Anonymous wrote:Has anyone gotten accepted to U-M w aid? or does that come separately at a later point?

I saw a couple of posts on CC where aid was mentioned. The website says financial aid announcements will go out before April.

Back in my day, Michigan was way easier to get into. I sent in my application and got my acceptance packet a week or two later. I turned down Ivy (not HYP) to attend Michigan but it was pretty clear on my arrival that the majority of the student body was not Ivy material. However, the majority of the Honors Program probably was.

I was a little worried that my kids wouldn't make the cut. Many of my Michigan friends' kids have ended up at colleges like Minnesota or Wisconsin or Indiana because Michigan has become such a tough nut to crack. But my kids all decided not to apply to Michigan. They all thought it was just too big. Not even the Residential College seemed small enough for them. Since they all have closets full of maize and blue clothing and even learned to fall asleep in their cribs to the soothing sound of "Hail to the Victors," this was disappointing.

Now I'm a SLAC parent. That has its benefits. I loved Michigan but it really is very big.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, a lot of us 40+ yrs old would not be able to get into the same schools today with the same stats we got with in 1996.

At my son’s high school, they told us that 80% of the parents sitting in the auditorium would not be able to get into their alma matter today.

That’s ridiculous, though. It’s obviously a matter of grade inflation and population growth. It’s not like kids today are any smarter than they were 10/20/30 years ago.

How about if you look at class rank? You see, my 1300s SAT score in the 1980s is not impressive now. But I was #2 in a class of 500 in a decent MCPS high school at the time. That would still be pretty good today and might get me in a top 20 school, right?
Maybe not if you include population growth and the push for 1st generation kids.

You poor thing. Don't worry, there always will be plenty of room for the privileged.

Anonymous wrote:Aid is supposed to come out in ~three weeks.

Thank you.

DS is in at U-M Engineering and Rensselaer (RPI) accepted him w merit aid. Hoping U-M can come through with aid to help make the decision easier.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, a lot of us 40+ yrs old would not be able to get into the same schools today with the same stats we got with in 1996.

At my son’s high school, they told us that 80% of the parents sitting in the auditorium would not be able to get into their alma matter today.

That’s ridiculous, though. It’s obviously a matter of grade inflation and population growth. It’s not like kids today are any smarter than they were 10/20/30 years ago.

How about if you look at class rank? You see, my 1300s SAT score in the 1980s is not impressive now. But I was #2 in a class of 500 in a decent MCPS high school at the time. That would still be pretty good today and might get me in a top 20 school, right?
Maybe not if you include population growth and the push for 1st generation kids.

Sure. Though it’s worth noting the new SAT is easier than the old one. So you’d probably get a higher score now.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, a lot of us 40+ yrs old would not be able to get into the same schools today with the same stats we got with in 1996.

At my son’s high school, they told us that 80% of the parents sitting in the auditorium would not be able to get into their alma matter today.

That’s ridiculous, though. It’s obviously a matter of grade inflation and population growth. It’s not like kids today are any smarter than they were 10/20/30 years ago.

How about if you look at class rank? You see, my 1300s SAT score in the 1980s is not impressive now. But I was #2 in a class of 500 in a decent MCPS high school at the time. That would still be pretty good today and might get me in a top 20 school, right?
Maybe not if you include population growth and the push for 1st generation kids.

Aid is supposed to come out in ~three weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, a lot of us 40+ yrs old would not be able to get into the same schools today with the same stats we got with in 1996.

At my son’s high school, they told us that 80% of the parents sitting in the auditorium would not be able to get into their alma matter today.

That’s ridiculous, though. It’s obviously a matter of grade inflation and population growth. It’s not like kids today are any smarter than they were 10/20/30 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, a lot of us 40+ yrs old would not be able to get into the same schools today with the same stats we got with in 1996.

At my son’s high school, they told us that 80% of the parents sitting in the auditorium would not be able to get into their alma matter today.

Hyperbole with no basis in fact

Anonymous wrote:Look, a lot of us 40+ yrs old would not be able to get into the same schools today with the same stats we got with in 1996.

At my son’s high school, they told us that 80% of the parents sitting in the auditorium would not be able to get into their alma matter today.

Has anyone gotten accepted to U-M w aid? or does that come separately at a later point?

Look, a lot of us 40+ yrs old would not be able to get into the same schools today with the same stats we got with in 1996.

Exactly. I came here for UM results. Anyone engaging in the side conversations and derailing this thread is to blame here. Don’t engage and move on.

Can we just get back to UM 2021 admissions results....

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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.

Sounds like you have a very weird fixation on this. What do you think that says about you?