<p>Deferred from School of Engineering
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted, 4.04 Weighted (after junior year)
SAT: 1890 Math: 700 CR: 590 Writing: 600/ gotta 720 math and 650 writing the other time i took it
AP Classes: 4 APs/Honors
Out of State: NJ
ECs: 1. VP of Green Club (My essay was about creating the club and making it a huge success in our school)
2. Robotics Club
3. FBLA Club
4. Community Service for school NHS, Spanish NHS, and volunteered at local Church, local soup kitchen, and Habitat for Humanity
Good Essays and Recommendations
also part of Math League and Science League (Physics) </p>
<p>Hard to say. Does your school send many to UM? They look at schools with a critical eye.
Don’t believe the deferral letter crap…word on campus is that they were overwhelmed with apps and needed the extra time to look at them.</p>
<p>FWIW, Boston College says that it ultimately accepts about 20% of its deferred pool of EA applicants (during subsequent review). I can’t find a benchmark indication from UM, but I bet it is not too far from that rate.</p>
<p>that’s an overall rate, I don’t think they break it down separately for the business program, arts and science, education etc. Even at UM the rates of deferred applicants ultimately accepted probably vary by type of program —LSA, engineering, kinesiology etc and the quality of of both the deferred and RD pool of applicants being considered for the final cut. </p>
<p>One thing I wonder about w/the pool of EA applicants being so overwhelmingly large at many schools this year, is whether the RD pool will be smaller than expected. In turn perhaps somewhat more applicants from either or both the deferred and RD pool will gain acceptance (with the college having saved a lot of space for the RD pool to allow fair consideration of their applications).</p>
<p>First off I just want to say that my “accomplishments” are not my accomplishments. I am not proud of these accomplishments. I boast of these not to build up my rep, but to glorify God. It is only by the grace, favor, blessings, and strength that is found in a relationship with Christ that I am able to even be considered being admitted to UCB. Since my birth up to 4th grade I was, well to be frank, stupid. But in 4th grade God blessed me with an intelligence that I never had before. There is no explanation for such a dramatic change in my intelligence other than the active role Christ has played in my life. When you read my GPA and ACT scores please understand that I give all the glory and praise to God the Father. In complete honesty, without God’s help, I would have a 2.5 GPA with a ACT score of a 21. So here is my testament of how God has taken me, a stupid little child, and has transformed me into what I am now!</p>
<p>Out of State
Weighted GPA 3.6
Current Semester GPA right now is 4.45, freshman year screwed me.
Highest Composite ACT 31. Highest sub scores Math 31 Reading 32 Science 32 English 35.
5 AP Exams, received three fours and two threes. Received AP Scholar with Distinction Award.
Received a Prairie State Achievement Exam Award
Commended by my town’s mayor and city council with a Certificate of Appreciation for my community service.
Currently helping out everyday with Special Education Kids
Junior year I was an unpaid intern for State Treasurer Alexei Giannoulias’ U.S. Senate Campaign. Same year I was an unpaid intern for Governor Pat Quinn’s Re-election campaign. Also the same year I was an unpaid intern for State Senator Toi Hutchinson’s campaign.
ECs: Business Professionals of America (consecutively placed 1st in Economic Research in Regional competitions for two years. Also placed first, two years in a row, for Banking and Finance in regional competitions. Current senior member of my chapter’s executive board.)
Model United Nations
Youth and Government (Current candidate for Lieutenant Governor for Illinois’ YMCA Youth and Gov, if I win, which I will, I will be representing 1,000 students.)
Speech Team
Here is the best component of my application. I am the youngest Fall Fellow (Community Organizer) in the whole state of Illinois, maybe even the country, for the President’s re-election campaign.
My grades aren’t really that good, but they get better each year even though I take considerably more challenging classes each year. My ACT is decent for Michigan, but my Extra-curricular activities are the best in my school. And I can guarantee you this, no other high school student in the state of Illinois has more political experience then I do. </p>
<p>Thanks be to Almighty God and may He lay His right hand upon you and open the floodgates of Heaven and drench you in His Love, Grace, Mercy, Compassion, and Blessings.</p>
<p>someone on the U of Chicago thread posted that about 10% of the deferred pool eventually gets accepted. Yield at U. of Chicago has to be pretty high, therefore not many spots open up for deferred students. So my guess is it its a higher percent of deferreds gaining admission at UM ,but it probably is not anything like 1 out of 2, or 1 out of 3. I would guess it’s somewhere between 15 and 25%.</p>
<p>@pleaseadvise
UChicago isn’t U-M.
Boston College isn’t U-M.
U-M isn’t nearly as selected as those two schools. Saying that because they have a 20% acceptance rate after deferral U-M has one as well is like saying that, since cat’s **** in a litter box, dogs will too.</p>
<p>I read somewhere, maybe someone else has as well and can source it, that roughly 10% of deferrals nationwide ultimately gain acceptance. I suppose there is no way to know for sure about a particular school, or a particular school’s specific college or department, unless it publishes its statistics. BC has published it is about a 20% rate. U of Chicago is published and its rep. confirms an approximate 10% rate. I do not know Michigan’s rate, i can only guess. Off hand, it would seem that 30% would be too high of a number given the expected number of RD applications+the deferred pool, plus a decent yield rate for both EA and RD. EA applications for almost every school are up this year from low single digits to 25%-30%. And anecdotal reading of the boards and some college Admissions comments would lead one to believe colleges are being pretty selective and conservative in the EA round, but also deferring a great many applicants to the RD round rather than outright rejecting them. You can run whatever algorithms you want, but it doesn’t change the strategy if you are deferred and still want to get in. Much of it is out of your hands anyway as everyone will be trying to get decent first semester grades.</p>
No but seriously I hope you get in, good luck.</p>