<p>Is there a connection between acceptance and your intended major? Poeple who are accepted to the engineering program and econ and such need major math skills and so they’re posting 35 ACT scores. People looking for the chem major are posting excellent science achievements and also major SAT scores. But what if all you want to major in is Film and English? Is UMich the type to overlook lack of achievement in areas like math and science when those areas have no bearing on what the person wants to go into? Northwestern seems like the place where majoring in Film means there isn’t a lot of importance placed on math and science. However, if you’re a chem major, they’re going to drill you with math and science courses. </p>
<p>Basically, is there a connection to acceptances and intended major? Has anybody with average stats with an intended major in film gotten into UMich recently? I’m waiting to hear from them because so far, I’m the only one applying with such stats!</p>
<p>I don’t think intended major is really taken into account in admissions because so many people change. It’s only taken into account based on what school you are applying to (i.e. engineering will place more emphasis on math/science scores than LSA), but within the school you are applying to, I don’t think they take much of a look at what your intended major is, I think it’s mostly there for scholarship purposes.</p>
<p>There probably just aren’t many film majors on these boards.</p>
<p>Location is a factor now too. Not many in-state people who applied after the middle of October have been admitted. OOS has been quicker, you can see that in the admitted students section.</p>
<p>Exactly. A lot of people OOS are getting accepted. I was told that because I applied late, I haven’t got a shot. I have an ACT of 27, the retake was a 24 on a day when I was getting sick and the test center was rubbish! I have a 4.0 GPA, should be Salutatorian, but at my school, there are no honors or AP points calculated to buff up GPAs, so a girl taking a bunch of Easy-A courses is stealing Salutatorian. And! my school calculates GPAs on a 4.25=A+ scale with only select teachers giving out A+s. But yet our counselor just gives everyone a 4.0 on our application stuff regardless of the extra .067 tacked on with the school. So technically, anybody at our school over a 4.0 should be co-Valedictorian. But we’re not. I’m 4th in my class when two people ahead of me do not deserve their spots.</p>
<p>Furthermore, my school only has softball, basketball, soccer, cheer and dance, and volleybal for girls. Volleyball, softball, and basketball are largely big with favoritism. There is only NHS, Spanish Club (which meets once a month to discuss their favorite spanish food, and then an Environmental Activist club which collects a bunch of paper once a month and that’s it. NHS I joined but nothing else with worth joining. I played JV softball but was ousted from Varsity because a rubbish ballplayer was friends with the returning players: they figured they’d just bench her, but would rather have her around than me. Needless to say they went 4 for 16 for the season! Justice!</p>
<p>I have a job that I’ll be at for 2 years in March. I have taken the hardest classes available at my school to the point that my senior year, there are no more “challenging” classes so I am doing directed studies to make up for it. My school lacks terribly in the science department so I blame that for my lower ACT. Besides, I’m more the books, television, movies, music, and plays type. And I am in-state with really good recs and essays. I am good at writing and I am tying to get submitted to a magazine for a short story.</p>
<p>mwbashful - If you don’t get accepted (I doubt it, you have a teriffic GPA), send them a letter telling them all of that, attached to your mid-year grades. Talk about how you have made the most out of your oppurtunity. They want to know about that.</p>
<p>Plenty of people who applied after Mid-October will be admitted. Its just the huge volume that makes it longer.</p>
<p>I applied October 23 with a 4.0 GPA and 33 ACT, still haven’t heard back. If that doesn’t make people who applied at around the same time feel a little bit better, I don’t know what will.</p>
<p>Major doesn’t matter (except in the music school) but school applied to does. They make separate decisions for engineering, for LSA, for nursing, for Kines, etc. However, within each school, they don’t say “oh, we need fewer biology majors and more sociology majors.” Major within a school doesn’t effect your chances (except, as I noted, in Music, where they may be looking for a certain number of oboes, etc).</p>
<p>engineering is tougher than lsa to get into and lsa is tougher than kinesiology to get into, though i can’t give exact figures for acceptance rate</p>
and then an Environmental Activist club which collects a bunch of paper once a month and that’s it. NHS I joined but nothing else with worth joining. I played JV softball but was ousted from Varsity because a rubbish ballplayer was friends with the returning players: they figured they’d just bench her, but would rather have her around than me. Needless to say they went 4 for 16 for the season! Justice!</p>