<p>@imaSTR8upBAUSS</p>
<p>I don’t know your stats, but don’t let this hold you back too much. Those colleges don’t know that Michigan deferred you. They may prioritize aspects of applicants differently or see something in you Michigan didn’t. </p>
<p>To be honest, I’m pretty shocked by some of these deferrals. I can’t imagine these kids with the great stats had poor enough essays, recs, or ECS to displace their amazing stats and put them at deferral status. I’m pretty puzzled.</p>
<p>I havent heard back yet but hopefully this will make you feel better. when Michigan visited my school they said that last they accepted more than 60 percent early last year. But they said they were gonna only accept 40 percent this year. so I truly believe that all these deferals arent death sentances</p>
<p>My sense is that the 3+ year body of work was more important to Michigan than the 4+ hours sitting in on a test. Yes, there can be months and months of learning the tricks, attending classes and just plain study of materials to ramp up for the tests, but bringing excellence in quality of work day in and day out seems like it ought to mean more. ECs seemed to be almost equally important to test scores [above a certain number] as well.</p>
<p>I too am now concerned about getting into my other schools (many of which I applied to that are much more selective [or so I thought] than Michigan). I just don’t really understand why I was deferred with a 3.8 UW GPA 4.9W (top 5% of class of 750) and a 2150 on the SAT (740 CR, 710 M, 700 W). Also I am a URM. It’s not like my essays/ EC’s were bad either (actually quite the contrary). This is just sort of deflating.</p>
<p>see, originally this was my theory. that Michigan would take the super qualified kids first, see how many paid their enrollment fee and how many dropped out, and then accept all the normal, still very qualified people during regular decision.
but it seems as though super qualified people got deferred. there goes my theory…</p>
<p>@Linger, Seriously your grades, class rank, and scores are good. Those combined with your URM status makes you competitive for schools even more selective and highly-ranked than UMich (Wash U, Northwestern, etc.) So many qualified applicants (you and I included) got deferred and it’s so weird.</p>
<p>@dancer7, Yeah it looks like a lot of qualified people got deferred. But I mean a lot of qualified people got accepted too, so idk…it’s weird</p>
<p>^this
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<p>Did any of you who were deferred visit the U of M campus and attend a formal session or attend a session with a U of M rep at your high school? I’m wondering if they are starting to put more emphasis on showing interest towards the school as a way of eliminating some candidates since the numbers increased so much this year. I wonder if they will become like WashU and candidates will have to “prove” interest in the school or they will be deferred/waitlisted.</p>
<p>^I did. Early last summer I had a tour and attended an admissions info session. I got a personalized Residential College tour as well.</p>
<p>" Those combined with your URM status makes you competitive for schools even more selective and highly-ranked than UMich (Wash U, Northwestern, etc.)"</p>
<p>I get the feeling Michigan is getting disgusted with taking a beating by many for being referred to as a school that is relatively “easy” to gain addmitance as compared to it’s peer schools that are more selective and highly-ranked. I believe this is the major reason it has gone to the common application.</p>
<p>So, for people did not receive anything today, that means “reject” for tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday? What a good way to enjoy the beginning of the holidays!</p>
<p>Maybe someone who will admit UMich and someday works for their admission office should tell them this site and how people feel about it.</p>
<p>I’m still waiting, not good…</p>
<p>Deferred :(</p>
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<p>Relax. Michigan doesn’t reject people in the early round. This has been confirmed numerous times.</p>
<p>you guys think that today was a wave of deferrals and that tomorrow will be another wave of acceptances? still havent heard back yet…</p>
<p>It amazes me, everybody here saying omg i have a 2100 sat how could they defer me!!?? I mean michigan is one of the best universities in the world that sat score is low for Michigan standards. Like its been said before they are trying to cut down the class size a little while dealing with record numbers of applicants. People also need to realize deferral does not mean rejection, Michigan has no idea how many people will apply RD because this is there first year on the common app so they are trying to play it safe by deferring more people into RD just in case.</p>
<p>Well, I just got deffered. At least I got a response. Sigh, now I have to wait</p>
<p>deferred today: 4.1 GPA 30 ACT, looks like there were many better applicants but still… 34s gettin denied… jeez</p>
<p>@broncos93, nicely said. Imagine how many RD applicants U of M will have. Incredible. It will be really interesting to see the admission rate this year and the yield.</p>
<p>Someone from my school was accepted to Cornell engineering but forgot to withdraw from Michigan. He got deffered. MESSED UP.</p>
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<p>I don’t think that’s very true. But whatever.</p>