Panicked transfer student: Chance Me Please!!!

Phenomenologist
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:23:18 +0000

Hello, I am a prospective transfer to the University of Michigan; I did poorly in high school, well on my ACT and ACT retake, and fair my first semester…

HS GPA: 2.1 (I had moved a lot, and was a generally unmotivated student)
University GPA: Wayne State University

semester 1: 16 credit hours, 3.56
semester 2: 19 credit hours, if I get a 4.0, my GPA will come to 3.79
spring/summer: I am taking honors calc 1&2 and German 1&2, respectively. If I do well, and receive a 4.0, I will have landed a 3.86 GPA

My ACT was a 25 the first time around, but retaken was a 31.

I was a volunteer, then an intern, then a paid organizer for the Obama campaign, belong to student Dems, the WSU philosophical found., have community service under my belt, and graduated HS with music honors and was a section leader in my HS marching band.

by all measures, I am a top-notch writer, having edited papers in all of my HS English courses and received perfect scores in ACT reading and writing (11 of 12).

I am participating in the 2009 Butler Undergraduate Research Conference, presenting papers in Philosophy and in Mathematics, my prospective double-major. I also intend on publishing a paper in an undergraduate journal of philosophy.

So what might be my chances to get into Michigan as a transfer? My other school choices are Rutgers New Brunswick, Cornell (for which my chances are slim to none, I know), and NYU. I am quite set on Michigan, however.

Thanks for any help!