:Running nonprofit and doing actual tutoring, writing college essays
Essays:Common App 8/10, Extracurricular essay 7/10, Community essay 9/10, Why Michigan 8/10
Teacher Recommendations: one was 10/10, other probably 8/10
Counselor Rec: Got a new guidance counselor this year after my previous one left for another job, this new counselor has also never been a guidance counselor before, so not super familiar with writing college LoRs, 7/10
Additional Rec: From HS principal, have very close relationship with him, very good.
Interview: N/A</p>
<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid? No
State (if domestic applicant): MN
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public Magnet (top in MN)
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Gender: M
Income Bracket: 200k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Sibling legacy?</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: Test scores, transcript, academics in general, heavy focus on education based ECs.
Weaknesses: Some of my letters of rec (teacher #2, counselor), overrepresented minority, essays
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Test scores, grades, I have a pretty unique story in that I moved to where I live right before 9th grade and had to catch up academically, tutoring nonprofit that has grown pretty large,
Where else you are applying or have already applied:University of Minnesota (scholarships adding up to full-ride), SCEA Harvard (Accepted), Regular action: Yale, Penn, Dartmouth, USC
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: Attending Harvard, will decline Michigan offer within couple of days. Grew up in a Michigan household so will always root for the maize and blue. Go blue</p>
<p>Theory: If you got the first letter, you are in the “good” pile and will get in if you have demonstrated sufficient interest (visit, connection, good “why michigan” essay). You were held because they wanted to filter out all the ED-accepted kids from other schools who aren’t coming. If you got the second letter, you will get in if your first semester grades are good. Recipients of both letters can get in. </p>
<p>Caveat: This applies to recipients of first letter with amazing stats – as in, 34+, 2250+, top 5% stats. They don’t want to let you in if you are using them and have no chance of coming.</p>
<p>p.s. Wondering if I should adjust my theory regarding in-state/OOS admits to sweep in nearby states (like MN, OH) whose admits are likely to strongly consider close Michigan option? They may be a better bet, from a yield perspective.</p>
<p>Honestly if the hypothesis about the ED-accepted weeding out and the theory about not accepting the applicants that seemed overqualified because they might be applying to ivy-like schools are true… </p>
<p>I’m one of the ones that feels that he was qualified to be given acceptance (35 ACT, 780 and 760 on SAT II’s, member of nationally ranked sports team, fluent in a second language, etc…) and UMich was my #1 school. Just a bit annoying.</p>
<p>@ackack Do you have any recommendations about how to express interest in wanting to attend UMich if we did fall into that caveat category?</p>
<p>Deferred LSA earlier today
30 ACT
3.94 gpa
lots of ECs, instate
I was totally expecting this, so it’s not a shock and I’ll be okay! It’s extremely frustrating though when I see all of you with incredible stats get deferred from your dream school, while I personally know people who have absolutely no intention of going get accepted today…</p>
<p>@TheDogSunny so I get that it’s totally annoying, and not just a bit. But it is a timing issue. Real annoyance ought to be with the US News-induced mania for maximizing # of applicants (look at Wash U and Harvard, which are overtly trying to do this by minimizing the supplemental essay requirements) while simultaneously maximizing yield. If you’re Michigan, your stature improves if zillions apply, but you only let in those likely to come. You’re an EA school (hence the zillions), but it only benefits you if you can somehow pick from amongst the zillions the folks who really like YOU. @TheDogSunny, your stats are awesome. Now, send them a second-week-of-January supplement enclosing new grades (or any new info) and reiterating heartfelt interest, and I’d bet anything you’d get in before Feb. 1. UM needs some way of sweeping away the “never ever” candidates and finding you.</p>
<p>@TheDogSunny think I answered that as our messages crossed. I am in same boat. This will be my approach. I think we need to take Erica’s admonition not to bombard them with new stuff seriously. If you visited, flag it. If you have some other connection (I don’t), flag it. If this is your first-choice school, say that. I seriously think this is a filter for them (a blunt one) so that they don’t say yes to the Harvard, Vanderbilt, Wash U, etc. admits who may or may not have communicated “withdraw me please” but who they didn’t have time to withdraw. If you have 5000 students in the super-duper pile, why let in the 2000 who are certain not to come?</p>
<p>Deferred
In state with 3.99 and 28. Kinda mad not because I didn’t get in, but because others were accepted with much lower stats simply because of legacy.</p>
<p><a href=“Provost announces plan to curb over-enrollment”>http://michigandaily.com/news/provost-announces-plan-curb-over-enrollment</a> I definitely see that the plans in this article are being put into action. </p>
<p> Accepted </p>
<p>Applied to which school/college:</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2200, 700R 790M 710W, didn’t apply with it, though
ACT: 34 (35E 35M 33R 32S)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 760 Chemistry, 750 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95 is, about 4
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Unranked, but presumably 1 or 2
Other Tests (AP, IB, AMC, etc; place score in parenthesis): AP’s, US Government (5), Latin (5), BC Calculus (5), English Literature (4), US History (4), Chemistry (3, ouch); Took Mechanics and Discrete Math at UCLA and got Bs in both classes. Took Statistics at Tulane University and got an A+.
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP English Language, Honors “Humanities” (pairs history and culture with literature that we read in English), AP Macroeconomics, Life Skills (mandatory), Honors Multivariable Calculus (1st Semester) and Linear Algebra (2nd Semester).</p>
<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>
<p>Subjective</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Body President (Student Council 9-12), QuizBowl (9-12, vice president this year), MUN (9-12), Math Club (10-12, School President, State Treasurer junior year), Science Olympiad (9-12, President), Juggling Club (Head Clown, first year (I started it)), Cross-Country (9-12, Captain for two years), Key Club (9-12)
Job/Work Experience: Juggling Instructor of a Performing Arts Academy
Volunteer/Community service: 25+ hours a year through Key Club
Summer Activities: Statistics at Tulane University (2013), Discrete Mathematics and Mechanics at UCLA (2014), job (2013), cross-country summer training (2009-2014), Geometry (2012)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8-9, I took a reasonable amount of time on mine, and I liked them, but not much I want to share.</p>
<p>Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): My school doesn’t let us see these, so I’ll guess:
Teacher Rec #1: Calculus teacher, probably a 10. She and I have known each other for years, and we have a great relationship.
Teacher Rec #2: 8-9, English teacher and advisor in my junior year (a homeroom teacher and “mentor,” I suppose).
Counselor Rec: 8-9, she and I have a great relationship.</p>
<p>Interview: No</p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): Louisiana
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White, European Descent
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: No idea
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: Extracurriculars, Recommendations
Weaknesses: AP Chemistry score and essays could have been better
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred Caltech, deferred MIT</p>
<p>Every single person from my high school (an OOS private college prep) that applied was deferred today.
Even our class president/valedictorian that is a legacy- I can’t believe it!<br>
I’m just so shocked that not ONE kid was admitted, even the ones at the very top of our class. I saw it coming for myself considering how hard it is to get in OOS, but still… </p>
<p>My daughter was deferred today, as well. We are OOS. </p>
<p>I am just wondering something though. I noticed through the course of all the waiting for schools to make a decision, that the ones she constantly got emails from while her app was in the review process (Happy Thanksgiving emails, Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, come visit us, etc.) are schools to which she was accepted. UofM, however, never sent anything and she was deferred. So, I am wondering now if those emails were sort of a “clue” while her app was in review on whether she would get admitted to the school or not. Or did U of M just not send anything like that out to anyone else?</p>
<p>And, now that she’s been deferred, she is most likely not going to go there, so this will open a spot for someone if they end up admitting her. She’s already been accepted to Purdue, Ohio State and Case Western. Congrats to all those accepted, and don’t give up for those that were deferred. Good luck!</p>
<p>Does anybody here go to Harvard Westlake? What was the deferral/acceptance rate there? I know they are one of the top feeder schools in the country. They have their own UMich admissions counselor. </p>
<p>Got deferred. 34 act, 3.75/4.0 gpa, oos, great essays and ec’s. Applied preadmit ross so that may be out of the question. But, not sad at all because I’m going to Olin Business School at WUSTL in class of 2019 through ED. Good luck to all who got in and to those deferred, know that you will get in somewhere you like and that michigan decisions are not what define you. </p>