chance me please..instate student

bulletandpima
Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:39:47 +0000

In the case of UMich they were giving points to URM to the basis of their score. If you are state school receiving federal funding you will have an oversight committee that audits your acceptance and rejections. The only place you can get extra pts to overcome the gpa/SAT is the ECs and essays. However, if I recall correctly admissions stated the essays are “blind”, so unless you speak of your race, they will never know about it. Of course schools strive for diversity, but they are not going to lower their stds if they don’t have to. There is no dictum that says you need X% of hispanic, african american, chinese, japanese, indian, etc. There is a % that they want and make that their goal. Look at the stats around here, there are many individuals that can be classified as URM, with stats just as good or even greater than someone who is not.

I am not saying you will not get in, what I am saying is don’t use URM as the crutch to get in. Hook means something amazing that nobody else does. It use to include legacies, but that doesn’t count for much anymore…probably about the same as URM.

I would say for you probably in for UMCP, but not for GA Tech or NCSU. We just moved from NC and I know that for ISS you would be on the cusp. GA if I am correct has a special deal for GA residence (basically like CA) which makes competition very high.