<p>Hey guys,
This will be the new forum to discuss stats from Deferred students, in addition to notification of decisions for us when they come out. </p>
<p>My Stats:
Hooks:
-First Generation student
-Hispanic
-Low Income Family(40k)
-Independent Student(Legal Guardianship)</p>
<p>School applied to: LSA(Ross Preferred)</p>
<p>Superscored ACT: 31
Highest Composite ACT: 29</p>
<p>GPA: UW: 3.85 Weighted: 4.527
Class Rank: Top 7% at a big high school, 59/819
Class Rigor: Hard, my senior year I am taking the following: AP Psychology, AP Macro Economics, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Calculus AB, Honors Accounting, College Prep Writing/Contemporary Literature
Past AP Scores: Micro Economics(2013): 5
US Government(2013): 4
US History(2014): 5
EC’s: Sophomore Year: Student Council, Business Club, participated in Relay for Life
Junior Year: Student Council, Business Club, Mu-Alpha-Theta, participated in Relay For Life, Hockey
Senior Year: Student Council, Business Club: VP Production, Mu-Alpha-Theta Exec Board, First Class, NHS, Hockey, will participate in Relay for Life again
Community Service Hours: 36(will have 50 by end of the year)</p>
<p>Work Experience: McDonalds(since Spring 2013)</p>
<p>Essays: 10/10(emphasized interest and how I’m a resilient/perseverant person)
Teacher Rec: 10/10
Employee Rec: unsure(did not read) Guessing it is a 8 or 9
Applied: Oct 2</p>
<p>Is this the good or bad letter?</p>
<p>Dear (Name):</p>
<p>Thank you for your application to the University of Michigan College of Engineering for Fall 2015. We are pleased that you have applied and are impressed with your achievements. However, our high application volume, coupled with the very strong credentials of our applicants in recent years, has contributed to an increasingly competitive admissions process. As a result, we are writing to inform you that your application is currently being deferred for further review.</p>
<p>While this is not the answer that you were hoping to hear, your application remains under consideration. All final admissions decisions of admit, deny, or waitlist will be made no later than early April, 2015.</p>
<p>Strong fall semester or trimester grades may improve your status in the deferred pool of applicants. Therefore, please ask your high school counselor to forward them when they become available. Beyond that, we are confident that the information you have given us is more than sufficient for a final decision. The most successful candidates send us only what we require. Please refer to the website <a href=“https://umich.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2080”>https://umich.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2080</a> for FAQ’s about the admission process and what to do next.</p>
<p>We hope your interest in Michigan continues. You have our best wishes for an enjoyable and successful end of your senior year.</p>
<p>According to last year, that same email was signed by Theodore L Spencer, which was determined to be the good deferral letters by last year’s users. So yes @pacollegekids97 , btw I also received the same letter. </p>
<p>@carlsandburgsr Thanks. Still not too hopeful. Just seems like they deferred everybody. Didn’t see a single rejection. Oh well. Pretty miserable day.</p>
<p>I got my decision today, and I was unfortunately deferred. Should I start writing my letters of interest? And if so, how and when do I send them? Also a stats question, to those that you may know who also got deferred, how many of them ended up being accepted? </p>
<p>So it also depends on who singed your letter??? </p>
<p>Mine was signed by Erica L Sanders, but it was just like the one @pacollegekid97 posted</p>
<p>Mine was singed by Erica L Sanders also, however, my letter was a bit different and here it is: </p>
<p>Dear (name):
Thank you for your application to the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for Fall 2015. We are pleased that you have applied and are impressed with your achievements. However, our high application volume, coupled with the very strong credentials of our applicants in recent years, has contributed to an increasingly competitive admissions process. As a result, we are writing to inform you that your application is currently being deferred for further review.</p>
<p>While we recognize this is not the answer that you were hoping to hear, perhaps particularly so because of your family ties with the University, your application remains under consideration. All final admissions decisions of admit, deny, or waitlist will be made no later than early April, 2015.</p>
<p>Strong fall semester or trimester grades may improve your status in the deferred pool of applicants. Therefore, please ask your high school counselor to forward them when they become available. Beyond that, we are confident that the information you have given us is more than sufficient for a final decision. The most successful candidates send us only what we require. Please refer to the website <a href=“https://umich.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2080”>https://umich.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2080</a> for FAQ’s about the admission process and what to do next.</p>
<p>We hope your interest in Michigan continues. You have our best wishes for an enjoyable and successful end of your senior year.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Erica L. Sanders</p>
<p>Interim Director</p>
<p>So is this a good or bad letter? 
</p>
<p>2330 SAT I
800 in Bio M, 800 Math II, 800 USH, 780 World History, 780 Chem
AP Stats, AP Calc BC, APUSH, AP Gov/Econ, AP CS A, AP Bio, AP Physics, AP French, Phys. Honors, French 4 Honors, Pre-Calc Honors, Chem. Honors,
4.0 UW, Top 1% students (school only does deciles, so Top 10%, but counselor assured me of the 1%)
National FBLA Awards, DECA State awards
3 leadership positions in business + science clubs (founder of a club as well, 3 years)
2 summers of research @ Stanford, published co-author
3 solid teacher recs (esp since one invited me to her wedding, take that as you will but thats srs business)
2 outside research recs from mentors at both summer internships I did
Essays were 8.5s at the least, shorter ones were closer to 9.5</p>
<p>I got into JHU last week, ED’ed in for BME, and withdrew my application from Ann Arbor, but still got an email??? Oh well, still weird that I would get into JHU but not into uMich for the same major. ¯_(ツ)_/¯</p>
<p>yours is even better than the good one because you have legacy on your side</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT (breakdown): 35, 35 Eng, 33 Math, 36 Reading, 36 Science
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7, 4.4 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): H. Geo, World, Stats, Lang, MicroEcon (All 5s), this year taking APUSH, CalcBC, Physics, Lit
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: Very difficult, see above
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): We the People Constitutional Studies team won state competition and placed 6th in national competition in DC, my ‘unit’ got 2nd. Student council three years. National Honors Society. 4 years of crew.
Job/Work Experience: Worked as an intern for a software company this summer, then hired for part-time this fall/winter</p>
<p>Guess that GPA really sunk me more than I thought. </p>
<p>Apparently Michigan really likes my school (rigorous Jesuit college prep school in PA) because they have accepted everyone from previous years with very similar and slightly lower stats than me. I guess they just don’t like me. Pretty upset. </p>
<p>GPA: 4.0
SAT: 2050
OOS - Deferred</p>
<p>So is the next wave probably gonna come out in mid-January, according to past years?</p>
<p>The statistics do not indicate that there is a “good” or a “bad” deferral letter. Here’s something I did last year based on 2012 deferrals.</p>
<p>Eleven people received the letter (Letter A) beginning “Thank you for your application to the University of Michigan ____ for Fall 2013. We are pleased that you have applied and are impressed with your achievements.” Of these, four were later accepted, one was waitlisted, and one was rejected. Five did not report admissions results.</p>
<p>Ten people received the letter (Letter B) beginning “We have carefully considered your application to the University of Michigan _____ for Fall 2013. Given our surging application volume and very strong credentials of our applicants, admission to the University is becoming increasingly competitive.” One was later accepted, two were waitlisted, and one was rejected. Six did not report admissions results.</p>
<p>Three people received the letter (Letter C) beginning “Thank you for your freshman application to the University of Michigan. After an initial individualized and comprehensive review of your application, we have determined that we will need additional information in order to make a final decision.” One was waitlisted. Two did not report admissions results.</p>
<p>Fall 2013 deferral data is even less conclusive, since at least 58% of those who indicated what deferral letters they received did not return to post a decision. </p>
<p>Bottom line: there’s not enough data to indicate that you can prognosticate your future on the wording of your deferral letter. What you all know right now is that you’re deferred. That’s all you can go on. </p>
<p>I also got the same letter as paccollegekid97…can’t help but be devastated right now.</p>
<p>Doesn’t get more depressing than this. I’m sure we all have the same thoughts going through our heads now. All of us are probably qualified and yet we sit here together in misery. Well, I guess the Griswold’s weren’t lying when they said “It’s Christmas, we’re all in misery.” Best of luck to all of you. </p>
<p>Did anyone get rejected early action? When should we expect to head back if we were deferred?</p>
<p>They put us all in the purgatory. haha</p>