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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the poster upthread with an URM who was deferred with several A minuses. It's interesting that Michigan views these as straight As.
It was pretty clear on the app that he's URM (national SAT recognition award, another award, extracurriculars, etc.) which i thought would help. It's interesting that Jewish and Asians are admitted in large percentages but not URM.  
It's fine and he has other great choices already and hopefully more to come.[/quote]

Michigan has a holistic review process and is forbidden to use race-based affirmative action. And there is no legacy bump.

What people are saying is that legacy Jewish kids may have more credibility explaining why they want to go to Michigan.  And their high schools may have a good track record of sending attendees.  That yield may be a factor.

What I hear from Asian-American community members is more along the line of "all nerds are equally welcome".  Their comments make it sound like they trust that there's less of the "lower rating for personality" bias that was uncovered at Harvard.

What is objectively true is that there are a lot of Asian-Americans in Michigan with high SAT scores.  The Detroit Metro area has a lot of highly-educated Asian immigrants in the engineering and medical professions.  So their kids are well-represented among the top in-state kids.  You can just eyeball the list of Presidential Scholars to see this.

Michigan has to be using some rough GPA and SAT cutoffs for in-state kids to handle the apps.  In our school, there's a sharp bright line in SCOIR at 3.8 unweighted.  And clearly a high SAT (1400+) helps a lot.  So, I think in-state Asian-American students with high SATs are in a good place to get past initial screenings.

Postponed is not rejected.

You don't actually know but your kid may have received some scoring points for the things you hoped would be accounted for.  But I hope your kid also had some convincing reasons why they wanted to attend.

Good luck to your kid.[/quote]

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