<p>so what’s everyone’s best advice for deferred students who are very interested in michigan? besides sending the grades, is it alright to contact our regional admissions officers with an email? help</p>
<p>Can someone explain what people mean by “overqualified” for a school. Just because your stats might be above they middle 50% certainly does not mean you are overqualified. </p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Applied to which school/college: LSA</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT: 31
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.77
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): Apush (5) Lang (4) Euro (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, AP Lit, AP Physics, AP Gov, AP Macro
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Debate, forensics, basketball, a bunch of different clubs
Job/Work Experience: Have my own guitat instructing business, baseball umpire, camp song leader
Volunteer/Community service: 250 plus hours
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9, really spent a lot of time and showed how I really wanted to go to mich and it was my first choice
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): very good, got them from my gifted ed, ap lang, and physics teacher </p>
<p>Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview:</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant):Kansas
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity:White
Gender:Male
Income Bracket: 200k plus
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Triple legacy (both parents and gpa)</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: essays, strong course load
Weaknesses: gpa was a little low
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: really showed I wanted to go to mich through my essays and campus visit. The legacy did not hurt either.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: IU (Kelley), waiting for wisco and unc</p>
<p>General Comments: Can’t wait to be in ann arbor next fall</p>
<p>Found this on the official U of M Admissions tumblr blog regarding deferrals:
<a href=“http://umichadmissions.■■■■■■■■■■/”>http://umichadmissions.■■■■■■■■■■/</a></p>
<p>So You Got Deferred… A Quick Q&A</p>
<p>I was deferred - can I send in my first semester grades to help my chances?
Yep! Have your school send them to us (preferably through the CommonApp, but however they were sent originally would work as well).</p>
<p>What if my grades weren’t that great?
(That’s a judgement call you’re going to have to make. )</p>
<p>Can I write to someone to express my burning desire to attend the University of Michigan?
Yep! Find your territory counselor here and shoot that person an email:
admissions.umich.edu/undergraduate-admissions-team </p>
<p>How long do I have to submit materials?
If we specifically asked for something, you should submit it by the requested deadline. Any supplemental materials you’re submitting on your own can be submitted at any time (but the sooner the better)!</p>
<p>Is there anything else I can do!?
If you’ve sent in your first semester grades and your letter of burning desire, that’s pretty much all we can add into the mix at this point. Try and relax - go for a walk or read a great book or go on a multi-hour Netflix binge to take your mind off things! #nojudgement </p>
<p>Are there official statistics for the number of deferred students who got accepted?
Nope. We won’t know that until we’re completely done with admitting this year’s class. </p>
<p>How often are decisions sent out before mid-April?
It’s a secret to everyone. (Even us)</p>
<p>Really. It’s a “secret” how often decisions are sent out before mid April. What kind of nonsense is that? They keep records. Why would they even say something like this? Do they think it’s funny? </p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Applied to which school/college: LSA (and ross preadmit but we find out later)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT: 32 (same score 3 times and sent all 3 because my subscores varied - superscore was 34)
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): 9 AP classes - all tests above a 3
Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs, 1 honors, 1 required religion, 1 mandatory art credit </p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): varsity tennis, swim, golf, student council, a lot of other smaller ones not worth mentioning
Job/Work Experience: retail, internship at CPA firm
Volunteer/Community service: volunteered 50 hours at hospital over summer, have 150+ hours working with inner city kids in a local organization
Summer Activities: swim, golf, tennis, work
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 7?</p>
<p>all Rec letters should have been above average </p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant): MI
School Type: catholic all male
Ethnicity: white (middle eastern and european)
Gender: male
Income Bracket: 200k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): 3rd generation at U of M. </p>
<p>General Comments: don’t know if I’m gonna attend but super excited about this opportunity! </p>
<p>Everyone should read this article to understand the admissions process and contradictions:</p>
<p><a href=“Lifting the Veil on the Holistic Process at the University of California, Berkeley - The New York Times”>Lifting the Veil on the Holistic Process at the University of California, Berkeley - The New York Times;
<p>ur right</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Applied to which school/college: LSA</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Math 760, Reading 650, Writing 700 (2110)
ACT: –
SAT II: –
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/110
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis): Scores not available. Predicted 43/45
Senior Year Course Load: HL Econ, HL French, HL English, HL Physics, SL History, SL Math
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Highest GPA in IB Program</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Secretary of Student Council, many sports, MUN, Founder of campus store, founder of gender equality project
Job/Work Experience: Math Tutor, Stock Analyst
Volunteer/Community service: 120 hours
Summer Activities: Job (stocks)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): About hometown, about how I want to go to michigan because of its hands-on learning strategy (8)
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): Pretty Good</p>
<p>Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview:</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant): INTERNATIONAL
Country (if international applicant): EGYPT
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Arab
Gender:Male
Income Bracket: 200k plus
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Diverse background, High grades and big sports achievements</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: GPA, extracurriculars, athletics
Weaknesses: SAT?? 2110
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: showed interest + diversity and strong academic history
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: uchicago deferred</p>
<p>General Comments: :)</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>act: 29
gpa: 4.33w, 3.82 uw-- very rigorous curriculum- many honors and 9 AP’s
3’s on all my AP tests
white male
OOS-California-private school-no financial aid requested
EC’s: many leadership rolls, founded my own charity… big roles in a number of foundations, and have recieved a few two notable awards.
Great essays…I think they were the things that really helped my app
Good recs too.
Kicks: Dad attended grad school there so alum connection. </p>
<p>analysis: prior to this I was rejected from johns hopkins and deferred from both Tulane and Northeastern. There is definitely an element of randomness to this process. before last friday I was super down because I had not gotten in anywhere, and i totally thought I was in at tulane an NE. clearly, I was wrong. Defferals suck, but you’ll probably get in RD. anyways, to those who have been admitted… CONGRATS… and to those deferred or denied try your hardest to not get down because one amazing school is bound to admit you because they see your merits, and at that school you will be the most happy. When I got denied from JHU i was devastated. I thought it was the school i was meant to go to. But after a bit of time and an acceptance letter you realize that you can be happy at a lot of places as long as you make it you interest to be happy. Good luck to all. </p>
<p>@ariboy32 Congratulations on your acceptance to michigan 
I applied to U.mich,purdue and Northeastern EA. I got accepted at Northeastern and Purdue but deferred from Michigan. So I guess it really is random!
All the best to you </p>
<p>Thankfully my son was accepted. He is absolutely crazy about UMich. There is absolutely no other place he wants to go to. What is it about UMich that has kids so hooked.</p>
<p>Folks, here’s an article that explains this year’s huge deferral. The EA admission rate has been dramatically and deliberately reduced. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.examiner.com/article/why-thousands-were-deferred-this-year-by-the-university-of-michigan”>http://www.examiner.com/article/why-thousands-were-deferred-this-year-by-the-university-of-michigan</a></p>
<p>@anxious. I think that’s very helpful and helps explain as you’ve said that this is NOT a normal year. </p>
<p>If they are satisfied with the final results it’ll probably become normality though.</p>
<p>I’ll say it again, if you’ve been accepted ED or EA to your top pick and money isn’t an issue: withdraw your application asap. It doesn’t matter if you were deferred or accepted, if you don’t withdraw you are taking up a spot someone else could have.</p>
<p>Yes please do, it’s unfair for people who really care about attending UMich.</p>
<p>@maya54 the next wave will probably come in late January like last year.</p>
<p>@kellz10 yes, write a statement of continuing interest to your territory admissions officer. </p>
<p>@ryan33 I didn’t apply here, but glancing over this thread, it is obvious that Umich deferred many over qualified applicants. Yes, at a competitice school like Michigan, it is expected that many high scorers will not be accepted. High scores are only one part of the hollistic process. But you can’t seriously tell me that all the high scorers who were deferred were seriously lacking in other areas. There is obvious yield protection at play and many(more than usual at a top college) less qualified applicants were admitted, probably for the sake of yield. I’m quite glad I didn’t apply because this is absurd.</p>