I think you can accomplish both, they’re not mutually exclusive.
Colleges are trying to increase their 1st gen student population and/or social mobility scores. Michigan has tried to increase the usage of their Go Blue Guarantee and Bridge Scholars Program. We have one or two of them post their acceptance on this forum.
This a link to data for the undergrad population at Michigan:
All I’m saying big data is here and @MIKRBO 's post made me think.
I don’t want to take any more of this thread with this digression, so I’ll move on from this topic. My apologies for the diversion.
My son got deferred too and we are preparing the LOCI to submit on the portal. Where do we submit the mid year grades and other grade updates? I do not see that on the portal
I think the school counsellor is supposed to submit the mid-year grades through common app. As for the LOCI there is a link on your portal under “Verify Interest”.
MIKRBO, I think schools have been tracking the performance of students from specific high schools - at least top rated high schools that send most graduates to college - for decades. This is certainly the case with competitive public universities like UofM, UIUC, UC Berkeley, etc. and their respective in-state high schools. When I was in high school back in the dark ages, my GC steered me toward colleges that were recruiting from our school because of the strong performance of recent grads. We are in MI now and I have seen the list of high schools that send the most students to UofM-AA. Data mining just allows them to widen the net to include applicants from more high schools, and define the profiles more precisely.
@reach4skye i have seen this article, I was curious if it was updated for the class of 2021 grads, because our HS sent 6 students this year the most ever.
ucscuuw, You touch upon one of the ironies of college admissions today. Once upon a time, SATs were touted as a tool to identify strong minority students from disadvantaged backgrounds when colleges ignored applicants from poor inner city or rural schools. Now, DEI advocates are pushing to do away with standardized tests because, on average, some minorities do not perform well on them.
lam, The claim by some top universities that they “review every application in its entirety” is laughable, especially with the huge COVID spike in applications to highly ranked schools. In 2021, Harvard had 57,786 applications - does anyone really believe that they reviewed every EC, read every essay and recommendation letter, for every applicant? No, they had cutoffs, and if you made the cut they performed a cursory review of your file. If you were at one of the obvious extremes - admit or reject, that was it. If you were borderline, they read your file more closely.
Not sure if this has been addressed, but do AO look how current students from a HS are doing academically at UMich when deciding if they are going to admit kids from the next class? For example if all the kids from the class of 2021 are failing then maybe they wouldn’t accept kids from the class of 2022.
My son’s high school is among the top MI schools sending students to UofM. Last year, two kids just from his FIRST Robotics team were accepted into Ann Arbor’s engineering program.
@DesiDoodh if I recall it was into the Common App. My D’s guidance counselor told her what to do. I would have your student call admissions, they are very helpful and very nice.
Bulls, Yes, absolutely. Colleges keep records of how well students from given high schools perform. That is why you see some high schools become feeders to universities.
So, if I understand you correctly, you’re saying the higher number of reported deferrals might be attributable to UM deferring more students from certain high schools because past students from those schools didn’t perform well at UM?
If yes, that would be at odds with my observations at my D’s HS and those of other highly ranked HSs that I’m aware of.
I am sure they have some sort of internal matrix that takes into account course rigor. Yes, course rigor is very important. I am not arguing with you on that.
What I am not sure is whether PE or band is included in the GPA calculation or not. Hence I posted the official link for the GPA calculation.
