***The official University of Michigan Chances Thread:***

Colleges & Universities University of Michigan
961

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT: 1900 (retaking)
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Only sending 640 on U.S History
[ *] ACT: not sending
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: My school only weights so it would be around an 88. I know it’s low but I took a really rigorous course load. I have an upward trend and that’s seen in my junior year.
[ *] Rank: Doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): </p>

<ol>
<li>Photography. Really important to me and I’ve won awards. 9-12.</li>
<li>Speech & Debate. Went to debate camp for 2 years, am ranked Distinction as per NFL rules. 9-12. 600+ hours.</li>
<li>French Club. I have an officer position. 9-12. About 120 hours. </li>
<li>National Arts Honor Society. Was a secretary in 11th grade. 11th. </li>
<li>I work as a non-paid Pharmacy Tech in Astoria, Queens. More or less, 1000 hours. 9-12.</li>
<li>Volunteered at local hospital for 50 hours. 10th.
My cousin is a professor there. He might be able to pull strings as a last resort.</li>
</ol>

<p>[ *] Essays: Great
[ *] Teacher Recs: Fantastic
[ *] Counselor Rec: Great
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): I have 1 legacy.
[ *) Location/Person: Long Island, NY
[ *] State or Country: New York
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Southeast Asian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: EC’s/GPA
[ *] Other Factors/questions: I don’t need financial aid. Considering it’s a state school, and in this current recession, that might help a lot.</p>

962

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Engineering
[ *] SAT: 2090 (660M, 730CR, 700W)
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): 750MII, 750Physics, 800French
[ *] ACT: 32 (cant decide b/w ACT or SAT and SATII)
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.89
[ *] Rank: Doesn’t rank (I’d say top 8% at least)
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
Have worked at a local grocery store since the end of 8th grade, promoted to Front End Manager (16-ish hours a week, 30-ish in summer)
Volunteer at Animal Shelter- participate in fundraisers, fostering dogs, etc.-since beginning of junior year, 30+ hours overall
British Virgin Islands Service Trip (Summer 2010- 3 weeks, 100+ community service hours)- recieved Presidential Bronze Community Service Award
Joined Latin Club for junior year
Won 2 medals in the 200m in Spring Track (9th grade)
Played on JV then Varsity Basketball team (11th and 12th)
Played DAA Basketball and Beach Volleyball 3 consecutive years
Did Ski Club 4 consecutive years
Joined NSHSS (not sure if this hurts or helps me since I paid for it…)
Raised about 1000 dollars for Muscular Dystrophy Association and about 500 for Breast Cancer through a hot dog stand every Saturday in April for 2 years
Student of the Marking Period in Honors Chemistry and AP Calc AB
[ *] Essays: Great
[ *] Teacher Recs: Awesome
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): English is second language?
[ *) Location/Person: Doylestown, PA
[ *] State or Country: PA
[ *] School Type: Public (48/600ish in state)
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] major strength/weakness: GPA/EC’s
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>

963

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Ross
[ *] SAT (one sitting): 800 Math, 780 Reading, 710 Writing, 2290 Overall
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): 800 Math, 770 Bio, 770 Chem, 730 US History
[ *] ACT: Not Taken
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.95
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): ALL AP’s:
11th: English Lit, Bio, Chem, US History, Calc AB
12th: English Lang, Gov, Physics, Stat
I also took AP French and AP Calc BC online
[ *] Rank: 6/465
[ *] Other stats: Took the most advanced courses possible, 11 total AP’s</p>

<p>[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): </p>

<p>Varsity Tennis (9,10,11,12), Captain (11,will be 12)
Also plays tennis for the USTA, ranked #4 in Philadelphia</p>

<p>Violin (9,10,11,12)
Piano (9,10)</p>

<p>Summer Internship at Wills Eye Hospital with Dr. George Spaeth, #2 glaucoma physician in US. Conducted a clinical research study, will be published in a medical journal in 2011/2012.</p>

<p>Volunteer at local hospital: 160 hours put in so far</p>

<p>Cambridge Summer program (9): took Medical science and international business</p>

<p>Future Business Leaders of America Club (9,10,11,12): Treasurer (10), VP (11), Pres (12), Made the state competition 2 years running. Placed 10th in state (10)
Save-A-Life Club (10,11,12): Treasurer (11) President (12)
National Honors Society Member</p>

<p>Part-time job at Kumon Tutoring Center (9,10,11,12): Has been working for 7 years, over 2200 hours worked.</p>

<p>[ *] Essays: Good/Great. Commonapp essay is about the internship at Will’s Eye and how it has affected my life due to my grandmother’s diagnosis with glaucoma and subsequent blindness (all true)
[ *] Teacher Recs: Haven’t read. Should be great
[ *] Counselor Rec: Great
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): none
[ *) Location/Person: Indian boy living just outside of Philadelphia
[ *] State or Country: PA
[ *] School Type: Public School (Methacton High School)
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Great grades, amazing math scores (99 averages), but relatively low class rank; I have an amazingly smart class…
[ *] Other Factors/questions: Also applying to Harvard, MIT, Brown, Columbia, would appreciate chances on those colleges if anyone has any clue (yes, I know it is a umich thread, that’s fine if you can’t =D )</p>

<p>Chance please! Thanks Guys!</p>

964

<p>sAxsKy - reach, OOS low gpa/SAT. </p>

<p>RomySR - Match/slight reach.</p>

<p>nishravi - In at LSA, nobody knows for Ross Preadmit.</p>

965

<p>I’ll do it in this format:</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA (Screen Arts and Cultures)
[ *] SAT: 1910: 610 M, 630 R, 680 W
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.23 (Huge upward trend, 2.8 freshman year to 3.7 Junior year)
[ *] Rank: School doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats: Huge Upward Trend, Completed AP Gov, taking AP Psych, taking 2 syracuse classes.
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): Big Brother Program, Summer Camp Counselor 3 years , Rec Basketball 2 years, Bowling JV Junior and senior years, Job at mom’s real estate office for a few years, DECA States participant,
[ *] Essays: Haven’t written yet, but I consider myself a good writer.
[ *] Teacher Recs: Should be great, from my Film Studies and English Teacher
[ *] Counselor Rec: Also should be great
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): Don’t think I have one other than huge upward trend.
[ *) Location/Person: Northern Highlands, Top 10 Highschool in NJ
[ *] State or Country: NJ
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Working Hard, persevering, overcoming early poor grades and lack of focus. Weakness is slacking off and being lazy.
[ *] Other Factors/questions: What can I do to improve my chances? Mich is my dream school.</p>

966

<p>can someone chance mine</p>

967

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT: 2140
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.79
[ *] Rank: 11%
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):</p>

<p>750 Hours of volunteering
Counselor at sleepaway camp
Treasurer of Red Cross Club
Manager of Human Resouces at Junior Achievemnet Business Program Club
Historian of National Honor Society</p>

<p>[ *] Essays: pretty good! (english is one of my strong subjects)
[ *] Teacher Recs: excellent
[ *] Counselor Rec: good
[ *] State or Country: Texas
[ *] School Type: Public, one of top in Texas
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strength/weakness: Class Rank, OOS, Asian
[ *] Other Factors/questions: Is LSA hard to get into? I want to do preferred admissions for Pharmacy.</p>

<p>chance please?</p>

968

<p>[ <em>] College: LSA (Want to major in Chemistry)
[ *] SAT: 2050: 630 CR, 710 Math, 710 Writing, 630 US History, 740 Chem
[ *] unweighted GPA: 3.83, weighted: 4.3
[ *] Rank: 22/560 weighted, 49/560 unweighted.
[ *] Other stats: 7 AP’s, 6 IB classes, semester of Chemistry @ Harvey Mudd College.
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): Speech and Debate (4 Years), Debate Captain of 4th year league champion team, 2 years Swim Team (most dedicated award both years), 200 volunteering hours teaching debate to underprivileged kids (separate from debate captain)
[ *] Essays: Haven’t written yet, but I consider myself a good writer.
[ *] Teacher Recs: Amazing, from English & Chemistry
[ *] Counselor Rec: Decent, I dont know how to measure how good this will be?
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): Don’t think I really have one of them.
[ *) Location/Person: Claremont High School, Claremont
[ *] State or Country: CA
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: strength=wanting to be the best in my school at chemistry, which is why I go to one of the nations top liberal arts colleges for Chem courses (Harvey Mudd). Also in top 5% of class weighted gpa weakness= OOS, Don’t have an inane number of EC’s like most applicants do.
[ *] Other Factors/questions: What can I do to improve my chances? I love the weather in michigan, thats not an issue. Plus *would Early Decision increase my chances here?</em></p>

969

<p>eromano333 - Reach. OOS, Low gpa/sat.</p>

<p>natalie9494 - a little difficult. I would say reach-slight reach. Although your school might be good you’re not in the top 10%. However, your other stats are good so I would apply and see.</p>

<p>dcagle - slight reach. OOS, lower sat. This can definitely be a match if you emphasize your interests in your essays and do more extracurriculars around chemistry (not just college course).</p>

<p>RonPaulFTW - match. Your In-state high school rigor and SAT are good. Your ecs are good since you played pretty rigorous baseball.</p>

<p>broncos93 - Match/Safety. No worries.</p>

<p>And to all above, I’d recommend doing early action simply because its non-binding and from talk, it seems that Michigan admissions is more generous to early action students than those that apply later on. Its simply the safer route.</p>

970

<p>Thanks :slight_smile: Yeah, its 2% in the Nation according to Newsweek! D:
One of the best in Texas…</p>

<p>and okay thank you! i’m definitely doing early action, partly for the less stress and partly because of what you say and what a lot of other CC boards say.</p>

971

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT: 600 R 620 W 610 M, retaking October
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): (maybe sending) 660 USH, 630 Bio M
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.5, weighted 3.6
[ *] Rank: none
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):</p>

<p>varsity cheer 4 years (captain 12th)
JV volleyball 2 years (captain 10th)
Varsity volleyball 2 years
NHS
student council 10, 11 (representative), 12th secretary
yearbook video editor
advanced digital journalism, press team
community service
dance club president</p>

<p>[ *] Essays: good
[ *] Teacher Recs: good!
[ *] Counselor Rec: goood!
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Korea (international student)
[ *] School Type: private
[ *] Ethnicity: Korean
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strength/weakness:strengths: essay, recs, ECs, courseload (many APs) weakness: GPA, SAT
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>

972

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):
[ *] ACT: 28
[ *] GPA: 3.67
[ *] Rank: Doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): </p>

<ol>
<li>Debate 9-12, captain senior year, won many awards and recognitions for performance in debate</li>
<li>Forensics speech 9-12</li>
<li>International Club-on board 9-12</li>
<li>National Honors Society</li>
<li>A lot of hospital volunteer work 10-12 summers, 100+ hours</li>
<li>Habitat for Humanity volunteering 10-12, 50+ hours
Schedule has always been all AP and honors classes</li>
</ol>

<p>[ *] Essays: Really good
[ *] Teacher Recs: awesome
[ *] Counselor Rec: good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person: West Bloomfield, MI
[ *] State or Country: Michigan
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: South Asian; Pakistani
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strength/weakness: Scores, GPA are my weakness.
[ *] Other Factors/questions: I don’t need financial aid, my school is a really well known one in this area and the vast majority of kids who graduate every year go to Umich. Applying really early too.</p>

973

<p>Kr2960: You look alright I think! Just try and bring up your ACT although I think you’ll be ok.</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA - biology
[ *] SAT: it’s not good
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Chem: 710, Math 2: 690 (yeah they suck)
[ *] ACT: 32 (retaking)
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:

  • my weighted GPA is 3.8. My gpa sucks but I have a really good upward grade trend (straight As junior year)
    [ *] Rank: horrible, I imagine, hopefully top 1/3
    [ *] Other stats: APUS: 4 , AP World: 4, AP Chem: 5
    [ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
    -Eagle Scout
    -4 yrs varsity swimming
    -2 yrs jv water polo, 2yrs varsity water polo (captain senior year)
    -Volunteer at local charity organization summer 2010 (25 hrs/week)
    -Volunteer lifeguard at local charity summer camp (4hrs/week)
    -Habitat for Humanity the past three summers for a week
    -HS Students for Obama fall 2008
    -Young Democrats 2009, president 2010</p>

<p>[ *] Essays: they’ll be alright
[ *] Teacher Recs: It’ll be good, my chem teacher liked me as a student…i think…
[ *] Counselor Rec: I hope it’ll be good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): legacy
-2 grandparents
-1 great uncle that was a prof
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: MISSOURI
[ *] School Type: public, but decently competitive
[ *] Ethnicity: white/caucasian
[ *] Gender: male!
[ *] major strength/weakness:
weakness: GPA
strength: ridiculous upward trend in grades
[ *] Other Factors/questions:
4 AP classes senior year, full schedule (also taking band and gym, i need gym to graduate or Id take another AP)</p>

974

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Ross
[ *] SAT: CR(670) Math(710) W(700) 2080 (will be retaking in hopes of a higher score :))
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): US History (770) Math lvl 1 (710)
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: Not sure but my highschool gpa is a 3.8 UW and 4.9 W
[ *] Rank: 33/720
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
Varsity basketball
Mu Alpha THeta
National Honor Society
340+ community service hours
[ *] Essays: Pretty good essay
[ *] Teacher Recs: Should be very good, getting them this week
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): URM
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: FL
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: White (but also hispanic)
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness:
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>

975

<p>You definitely look good getting into Michigan at least I think so especially if you define those 340+ community service hours…you guys should chance the previous person before just throwing your stats up</p>

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA - biology
[ *] SAT: it’s not good
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Chem: 710, Math 2: 690 (yeah they suck)
[ *] ACT: 32 (retaking)
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:

  • my weighted GPA is 3.8. My gpa sucks but I have a really good upward grade trend (straight As junior year)
    [ *] Rank: horrible, I imagine, hopefully top 1/3
    [ *] Other stats: APUS: 4 , AP World: 4, AP Chem: 5
    [ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
    -Eagle Scout
    -4 yrs varsity swimming
    -2 yrs jv water polo, 2yrs varsity water polo (captain senior year)
    -Volunteer at local charity organization summer 2010 (25 hrs/week)
    -Volunteer lifeguard at local charity summer camp (4hrs/week)
    -Habitat for Humanity the past three summers for a week
    -HS Students for Obama fall 2008
    -Young Democrats 2009, president 2010</p>

<p>[ *] Essays: they’ll be alright
[ *] Teacher Recs: It’ll be good, my chem teacher liked me as a student…i think…
[ *] Counselor Rec: I hope it’ll be good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): legacy
-2 grandparents
-1 great uncle that was a prof
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: MISSOURI
[ *] School Type: public, but decently competitive
[ *] Ethnicity: white/caucasian
[ *] Gender: male!
[ *] major strength/weakness:
weakness: GPA
strength: ridiculous upward trend in grades
[ *] Other Factors/questions:
4 AP classes senior year, full schedule (also taking band and gym, i need gym to graduate or Id take another AP)</p>

976

<p>^I’d say match purely because of that ACT score! The upward trend is an obvious plus as well. Work hard on those essays!</p>

977

<p>Thank you very much :slight_smile: makes me feel a whole lot less stressed :)</p>

978

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): engineering-Chemical engineering
[ *] SAT: 2290
[ *] SAT IIs: Chem: 800, Math 2: 800 Biology:780
[ *] ACT: 34
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:
UW:3.83
[ *] Rank: Doesn’t Rank
[ *] Other stats: AP Calc AB:5 AP Calc BC: 5 AP Biology:4 AP Stats: 5 AP Physics C: Mechanics 5 AP Micro 5. Taking AP Lit, E&M, and USH this year.
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
-3 Yrs Quiz Bowl. Went to States 2 Years
-4 Years SPUD. VP
-2 Years Robotics Group Leader Electrical
-4 Years Math Club
-Semifinalist in Biology Olympiad
-MMPC participant
-went past round 1 in Chem olympiad. (forgot what next round was called)
-Volunteer at Library 300 hrs
-Volunteer at Autism Center 50 hrs
-Write technology blog on Technobuffalo.com
-4 years of Indian Clutural Classes.(learn about culture and Hindi)</p>

<p>[ *] Essays: Good
[ *] Teacher Recs: Great
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person: Michigan
[ *] State or Country: Michigan
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness:
weakness: EC’s
strength: Rigor of Courses
[ *] Other Factors/questions:
4 AP classes senior year
Also I have have spastic hemopliegia on my left side. This caused my legs to be ueven about 1.5 cm shorter on my right side. This caused me to be athletically challenged.</p>

979

<p>Jetster3220 - Match/Safety, Instate good gpa, excellent courseoad/SAT</p>

980

<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.):
[ *] SAT: 2000 570R 770M 660W
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Bio: 690, Math 2: 750, world-740 (taking chem to replace bio)
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.95
[ *] Rank: 7 out f 298
[ *] Other stats: APs- chem:4 US:4 lang:3 human:4 world:3 bio:4 calc bc:5
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
9th,10th,11th,12th- Band; All State Clarinet player 9th, 10th, 11th
9th- Marching Band
10th,11th,12th-Student Council-2+; 36; school year; Junior Class President, Senior Class president
10th,11th,12th-Science Olympiad
10th-Academic Team
10th, 11th, 12th- Beta Club
10th,11th,12th-Math Team
10th,11th,12th-Mu Alpha Theta; Vice President
10th,11th,12th-The National Society of High School Scholars<br>
11th,12th- HOSA
11th,12th National Honors Society
11th,12th Tri-M (music Honors Society)<br>
11th- Governor’s Honors Program
[ *] Essays: do what i can, decent i think
[ *] Teacher Recs: great
[ *] Counselor Rec: good-ish
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: GA
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: asian
[ *] Gender: male
[ *] major strength/weakness:
[ *] Other Factors/questions:
I am thinking about applying early, what do you guys think? chance for Honors?</p>