<p>People are getting denied in the EA round (I personally know of 2).</p>
<p>To the engineers, Michigan has become increasingly competitive. The average admitted GPA was a 3.9/31 ACT/1400 SAT (M+CR).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.engin.umich.edu/about/CoEProfile.pdf[/url]”>http://www.engin.umich.edu/about/CoEProfile.pdf</a></p>
<p>Finally, I sincerely doubt that getting your essay cut off by the Common App would go unnoticed and unmentioned. The people in Admissions are quite perceptive and would have requested more input once they noticed that a number of essays suddenly stopped in mid-sentence.</p>
<p>I have no clue why you all were deferred, maybe you are from over-represented areas, maybe your stats within that area are on the low side, maybe your essays and recommendations weren’t as strong as you might have thought. But remember, you haven’t been rejected. There is still an opportunity to be accepted, so I’d concentrate and making your transcript as strong as possible through the end of the year and then send an update. Good luck.</p>