@MichiganAdmissions
You have a tremendous university that, believe it or not, many eager students with Ivy worthy stats would love to attend as their first choice. The time has come for you to offer an ED option, don’t you think? Doing so would eliminate much of this unnecessary, mind bending deferral process for students who are actually choosing you first! GO BLUE ED CLASS of 2021!
I’m an OOS with great credentials and I got deferred around 6pm est yesterday. Being greatly annoyed with this, I decided to rewrite the deferral letter so it is to them. Some of you might enjoy it.
Dear University of Michigan:
Thank you for considering my application to the University of Michigan College of Engineering for Fall 2016. I am pleased that you have deferred me and am impressed with how belated your decision came. However, a high volume of other colleges, coupled with very strong credentials of myself, has contributed to an increasingly competitive decision process. As a result, I am writing to inform you that your deferral is currently being deferred for further review.
While this is not the answer that you were hoping to hear, your deferral may remain under consideration. All final attendance decisions of attend or deny will be made no later than late April, 2016.
Cheaper tuition or a better location may improve your status in the deferred pool of colleges. Therefore, please ask your dean to consider this. Beyond that, I am confident that the information you have given me is more than sufficient for a final decision. The most successful colleges do not send me deferrals. Please refer to the website http://www.dontbotherreconsideringme.com for FAQ’s about the decision process and what to do next.
I hope your interest in mediocre students continues. You have my best wishes for an enjoyable and successful end of the admissions process.
Sincerely,
[Name withheld]
Annoyed Applicant
@ialias, well thank god they deferred you; there are thousands of deferred candidates, who, considering your attitude, would make far more suitable students at Mich or any other college.
To anyone frustrated over deferral and such, I was deferred too but I’m currently writing this from my dorm in Ann Arbor while studying for my last final in my first semester at the University of Michigan. My biggest advice to you is to write a letter of interest to your regional counselor or whatever they’re called, I honestly think that’s my biggest reason for getting in after being deferred because it clearly tells them that UMich is my first choice and I wouldn’t choose anywhere else. Would recommend sending it after the holidays, maybe like a week after New Year’s. That’s when I sent mine and I got accepted in February. Don’t send it now because the admissions office is probably overwhelmed with other things and won’t really pay attention to it. Keep up the good work with your grades and don’t give up. GO BLUE!!
@ialias I think your letter is hilarious and you should send it. I have read all of these posts and saw people with amazing stats deferred. And the response is Michigan does this so you can then beg them to admit you? That’s crap, The people with those stats will be accepted at many other top universities that don’t play games. Good luck!
@ialias your letter is inane. Nobody is entitled to admission regardless of their “great credentials” as you refer to yours. And if you think they will be moved by your great creativity and daring you are wrong because there are already 10,000 versions of your letter on the Internet from over ten years ago. Go ahead and send it, they’ll shake their heads and drag-n-drop your file into the waste bin where it belongs. Good riddance.
@snpdrgn @WolverineGrad I believe you two need to relax. I’m just trying to bestow some levity in getting deferred. The letter was just for fun and to not actually be sent. University of Michigan was my number one choice; though, that has changed now. My mindset is that if I was not one of their first choices, then they most certainly wont be one of mine. I did not believe I was entitled to admission, I know that nobody is.
Also, if UMich is full of people like you (those who can’t take a joke), then I’m actually quite relieved to not be around you.
@ialias As others have mentioned, your attitude is really unattractive and is something you ought to change wherever you decide to go to college. If you want to act salty and arrogant from a deferral (not even a rejection), and deflect the blame onto a university, well you’re gonna have a hard time in college lol.
If you think applying to college is competitive, wait until you arrive on campus. From dealing with curves on exams, rushing frats/sororities, applying for leadership positions, internships, study abroad programs, applying for fellowships or research positions, etc etc etc, you are going to fail a lot in college. And don’t even get me started on how competitive dental/med/law/business school is. Learn how to take rejection like an adult.
I just wanna know what my decision is 
@hailbate Firstly, I honestly do not understand to what attitude you’re referring. As I’ve mentioned, the letter was just to laugh at and help me cope with my deferral. People deal with situations differently. I’m fine with being deferred.
Secondly, I have plenty of experience with college/campus life considering I attend a residential school that is in the university system. Those experiences aren’t exclusive to college. Learn how to laugh. The only thing this letter did was make a few people laugh (which was the goal of it), nowhere did it cause any harm to anyone.
@TGLTGL I’m on the same boat. Deferred OOS with 3.89 unweighted, 35 ACT, 2290 SAT Superscore AP Scholar 4 Year varsity swimmer Vice President of my school’s Youth Conservation Club. Idk whether I’ll be able te get in, but I did get into UT McCombs BHP so, still got that going.
has anyone else not heard anything?
@ialias Fair enough, you can find your own ways to cope with being deferred.
However, in what way is referring to students who got accepted “mediocre” while referring to yourself as having “great credentials but deferred” not make you sound salty in any fashion? The way you wrote that letter makes you sound self-absorbed and arrogant… I mean you essentially said “Thanks for considering me, but I’m too good for this university anyways”. It’s very tough to find humor in that but I guess we’re all different people.
@englishbanana Same. 35 ACT, 3.89 UW, Vice President and Co-Founder of a Club, 4 Year Varsity swimmer, 2 year aorchestra member deferred oos. I think in-state is probably easier to get in. Also, they want to make sure extremely qualified applicants don’t get into ivies etc. ED. I’m freaking out beacuase my midterm grades have a lot of Bs.
@collegestressd12 I haven’t heard anything either so hopefully more decisions will be posted Monday. They can delay decisions until the 24th but I really hope it doesn’t take that much longer, this stress is terrible!
@ialias Your “letter” is insulting to every “mediocre” student who was admitted. Why are you even applying to UMich if you find yourself so far superior to everyone? Perhaps your essays reeked of arrogance, and maybe that is why you got deferred.
Here is the deferral thread for all of us! http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1843007-university-of-michigan-ea-deferred-2020.html?new=1
Each year people speculate that they have been deferred because UM assumed they were also applying EA/ED to an Ivy. Check last year; hundreds of similar posts. But when you get to UM and do work-study in the Admissions Office, you realize that there was no truth in that. However, what you also realize–and what people here just don’t underestand, is that outstanding “stats” don’t guarantee you admission. Look at all the people with great stats who never get admitted. The reason is that Michigan is very serious about its holistic admissions policy and tries to admit a very diverse group of students. And we’re not just talking race. The key to getting admitted is to stand out from the crowd. You cannot do that via “stats”. So focus on what makes you unique, why UM should want you. Or spend your days posting your “stats”.
I read a comment somewhere in this thread that blamed affirmative action for their deferral/rejection. Get that crap out of here! If you look at page 6 http://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/cds/cds_2013-2014_umaa.pdf you will notice that selection to UM is entirely merit based and that ethnicity isn’t a factor for admission. Educate yourselves on the selection criteria before making assumptions!!!
@allieb128 I’m curious. How do you know you go to the #4 private school in the country. Who keeps the list? I went to Deerfield. What number are we? And my friend at Exeter is curious if they are #1 or #2? As you were deferred, however, I guess it doesn’t really matter.