Some confusion w/ admissions

JR526
Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:53:31 +0000

I’m an OOS junior at a pretty intensely competitive private high school.

Skimming through these forums, I’m becoming a little confused as far as GPA. My school unfortunately does not give us a 4.0 scale GPA, but rather a percentage. I have a 98% (which is quite high, but not perfect, top 10% (school doesn’t officially rank)). I have THE most rigorous courseload my school offers (I take 2 science classes, one of which is all seniors except me and 2 other jr’s) All my classes are AP/Honors.

UMich says they don’t recalculate for honors and things, so I was just wondering if any accepted students could tell me how this all looks?

I guess they only look at soph/junior, so I’ll only list those, but frosh year was about the same, maybe a little lower grades.

(Also, I was confused as to what constitutes a Michigan ‘A’. At my school A is 93-100 but at most publics I know of it’s 90-100.)
Unweighted-
Soph-
Bible Class 93/93
Honors Lit 94/91
Honors US History 89 : (
Spanish 2 93/91
Honors Alg 2/Trig 93/92
Photography 91
Honors Chemistry 93/93
Health 96

Weighted Ave. 97.66

Junior-
(1st semester only)
AP Eng Lang and Comp 91
AP US History 91
Spanish 3 92
Honors PreCal 94
AP Biology 93
Honors Physics 90
PE 93

Weighted Ave. 99.16

Next year I’m taking AP Physics, AP Calc BC, AP Comp Gov, AP Euro Hist, AP Brit Lit, and AP Spanish

I got a 33 ACT, (just retook and REALLY think I improved a lot) am very involved, well rounded extracurriculars (not going to list them all).

My schools sends a lot of students to schools like BC, ND, Northwestern, etc.

Just to sort of put it in perspective, my counselor told me that from my school, 5 applied to UMich, 2 got accepted, 2 waitlisted. The two that got in had a 32/99% W average, and a 33/100% W average. The waitlisted had 29/89% and a 24/93%. The rejected had a 23/83%.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

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