密歇根大学安娜堡分校
先简单补充一下这两个是什么意思；
早申请一个学校，学校除了会给录取（admit）和被拒（reject）两种结果之外，还会出现第三种结果，叫延迟（defer）；意思就是，早申请的时候无法做出结论，把申请自动推迟到正常批申请再审核一次。需要注意的是，如果是通过ED这种申请类型拿到了defer这个结果，那ED条款里的绑定协议就自动失效了。即便后来依旧录取了这个学校，依然是可以不去的。
正常申请一个学校，学校除了给录取（admit）和被拒（reject）两种结果之外，还会出现第三种结果，叫等待（waitlist）；一般学校的录取结果，早的会在3月中下旬出来，晚一点的会在4月初。如果拿到的是waitlist这个结果，学校的意思是，他们会在4月底5月初再次考虑你的申请。这有一定几率变成admit！
所以，这两种结果呢，有点让人生不如此的感觉！而，密歇根大学安娜堡分校就是最爱给这两种结果的那个！
当然了，有人认为，这结果至少比直接被拒好吧，至少学校还是认可学生能力的。我只能说，还是太天真！太年轻！
密歇根大学安娜堡分校是一个非常不错的学校！在美本大学排名里，最高排到21位！比这学校高的也就只有加州大学伯克利和加州大学洛杉矶了。她是公立常春藤之一，常年和弗吉尼亚大学争公立第一的称号！密歇根大学安娜堡分校是一个标准的公立大学，有公立大学该有的优势：
1. 理工科非常不错！密歇根大学安娜堡分校的工程学院是美国最的！排她前面的只有麻省、斯坦福、加州大学伯克利、加州理工、佐治亚理工学院。这才是公立大学该有优势。弗吉尼亚大学、北卡大学教堂山和威廉玛丽学院表示伤不起！
2. 商科非常不错！仅次于宾大的沃顿，和麻省理工、加州大学伯克利、弗吉尼亚大学和纽约大学的商学院差不多！单从工程和商科来看，是不是发现麻省理工、加州大学伯克利和密歇根大学安娜堡分校这三无人能敌？
3. 地理位置不错！五大湖地区，独有的位置，别的不说，学费和生活费比较亲民。之后介绍到的性价比最高的前50的学校里，都在五大湖地区！
好处说完，坏处呢！
难录取！
如果说弗吉尼亚大学是公立学校里最难录取的，那密歇根大学安娜堡分校也没容易多少！
官网上东西挺多的，但是都是泛泛而谈。这对了解大学的录取不错。
Selection process
What kind of students will succeed at the University of Michigan?
We look at each student as a whole package, a combination of talents, interests, passions, and skills. In this way, we can look beyond grades and test scores to recruit the most dynamic group of students possible. A wide variety of backgrounds, intellectual passions, and interests make up the typical applicant. What they share is a drive to pursue academic excellence in a challenging and rewarding academic environment.
We know that there is great variation among our applicants’ personal circumstances, home communities, and high schools, including those schools’ course offerings and grading practices. As a result, our admission process considers all aspects of your record and experience--we do not admit applicants solely on the basis of any single criterion. We value the whole record--excellent grades in rigorous courses, top ACT/SAT scores, participation in extracurricular activities, professional arts training, and evidence of leadership, awards, and service.
Now is the time to think about who you are and how you will define yourself at every stage of this process. What are the basis?
Academic preparation
Academic strength, certainly as an indicator of how thoroughly you’ve been prepared to succeed in a dynamic interdisciplinary environment, is key. To that end, the amount of intellectual challenge you’ve taken on based on what is offered in your educational environment will be highly important. It will be important to take a rigorous curriculum in which you succeed and can demonstrate your intellectual skills.
Key criteria we take into consideration, include:
l Your cumulative GPA
l The quality of your curriculum (its solid college preparation, strength of courses, what courses you’ve taken based on what is available in your high school, such as AP, IB, or honors, etc.)
l Your class rank, if available
l Your specific academic interests
l Your standardized test scores, if able to provide them
Extracurricular preparation
Your extracurricular preparation speaks to what you’ve done beyond the classroom. How have you become a leader at your school and in your community? To what heights have you taken your training in music, art, or dance? What is your life beyond your course of studies and how do you connect them?
Show us how the combination of course work and related activities inspired original thinking on your part. What you’ve done beyond simply taking AP courses is a very important consideration for admission. It speaks to what kind of person you are and how well you might do in a dynamic, multifaceted campus community.
We also look for students who will lend educational and cultural diversity to campus and who are curious about new ideas, people, and experiences. If success means more than material accomplishment, if you’re someone who pushes boundaries and is not content with status-quote answers, then U-M could be your next home.
How we evaluate your application
The admission process is designed to consider all aspects of an applicant’s record and experience and is not intended to admit applicants solely on the basis of grade point average, test scores, or any other single criterion.
We recognize that there is great variation among applicants’ personal circumstances, home communities, and high schools, including those schools’ course offerings and grading practices. Therefore, reviewers have the opportunity and responsibility to consider a comprehensive range of factors in evaluating applications and to admit applicants who are both academically qualified and have demonstrated their potential to contribute to, and be successful students at, the University of Michigan.
To ensure an accurate, comprehensive, and unbiased review process, each application is assessed by multiple evaluators in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before a final admissions decision is rendered.
Application rating
The U-M application reviewers rate each applicant with respect to the following criteria:
l Secondary school academic performance
l Educational environment
l Counselor and teacher recommendation
l Essays
l Awards/honors, involvement, leadership, and service
Reviewers will then balance the different ratings and decide which best fits the applicants’ achievements and potential. They then provide an overall rating for the application based on the following scale:
Outstanding
All of the applicants’ materials exemplify superior and/or exceptional characteristics that contribute to the specific evaluation categories.
Excellent
The applicant’s material illustrate extremely strong, but not exceptional characteristics. The reviewer may have a reservation, but there are enough redeeming features to compensate for, or outweigh, the reservation.
Good
The applicant’s materials demonstrate competitive average characteristics in most of the criteria, but may be particularly strong in one or more areas. The reviewer may have reservations about the applicant’s academic competitiveness.
Average/Fair
While the applicants’ materials are competitive in each of the criteria, the reviewer has substantial concerns about the overall strength of the application and may have reservation about the applicant’s academic competitiveness.
Below average/poor
In the applicant’s materials, the reviewer detests serious deficiencies in most of the evaluation criteria in comparison to other applicants. In addition, several of the evaluation criteria may or may not be met or may not have been addressed in applicant’s materials.
The Decision
After conducting a comprehensive, holistic, and individual review of an application, including academic preparation and extracurricular preparation, reviewers make an admissions decision recommendation based on the composite evaluation rating and comments. In the end, each final decision is influenced by a number of factors, each carefully weighted and considered to make the best possible decision for the applicant and the University of Michigan.
虽然很难录取，但是考虑到密歇根大学安娜堡分校的诸多好处，所以申请的人数也是乌泱泱一大片！
这学校特别爱把人放到waitlist里面，但是，从waitlist转到admit的几率非常感人！
最后补充一点：这学校的商学院，不能直接申请！
