<p>About the essays people have mentioned in this thread, and how great students could have weak essays: that is entirely possible. But I’ve also seen some essays from my peers with high stats that read like a bragging sheet. Sometimes “over-qualified” students get over-confident to the point of cockiness on all their apps. I even reread my application specifically to look for places that might come off as over-confident and got rid of them. Yet reading some essays from my friends, I sometimes cringe at how much they are almost screaming “look how special I am. I’m incredible and deserve to get in everywhere.” So I think it’s a combination of kids with weak essays, cocky essays and/or simply being overlooked, which unfortunately happens. :(</p>
<p>As someone admitted EA this year to UM, good luck to everyone on this thread, whether it was you or your child who applied!</p>
<p>My son’s main common app essay was about learning the importance of teamwork through playing paintball. His EC essay was about the process of learning music for their HS musical ( he played in the pit) Both pieces reflected his personality which the colleges seem to be looking for.</p>
<p>I have a slight problem. There is a scholarship for $5000 a year for four years that I want to apply for. Hoping I get in latter, as I am currently deferred. But the dead line is January 16th I believe. And one of the requirements is being accepted. Should I call the admissions office and ask them? Does anyone have a number I could call?</p>
<p>@dahuqster - no, this is not true. however i’ve only heard of one person who got rejected from EA at my school, and i go to a school with a graduating class of ~1800 students.</p>
<p>Letter 1, with a freaking 33 ACT and an UW GPA of 3.93… How can people with 28 ACTs and lower GPAs get in? No offense, it just upsets me. I have good ECs, had good essays, and amazing teacher recs. What’s even more fluke-ish is that I got into UChicago, a school 10 TIMES better. Oh, well. I’m hopefully gonna go to UChicago anyway.</p>
<p>“What’s even more fluke-ish is that I got into UChicago, a school 10 TIMES better. Oh, well. I’m hopefully gonna go to UChicago anyway.”</p>
<p>I can perfectly understand why Michigan deferred you. It was probably more than obvious that you weren’t going to attend the school to the admissions committee. Btw, Chicago is NOT ten times better than Michigan. Please get real and be glad you were admitted to the school you really wanted to attend. Good luck to you there.</p>
<p>Yes. He was accepted with an 18 ACT score. However it was to the summer bridge program. My other friend also got in with a 20 to the bridge program too, however she has a 3.8 GPA…</p>
<p>Firstly, if you wan’t to compare yourself to someone, make sure you compare yourself with someone who was applying to the same exact college (LSA, Engineering, ect) and studying the same major as well. Maybe the average ACT pool for one particular school was a 26, and a 32 in the engineering department. If you know someone who got in with a 26 who applied to that particular school, you should not even be comparing yourself with that person in the first place. </p>
<p>Secondly, UMICH had their reasons to defer who they did and accept who they did. The only real way to find out what those are, is to go ask them at the admissions office. Obviously not everyone got deferred for the same reason. Everyone applies with different stats and situations. Trying to figure out what your next step is in the process is near impossible. You can consider sending mail, but what if they were perfectly content with your essays? More writing would not change their minds if they were worried about your grades not being up to standard. This goes the opposite as well. If you have amazing grades but a crummy personality in your essays, getting a 4.0 for the rest of your semester does not mean much. </p>
<p>^With that said, you guys do have to calm down a bit. All of you guys are unique in your own way and are obviously passionate about this college- otherwise you would not be here reading this right now. You are in your senior year in high school, enjoy it. It only gets more difficult (academic wise, and in a lot of other ways) after high school. Try to get excited for your “plan B” school and just enjoy the time you have left with your friends who you may not be seeing a lot of once college hits around.</p>
<p>I hope everything works out for everyone
-fuzz</p>
<p>i also want to add to this discussion and my purpose is not to bring anyone down, just to give everyone an idea of what COULD happen since it did happen to myself and many others last year.</p>
<p>like a lot of you, a ton of extremely qualified kids were deferred. a lot of us got extra rec letters, sent in our midterm grades, and contacted our admissions reps to ensure that we had shown “demonstrated interest,” only to get waitlisted after the regular admission notifications and eventually flat out rejected by early may. </p>
<p>im not saying that any of you should give up- i highly recommend the exact opposite becuase you will regret not trying everything you could to get in. BUT everyone obviously has a lot going for them and will have amazing second choice schools to fall back on so please try and get as excited as possible about them and know that this process is brutal but that everything happens for a reason.</p>
<p>bear1993 makes a lot of good points and it cracks me up that people are so entitled to be accepted to U of M. It’s a good school, but obviously they can’t accept everyone even with the common application. As for the second choice schools if you’re an in state student you have MSU, GVSU, and various other in state colleges that are decent and if you’re out of state there’s a good chance you’ll get into another top college. </p>
<p>As for someone getting an 18 on the ACT and getting in it is very much believable, it’s one of the many benefits of being an URM. It’s the same way when you apply for jobs in the “real world.” If you don’t believe me lindsyxo or anyone else look up U of M admissions before Proposal 2.</p>
<p>how important is ACT? it’s just a test and does NOT show a student’s intelligence or hard work. I studied all summer for the ACT and only got a 26</p>
<p>it definitely does show intelligence… it also can compare you to everyone else applying because its all the same test. Whereas GPAs can vary from a public school where it may be much easier to get a 4.0 to a really tough private school where an equivalent might be a 3.3 or something.</p>
<p>The thing about getting deferred is that I thought I had a chance of getting accepted because my brother went there for undergrad and now is attending the med school there, plus I had decent stats. I also heard of someone in my city with a 3.9 and 35 ACT and he got deferred too. </p>
<p>I emailed the admissions officer with my UM ID and told her that I was still interested in attending, but she hasn’t responded yet I don’t know if she’ll give personal advice on being accepted but I think that if someone wants to go even if they are deferred, they should email their territory counselor letting them know that they are still interested in attending. It shows that they truly want to go there. My friend did the same thing last year and he got accepted in March after being deferred.</p>