@NatF19 Don’t listen to @Kadel1023. He is commenting on a lot of posts negative stuff in relation to his admission aspects. College app season makes everyone get pretty competitive. Try to stay positive! (:
As for your chances, it helps to be an URM, however the average stats for out of staters is around a 3.8 GPA UW. You have a unique background that might help as well, colleges look for diversity in building their class.
At this point it looks like Umich is a reach for you, as it is for most students. Try not to get too caught up in the dream school thing. Umich is my top school too, but I’m thinking about it as a lukewarm idea, that way I won’t be too disappointed if I don’t get in.
I would look at large out of state publics with good engineering schools, which will be comparable to Umich atmosphere.