Chances after Deferral? 32 ACT, 2160 SAT; In-state

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<p>Decision: Deferred
Major: Undecided, Pre-interest: Law</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2160 SAT (800 CR, 640 M, 720 W)
SAT II: n/a
ACT: 32
GPA: 3.73 GPA
Rank: Not sure</p>

<p>AP: AP Lang (5), AP Lit (5), AP US(4), AP Gov’t (4)
Major Awards: AP Scholar w/ Honor, Nat'l Merit Semifinalist</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Youth Senate (Lead Presenter), Tennis, Symphony Orchestra, Leap the Gap: Elimination of Racial Disparities in Education (Lead Team), DECA, Student Council
Job/Work Experience: Venture Capital Fund Junior Associate 35 hrs/wk, Jr-Sn
Volunteer/Community service: Alzheimer Day Center for Seniors, Jr-Sen, lots of hours, Tutor for underprivileged minorities, some other stuff</p>

<p>Essays: Seemed excellent at the time
Teacher Recommendation: Fantastic
Counselor Rec: Don't know
Hook: I was supposed to have a Prof at Ross flag my app for Pre-admit, but that doesn't really help for getting into LSA</p>

<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): MI
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100,000+
<em>ALL</em> my materials were received by 10/1. </p>

<p>My main concern is that my first semster grades are not great.</p>

<p>Humanities, Social Studies AC A-
Humanities, Literature AC A-
Physics: Mechanics B-
Calculus AB B (I feel like this could easily go to a C+ or B-)
Symphony Orch A
Marketing COE A+
World History IA OL A-</p>

<p>I'm also expecting to become a NMF, if that helps any. What kind of supplementary materials would you all suggest sending in? I'm already planning on sending two more teacher recs (both excellent, both different from original). Would a personal statement stating that if accepted I'd definitely attend?</p>

<p>Also, would any kind souls w/ some time on their hands mind chancing me on Carleton RD, Brown RD (I know, super reach), and Vanderbilt RD? I've been accepted at MSU, but I'm not sure I want to got there if I get accepted elsewhere.</p>

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<p>cant believe you got dffered…</p>

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<p>Are your courses as rigorous as possible? It could really hold you back if they aren’t.</p>

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<p>Go through 2013 thread. You can see some defered who got RD admission.</p>

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<p>You got deferred? Reallly? I find it hard to believe, but you’re chances are quite strong to get admitted in the RD pool. You’re a pretty competitive applicant, even if your GPA is at the lower end of UMich’s range. </p>

<p>One recommendation: Since they’re looking at 7th sem grades, go fight for your A in all of your classes because that should help you out.</p>

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<p>Deferrals are coming in for some very high stat kids. Very strange. I think GPA is a HUGE issue this year. They say they no longer recalculate … but it looks like it still needs to be up near 4.0. They are becoming even more stats driven.</p>

<p>As far as how that impacts other schools’ decisions … it doesn’t. My older child was accepted to Vandy & Tufts a couple years ago, but waitlisted at Macalester. Go figure!!</p>

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<p>This year is strange… someone from our school with 3 APs, 3.5, and 2000 SAT got in. We’re in state too.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback. @crazypianist1116 With the exception of my physics class, yeah, just about everything is as rigorous as available. Still, I’m not doing well in my calc class and I’m thinking about dropping it. Would that hurt my chances, even if I replace it with another AP? And for decisions, are they still on a rolling basis? That would suck if I had to wait until April.</p>

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<p>Didn’t your previous thread state that you had a “mediocre to terrible counselor” letter? If that is the case, then that is what probably didn’t get you accepted.</p>

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<p>Yeah, that was in the decisions thread. In all honesty, though, that was probably just the disappointment and surprise talking. I’ve only meet her a couple times, and while she’s been exceedingly unhelpful, I don’t think it’s fair to her to say that she doesn’t like me or is the reason I got deferred. That’s why I changed it to “I don’t know”, because it’s the truth.</p>