<p>applying early action .. it would be greatly appreciated if anyone would chance me</p>
<p>School : small private school in West Virginia</p>
<p>GPA : 90 on a 100 scale, about 3.78 on 4.0 unweighted, no weighted scale in our school
gpa is on a growing scale-- from 3.3 to 3.7 to 3.9 junior year</p>
<p>ap courses taken - ap calculus ab/bc, ap chemistry, ap human geography, ap us history, ap english lit</p>
<p>SAT - 2130 CR 650 M 780 W 700</p>
<p>AP- pretty bad.. ap calc- 3, ap us history -4</p>
<p>SAT 2 - us history - 700
math level 2 - 740
Korean with listening - 800
world history - 650 (studied for a week...damnit)</p>
<p>TOEFL - 113</p>
<p>Ethicinity - Asian.. International student, OOS (3 combo XD)</p>
<p>EC - pretty good, not the best, some clubs such as model un, spanish, math club
various internships.. etc
soccer 3 years
swimming Ohio valley championship / 2 years
intern at International Organization for Migration</p>
<p>my Major is International Studies / East Asian studies</p>
<p>You stand a good chance, I know many people with much worse scores than you who got in. Good luck, it’s a beautiful campus. Promise me that when you go there for college next year you’ll try out Mia Za’s. It’s a great restaurant.</p>
<p>LOL. This is the one answer that’s guaranteed to be wrong. </p>
<p>Early Action at Michigan is not an “Early Admission” program, nor is it a separate round of the admissions process. All it is, is a promise that if you get your application in by the Early Action deadline (Nov. 1, except for School of Art & Design and School of Music, Theatre & Dance) you’ll get a decision by Dec. 23. There are 3 possible outcomes: admitted, denied, or waitlisted. No one get “deferred to RD” because there is no separate RD “round,” just later-arriving applications in a continuation of the same application process under the same standards. Applications coming in after Nov. 1 are processed roughly in the order they come in, and decisions go out in batches throughout the winter and spring. So if you apply EA and you’re not admitted, that’s it; you don’t get a second bite at the apple in the spring.</p>
<p>Your chances look pretty good. But don’t apply EA to Michigan on the expectation that it will improve your chances of admission. They say it won’t, and I’m inclined to believe them—what incentive would they have to lie about it? The only reason to apply EA to Michigan is to have the security of that early acceptance in your back pocket by Dec. 23, possibly in time to trim the list of schools you’re applying to with Jan. 1 (or later) deadlines.</p>
<p>haha i’m applying to Michigan Early Action because it has been my dream school since freshman year i’ve also visited the school like five times… XD</p>
<p>another reason that i still have to apply for ea is that if i get rejected from michigan i might need to apply to more safety schools for regular… that’s going to be painful writing all the supplement essays on Christmas… :(</p>
<p>Further clarifying: Mich in fact has rolling admissions and it begins rolling out decisons in December. If you apply by Nov 1, you will get “a” decision by Dec 23, either admit, decline, or defer to later. You could actually get a decision before Dec 23. Also, if you apply after Nov 1, you might also get a decision before Dec 23. In fact, you can get a decision anytime from Dec to April. The thing is that those who apply after Nov 1 won’t hear anything until a final decision is made on them. </p>
<p>It is really difficult to measure what your chances are of getting a final decision by Dec 23 rather than later since this psuedo early action process that Mich has guaranteeing notice of something by Dec 23 is new. Your grades and test scores give you a very good chance of admission but when is an unknown and it is possible Mich might hold off and defer somewhat more on out of state applicants so it can see more of the pool of such applicants before making final decisions; you just don’t know.</p>
<p>OK, I stand corrected on the “deferred” part, but they still don’t consider it a separate “round” of admissions as true Early Admissions or Early Decision schools do; if they “defer” it just means they weren’t sure so they’re holding your application to have it come up again later in the process.</p>
<p>They keep changing how they describe their admissions process. I understand they now say they no longer use “rolling” admissions but the process drusba describes sure sounds like rolling admissions to me. And their “Early Action” guarantee of an answer by Dec, 23 isn’t much of a guarantee if one of the possible answers is “maybe; but we’re just going to put off deciding for a while,” which is how I’d construe “defer” given their process. So all they’re really promising is that you’ll hear something–“yes”, “no”, “not now but maybe later”, or “waitlist”–by Dec. 23. Which is fine for those who get an unambiguous “yes,” but not so great for everyone else.</p>
<p>Rolling admissions by any other name but not exactly since it has that Early Action notification date and it does not, like a pure rolling admissions college, actually give out all final decisions as applications are received, The question is whether this early action program is the beginning of a proces that will lead to having only two decision dates. Six years ago UIUC was rolling admission in the same sense as Mich is now. It then adopted an early action deadline and notification date in Dec (also as admit, decline, or defer during regular) like Mich now has but still having rolling admissions. After two years, it scrapped its rolling process altogether and now has the Dec early action notification date and a set date in Feb for all other final decisions. The main reason for the change was that it found out it was actually less costly to have only two notification dates rather than a rolling process.</p>
<p>No. All EA applications are treated as EA. Submitting your EA application earlier does not provide an advantage.</p>
<p>As for the rolling/non-rolling thing - UMich used to be rolling, but due to the massive number of applications last year, they weren’t really able to use a truly rolling process (where you get your decision X weeks after you submit your application) and ended up sending decisions at seemingly random (and excessively late) times. It seems they’re going to continue to try to do a rolling admissions program (which they’ll hopefully have more success with now that they know how many applications to expect), but they no longer want to promise it.</p>
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On topic:</p>
<p>You have a shot, but I’d lean towards deferral.</p>
<p>Sending Korean with listening is iffy if that’s your native language. It looks lazy (and utterly unimpressive) to take an SAT II in your native language as a foreign language. I’m sure I could rack up 800s on English as a foreign language, but nobody would care, because that’s expected - it’s my native language.</p>