<p>If you are deferred or waitlisted before your 7th semester grades are sent, what approximite GPA would you need to get in? I know it's bad if you get more than one C once you're accepted but I was wondering how well you need to do when waitlisted or deferred. I'm kind of nervous because Calc BC and AP Bio at my school are really hard (moreso than most other schools because of the teachers).</p>
<p>I think it depends on what grades you got from your first 3 years. If you got differed/WLed, then your grades weren’t good enough in the first place so you want your 7th semester grades to be an improvement. </p>
<p>If your grades were fine and you still got differed for whatever reason, you want to show that you can keep up your good grades in your senior year. If your GPA drops from junior year, that’s probably a bad thing.</p>
<p>I had a 4.0 sophomore year and a 3.6 junior year. I’m hoping I get in and they don’t WL/differ me because my junior year wasn’t that great. I’m guessing with those two classes I’ll get a 3.8, but it might be a 3.6. Has anyone here gone through this before? Any more opinions?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, when they see a downward trend like yours, you might get differed because they want to know if you improve again senior year. If your junior courses were significantly harder than those of your sophomore year, then you might be OK.</p>
<p>Yeah. A bit ironic but here’s what you posted on my chances thread: “Yeah, I think you’re in for sure. The only bad thing I see is the downward trend, but I don’t think they care about that too much, do they?” Nobody else has any input on this?</p>
<p>Yeah, I didn’t think trends mattered too much but when I went to visit U of M, the admissions officer told us that trend IS important. If you have good stats that normally would get you in, but you’ve been following a downward trend there’s a big chance that you’ll get deferred because they want see if you turn it around senior year, or if your GPA fall further.</p>
<p>On the other hand, people with low stats (let’s say sub 3.5 gpa) with an upward trend could get deferred as opposed to rejected because they want to see if you continue to do well senior year, and improve your grades.</p>
<p>If you think your courses will lower your GPA, it might be better to take classes you can be more successful in. If you did end up getting deferred, you’d want your GPA to be much higher than a 3.6.</p>
<p>It’s a ripoff because they were all B+s, and 3 out of the 4 were just a point away from an A-. My weighted GPA has stayed the same at 4.4-4.5 all 3 years though. Will they look at that and see I got my B+s in honors classes and not see too much of a downward trend?</p>
<p>I can give you some advice here:</p>
<p>My U-M GPA is a 3.3. I applied in January and was wait listed. I sent them my midyear grades and I waited it out. I was accepted. Now I’m not sure if I was accepted because I was checking WA 24/7 and when I clicked the view decision link I immediately entered the wait list. Maybe they thought it was a sign that I was really interested. Who knows. Now my U-M GPA from my mid year grades was about a 3.6-3.7. There was a big improvement. From my schools GPA perspective. My weighted was a 3.8, but my senior year GPA was a 4.4-4.5. Big difference.</p>
<p>I think that is one of the reasons I was accepted. Other than that I should have been flat out denied as soon as they looked at my application(Stats wise ex. GPA/SAT etc.). But thats what many think. I guess I was lucky because this recession helped a lot of applicants. JHU accepted 100 more people into its incoming class. Penn’s acceptance rate rose. Princeton’s did as well by 4%. The economic downturn helped some applicants in terms of getting accepted and hurt others in terms of finances.</p>
<p>I’m working hard and expect a 3.8 this semester with a lot of AP classes. I guess there aren’t a lot of people on here who had declining grades their junior year. But it’s not like they were bad. They went from 4.0 to 3.6 UW and 4.5 to 4.45 W. Hopefully they see that I go to a difficult school and took a bit harder classes junior year.</p>
<p>Well lets say you took more honors than AP and you got a 4.0, thats viewed the same way if you took mostly AP’s on got a 3.6. But were talking about the competition. Most students that take more AP classes still do well especially those students applying to top 25 schools like Michigan. The rigor of their classes might be low compared to other schools, but AP at one school is viewed the same as AP at another school, regardless of which school is “harder”. That is why its better to go to a private school as opposed to a public. Private in and of itself means more work, stricter grading criteria, and better faculty (Even though thats not always true).</p>
<p>You have a 3.8 U-M GPA, even though thats showing a downward trend, I still don’t think you will be deferred, but only time will tell. Good luck! Senior year grades do help, so don’t slack.</p>
<p>I do go to a private school. At our school honors classes are at least as hard as APs; usually they are harder. I don’t think UM knows that though.</p>
<p>Private always looks good. </p>
<p>Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll get in.</p>