<p>I applied to ACES with a 3.6 GPA and a 29 ACT and got deferred today. These twins I know got in with stats slightly below mine and I'm guessing it is because of legacy, but I didn't bother asking if they have it.</p>
<p>My question is though, my mom attended University of Illinois at Chicago. Does that count as legacy? Still part of the university system right?</p>
<p>According to Princeton Review College Guide 2003 (old, I know), Legacy Status is “not considered” at the U of I.</p>
<p>they recently started considering legacy, i think, but only if it’s your parents, no outside relatives. i’m not positive on this.</p>
<p>Little consideration including because they cannot give it much because of large percentage of applicants who have it and highly unlikely to be the reason of any importance for the twins admission and not yours. UIC is not considered legacy at UIUC.</p>
<p>drusba could you list some things that could possibly be taken into consideration? They both go to my school, and one of them applied to Agri-accounting just like me and has a lower GPA than me. I have some extracurriculars just like him I just don’t understand. I guess I’ll be crossing my fingers in February, last year at my school almost everyone that got deferred got in so hopefully that will be the case.</p>
<p>Also one more question, on the FAQ for deferrals it states that they do not accept other information that students send in such as mid-semester grades, my question is do they review 7th semester or do they simply make their decision on what they have already? </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>As you are already aware deferral is not death and majority of those deferred eventually get in. Trying to figure how someone else got in on first round and you did not is not an exercise that can lead to any real answers. The process is seldom ever “I am looking at student A’s file and student B’s file and I think A is better.” Most likely, decision on you was made with the reviewers not even being aware of or thinking about the twins at the time it was made. They review the file: GPA/ rank is important, difficulty of courses taken is important, some reviewers may consider particular courses to be important, essays are important in ACES including because they are often wary of those they may believe are really trying to get in as a backdoor to transfering to another college. To a certain extent deferral is a partial victory in that you are still in the mix, rather than being rejected, and they just want to wait until apps are in to make final decison. And no your end of this semester’s grades will not be considered and decision will be based on what they have although they accept and consider certain updates to the file if it is something of significance and gets to them before mid-January such as a new and higher SAT or ACT test score from the December testing dates.</p>
<p>Please do not worry about being deferred. I know of several students with class rank in the top 5%, 30+ ACT, 4.2+ WGPA, 3.7+ UWGPA, great commitment to several extracurricular activities, 10+ AP tests (scores of 4+ on at least 7) who have been deferred from U of I Priority Admission. The school’s admissions process was just…eclectic this year.</p>
<p>Are you positive that their stats are below yours? Have you taken exactly the same courses and electives,do you know both their weighted and unweighted class rank, and how U of I might have recalculated their gpas? And are you positive of their ACT and SAT scores…and which they chose to submit? ETC…</p>
<p>Could they have had better recommendations or essays? Could they have presented their ECs in a more compelling manner?</p>
<p>Could they have applied earlier in the admission cycle and benefitted from having their applications read before yours?</p>
<p>What I am saying is that it could be any of many reasons…or an accumulation of a lot of little things…or just that their applications could have been read earlier in the cycle when their were more slots still open or when the admissions reader was not so jaded by the sheer number of applications he had read.</p>