I come from an instate IB school and everyone who got accepted so far had an ACT of 30-32+ (even if they weren’t super great students). I was deferred and got a 26 and am planning on taking the February ACT (AGAIN), my semester grades won’t be sent out until Feb 5 anyway and I hope to do better on the ACT so should I hold off on the interest letter? I was thinking of sending it early February after ACT and grades are sent. Any thoughts?
@scrapsoflove on the now vs later, I’d send now telling them that you are taking the ACT and will send them the new score in Feb. You dont want to get rejected in the meantime for showing no interest!
@gabidecost perhaps just explain to him why you have the lesser schedule and ask if it would improve your app to go back to a normal schedule. You may have to!
My sister was deferred from COE with 34 ACT (35 math, 35 science), 4.9 GPA wtd, 4.2 unwtd, OOS, 9 AP’s, 2 sport athlete, NHS, lots of volunteering, many state and a couple of national awards. I am helping her write her letter this weekend. Do we send to her regional director or to the COE admission director?
I would send it to both. When I read everything about your sister, I get so aggravated that she wasn’t accepted. It makes me so cynical of the whole process. I hope it turns out for the best for her (even if that’s not the way she imagined it turning out :)).
@seanalex1 how does she have a 4.2 uw gpa? Isn’t it on a 4.0 scale?
Does anyone know how to withdraw the app?
@basedchem You email your admissions rep
My son could not locate the information for admissions reps on the website. Then I looked and couldn’t find this information either. He emailed his guidance counselor to see is she knew, but does anyone know if there is a specific place on the website to look? Thanks.
http://admissions.umich.edu/contact-us
at the bottom is a drop down for “find your counsellor” by high school.
Thank you so much @HRSMom. He heard back from his guidance counselor as well. Much appreciated.
So I took some subject tests before I was deferred, and I got a decent Math 2 score, 750. Since my lowest subscore on the ACT was math, at 30, would it be beneficial to send my math subject test in?
@whizkid98, I think sending your Math 2 subject test in could only help.
@golfstudent13 It’s just the way our school does it. For example a 96% would be 4.0. She received 99-100% on many of her classes. Not sure if Michigan converts but if they do it would be a 4.0. But our school reports it as 4.2 on a 4.0 scale. She is bummed but I hope it works out for her. I’m sure she will have good options in the end even if Michigan falls through.
So I received a reply from my admissions counselor a week after I sent a letter of continued interest. When I first sent it, I almost immediately received an automatic response saying the office was still closed, so I sent another email on Friday to ask if they got it. This morning, I got this really short email back: “Thank you. We appreciate your patience as we continue to review applications. Please send recent grades.” It seems that the counselor typed this herself, as the spacing was a bit off. I was expecting the same email some others have gotten, “We received 30,000 applications” etc. I’m not reading too much into it; I don’t think it’s good or bad. Just hoping for the best 
I got deferred from Umich. I was wondering if I get 2 Bs my first semester if that is going to give me a rejection? They would both be B+ in Precalc and Ap Econ. I have a 3.95 unweighted gpa (haven’t gotten a b since freshman year) and 30 act. it’s not even that I am slacking off but these are just hard classes and I am in 3 Aps.
Also I was wondering when the earliest people have heard back for regular decision was last year? it says on their website that they are rolling decisions during regular.
I was looking through a thread from last year and the next batch of admissions were released on February 6. I think it was a deferral thread, so the people who were getting in were initially deferred. I am not sure if anyone from regular decision found out on that day. @lalabeach22
Here is a link to the thread: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1721068-university-of-michigan-deferral-thread-ea-2019-p17.html
@lalabeach22 last year some people were hearing as early as the middle of January but that seems just so early to me. Most heard in February and some up until the middle of March. It’s basically assumed that if you don’t hear by the middle of March that it’s most likely you’ll be denied. This is assumed because deferrals are above the regular applicants for the first few months and a lot of deferrals are students Michigan already pretty much knew they would admit pretty early on after December and didn’t need much more reviewing. So the longer it takes the more they are comparing you against the regular applications and I don’t think that’s very good… Again, this is all a culmination of what I’ve gathered from college confidential. I take it all with a grain of salt. I had two friends get in in the first week of February last year and then two heard in early April and they were sure they had been denied but I think they might have just been lucky.
@lalabeach22 I believe the earliest that people hear back last year was late January/ early February
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So I got deferred from umich and when I emailed the regional counselor he said that nothing else was needed from me except my first semester grades. So in regards to that, I’m for sure getting only one B this semester. Will that negatively impact me in the regular decision round? The B is in ap calc bc, one of the hardest classes in my school (Idk if the rigor has anything to do with this). The guy told me that an upward trend in my grades would be good but this doesn’t seem too great rn. Any help would be appreciated thanks.