<p>^What were you expecting to see? 
You are in.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>College and Program: College of Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I (by section):1990 Combined: 800 Math, 570 Reading, 620 Writing
SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 730 Physics
IBs: HL Physics, HL English, HL Math, SL Chemistry and Biology
GPA (UW, W): 83/100
Rank: 46. I was in the top 10%.
Subjective:
ECs listed on app:
Lots of ECs maily consists of sports.
Job/Work Experience: Two summer jobs.
Essays (subject and responses): Not Bad
Teacher Recs: Awesome
Counselor Rec: Awesome
Applied on (EA?): Yes but admitted in Feb.
Location/Person:Ankara
State or Country: Turkey
School Type: Private, first student accedted to Umich.
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>@akiremitci
Tebrikler. Hangi okuldansın? :)</p>
<p>(I hope a question in Turkish won’t bother others)</p>
<p>OMGMIT, we all understand what you’re saying. internet translators for the win!</p>
<p>So, Google Translate FTW :)</p>
<p>Nice to see so many internationals being accepted :)</p>
<p>I hope we all will join to that crowd <em>soon</em>. I can’t stress “soon” enough. 
This thread has 314,000 views. Think of all the people. :D</p>
<p>
Accepted
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<p>Schools applied to:
**Early Decision/Action Schools: None **
**Regular Decision Schools:
UCLA
UC Berkeley (Social Work)
Amherst
Cornell (CAS)
Columbia (CC)
Northwestern (Weinberg)
Harvard
University of Chicago
UPenn (CAS)
Yale
Princeton
Duke (Trinity)
Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins University
Washington University at St. Louis
Williams
**
Rolling Schools:
Michigan at Ann Arbor
Demographics:
[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): International
[<em>] School Type: Admissions-based prep school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Yellow
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Did you apply for financial aid? No
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, really[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Academic Profile:</p>
<p>Standardized Tests
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (Please List Breakdown) 2390
[</em>] ACT (Please List Breakdown)
[<em>] SAT II: 790 790
[</em>] AP Scores: 5544
[/ul]</p>
<p>Courseload and Transcript
[ul]
[<em>] Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86/4.0+ (school only does W GPA)
[</em>] Briefly describe any upward/downward trends: None
[<em>] Freshman year courses (only list honors/AP) 11 courses (No APs allowed)
[</em>] Sophomore year courses (only list honors/AP) 12 courses (No APs allowed)
[<em>] Junior year courses (only list honors/AP) 5
[</em>] Senior year courses (only list honors/AP) 8
[li] Rank: Top 5% (School does not give exact rank. On Common App, as top 10%)[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Awards and honors
[ul]
[<em>] Major Awards: Won an international economics award
[</em>] School Awards: Various Leadership Awards
[li] Other Awards: Math Olympiad, National Honor Society Induction[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Calculate your academic index:
[Academic</a> Index3 - College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index3.htm]Academic”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/academic_index3.htm)</p>
<p>Your Academic Index: 224
AI Rank * : 7 out of 9 </p>
<p>Subjective factors:
*Extracurricular Pursuits:<a href=“also%20list:%20number%20of%20years/%20leadership%20positions/%20achievements”>/i</a>
- [<em>]1. Student Body President
[</em>]2. School Ambassador
[<em>]3. FBLA President
[</em>]4. Student-teacher of an AP class
[<em>]5. Founder of a humanitarian organization and president
[</em>]6. School Model United Nations Director+ President of the General Assembly+ Secretary General+ Founder of a Conference
*Job/Work Experience:<a href=“also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements”>/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Tutoring
[</em>]2.
[li]3.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>*Volunteer/Community service:<a href=“also%20list:%20number%20of%20years%20and%20achievements”>/i</a>
[ul]
[<em>]1. Regular volunteer at a welfare center
[</em>]2. Founder of a humanitarian organization
[li]3. Founder of a non-profit global volunteer movement[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Essays:
[ul]
[<em>]1. Common Application Essay Topic: Wrote about social welfare and my interest in the major
[</em>]2. Supplementary Essay Topic 1: Liberal Arts education
[li]3. Supplementary Essay Topic 2: Humorous essay, an interview with myself[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Recommendation Letters:
[ul]
I did not see them, but they gave me brief descriptions.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendations: One teacher called me a genius and my other teacher explained my work ethic.
[</em>] Counselor Recommendation: Counselor mentioned the difficulty of our school and how I have the single most challenging course load of the entire school community.
[li] Additional Recommendations: My principal mentioned the various leadership awards and called me a ‘once-in-a-career’ applicant.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Interviews
I had a bunch. They all went well.</p>
<p>Accepted.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>College and Program: UMich, Ann Arbor; LS&A</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 790 CR, 780M, 730 W (1570/1600 or 2300/2400 composite)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 720 Math II, 720 Lit, 650 Spanish w/ Listening
[<em>] ACT: 31
[</em>] APs: 5 English Language, 5 Macroeconomics, 5 Microeconomics
[<em>] IBs: None
[</em>] GPA (UW, W): 3.94 UW, 4.04 W
[<em>] Rank: None
[</em>] Other stats: I believe that’s it.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Muslim Students’ Association (president), the school newspaper, Amnesty International, Future Problem Solving, Fed Challenge, blogging, learning languages, DECA, and a few others
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None listed
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): The Common App essay was about trying (and failing) to teach the Hebrew alphabet to my parrot. One supplement described a metaphorical Fountain of Youth, the other a scene at my local mosque. Unfortunately, I don’t think that the essays were what got me in.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I waived my right to access, but I’m confident that they were good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I also waived my right to access. Again, I’m confident it was good.
[</em>] Applied on (EA?): I submitted in mid-November. I didn’t apply EA, though.
[<em>] Hook (if any): I don’t know that there was anything significant. I’m an in-state student, which might have helped.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Michigan
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: I believe I marked Asian, though I might have skipped this.
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
I’m sure it’s all been said before, so I’ll just say I’m happy I got in and I wish everybody here the best of luck.
For anybody who’s curious about notification dates, I got an e-mail about the decision on February 4th, 2011.
Life hack: If you apply to another UMich campus (Dearborn or Flint) first, you will get a fee waiver for your Ann Arbor application regardless of financial need. I haven’t confirmed this with any other applicants, though, so no guarantees.</p>
<p>@OMGMIT thanks for replying. I was actually wondering cause someone told me that this may be fake and the universities method of attracting students.
But anyways thanks a lot :D</p>
<p>I just got off the phone with University of Michigan admissions. Appearantly, my file is under review now. :)</p>
<p>What did you ask them? Did you ask, “Is my file under review?” :P</p>
<p>i wanna know now as well!!!</p>
<p>You can’t believe how much information people can give you when you ask. :)</p>
<p>so what did you ask them exactly…</p>
<p>“Is my application under review?”</p>
<p>i just called them up as well and they said my file is under review as well! but the guy said we can receive our decision anytime between now and mid-april so…yeah</p>
<p>I imagine all files are under review right now, aside from those who have received definitive answers already. 30,000+ applicants could take awhile …</p>
<p>I don’t think that they consider every file which doesn’t have a definitive answer is under-review. If that was the case, they would have said something like “you file will be reviewed”. At least, I hope this is the case. :)</p>
<p>hope for the best, be ready for the worst.</p>
<p>Good luck to you both!</p>