<p>if they were going to release any today they already would've done it. look, no one is even at the university, they're on break right now. maybe they'll release some next week, but like submachine said, they released everything they had on tuesday.</p>
<p>I got my acceptance email a few days ago, and I got the packet in the mail on Friday 11/23. I applied on 10/19. </p>
<p>In state, 32 ACT, 3.9 gpa.</p>
<p>can you check wolverine even if it hasn't been 2 weeks since I got the email that they received everything?</p>
<p>I got my acceptance email on Tuesday, and my packet yesterday, applied on the 25th...</p>
<p>OOS, 2330 SAT, 96% (no idea what out of 4.0:() - unweighted..</p>
<p>so i am accepted. </p>
<p>but i also applied to the Ross business school, how come the view decisions thing says nothing about it? does that mean i got rejected or do the decisions come out later?!</p>
<p>I think Ross sends out decisions in December (for PA's).</p>
<p>Accepted -- But does anyone know how the Honors Program works.</p>
<p>Michigan was (is) a reach for me. I was accepted at my second choice school (makes things nice) and am waiting for my ED response from my first choice (also a stretch) but so far schools 2 and 4 have accepted me and it feels great...</p>
<p>I hate to be a kill joy, but I'm thinking no news is bad news. I know Michigan isn't done accepting applicants by a long shot. But if you were on the border to begin with, and had everything in by the second or third week of October (not so much when they said they received it) I think the best I can do is get deferred.</p>
<p>My "variables" were top notch. Fantastic essays (described by the head of guidance and the highest ranking English teacher in the school who requires essays as a graded project) as "the best they'd ever read". Teacher rec (different teacher) described me as "the best writer he'd come accross in 20 years of teaching". Guidance Counselor wrote as she said "a three page recommendation instead of the usual 2 paragraphs" Great consistant EC's and a paid job, only high honor and AP classes blah blah blah</p>
<p>BUTTTTT what I think it comes down to, is that stuff is great...but you gotta make the numbers (GPA, TEST scores) or they don't even see (or care) about it.</p>
<p>I'd love to know the method to their madness. ANy ideas? I'm thinking easy ins who applied early, followed by more top students, the Easy ins who applied later, and maybe the last weeks the jocks, alum kids, kids with near perfect tests but not grades...etc</p>
<p>Any other speculation? The kids who have posted their stats here (congrats by the way, not a hater) are almost ALL over the UM absolute average as far as GPA and tests. I realize that the average CC poster is way brighter than the average applicant...but I haven't seen anyone accepted with less than an unweighted 3.8</p>
<p>anyone get deferred or out right rejected? Or does common sense say those come out on the 23rd? I am kind of miffed by the fact that they're not adherring to their published release dates...so that gives me more time to obsess....anyone out there in limbo want in on the speculation????????</p>
<p>Again Congrats to you all, no small feat and job well done!!!</p>
<p>I think you got it straight on in terms of everything......In terms of which remaining students will be deferred (I don't think waitlist comes into play this early, but I could be wrong), will depend on what other applications come in between the time you applied and December 21st.....If all of the so-called "easy ins" have already applied, I think UMich will start to work down the GPA scale....The reason I think that is because there are a large number of applicants with high SAT/ACT scores (above 1400/32), high rank (top 10%), all AP's/Honors, that have not heard yet, but completed applications mid-October and have above 3.5 UW GPA's but below 3.8......Hope that answers your question!</p>
<p>Edit: "I'm kind of miffed".....Yea, and it does not really make anyone else feel that this institution sticks to their word (or that anything else matters but the numbers....no real surprise though!)...</p>
<p>My guess is that they are accepting all of the applicants whose essays/recs/ecs they don't need to read (aka are easy admits, i.e. 3.85+UW, 32+ACT or somewhere along those lines) and that they will approach the boarderline candidates later on when it comes closer to 12/21 and use their essays, recs, ecs, etc in their evaluation.</p>
<p>SubMachine & Rodney, very insightful...</p>
<p>Common sense says the kids making up the 0 to 45 percentile have to come from somewhere????</p>
<p>I just have a bug up my butt and want "bragging rights" as 17 kids from my school have applied.</p>
<p>^^That sounds accurate. I think they take the "easy admits" by stats first, then review other candidates more carefully</p>
<p>IMO, what is more aggravating is that a 3.8UW from one school could be incredibly easy to achieve, while a 3.8UW from another school could be almost impossible...that is one thing that UMich (and probably other very large schools) do not have the luxury of examining.....I already know of someone in another part of our lovely state who has gotten in with a 3.8UW but is only top30% in their graduating class(very few AP's/honors).....See my point???</p>
<p>is everyone positive that those who have not yet heard and applied early will be deferred?</p>
<p>also assuming that those students who have yet to hear are borderline or below a 3.8 gpa but above 3.5</p>
<p>tennis22: Not positive by any means....We have no idea what the applicant pool looks like of those people who did apply for Early response, but haven't been evaluated yet.....(i.e. those whose applications got there right at the deadline)</p>
<p>also, (and this is not meant to be nasty, so if it's taken that way, sorry) I'm not sure it is beyond Umich to start reading those apps that they received AFTER the deadline if they think that there are "easy ins" in that group too....Why else would there be so many applicants who had their applications complete in the beginning to middle of October who haven't heard anything yet?????</p>
<p>I'm done ranting for today....Later</p>
<p>Wow..people in here are way too pessimistic. </p>
<p>I agree that they get the easy in's first, then read the borerline applicant's essays/recommendation and stuff. But there is NOWAY in hell that all of us will be deferred lol.</p>
<p>I have a 2310 SAT and 4.0 UW GPA and I haven't heard yet, so I'm getting pretty worried.
I submitted on October 31 though, so they might not have read my app yet.</p>
<p>i certainly hope that's not the case. it seems as though this year, the competition is even stiffer than previous years..is it just me or has the requirements for umich seriously gone up? well, all we can do is wait and see, so hopefully there will be plenty more acceptances sent out between now and dec 21st. I'm sure the umich class of 2012 has hardly been completed yet.</p>