This December I was deferred from UMich, which I was expecting. I’ve already sent a letter of continued interest, and I plan to send in my semester grades in a week or two. The problem is, the semester grades aren’t looking too hot. It looks like I’ll have 3 B+'s out of nine grades on the transcript, which I know Michigan will treat as B’s. My main issue is that it looks slightly worse than my second semester of my junior year, where I had only two B+'s out of 8 grades on the transcript. All my classes are IB classes, but I don’t think it will help me. My UW GPA is already 3.73, which I think is the main reason I was deferred in the first place. Will this put me out of the running?
P.S. I’m in-state, and I received the deferral letter saying that they already have more than enough information to make the decision, if that means anything at all.
Michigan does not necessarily treat B+'s as merely B’s. Your chances aren’t great, but I don’t think your application will get automatically filtered out due to this.
Both GPA and SAT/ACT are important, however GPA carries more weight in the admissions process. If you have a good ACT score but low GPA, they see it as you have the potential to do well, but you were probably being lazy.
It’ll be okay either way, of course GPA and SAT/ACT scores matter. But there is far more that plays into your admission chances than just those two things.
@kchs7616 Thanks. I’m just feeling pretty bad because I went into the semester aiming for a 4.0 but these IB 2 classes get pretty difficult around midterms.
