HS junior wanting to know chances

epsilon9090
Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:57:21 +0000

1) Get your Umich GPA up, because Umich doesn’t care about your senior gpa unless you get deferred.

2) Contact teachers at the end of this schoolyear and let them know to write reccomendation letters for you. Count on only half of the teachers you ask actually doing it. Just make sure that you have at least one letter by the end of the year that you can use for your college application.

3) August 1st, 2007: Logon to the umich website, and begin working on your application. Finish the essays and all of the other stuff as soon as possible. Essays don’t make much of a difference in admissions, so don’t worry about them and just make sure that they are error-free. When in doubt, take a decidely liberal stance on an issue (look at the Democratic party’s platform on their website for hints), and then write your essay along those lines. You should also send in your ACT/SAT scores at this time.

4) Have your application done before school starts, and on the first day of school, give your counselor the needed sheets from the application. DO NOT send the counselor stuff/transcript via the internet. Umich messed it up this year, and there is reason to assume that it might happen again. Just do everything by paper except for your actual application. Get your counselor working on sending her reccomendation/transcripts/forms in ASAP.

5) Contact aforementioned teacher and have him send the letter to Umich, via postal mail. I cannot stress enough the fact that if he sends it electronically, there is a strong chance that Umich will **** it all up and then you will be screwed in the end.

Have everything done as I have outlined above, and there is reason to assume that you have a good chance at being admitted. You will also get a deferal earlier and thus earlier admission if they decide to admit you later on.