I applied to the University of Vermont as a safety with the admission plan of Regular Decision. My stats are a 3.71 weighted GPA (my school doesn’t calculate unweighted) with a 27 on the act, and plenty of activities. During my application to UVM, I was placed in a VIP pool (without my knowledge and or consent) and received a rolling admissions letter saying that I was deferred. I’m wondering if there is a reason that I was deferred even though I am above the posted stats of a school with a 77% acceptance rate. To even further this question, why would an applicant who “meets certain academic thresholds and criteria” (enough to get a early decision letter) be deferred?
If anyone can shed some light on this situation and ease my mind I would be grateful.
I don’t believe your looking at the right stats from UVM. For one, you ACT is right about the 50 %ile. Your GPA is actually on the low side (3.6 UW is right about the 50%ile). http://www.uvm.edu/~oir/cds/cds1415.pdf If your UW GPA would be close to your WGPA then your class rigor is not very high (which is the most important item considered for admission). Otherwise your UW GPA is probably below the 50%ile. Try to keep those grades up to see if you make it in.
@ Erin’s Dad,
If my stats were average to below UVM, why was i placed in a VIP applicant pool where I “met certain academic thresholds” (from my pov implying I showed high academic rigor & competition) and was given rolling admission ( a decision less than a month after my application) instead of being placed in the regular decision pool where I receive no benefits? This is the part that confuses me. You say my stats are average to below, yet i was considered a vip applicant. Seems a bit foggy to me.
Your ACT is on the lower end of their middle 50% of admitted students, so I wouldn’t have considered UVM a safety. I’m sure many kids meet the “academic thresholds” (minimum standards) stats wise. The college probably doesn’t have room to admit all of them, so they push them to the RD round to give them another chance. Would you rather have been rejected outright then be deferred?
My older son applied to UVM as a safety school and was also placed in the VIP applicant pool without his knowledge - this was 4 years ago. He too was deferred, even though he applied RD and didn’t apply early. He ultimately wasn’t accepted. It was very strange. We didn’t care enough about UVM to pursue why that happened but it sounds similar to your situation.