<p>@Hobothecat I was accepted and there is a link that shows my status</p>
<p>Thanks @goblue100. Wonder if anyone who got deferred has a link that shows deferred status?</p>
<p>yea I was deferred too and I don’t see mine either but I think its because they had such an overflow of applicants this year</p>
<p>Hey, I was defered too. According to last year’s thread, apparently everyone who was defered did not get a link on wolverine access because it’s not a standing decision (ie. Accepted or rejected)</p>
<p>I’m baffled by the number of people who keep harping on and on about test scores. Michigan, like many highly selective universities, have been de-emphasizing test scores for some time. It is nothing unusual and reflects widespread unease amoung universities about SAT and ACT scores. Students who count on super high scores guaranteeing them admission are being disappointed at many universities. All I can say is, get used to it. This trend is increasing.</p>
<p>question - i got the acceptance email but was wondering if anyone has gotten a letter yet?</p>
<p>Question: did anyone got the official acceptance letter yet? I got an email saying i am accepted and that the official letter will come later…so does anyone know when? thxx </p>
<p>omg me too I have been stressing about not receiving anything other than that one email saying i got in. I hope they don’t make the same mistake JHU did…</p>
<p>Objective:Applied for Engineering, Deferred
SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (CR:800 M:800 W:750)
SAT II: Math IIC 760 / Physics 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang 5 / Microecon 5 / Macroecon 4 / Physics B 4
Senior Year Course Load: Moderately Heavy / 5 AP Courses
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): No Major Awards</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Leaderships: Class Representative / App Making Club Founder / Soccer skill Club Founder</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience: Mobile Application Development Intern at HTC Corporation in Korea
Volunteer/Community service: 5h/week
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8 / Wrote about Sexuality
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 9 </p>
<p>Teacher Rec #1:Good
Teacher Rec #2:Good
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec: Headmaster’s Recommendation, he told me that I am the only one getting it.
Interview:None</p>
<p>Other </p>
<p>Country (if international applicant):Korea
School Type:Small Private (18 students in class)
Ethnicity:Asian
Gender:Male</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: SAT scores
Weaknesses: International School / No Major Awards
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: No major hook . </p>
<p>General Comments:</p>
<p>Why take the tests if they, like you say, are a non factor at so many universities now? @excanuck99 </p>
<p>@excanuck99 You keep pontificating - as if you know the inner working of the university. All your posts seem to be justifying your weaknesses, test scores, GPA, etc. Yeah, you’re the poster child for “holistic” admissions, you lived in 3 countries, blah, but please don’t deemphasize the importance GPA and test scores play in admission. Otherwise, Michigan will not be seeing increasing average SAT scores and GPAs every year. </p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Applied to which school/college: LSA</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 710 Reading, 740 Math, 720 Writing (2170)
ACT: 31
SAT II: 690 (Math 2) 760 (US History)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): didn’t send
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Courses: AP environmental science, multivariable calculus (dual enrollment), chorus, AP european history, advanced theatre, AP literature, AP gov
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): regional theatre award, commended national merit</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): varsity cross country captain, winter track, fall musical, spring musical, community theatre, key club president, nhs treasurer, chorus
Volunteer/Community service: involved through key club and chorus outreach
Summer Activities: multiple theatre programs
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9, spent a lot of time writing
Recommendations </p>
<p>Teacher Rec #1: didn’t read
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:??
Additional Rec:
Interview:</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant): Virginia
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity:White
Gender:Female
Income Bracket: 150k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): </p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
General Comments: </p>
<p>no deferral letter will be sent.</p>
<p>if you’re deferred, they don’t show the deferred status. it’s on their admissions page, if you want to read for yourselves.</p>
<p>@nnocnat2 & anyone else who thinks their “essays really won them over”… lol… do you really think that with the 27,000 people who applied for early admission, they had the manpower dedicated to admissions to read through 75,000 essays in six weeks? If so, you are unbelievable naive, egotistical, & self-deluded. This is a numbers game, pure & simple. (not just GPA & test-scores, but how much $$$ Michigan can make out of the admissions process: they made $1,755,000 in just the application fees thus far) </p>
<p>anon, money has nothing to do with it. Whether those students apply EA or RD 1-12 weeks later is irrelevant. Either way, Michigan will receive tens of thousands of applications. Applications are not a money generator for Michigan or any other university. The more applications are received, the more officers the admissions office will hire, so it is a zero sum game. Most universities charge application fees and those are used to pay for the salaries of the admissions office. For a university that has an operating budget of $7 billion, $4 million is completely insignificant and utterly irrelevant. There is nothing strange or suspicious about that.</p>
<p>As for not reviewing all applicants, I am not sure where you got that information from. Michigan has 25 admissions officers. Each one is allocated an area/state/country of equal size. That means approximately 1,000 EA applicants to review in 6 weeks/admissions officer, or 150 per week or 30 per day. Although it is a lot of work, admissions officers at most major universities spend 10-15 minutes per applicant, meaning that each officer can cover 4 applicants per hour, or 32 applicants in an eight hour day. Now we are assuming admissions officers only 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week. During the September-April period, they probably work closer to 10-12 hours/day, 50-60 hours per week, so they can technically cover 200-350 applicants per admissions officer per week. The numbers add up. Michigan most certainly could go through 27,000 EA applications in 6 weeks with 25 admissions officers. You can find out more details about how areas/states/countries are assigned to officers by scrolling to the bottom of the page below. Like I said, there is nothing suspicious. The numbers add up.</p>
<p><a href=“Contact Us | University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions”>http://admissions.umich.edu/contact-us</a></p>
<p>Yes, yes I do. If it was just a numbers game, we wouldn’t have such a mixture of high and low stats getting in and getting deferred… If it was a “numbers game” we would be able to see a clear pattern in the deferrals and the acceptances and this is obviously not the case.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>College: Nursing</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:**
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown): 29
SAT II (place score in parentheses): N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 25/630
AP (place score in parentheses): AP Psych 4
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Chemistry, Yearbook, Economics, Honors Medical English, Medical Academy
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): </p>
<p>[ b]Subjective:**
Extracurriculars National Honor Society, Varsity Dance Team
Job/Work Experience: 10 hrs week at Jimmy Johns
Volunteer/Community Service: NHS, 10 hours week at hospital
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 7/10
Teacher Recommendations (rating 1-10, details)::10
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): 10/10
Additional Rec (rating 1-10, details):: 10
Interview: None</p>
<p>[ b]Other**
Applied for Financial Aid? No
State (if domestic applicant): MI
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Upper
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Brother at UM, high school medical academy with direct patient care experience</p>
<p>[ b]Reflection**
Strengths: GPA, ACT, recs
Weaknesses: AP
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Applied: Accepted to Case Western, MSU , Purdue, UofD Mercy and Honors program at Western MI
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight: No clue why I didn’t get in</p>
<p>Same, I was accepted and my status has been updated. No letter in the mail yet though.</p>
<p>@Chefmom99. I don’t get it either. My daughter’s stats are close to yours and we are OOS. She does have more leadership stuff but not your medical experience. Interestingly in our Michigan nursing school session they downplayed having medical volunteer experience as important. When someone asked about it after the person was like " we know it takes connections to get those most places so it doesn’t impress us" ( they seemed to place it on the same category as expensive volunteer trips to developing nations). At another school ( iowa) someone asked if medical experience would help and they were just point blank ‘no’. </p>