<p>i was admitted yesterday (3/11/2006) and i’m totally psyched</p>
<p>LSA admit for fall 2006</p>
<p>GPA/Classes:
UW:3.45 (i don’t know how michigan’s gpa system works)
W: 4.11
APs taken/have taken (scores):
Eng Lit
Eng Comp (4)
Bio (4)
US History (5)
US Government
Macroeconomics
Calculus AB
Statistics
(they have IB at my school, but i transferred to my public school from the best prep school in central florida in the middle of my junior year and was unable to join the IB program. yeah, as in the middle of 2nd semester of my junior year).</p>
<p>SAT stuff:
M:700
CR:700
W:740
US history: 680
Math 2: 690</p>
<p>Race: Hispanic/Asian
EC’s:
varsity tennis 7-12 (starter every year)
top 35 section ranking in tennis juniors (i’m from florida so my section is tough) in 2003; top 350 national ranking in tennis juniors in 2003
national merit hispanic scholar finalist
national merit commended scholar
forensics (debate/speech) national rank of 48 (i do extemp for all you forensics kids out there); i have been on the national circuit since late 9th grade and been to tons of national tournys
interned with a state senator and peer mentored and tutored underprivilaged kids for community service (CS only totaled about 50 or so hours, i think less)
went to penn summer precollege (doesn’t really do anything but hey i went)</p>
<p>i think that’s pretty much it. my essays were solid, my recs were solid, and i applied late (i think around 1/23/2006, not really sure) and i was notified today</p>
<p>A girl at school was admitted a week or so ago.</p>
<p>GPA: ? 3 something I’d guess.
ACT: 20 (it may be a 19, that’s what I thought, but someone said a 20, so here’s for the benefit of a doubt)
Race: African American
Essay: Before she was admitted, I talked to one of her friends and her brother, and they both said the essays were absolute crap.
ECs: Nothing remarkable; I know she did cross country this year, though, but it was her first year. Oh, she has been working a long time, I think.</p>
<p>She probably did the African American Leadership forum.</p>
<p>Oh, she has to do Bridge, too.</p>
<p>Nuts, huh?</p>
<p>(In her defense, her home life is nuts; maybe the gc noted that in the letter, but I doubt that since our gcs don’t exactly give the best of help.)</p>
<p>You guys are so lame. Regardless of affirmative action, if someone is accepted to a school it is because the university feels that they will add to the campus community. Maybe someone with lower stats than you got in and they were a URM, but their acceptance is not a factor of your own.</p>
<p>Bathed in pools of putrid sewage, you guys are the world’s festering wounds that wilt heaven’s flowers of beauty.</p>
<p>It’s good sonar is pursuing mathematics rather than law because such anecdotal and second-hand evidence is worth very little. Why don’t you actually ask HER what her scores and essays were like? I know at my school, people would often lie about other people’s scores because they were jealous or simply because someone just made up a story. I often had people coming up to me saying things like “I heard you got a 1600 on the SAT” or “I heard you got accepted to Harvard” even before acceptances came out. So yeah, people make stuff up in high school, and such “evidence” is weak at best.</p>
<p>Dude, I’ve read her previous essays for English, and they were pretty bad; however, the English department here is sub-par, so the majority of papers here in general are crap.</p>
<p>Secondly, her brother got a 19 twice, and she got a 19 the first time; I know this for sure.</p>
<p>Thirdly, what I heard was from her brother and one of her closest friends; you argue with massive degrees of seperation, but here the degree is one. I can get the info straight from her mouth if you wish, but I doubt any of the numbers will change. Also, asking someone what they thought of their own essays is a horrible indicator of their quality. One has a disposition toward defending his own work, even if it is worthless.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but someone who scores a 20 on the ACT does NOT deserve to go to U of M, regardless of any circumstance. There’s no excuse for that; it’s below the national average of 22.</p>
<p>Are you kidding? I’m hoping you just didn’t think before you wrote when you said “regardless of any circumstance”. Oh really? ANY cirumstance? Shows how truly far removed you are from real life for some students. Who are you to even know WHAT somebody’s circumstances could possibly be? My guess is you’ve lived quite the comfortable life to say such a thing, and I’ll put my money on the fact that Michigan adcom’s are much better judges of whether someone should be admitted to the university than you are. And for the record, the national ACT average was a 20.9 in 2004.</p>
<p>A2Wolves, the difference between a 20 and a 21 can be one question. Getting one less question right on one test than the average student nationally is not reason alone to deny someone admission to this university. I think this discussion is important on the thread because the full spectrum of “stats of admitted students” should be represented, not just those from the suburbs or those getting Shipman scholarships.</p>
<p>I understand your point, but I dont understand how it ties into the argument at all. I mean why does it matter if the national average is 20.9 or 22, it it’s still below average. Michigan’s average is a 28 or 29, that’s more relevant to the discussion. How does a 20 compare to that, rather than the 20.9. Why would Michigan be accepting just “average” students, if they are a top 25 university.</p>
<p>Just a random note:
It looks much more likely that I’ll be attending UM next year. I was rejected by MIT. UM is tied with Penn State for first right now.</p>
<p>Just to let you know…it is illegal…AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION, according to the Supreme Court, to have quotas of races for admission.
You are lame. Stop worring about some one elses’ admission!!!</p>
<p>Yes, but that what the 1950s. In the Bakke v. something court case, it was made illegeal to accept or not accept someone based soley on race or minority status. </p>
<p>Regardless, you are accepted or rejected for a reason. And, as much as I hate to admit it, I believe that you will go to whatever college you go to for a reason. You may not get into your first choice, but you will belong where you are accepted.</p>
<p>By quota, I meant that there exists, more or less, a set number of total spots. Hence, admissions is a zero-sum game. Comprehension and not cap locks and ellipsises will help your argument.</p>
<p>I posted others’ stats, because, as chibearsfan17 notes,
</p>
<p>Three people from my school will attend Bridge this year, two of whom I have posted stats. In my mind, two of the Bridge admits “make sense,” but the other, whom emilyanne28 seems to hold in great light, despite never having seen, spoken to, read works of, or even know the initals of, I believe is debatable, at best.</p>
<p>(By the way, it was in the late 70s the Supreme Court, in Bakke v. The Regents of the University of California, a classic 9th grade civics textbook case, declared that racial quotas unconstitutional, but race is permissible as one of the factors toward admission. The question is, how big of a factor is it?)</p>