Chances..

Colleges & Universities University of Michigan
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<p>White Male, Michigan</p>

<p>Burlington, MI, small farming community of about 1,400 people.</p>

<p>Going to be a senior at Harper Creek High School, smallish school (around 1,000). Not a very competitive school with high GPAs and low avg. ACT scores.</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.4
Michigan GPA: 3.6</p>

<p>Class Rank: 40th</p>

<p>High Honor Roll 1 year
Honor Roll 2 years</p>

<p>Honors American History
Adv Lit
Hon European History (senior year)
Debate
French I-III
Accounting (senior year)…to name a few</p>

<p>also will be taking 2 courses at the local community college in 2007-2008, (sociology, another class TBD)</p>

<p>ACT
Composite Score: 29 (95th percentile) … will retake, but 29 fits in Michigan’s criteria
English: 26
Mathematics: 25
Reading: 34
Science: 29
Combined English/Writing: 28
Writing: 11/12 (99th percentile)</p>

<p>EC:
1 year Varsity Debate
2 years Forensics, qualified for State 2nd year, won Districts and Regionals in Impromptu Speaking
2 years Student Congress (Silver Gavel)…qualified participated at Glenbrooks Nationals.
3 years (soon to be four) Varsity Quiz Bowl. 2 year City Champs.
1 year Varsity Tennis
1 Year JV Ice Hockey (Captain)
2 Years Varsity Ice Hockey, State Semifinalists
3 Time Team USA representative for Inline Hockey for the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics. (Gold Medal first year, Bronze Medal 2nd year.)
2004 AAU All-American for Inline Hockey.
Member of French Club, Traveled to Europe with French Club in summer of 2006.
10 hours community service junior year, will be an additional 20 after senior year to give 30 total hours.</p>

<p>Work and Employment:
Worked for a construction company summer of 2006 and for McDonald’s summer of 2007.
Has worked on the family farm for all 3 (soon to be 4) years of high school. - ((hoping this will be a good thing under Michigan’s new system, saw the example of the kid with a 3.1 GPA who worked on the family farm and got in)).</p>

<p>Also, I am a year younger than everyone in my class, if it matters at all.</p>

<p>Hopefully thats enough. I really gave 110% to list every little thing I have done over the course of HS. Thanks for the feedback.</p>

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<p>I think you are a match, but only bc you’re in-state. I would try and get your GPA up a bit first though. They put a lot of weight on that, and the avg. is around a 3.8, a little higher than yours. Especially if your hs isn’t too competitive. best of luck!</p>

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<p>Your class rank is 40th out of how many?</p>

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<p>Slight Reach/Match</p>

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<p>You’ll probably get in as being in-state.</p>

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<p>You are a reach. Your GPA is low by Michigan standards and your ACT is right around the mean.</p>

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<p>@peggy- 40th out of 200-250, I don’t know the exact number.</p>

<p>I know the GPA is low, but it isn’t dramatically below their preferred window so I’m hoping that is good. In the example in the Free Press article about the new admissions system, the farm kid got in with a 3.1…so we’ll see.</p>

<p>I appreciate all the input, and would love some more. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about your chances. You obviously have a shot. Michigan is hard to get into, so it is a slight reach, but you definitely have a realistic chance.</p>

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<p>OMG being a “farm kid” helps??!! Yay for me!</p>

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<p>haha well I don’t know if it is an advantage, I’m just going off that example in the article I read about the new system. If it is, great.</p>

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<p>rural in-state farm kid, little opportunity, but awesome scores for his situation?
This is almost a no-brainer in my mind considering who I have seen get into michigan over the years.</p>

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<p>thats what I am hoping. I wonder how important that is (where you come from, oppurtunity, etc.) like…my school doesn’t offer AP classes…and I don’t know if that will help me or hurt me.</p>

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<p>Reach/Slight Reach</p>

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<p>“my school doesn’t offer AP classes…and I don’t know if that will help me or hurt me.”
^neither. Obviously they can’t compare you with kids who’ve challenged themselves through several AP classes, but they weren’t offered at your school, so it can’t count against you either. </p>

<p>Also, I was jk about the farm kid thing. I think it only helps from a diversity aspect.</p>

<p>What’s the new system they are using, and how does that help you if you are from an under-represented region?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318664[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318664&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It is called Descriptor Plus.</p>

<p>"At Wednesday’s briefing, university officials used as an example a white male student with a 3.1 grade-point average who has taken fairly tough classes. The student finished high in his class, is considered a school leader, is heavily involved in extracurricular activities and worked on a farm to help his family pay the bills.</p>

<p>His evaluation summary noted parents’ estimated income and educational level, race and gender, citizenship and other factors. Evaluators noted that the university probably doesn’t get many applicants from the student’s high school and that he lived in a high-interest, underrepresented neighborhood.</p>

<p>The student has been offered admission, university officials said."</p>

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<p>Thanks, I’d heard about it but hadn’t read the article. Also, they no longer use race and gender in admissions, AA was recently banned. That example is probably from last year, I assume?</p>

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<p>yeah, it’s from last year.</p>

<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>Burlington, Mi. . . Is that close to a larger city with a population between 50,000 and 65,000 people? I know of a school called Harper Creek High school. I didn’t graduate from there, but the school size and the size of your graduating class fit the school’s profile. </p>

<p>By the way, I’m not going to give you your chances because I don’t know what they are. However, I will say one thing, and it’s directed at everyone (not just you). I know several people who were in-state with around 3.7 GPAs and similar test scores to yours who were deferred a few years ago. Just because a person is in-state does not mean he or she will get accepted. (Talk to A2Wolves6. He’ll attest to this.) You definitely have a shot, but don’t think that you will definitely be accepted without hurdles to jump.</p>

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<p>yeah, battle creek is the 50,000-60,000 town you are thinking of. and yes, i got to harper creek.</p>

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<p>Yup, it’s the same Harper Creek High School. I graduated from Lakeview and the Math and Science Center a couple of years ago. That’s how I knew so much.</p>

<p>Going to a school from Battle Creek isn’t going to help you too much in terms of underrepresentation. I know several people who went to Lakeview (and even more who went to the Math and Science Center) who go to UoM now. I assume Harper sends several people to Michigan as well every year. High grades in difficult classes will help you a lot more. I don’t know if living in Burlington will help you. However, living and working on a farm might.</p>