Merit aid at U of M

smart.cookie
Sun, 24 May 2009 20:23:28 +0000

What is UMich looking for when they give out merit aid?

Would I be able to get some merit aid with these stats:

Junior this year at a Newsweek top 20 school, USNWR top 10 school.
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted (our school does not assign weight)
ACT: 33 (retaking with hopes of a 34)
SAT IIs: Taking them in Math II, Bio, and Literature
State of Residency (if it helps): Michigan (and UMichigan recruits students from our school pretty heavily)

Class difficulty:
9th and 10th: All honors courses, all considered “pre-IB”. I took AP Calc AB in 10th grade, received a 5.

11th: Full IB course load. 3 sciences: IB Bio, Chem and Physics. IB SL Math, IB Lit, IB History, IB Spanish, and TOK. Dual enrolled for a statistics class at a local university first semester.

12th: Courses will stay the same.

Academic Awards:
Top Science Award
Summa Cum Laude

ECs:

MUN club president, many awards in MUN

Spanish Honors Society (Officer)

NHS

Science Olympiad Officer (Experimental Design is so much fun!)

Youth Symphony (next year is my 5th year, I’m the principle horn player)

Volunteer Work

Student gov (secretary for three years)

100ish hours of volunteering at nursing home

Youth Leadership Project: Investigated problems related to poverty, hunger, and
homelessness on a local and international level for the course of the year. It was thought inspiring.

Will be attending TASP this summer (Telluride Association Summer Program for Juniors)