Anyone hear from Michigan yet?

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

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NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

+1

NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

These kids are all great with excellent stats. But you and your spouse likely were, too - you can’t compare the current stats and from when you applied. The SAT scoring has been renormed, there is a lot more and sophisticated standardized test prepping, and at least comparing my public high school in the 1980’s nyc suburbs with my kids public High school in Bethesda, there is a lot of grade inflation and in MoCo especially an easier grading system (with the quarter grades averaged to the higher, the range for an A being 90 and above and there being no minus and pluses).

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to those who got in!

Just watching this thread in awe of how competitive it’s gotten.

DH went to Michigan (class of 2007). He’s from Ann Arbor and wonders if he would’ve gotten in today. 3.99 unweighted GPA and ACT score of 35. (I’m not insane — I only know this because I was literally telling him about this thread 5 min ago). Great violist, but didn’t win national competitions or anything.

I know he’d love for DD to eventually go to Michigan (as would I). She’s only 4 so when she’s 18, god knows what it’ll take ... curing cancer?

Wow. You're sharing your 36 year old husband's high school stats? Yea, you are insane . . .

Like I said, we literally were having this convo today. You’re telling me you’ve never talked about how much more competitive admissions is now for the school you went to?

Sure, maybe. But you're posting your husband's high school stats to the decimal point -- even making a point of telling us that his 3.99 GPA was unweighted! -- and talking about where you want your FOUR YEAR OLD to go to college. That's over the top, even for DCUM.

NP. You're the one who is taking it "over the top," PP, not the person you're responding to.

I read her post and agreed with her and then you came in with a throw down because ... I dunno ... you have mental problems and you're threatened by adult conversation!?! It is reasonable to know your spouse's academics stats just like it is reasonable that, if you liked your school, you would hope that your child can go there some day.

So go away and play with the kids. When you're mature enough to converse appropriately then come back.

Sorry, but it's weird to know your spouse's "academic stats" to the letter. My spouse and I both have graduate degrees. We couldn't tell you each other's high school, college, or grad school GPAs or any of our test scores if you put guns to our heads. This poster only knows her husband's because he's still fixated on them after 15 years. That, too, is weird.

DP. No, sorry. If my husband was reading this thread on his phone in bed and turned to me and said, what was your high school GPA and SAT (which is what she preemptively said happened), I would respond, 98 and 1380. I got a 3.48 undergrad and approximately a 3.75 in grad school. It is only natural to wonder what your young children can achieve one day and what it will take. She's not weird, but you're obsession with making her seem like she is, is.

And you know what, I'm obsessed with calling you out because being mean and insulting for no reason when it's completely uncalled for makes this board less helpful and the world a less kind place. It ticks me off and I don't like it.

A passing by reader. I am with you.

Same

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Anonymous wrote:Mom of a preschooler here just wandering into this thread and my goodness I had no idea how competitive college has become.

I’ll get to those preschool math flash cards first thing tomorrow! 😬

Thousands of colleges are much less competitive than Michigan, which is always ranked in the top 3 public universities in the country so is attractive to OOS kids who have high stats. You have more than a decade to just enjoy your preschooler! No flash cards necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to hear more about the 2 students from big 3s on this thread who had 4.0 and 3.99 and were deferred - other dcum threads say those gpa’s are near impossible from big 3s and yet other thread say a good portion of the seniors at big 3s head to ivies or equivalents. Just wondering if all are reporting honest stats.

Michigan is known for punting on applications in the EA round because they simply have too many to get through, with many qualified EA applicants getting in then in the RD round. I think Michigan AOs have even admitted this. And experience with high stats kids at our Big 3 seems to back it up.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to hear more about the 2 students from big 3s on this thread who had 4.0 and 3.99 and were deferred - other dcum threads say those gpa’s are near impossible from big 3s and yet other thread say a good portion of the seniors at big 3s head to ivies or equivalents. Just wondering if all are reporting honest stats.

Michigan is known for punting on applications in the EA round because they simply have too many to get through, with many qualified EA applicants getting in then in the RD round. I think Michigan AOs have even admitted this. And experience with high stats kids at our Big 3 seems to back it up.

I have also heard this. Also, but this might be speculation, that they will wait on some high stat applications to see if they get withdrawn after the student gets into an ED, etc. before spending time on the app or “wasting” an acceptance.

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The reason people think UM doesn’t have time to get through the applications is simply because they use the word “postpone” in their deferral letter and other language to try to be nice in conveying the decision. I have contacts in the admissions office and told them last year how people are misinterpreting their letters. They said they absolutely review every application and they would consider changing the wording to make it clear, but they have not.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

+1

NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

I’m the PP who apparently created quite the controversy by referencing the convo DH and I were having about Michigan.

I had no clue what his stats were before this convo. He mentioned them in the context of saying, “wow, I don’t even know if those would be good enough these days, given the kids who are being rejected.”

In terms of our 4yo — I guess some people aren’t that familiar with the UM alumni community. It’s not at all unusual for Michigan folks to want their kids to go. DH taught our daughter The Victors when she was a toddler. By the time she was 2, she had already been to a Michigan football game. It’s almost like a religion.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

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Explain how sharing a husband's 2007 high school stats contributed meaningfully in any way, other than to brag about the husband's stats that is.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

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Explain how sharing a husband's 2007 high school stats contributed meaningfully in any way, other than to brag about the husband's stats that is.

PP who did that. It was really sort of the opposite — we don’t think they’d be good enough these days.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

+1

NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

The point is that you can actually remember your HIGH SCHOOL GPA to the letter? Really??? And you don't think that says something about you?

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

+1

NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

The point is that you can actually remember your HIGH SCHOOL GPA to the letter? Really??? And you don't think that says something about you?

I can. It’s not that difficult? I worked hard to get that GPA. I remember my high school one and my college one.

Are you sure you don’t have a memory problem?

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

+1

NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

I’m the PP who apparently created quite the controversy by referencing the convo DH and I were having about Michigan.

I had no clue what his stats were before this convo. He mentioned them in the context of saying, “wow, I don’t even know if those would be good enough these days, given the kids who are being rejected.”

In terms of our 4yo — I guess some people aren’t that familiar with the UM alumni community. It’s not at all unusual for Michigan folks to want their kids to go. DH taught our daughter The Victors when she was a toddler. By the time she was 2, she had already been to a Michigan football game. It’s almost like a religion.

And that's different from a lot of other schools how?

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

+1

NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

I’m the PP who apparently created quite the controversy by referencing the convo DH and I were having about Michigan.

I had no clue what his stats were before this convo. He mentioned them in the context of saying, “wow, I don’t even know if those would be good enough these days, given the kids who are being rejected.”

In terms of our 4yo — I guess some people aren’t that familiar with the UM alumni community. It’s not at all unusual for Michigan folks to want their kids to go. DH taught our daughter The Victors when she was a toddler. By the time she was 2, she had already been to a Michigan football game. It’s almost like a religion.

And that's different from a lot of other schools how?

So if it’s not unusual, then why did posters get so upset at me about it?

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Nope, what is weird is to be so fixated on criticizing someone's contribution and what they remember about their lives. I'm glad so many other posters have come out to try to put a stop to the mean DCUM vibe.

+1

NP here. +1000. And yes I know DH’s stats because, with being immersed in admissions season for our DC and seeing all of the high stat kids being deferred, we are just shaking our heads that we never would have gotten into anything in the T100 or thereabouts with our stats from back in the day lol. Yet with those subpar stats we both leveraged good colleges and great law schools. So yes of course people talk about this stuff with their spouses. He’s your spouse after all, who else are you supposed to talk to about this stuff in a nonjudgmental environment. Apparently not the DCUMers lol.

The point is that you can actually remember your HIGH SCHOOL GPA to the letter? Really??? And you don't think that says something about you?

I can. It’s not that difficult? I worked hard to get that GPA. I remember my high school one and my college one.

Are you sure you don’t have a memory problem?

I guess my ego isn't big enough for my brain to have enough room for remembering something as meaningless as a high school GPA from a couple of decades ago.