<p>Michigan publishes its admissions statistics each year. Here is a link to the most recent set.</p>
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<p>First – Michigan Rigor of Secondary School Record to be the most important factor in admissions (Question C7). In your case, it looks like you took Honors in English and a couple of other courses, but not in other subjects – Is this correct? If so, unless your school did not offer Honors or AP in other subjects, your probably a little behind the avg Michigan student here.</p>
<p>Next – 63% of Michigan enrollees had a GPA of 3.75 or higher. an additional 27% were between 3.5 and 3.74. Only 10% had a GPA lower than 3.5. (Question C11) Your grades put you in the range for acceptances, but at the lower end of the range.</p>
<p>Your ACT composite of 31 puts you in at the 75th percentile (which is good, and may balance out your grades a bit). (Question C9) Obviously with your splits, your English is Way better than your math (which is consistent with the rest of your transcript).</p>
<p>So, to me, it looks like a consistent story – English is great everywhere – Math is comparably weaker.</p>
<p>There are many schools that look for exactly this kind of split and where you’d be a shoe in. Other schools tend to prefer more balanced scores. Honestly, I don’t know what Michigan looks for (though others here probably do).</p>
<p>Also, these data are a year old, and it is believed that Michigan was harder to get into last year (we’ll know more when they publish the next Common Data Set).</p>
<p>Bottom line – with the whole profile, I’d say that your chances are below average. However, I wouldn’t go as far as saying they were slim. Michigan looks like maybe a low reach for you. My advice – go for it. You should definitely apply. Many students like you get in every year. However, you should also apply to other schools where you have a better chance of admissions, should Michigan not come through.</p>