So I was thinking about my deferral and thought of one red flag that might have hurt my application.
I took the SAT and the first time I got a 1510. I retook the SAT and got a 1490. 20 point drop, but my raw score was the same i.e. i didn’t get more questions wrong in either section, but the curve docked 30 points from CRW.
However, the two scores together brought my Superscore up to 1540. Because of this, I sent both scores to UMich, which states it doesn’t superscore but “views SATs in the most beneficial light for the student.” Also, when I was doing my score sends, the College Board website suggested I send both.
Would this have been a major red flag for admissions?
@suzy100 do you know if they see all composite scores or if they only see the highest sections? i know they dont superscore but they do indicate that they operate under the “highest section version 2” according to CB. thanks for your help and words of encouragement! much appreciated
@Ezga3969 the score report includes all the detail of the section and cross-section scores. Whether an institution makes use of all that information is another question. But they definitely see it.
@ezga3969 they see all scores and it’s only beneficial to you. Even though they don’t superscore they do look at all scores for your advantage. So a bad score can’t really hurt you. They are smart enough to know there can be lack of consistency between each take. You and everybody else were most likely deferred since they didn’t have the time to put in to fully evaluate your application. It is a 3 step process. Do you want the committes to rush through your application and not give it the look over it requires? I think Michigan takes this process more seriously then people think.
@Knowsstuff what do you mean by not enough time to fully evaluate my application? what do you feel made ours (deferred apps) more complicated to process?
I just gave this really bad example to someone else. You have like 40,000 applications (guessing). They are all in a like the size of a football field. Someone comes and just picks one randomly out of the pile and does a full review. Then they go back and do another one and do one. But alas, there is still a huge pile of applications. What do you do? So they defer those applications so they can come back after the break and start off over. The ones that didn’t get reviewed in EA get put back in the pile.
Now… This is not what really happens but just an illustration of the process. Each application gets looked at three times by different people. It gets scored. The ones that pass get accepted, some on the fence get wait listed. Others get rejected at this next stage.
