Am I good enough to get in?

umcoe16
Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:22:47 +0000

Your best bet is to apply to LSA if those are your career goals. You can apply to Ross preadmit and you will receive a separate decision from both LSA and Ross. You must first be accepted into LSA before your application gets forwarded to Ross.

To get into umich, you would ideally want at least a 30 on the ACT. The higher the GPA, the better, but they pay more attention to the unweighted GPA, not the weighted one. This is because unweighted GPA is less likely to differ from school to school, thus making the playing field more leveled for other applicants. What you listed is not your unweighted GPA because an unweighted GPA never exceeds 4.0. If your unweighted GPA can be at least 3.8 by the time you apply, you have a decent chance. In addition, they will recalculate your GPA with only your math, English, social studies, science, and foreign language courses to get your core academic GPA. Take out all of your gym, music, and other elective classes when doing the calculation.

For your activities, the important thing is to be able to talk about each of them with substance. It is better to have four or five activities that you can really discuss meaningfully rather than 20 or 30 where you cannot say much about the majority of them. You want to show that you are really involved and committed to your activities rather than just trying to check boxes. Think about the difference between “as a member of this team, I accomplished this and that…” and “I showed up to the club meetings every other week for free pizza”. As a rule, you should be able to write a meaningful paragraph about each activity you are doing. There should also be roughly two activities which you can discuss in depth. That is, you should be able to write at least half a page single spaced regarding how they have helped to shape you.