<p>I received this message on January 21 and I was wondering if this was a deferral letter or just a letter asking for my mid-year report?</p>
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<p>Dear ________:</p>
<p>Thank you for your 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. We need this additional information and time to ensure that we give your application the best possible review. We will notify you of a final decision on your application by mid-April.</p>
<p>The quality of grades earned in academic courses is one of several critical factors taken into consideration in evaluating a student's competitive admissibility. To give your application a final evaluation, we will need your fall semester or first trimester grades. Because it is important that we receive these grades as soon as possible, please request to have a PDF of your grades sent from the issuing institution to our office via an e-transcript vendor or to <a href="mailto:ecredentials@umich.edu">ecredentials@umich.edu</a>, if possible. If your counselor sent the initial Secondary School Record for your application through The Common Application online portal, they will need to complete the 2010-2011 MidYear Report using the same method. Otherwise, please ask your high school counselor to fax a report of these grades to our office at 734.936.0740.</p>
<p>Be sure your U-M ID ________ is on all materials submitted to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.</p>
<p>We appreciate your interest in the University of Michigan and look forward to receiving the information requested. If you have specific follow-up questions, please visit <a href="http://umich.custhelp.com%5B/url%5D">http://umich.custhelp.com</a> or phone 734.764.7433. We look forward to reviewing your completed application and appreciate your interest in the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>The reason why I asked is because my letter doesn’t blatantly say “as a result, we are writing to inform you that your application is currently being deferred for further review” like it does on all the new deferral letters sent yesterday. </p>
<p>Also, the reason why I though it was a deferral is because the email’s subject was “Your University of Michigan Admissions Decision”</p>
<p>I think it’s not the standard deferral. The admissions committee might be biased about your admission and need additional academic information to draw a final decision. Really dunno…</p>
<p>I think that you have a better shot of acceptance than the standard deferred applicants, particularly if your fall grades and course rigor are strong. If they are strong, I’m betting you get accepted still. Good luck.</p>
<p>@ eziamm I just said I was accepted so that I wouldn’t hear responses like “Wait till you get an acceptance or rejection letter.” But yeah, good catch! I actually applied RD in early January. :/</p>
<p>I’m taking 5 APs this year and I sort of struggled with it. My Cumulative GPA is a 3.69, but I got a 3.0 my first semester of Senior year (not so good, I know). At least I got an A in AP Macroeconomics because I want to major in Business Administration. :)</p>
<p>The link above shows someone with the same letter who submitted their first trimester grades and were accepted. My daughter was deferred EA, (she had a different letter though) and I remembered that post because I kept thinking, maybe if she had been quicker to submit her first trimester grades, she could have been accepted EA. Though she has still heard nothing, and she did submit her first trimester grades at the beginning of January. That letter is clearly not a bad news letter though.</p>
<p>After receiving that same exact e-mail, I asked an admissions counselor what the request entails. She said that it is not a deferral. Admissions is asking for your grades in order to make a final decision–admit or deny. I see this as a positive because I have yet to hear of anyone getting straight up rejected; only deferred or accepted. So unless your 1st semester grades are horrendous, they can only help your chances. I sent in my 1st semester grades, but Wolverine Access still says that my grades have yet to be received. I’m thinking about calling the admissions office on Monday just to make sure everything is in order.</p>
<p>Only EA applicants can be deferred to the regular decision pool. If you applied RD then you’re already in that pool. RD applicants can either be accepted, rejected or offered a spot on the waiting list - none of which are referenced in your letter. As someone else mentioned, Michigan wants more information about you before making a final decision. Don’t read more into the letter than exists.</p>
<p>^^^??? How? If decisions are coming out on April 1 and Michigan is no longer rolling how can you get deferred? The only thing less organized than this change to CommonApp/EA/RD was the whole Brady Hoke adventure.</p>
<p>If by misinformed you mean “have I checked the Admissions page in the last week?” then yes I’m misinformed. At the beginning of the year the web page stated that there would be an EA round followed by rolling admissions. In late November/early December the language was removed and changed to EA/RD language. A phone call to admissions confirmed the new language. Now 8 weeks later it seems to be back to rolling, (though I don’t know what the admissions page says).</p>
<p>Regardless, nowhere in 5009125’s letter does it say admitted, rejected or deferred - simply we want more information. I suppose you can interpret that as having “deferred” your particular decision until later in the process. But I still don’t see the point of trying to divine any particular meaning from the language of the letter. Are you in? No. Are you rejected? No. Are they still deciding? Yes.</p>
That is because this is not a deferral letter. It is clearly stated in the letter that the OP’s 7th semester grade is needed to make a decision. The letter is necessary as mid-year report is not normally required by Michigan.</p>
<p>From “Ask Us (Knowledgebase)”
"Application Decision Timeline:
How long does it take to receive a decision on an application?</p>
<p>… we have an Early Action option which guarantees a decision will be released by December 23 for those students whose completed applications are postmarked by November 1. Otherwise, although we review applications and release decisions on a rolling basis, no decisions are guaranteed before mid-April."</p>
At least I got an A in AP Macroeconomics because I want to major in Business Administration. :)</p>