<p>Okay my dad’s freaking out cause he read a post/article about people 2300 SAT/34 ACT getting deferred from UMich what can I do to make him stop</p>
<p>You don’t do anything to make him stop… He has a point. A 2300 and/or 34 do not guarantee your admission to Umich, it’s based on tons of other factors… I have a 2370 and I’m still freaking out about the upcoming decision.</p>
<p>Sure but my point is if you have the stats your chances jump astronomically unless you have a really bad essay</p>
<p>Sure, you have good chances, but it’s never a certain admit. Plus, you never know how good you essays are, and how much the admission officers will like it… No matter what your stats are, there’s still a chance that you’ll get rejected/deferred. And that thought alone is more than enough to drive me insane over the next couple weeks…</p>
<p>Thanks michael, I remember you too :P! are you currently at umich?</p>
<p>And I agree that there’s never any way to be certain. I know people with stellar scores and essays that got waitlisted. It only gets more competitive every year. personally, it seems a bit unfair, and I don’t think they did a very good job at reviewing applications last year, but that’s just my opinion. Expect the unexpected.</p>
<p>Shiet now I’m all worried and anxious again</p>
<p>I really hate thinking about high stat individuals who get rejected; it makes me so nervous.</p>
<p>I think everyone needs to just take a deep breadth. I know of the crazy high stats rejection horror stories that everyone tells but those are the exception not the rule. If you have good stats like 28+ act and a good GPA 3.7 + and you don’t completely tank on the essays you should be OK. Just have confidence in yourself and you’ll be fine</p>
<p>" If you have good stats like 28+ act and a good GPA 3.7 + and you don’t completely tank on the essays you should be OK."</p>
<p>Are you sure?</p>
<p>From all the statistics I’ve seen and admission offices I’ve talked to that’s about the general level. Lower scores and great essays can get you in and higher with bad essays can keep you out and ecs are important too</p>
<p>Big difference if you are talking about in-state vs out-of-state applicant.</p>
<p>Guys, this is so nervewracking…I currently live in Ohio, but I was born in Michigan and I’ve wanted to go there forever.</p>
<p>Last year, a kid from my school that applied EA had a 3.7 gpa (weighted and everything) and a 24 on their ACT and they got accepted. However, the two other kids from my school that applied RD got rejected, even though they had MUCH better stats. This fact gives me a little relief, not a lot though lol. Although I’ve never seen official stats about their EA acceptances, I’m nearly positive they have a much higher acceptance rate for EA apps. I also think it has to do with nonresidency/residency representation. My cousin, the salutatorian (31 ACT) at a highly-renowned high school in an upper-middle class Southeast MI city got deferred when he applied RD.
There’s so many technicalities about this whole process, it honestly makes my head spin 
Does anyone know any kind of EA stats vs. RD stats from UMich? It would be greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>28 ACT and 3.7 GPA statistically does not have a great chance of being accepted. It will help to have some kind of hook with those numbers.</p>
<p>I do know of two kids that were accepted last year with a 24 and 25 ACT (with everything else being excellent). Both were from rural areas of MI in counties that would have had few students applying to UofM.</p>
<p>So if you’re applying from an out-of-state school that has no other students also applying to U of M EA, will having generally good stats help you with admission at all? I mean, I’m not some MENSA-qualified, valedictorian, cure-finding, president of every club, All-American athlete like it seems a lot of these other kids are, which is extremely unnerving. I’d like to think I have some kind of hook, as I believe my essays were very unique and conveyed my personality well.
It’s definitely hard, because somedays I feel confident in my application, and other days I only see the kids with 33+ ACTs, 4.0 GPAs getting accepted. I know I’m not some super special, super smart kid, but is that REALLY what it takes just to get into a decent college nowadays? Sorry for the self-pity session, I just want to know the competition between OOS vs. IS students that applied.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, I think if your ACT range and GPA are within the 25%, and you applied EA, its just a toss up…</p>
<p>What do you mean by “within the 25%”?</p>
<p>Under or at 28 ACT and 3.7 GPA</p>
<p>^ That’s definitely below the 25% even for LSA.</p>
<p>when do you think they will start sending out the decisions?</p>