@janecarol what was the response
@gabidecost Nope, we have 2 mock examinations before the board exams which are held in March - it’s the CBSE curriculum. The mocks don’t have any value, the board exams carry all the weight. The predicted grades come from the mocks, but I already sent these to UMich.
Hi (name),
Thank you for your continued interest in the University of Michigan. Please be assured that it has been duly noted in your application evaluation. The University received a record breaking 30,000 early action applications this year, so admission was very competitive. Be assured that we use a holistic and comprehensive review process and we looked at all aspects of your application before a decision was made & we considered your grades, curriculum, test scores, essays, and extra-curricular involvement as part of our evaluation.
Before we can make a final decision on your application we need to further evaluate the strength of the regular decision applicants, as well as the yield rate of our admitted early action students to determine if we have space for you in the freshman class. Thank you for submitting your mid-year grades so they can be considered as we continue to assess your application; there is nothing further we need from you at this time. As stated in your deferral letter, we will have a final admissions decision for you in early April.
Again, admission to the University of Michigan is the most competitive it has ever been this year, so I encourage all deferred students to keep the University of Michigan as an option, but also to also explore the other opportunities available to them. Please feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions or concerns.
Best,
My admissions counselor
Admissions Counselor
University of Michigan | Office of Undergraduate Admissions
515 E. Jefferson | 1220 Student Activities Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | P: 734-763-9412
Thanks for posting that @janecarol. May I ask which version of the deferral letter you received?
Your stats and strong interest sound very solid - I would be surprised if you aren’t admitted in the next few months. Good luck!
I’m thinking of sending mine on January 4th, after the busy holiday season so it’s received well by my counselor.
@WolverineGrad thank you! I’m really praying I will be accepted sometime soon.
I received the letter in which they said my app was currently under further review (the first version that is in your post).
@izr2016 I applied to the School of Nursing as well. I also got the same email as you. Stay positive and GO BLUE 
I wonder why one of the deferral letters has clear instructions on how to send fall semester grades but the other one does not…
@RugbyDude6 to me the fact that they make an explicit request for fall grades (providing the email adress and remindin the candidate to include their UM ID number) sends the signal that they are more serious about the candidate as a viable candidate in the RD pool - like they are on the fence and the fall semester grades will push the decision one way or the other. The other letter reads more like a “thank you for your interest” note as it just says “have your counselor send the grades when they become available”. I don’t get the vague reference to legacy status in that version though - why do they mention that you may be particularly disappointed “because of your family ties to the university”? Thoughts?
@WolverineGrad the legacy reference is a third letter altogether. I got the letter without explicit details on sending in grades but it did not mention anything about family ties.
Perhaps the letter that says “have your counselor send the grades when they become available” is a letter that wants to know you are very intent on UMich and relates, perhaps, to the whole “yield” problem-rumor. Where as the the other letter is an actual deferral, in that UMich would like to find out more about the candidate and have a better review of them?
These are just my thoughts…
Hi guys I’m an international applicant, and I am also deferred…I was planning to send appeal letter than contains couple of my new research papers and letter of continued interest, but my counselor told me that it would be better to not send them at all because the deferral letter explicitly said “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.” I was also worried about this sentence too. On the other hand it seems like everyone is sending an appeal letter that I better send one too.
Any thoughts? Should I not send my research papers and just send letter of continued interest? If so, when should I send one?
@jim778 Even the UofM admissions tumblr suggested people send a letter of continued interest, so I’d say go for it. Expressing interest in a school can’t hurt you. Since you have a few more competitive endeavors, I’d also say have a paragraph where you mention that you’ve done additional work since applying and explain the research paper. You can ask if they’d like to receive it, but make sure they at least know you’ve done more.
When writing the letter of interest, would it be a good idea to include any credentials that I forgot to include on the common app. There are two awards that I forgot to mention, but I got the first deferral letter saying that they already have more than enough to evaluate me. I’m not sure if it would be helpful or hurtful to include anything more than mid-year grades.
It can’t hurt
Has anyone from NC area emailed rep yet? I did and got automated response. He’ll be out til Jan 11. I heard mich has another round of decisions coming out late January… is there anyone else I can email my letter of interest to?
@whizkid98 Exactly. It couldn’t hurt. I’d say go for it.
@plswantmepls when you say another round of decisions coming out late Jan do you mean decisions on deferrals? So some of us can possibly hear by then?
@majorkey101 there’s always a rumored round of decisions that come out late January for deferred applicants! A lot hear back in February too.
It’s not rumored. It’s based on what happened last year: some deferred got in as early as late January.
Did more EA kids get deferred or rejected this year?