<p>I was deferred after applying early notification.</p>
<p>I had a 3.55 UM gpa (3.66 weighted), and a 1930 SAT. Lots of extra curriculars as well.</p>
<p>My 7th semester GPA is a 3.0 UM gpa and 3.7 weighted....I took 4 AP's senior year (A,B,B,C)</p>
<p>I've heard many people got in just a couple of weeks after sending in their 7th semester grades...if they did well.</p>
<p>1) So I'm wondering if it would benefit me to send in my 7th semester grades? Or are my grades too low that it would worsen my chances, and am better of not sending them?</p>
<p>2) Also, I want to write a letter telling them that I'm fully interested in going. How would I go about writing that? What do I need to include specifically?</p>
<p>3) Do I still have any sort of shot at getting accepted?</p>
<p>Now I’m not an expert or anything, so take my words with a grain of salt. With that being said, colleges like to see that those they deferred based on GPA are on an upward trend, but at the same time, if you don’t send your 7th semester grades they may feel they don’t have enough information. So here’s what I think.</p>
<p>1) I’m not thinking that you necessarily should send your 7th semester grades unless they ask (which they may), sometimes they may just need to compare you to the full body of applicants. In the meanwhile, try to achieve just slightly higher grades in the next marking period, because your rigorous course schedule does speak for something, but I’d hold on sending them for now.</p>
<p>2) When writing a letter in your interest, it’s often good to specify how you match up with the college and mentioning that it is your first choice college helps convince them that you will enroll if accepted which appeals to them. So simply show your interest, and explain it well.</p>
<p>3). Of course you do, being deferred means that you are on the very borderline for acceptance, so of course you have a chance, just keep working hard, and hope the U comes around.</p>
<p>this is hearsay, but this is what my friend who works part time in admissions doing data processing.
So basically there are five piles: accepted, rejected, deferred, awaiting information and awaiting review pile.
Every starts off in awaiting review pile. Accepted, rejected and deferred goes to respective piles. If they send you a letter to submit 7th semester grade, they put you application to awaiting information pile, when you sent it in, they put you back in the awaiting review pile where they actively review applications like new applications coming in. If they didnt ask you to send in, you remain in the deferred pile.
here’s the interesting part, if you sent it in while they did not tell you to, you automatically, with the new grade goes in the awaiting review part, which they’ll give your application another look, instead of just sitting in the deferred pile. So you decide</p>
<p>Last year after being deferred and not asked to send in any additional information, she sent in her 1st semester senior grades (which were excellent) along with a nice letter updating them on some awards, etc. She was accepted right after they received the info. </p>
<p>So what do you have to loose if your grades were good? Send them, with a good cover letter.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info…I applied mid Dec, am still deferred and had a letter requesting Fall grades. It still doesn’t show up on my application status. When I spoke to a counsellor, she stated a 4.0, 29ACT, 2 Varsity Sports, tons of community service and work wasn’t all that impressive considering I only took 2 APs, ugh.
A couple of questions…
Does the counsellor have a say in whether I get accepted?
If I’m deferred, do I not find out until April 15th, since checking WA everyday is depressing.
Thanks!!!</p>