<p>Yes, you're probably right that the differing deferral letter thing is a myth---and actually, what does it matter? In the end, it all means the same thing...more waiting!</p>
<p>It probably is a myth, since I can't see why they wouldn't even want 7th semester grades.</p>
<p>Thanks for explaining! :)</p>
<p>So they won't make any decision until we send in our 1st fall semester grades?</p>
<p>They probably WILL make a decision in the end, but you SHOULD send in your 1st semester fall grades...</p>
<p>This is going to be very sloppy, poorly written and colloquial so I sincerely apologize. I'm fairly sick and barely have the energy to type this, but being someone that was reading these threads in your same position just last week.... I felt there was no way I COULDN'T respond! Oh man? a double negative already! This is going to be a blast :D</p>
<p>I know EXACTLY how all of you are feeling. U Mich was/is my dream and being deferred was heart wrenching for me because I was well aware of how much it hurt my chances of eventually getting accepted. A little too aware. Not only that, but 2 girls from my school had already gotten into U Mich, more specifically the CO' Engineering . This meant 2 things: decreased chances... and frustration because one girl was going to Cornell and the other one was in a binding contract with West Point. Painful! </p>
<p>After a while I began to sleep again :D.. I mean... I started to accept the fact that my chances of BEING accepted were about 1 in a few hundred (on a good day). I had begun to fight the optimism out of my head for my own sake... and earlier last week I finally got into a conversation with my parents about what my options were (REALISTICALLY). It was a pretty confusing and frustrating conversation because I still didn't know what I wanted... I was simply trying to make the best of everything I DID have because that?s what you must do in a situation like this. </p>
<p>BAM, the next day I get an email stating: University of Michigan Admissions Decision. You want to talk about nervous?!?!?! I didn't even have the heart to open it... I just screamed and ran downstairs where the family was... My mother thought someone had died. I opened it and didn't believe what it said. I LITTERALLY didn't believe it. I first pinched myself multiple times to make sure I wasn't dead asleep in my bedroom dreaming next to my laptop (Honest to goodness I did that). Then I went onto my Wolverine account to double check and it was true, I was a Wolverine Engineer admittee!!!!!!!!!! Crazy how life works. </p>
<p>Anyway I'm pulling for you guys, I know how it feels to be you. I have felt those feeling you feel: the confusion, frustration, bittersweet happiness that you still have a shot but in the back of your mind you can't be happy with your chances, the hope, prayers, superstitions! It's hard to put into words, I know. I hope I can share that indescribably amazing feeling with each of you real soon. Truth is.... if you're on here, reading this, you probably want it more and will do more with an acceptance than many of the people that ARE accepted right now that just want to hear back from their Ivies. That?s my honest opinion?. GO BLUE!!!!! :p</p>
<p>Your soon to be classmate <em>crosses fingers and knocks on wood</em>,
Best of Luck... but you don't need luck, life works in crazy ways!
Ryan</p>
<p>Now what all of you have been waiting for/ scrolled right to :D</p>
<p>College of Engineering:</p>
<p>I applied mid November
OOS New Jersey applicant from a top public high school
1850ish, 3.8ish UW 5.12 Weighted
15th of nearly 300
IB diploma with focus in Maths and Sciences i.e. 3rd year Chemistry
RIGOROUS Courseload
Interest in Biomolecular, Chemical and Aerospace
White, Male
Moved from Florida going into sophomore year.</p>
<p>EC's are pretty darn good: Many leadership positions and a lot of blood, sweat, time and tears put into major school and non-school organizations.</p>
<p>JV and Varsity Soccer
Club Soccer (8 years)
VP of Student Council
Pres. of NHS
Steering Committee member of Service Club
Corporate sponsorship Chairman of Annual Relay for Life
Many, many others just trying to give you a sense</p>
<p>Spent ALOT of time on the essays, more time than anyone should ever spend.... Eventually I had to just stop and send the app in!</p>
<p>Rec from my calc teacher (he has had me for 3 years). Engineer out of West Point and was in the Army for a very long time. Don't know what he wrote about me... but I know he is a man that tells it the way it is! In other words, whatever he wrote... it was heartfelt, insightful and straight up.</p>
<p>Deferred in January or February I believe?!?!</p>
<p>Not too long ago I sent them a letter updating them on my most recent activities... sent them my Semester grades as soon as they were available to ship out and I also let them know that I appreciated them considering me to be apart of the U Mich Class of 2011. Because even that slight bit of hope, as much as I thought it was false hope on my part, kept me motivated.... Stick in there guys!!!!</p>
<p>ACCEPTED this past Friday... </p>
<p>Words I hope to see ALL of you post very very soon.</p>
<p>Ry</p>
<p>congrats TNT, i wish i sent them a letter/participated more...</p>
<p>for those of you that got deferred, did your WA account update with anything at all before you got your letter. jw b/c mine never changed (im deferred and ive given up on getting in-settling for university of maryland college park)</p>
<p>Upon deferral, nothing changed on my WA. I did get a mailed letter however. Next, WA showed that I got accepted, received an email about 12 hours later. Then I received my mailed package a day later (I do live about 20-30 min from Mich?)</p>
<p>BTW, I know exactly how all of you deferrals feel. I can't say I could imagine being deferred for so long though. I was extremely mad that I had gotten deferred considering many of my friends with worse stats and gotten in. By the time I finally got over being deferred (a mere 3-4 weeks), I had already gotten accepted. There was no way I expected a decision so soon, so I was really excited.</p>
<p>Anyways, I hope all you deferrals hear good news :)</p>
<p>zkevin, I'm with you that you never should have been deferred in the first place. I'm glad you (and Ryan from NJ) got in and are happy about it. At this point, even if my S's deferral turns into an acceptance (and mid-April notification is just ridiculous, IMO), he'll be going somewhere else. Michigan's a great school....thank goodness it's not the only one.</p>
<p>HeliMomNYC, I really doubt you'll get a mid-April notification. Many deferrals have already started to hear back, so I wouldn't be surprised if you hear early-April/late March</p>
<p>Honestly, I'm hoping I get rejected. I never wanted to go to UMich, it was just my in-state safety. Ironically I've already gotten into two great universities with excellent merit aid, and there's no way I'll attend UMich now. Getting rejected means I won't have to go through the whole "No thanks, I'm attending X University instead" ordeal.</p>
<p>What an ordeal it can be to check that box and drop it in the mail</p>
<p>having to "go through the whole "No thanks, I'm attending X University instead" ordeal" doesn't even have to be checking the box and walking all the way to the mailbox. a mere click of a button on wolverine access will do the trick. no explanation, proof, whatever. u just check the "no i decline" and thats it.</p>
<p>Ah, I was afraid they'd have one of those ridiculously long questionnaires that I've heard about at some colleges.</p>
<p>I don't want to sound like a jerk, so if I come off that way I sincerely didn't mean it to and I apologize.</p>
<p>There are hundreds of kids that walk to their mailbox 2-3 times a day (even after the mail comes) in hopes of seeing a large package with a huge blue "M" on it. If you don't want to get in, do those kids a humugous favor and withdraw. You withdrawing may give one of them an opportunity they pray for at night... maybe even give them something really great at a time they really need it...</p>
<p>I know my family and I have been going through some crazy times these past few weeks: The reality of me going off to college, some family being in the hospital among many many things... you know what that package can do for someone? I really hope you consider that... even if it doesn't improve another's chances, you never know.</p>
<p>I know there are people that would fill out days worth of questionaires for that package... let alone check a box. I hope it puts things into perspective and you think about it. I repect your position, you've probably worked extremely hard to have U Mich as a safety! That's extremely impressive... and I give you crazy props for it! Same for me with Penn State, but as soon as I visit Mich in April I am letting Penn State know I will not be attending right away. I was accepted to PSU before U Mich so I could not withdraw before being accepted unfortunately, but it may still give someone else an opportunity. If you've already decided about U Mich I urge you to consider the people that dream of that package! Wish ya the best of luck in all ya do! Go Blue ;D</p>
<p>Ry</p>
<p>tntny2fla -- Thank you for what you said. I've printed it off, and hopefully Son will read it. U of M was his first choice, and he is thrilled that he was accepted. But he was also accepted to Purdue and UIUC. And has not gotten around to notifying them (or U of M, for that matter) of his decision.</p>
<p>Maybe coming from another student will help.</p>
<p>My pleasure! Tell him congrats and that I hope to see him next year around school... </p>
<p>Sincerely,
Ry</p>
<p>Just got deferred as well-- the letter asked for my grades. Thing is, I sent them out a month ago.</p>
<p>Stats:
790 M
720 R
750 W</p>
<p>760 Math II
690 Lit</p>
<p>3.69 (not sure if that's weighted or unweighted-- it includes aps and honors) My gpa's been getting better every year (3.4 3.6 4.0 and 3.9-4.0 this year)</p>
<p>decent courseload (not the hardest-- 2 aps in HS and a few honors every year)
5 on AP calc exam</p>
<p>The kicker is I was arrested for possession of marijuana last year and suspended for 9 days. I wrote a very long (3 pgs single spaced) explanation and sent it to each college. Anyone know how that could have affected the decision? I've heard that it could be holding down my app or even giving it a boost. No idea</p>
<p>Oh yeah and my EC's--
5 years football (actually 8-12) varsity 11 and 12
3 years lacrosse (10-12) varsity 11 and 12
3 years BBYO (jewish youth group) 10-12
30 hrs coaching pop warner football
lifeguarding summer job summer after 10th grade</p>
<p>They're not the best because I spent all of my time with sports (which hopefully they'll notice as a good thing)</p>
<p>Your SAT's are phenominal but I don't think it's enough to hook them, I hope it is, but they see a lot of high SAT's there and they don't really say much about who the applicant is as a STUDENT, you see? That's where rigor of course, EC's, Essays, etc. come into play.Your GPA is pretty darn good (3.65-7 UW), probably only a little higher weighted due to little APs). It's close to/ a little tiny bit under what U Mich looks for... BUT... U Mich is also getting those higher GPA's from people with IB diplomas and full AP schedules. Rigor of course is going to hurt you the most in my opinion unless you had a higher GPA in which it would possibly have compensated for it or hooked them. </p>
<p>The marijuana issue could be VERY bad or possibly helpful. Colleges, especially U Mich, have seen a dramatic increase in substance abuse lately and are all trying to do something to bring things back to a normal level. Penn State, U Mich... a lot of the big schools' deans/presidents have been cracking down a lot more and a lot harsher on these situations than ever before. So, depending on your unique situation explained in the letter and basically what you said in you letter, it could either show your true character and give them a reason to give you a shot or it could hurt you. If you don't mind, and if you do at all I COMPLETELY understand, I would be very interested in reading that letter. I have a few friends and even closer people to me that it may be able to enlighten. I would greatly appreciate it and feel free to take anything out that you feel necessary.</p>
<p>You have only a little involvment in school and only some in the community other than sports, which being from a family of atheletes and friends of many pure atheletes, I understand, but to be brutally honest that is going to hurt you pretty badly. Your GPA is par to slightly below par without taking rigor of courses into consideration so they are looking for something ELSE to snatch them and say "hey this kid is worth accepting". I don't feel your EC's are going to do that, I feel like the substance issue could help you only if the essay says something that gives them insight to you as a person and what you could bring to their school, your SAT's are phenominal and will catch attention but it will not show them the kind of student you are... rather just how well you take tests. Overall you have a shot, and that's what matters... no matter how unlikely it may be, my shot wa unlikely too and I now walk around my house with a nametag saying "hi my name is: Ryan and I got into U Mich" :D I'm a little wacky sometimes :D</p>
<p>AS FOR WHAT TO DO NOW:
I wrote a long article in this thread a page or two back, check it out.</p>
<p>I wrote a long article here as well:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=311853%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=311853</a></p>
<p>As for the "send your grades"... this is your opportunity to show them you are worth taking a look at again! Send them your transcript WITH a coverletter explaining that you had sent in your grades a month or so ago but the letter of deferral mentioned sending them in and you wanted to make sure they had them... responsibility and interest can be an added hook! The rest of what you could say is decribed in one of the threads mentioned above^^^ so check them out. I was driving home from school one day and said, you know what if I'm going down... I'm going down swinging and I wrote them a letter. Did they read it? Did it make a difference? I have no clue, but it's better to do something than nothing....</p>
<p>I really hope to see you next year and let me know if you wouldn't mind sending me that essay.</p>
<p>Best of luck and keep us updated,
Ry</p>
<p>Hey I'm actually pretty proud of my essay so I'd be glad to send it :) Just give me your email (PM if you want) and I'll send it as an attachment. All of the names are fake anyway so don't worry about that.</p>
<p>hey so other than zkevin, nonchalant and tntny anyone else get in after getting deferred? can any ppl from last year shed some light as to when a big batch of deferred applicants will recieve their decision? i'd hate to have to wait for the middle of april</p>