<p>it wont let me log onto WA…</p>
<p>me too! what’s going on?!</p>
<p>Same, Lindsy. The server is down, but it’s not specific to anyone’s application, I don’t think, because I logged out of WA completely and tried to enter WA from two different servers and I get the same message.</p>
<p>It’s back for me.</p>
<p>aw lame i was excited.</p>
<p>lol char10</p>
<p>@lindsy same freaking here. oh, well. the wait continues.</p>
<p>wahhhhh 
i just wanna be a wolverine.</p>
<p>same here… same here</p>
<p>Application was submitted in September (on my birthday btw), deferred in December, and here we are in late February. I bleed Maize and Blue. Hopefully I get in. Good luck to the rest of you guys as well.</p>
<p>Congrats! :D</p>
<p>uhhh he said he’s still waiting? lol</p>
<p>/falls over. I missread it. @_@ sorry. Ah, hope you’re a wolverine xD</p>
<p>I got Letter 1 on February 10</p>
<p>Major: Electrical Engineering</p>
<p>I already got into UIUC which is way better for EECS than Univ of Michigan so I do not understand why I got deferred.</p>
<p>GPA UW: 3.94
GPA W: 4.3
Rank: Top 5 of graduating class
SAT: 1850
SAT 2 Math: 770
SAT 2 Physics: 700
ACT: 34
EC’s: Swim on a club for 27 hours a week, math tutor, swim for hs, played water polo, Science clubs, NHS, CSF and a lot more.
Recs: Very good
Essays: Very good
School: Very Competitive</p>
<p>I even took college classes while in high school. </p>
<p>State: CA
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male</p>
<p>By college classes I mean classes at a local college.</p>
<p>Does anyone actually know what the chance of getting in after getting deferred is? I got letter 3 if that matters.</p>
<p>“I already got into UIUC which is way better for EECS than Univ of Michigan so I do not understand why I got deferred.”</p>
<p>Perhaps this attitude was reflected in your essay? UIUC is not “way better” than Michigan in anything. Michigan is also harder to get into than UIUC. Should I say that because of this U-M is way better than UIUC? Just go to Illinois and enjoy your four years in UC, that is if it is really where you want to go.</p>
<p>UIUC is better ranked for EECS, and engineering in general, than Michigan. Strength of a department isn’t an indicator of how hard a school is to get into though. Harvard has a decidedly second-tier engineering department and I’d bet a lot of the amazing engineers in Illinois and Michigan wouldn’t get in.</p>
<p>“UIUC is better ranked for EECS, and engineering in general, than Michigan.”</p>
<p>UIUC is ranked 5th and Michigan 6th in EE at USNWR. Hardly “way better” as was indicated earlier:</p>
<p>[Electrical</a> / Electronic / Communications | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-electrical-electronic-communications]Electrical”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-electrical-electronic-communications)</p>
<p>UIUC is ranked 5th and Michigan 7th in Computer Engineering at USNWR. Once again, not “way better”:</p>
<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-computer[/url]”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-computer</a></p>
<p>UIUC and Michigan are tied for 6th in overall engineering at USNWR. Looks pretty even to me.</p>
<p>[Best</a> Undergraduate Engineering Programs | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate)</p>
<p>“Harvard has a decidedly second-tier engineering department and I’d bet a lot of the amazing engineers in Illinois and Michigan wouldn’t get in.”</p>
<p>Absolutely correct. Harvard is harder to get into than Michigan and Illinois. Michigan and UIUC are better engineering schools. Michigan is harder to get into that UIUC. ASHKANN was accepted into UIUC and not yet into Michigan. He/she may still get accepted into Michigan engineering. That still doesn’t change the fact that Michigan and Illinois are peers in engineering and Harvard is not.</p>
<p>@rjkofnovi you have a tendency to shoot people down who speculate why they got deferred when they (perhaps) gotten into better colleges.</p>
<p>a) I got into UChicago EA, but got deferred from UMich EA.
b) @ASHKANN got into UIUC, but got deferred from UMich.</p>
<p>In both cases, you stated something along the lines of, “Just go to that other school you got into, if that’s where you want to go more.” If we wanted to go to those schools more, we wouldn’t be on the UMich CC forum–we’d stick to the CC forum of the school we wanted to go to. We’re here because we want to get in, we want to attend UM. </p>
<p>Just an observation.</p>