<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Engineering
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):
[ *] ACT:33 E 34 M 34 R 29 S 33 W 8
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: With freshman year: 3.59
[ *] Rank: School doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats:
PSAT 205
FUll honors Freshman/Sophomore years
Full IB Junior/Senior years
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc)
Tennis 3 years (captain of JV team)
DECA 4 years
MUN 4 years
Track 1 year
Tabla 6 years
MHS 1 year
[ *] Essays: great
[ *] Teacher Recs: very good
[ *] Counselor Rec:good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Michigan
[ *] School Type: public top 10
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strengths:
[ *] other:
Certified Lifeguard
Summer Job as Kumon Tutor</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA/Ross
[ *] SAT: 2150
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Not taken yet.
[ *] ACT: 31
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 4.0
[ *] Rank: Top 10%
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc) DECA (4 years), Spanish Club (4 years), Tutoring the poor (3 years),Environmental cleanup (3 weeks in summer), 200+ hrs total.
[ *] Essays: great
[ *] Teacher Recs:good
[ *] Counselor Rec:excellent
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): Legacy.
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Michigan
[ *] School Type: Top 3 public schools in Michigan, 1700 students.
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strengths: Essays, Rigor of courses. Will have taken 12 AP’s by graduation.
[ *] other:</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Ross
[ *] SAT: 1900 (Will retake by Oct.)
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): N/A yet
[ *] ACT: N/A
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.75
[ *] Rank: School does not rank
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): Three years of volunteer service for 3+ local retirement centers, Two political internships for both a city and assembly district election, Operations Manager for local city student newspaper, Cabinet positions for two clubs in school campus, Class representative as Student Senator, local student orchestra Student Manager, Will have at least 9 AP tests/classes taken by the end of senior year, volunteer work at local military museum, et cetera.
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: California
[ *] School Type: Large suburban, small campus, US News Silver ranking
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Weak: Extremely low freshmen GPA definitely pulled down total unweighted GPA average, no sports. Str: diverse and many EC stuff, political internships, excellent teacher recs
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>
<p><em>Actually, my UM GPA is 3.85, not 3.75. Also, SAT II (Math 2 - 690), (US History - 720)</em></p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.):LSA
[ *] SAT (one sitting):NA
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):NA
[ *] ACT:25 ( retaking in September, hopefully it will be a 28+. Also any advice?)
[ *] UM unweighted GPA:3.95
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): Total of 7 AP classes over high school career: AP HUG(4), APES(5), Senior year course load: AP Lit, AP Calc, AP Gov, AP BIO, and AP World History. Took honors chemistry and honors algebra and geometry
[ *] Rank: top 20% I believe.
[ *]: Awards: Tutoring award, Charger Award (school award), Academic Achievement, AP Award (5 or more ap classes), First donor award, and other little ones
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):I have 200+ hours at a hospital (This was just in one summer) and i volunteered about 30 hours for religious duties. Other volunteer hours include cleaning up local parks, tutoring, and school service. Wrestling varsity (4 Years, 2 years captain) Football (1 year, captain), Baseball (1 year), NHS, Link Crew, Student Congress, and SADD. Worked all 3 sumemrs. First summer freshman year I was a technician assistant at mechanic shop. Next two summers I worked at a store.
[ *] Essays:Good
[ *] Teacher Recs:Good
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):First generation, good amount of ECs and good letters of recommendation.
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country:Michigan
[ *] School Type:Public
[ *] Ethnicity:Middle Eastern
[ *] Gender:Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: First Gen, HUGE upward trend, good stories for my essays.
[ *] Other Factors/questions: What can i do to improve my resume. I know my ACT score is on the low end but excluding that, how good of a chance do I have? Also can i list awards I didn’t get in high school?</p>
<p>Also I assisted in many environmental clean up events and Relay for life fundraising.</p>
<p>[ *] College: LSA
[ *] SAT (one sitting):None
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):None
[ *] ACT: None
[ *] TRANSFER GPA:3.8
[ *] Course load: No advanced courses, 2 courses at a time while working 50+ hour weeks on active duty.
[ *] Rank: top 10%
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):War Veteran. Earned current college credits while still active
[ *] Essays:Good
[ *] Teacher Recs:Good
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):First Gen. Army Officer Recommendations, Disabled combat veteran
[ *) Location/Person:Raised in MI, current resident of TX
[ *] State or Country: Texas (see above)
[ *] School Type:Public
[ *] Ethnicity:Caucasion
[ *] Gender:Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: First Gen, HUGE upward trend, Motivation level off the Richter, Army Infantry training and experiences translate to motivations, determination, and performing well against overwhelming odds and circumstances.
[ *] Other Factors/questions: My college GPA is based on comp 101, remedial math, college algebra, electronic circuits, intro to web programming. I know this is weak, should I even bother applying now? Or just go to Eastern to buff up my transcripts? Also, I plan to major in computer engineering, using LSA as a stepping stone since I don’t meet the pre-reqs. Any input to my situation at all???</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.):LSA for Political Science
[ *] SAT (one sitting): 1690: (M: 510 CR: 560 W: 620) [I will be retaking it]
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): None yet but I plan on taking US History and
[ *] ACT: No score yet, I’m taking it this year.
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.85 (4.1 weighted)
[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 2 AP’s junioryear, 4 AP’s senior year, a ton of honors classes and about 3 regents classes.
[ *] Rank: 10/400+ (top 3%)
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): ECs listed below</p>
<p>Soon to be junior commissioner for a local environmental organization.
Soon to be president/co-founder of my school’s Young Politicians club.
Student council Vice President junior year, president for senior year.
Member of my school’s mock trial team since freshman year, co-captain for sophomore, junior, and senior year.
Public relations officer for sophomore, junior, and senior year as well as for my school’s branch of the Habitat for Humanity organization.
Member of my school’s chapter of the National Honor Society.
Member of my school’s Literary club, Multicultural club, and I’m an editor of my school’s newspaper.
I also do the PA announcements for my school.
I am a Bank of America student leader.
And I have experience as a paid intern at a local nonprofit agency that focuses on serving families/people in need. I got that internship through the Bank of America student leadership program.</p>
<p>[ *] Essays: Great
[ *] Teacher Recs: Great/outstanding
[ *] Counselor Rec: Great
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): No hook.
[ *]Location/Person: New York
[ *] State or Country: New York
[ *] School Type: Public (not overall competitive, but my class is full of cutthroat competition.)
[ *] Ethnicity: African American
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strengths: Grades, Recs, Essay, and EC’s. Weakness: SAT score
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>
<p>I bolded stats for your convenience. Please chance me! :)</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Engineering (Computer Science)
[ *] SAT: **2130<a href=“First%20try,%20aiming%20to%20get%202250+%20in%20Oct”>/b</a>
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Math 2 780, Physics - 720 (before retake)
[ *] ACT:NA
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.71, Weighted 4.23
[ *] Rank: School doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc)
Robotics (3 years): Finance Director position where I manage accounts for the team and manage sponsor relationships, also responsible for searching for new money for the team
Yearbook (2 years): Copy Editor position
[ *] Essays: great
[ *] Teacher Recs: good
[ *] Counselor Rec:good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): N/A
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: California
[ *] School Type: Private
[ *] Ethnicity: White/Asian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strengths:
[ *] other:
Summer Job in retail</p>
<p>Previous “■■■■■” allegations notwithstanding, I am quite interested in knowing what my chances are as a transfer student. At this point it looks like I won’t be applying to transfer for 2014, but rather, 2015 (I loathe the thought, but my options are limited), so things may of course be different one year from now:</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA, if I’m not mistaken. It looks like I’m doing pre-med for psychiatry.</p>
<p>[ *] SAT/ACT: I have not taken the SAT or ACT. I still don’t know whether I will or not.</p>
<p>[ *] UM unweighted GPA: I’m not familiar with the difference between “unweighted” and “weighted,” but my “transferrable” GPA from the college I attended in California is 3.94</p>
<p>[ *] Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): I took 5 honours modules and have 44.5 “transferrable” credits. (Of course, what Michigan finds transferrable will no doubt differ from the UC’s.)</p>
<p>[ *] Rank: According to the professor who wrote my reference when I applied to university before, my Honours Transfer status meant that I was in the 99th percentile of all students at my college. There were over 20,000 students there.</p>
<p>[ *] Other stats: I have 4 “W’s,” two of which I’m guaranteed to replace with a single “A” (they were in the same subject) and one of which I hope to replace with an “A.” Ideally I’ll be left with one “W,” then.</p>
<p>[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): Oh boy, here come more cries of “■■■■■!” I was denied all but 1.5 years of high school by my parents, who literally had me abducted in the middle of the night and taken out to a Mormon “boarding school” (read: gulag, concentration camp, take your pick), mostly because of my sexuality/not being Catholic. (Everyone asks why my Catholic parents would pick a Mormon “boarding school,” and the short answer is that the institution didn’t openly advertise itself as Mormon.) This was an obvious setback to my education. Severe PTSD from the daily torture I endured there (psychological, physical, and sexual) has also been a bit of a bother. Given that many of the people I grew up with have either killed themselves or are on the verge of it, I’d like to think that I’ve done all right for myself. On a lighter note are my EC’s: I’m into association football; I actually want to start a proper, English-style football club wherever I end up, complete with the social aspects, as some of my best times in England were with the football club. I love filmmaking, acting, singing, and photography. I would also very much like to form a hapkido club so I could resume that. All that being said, I’m not accustomed to even thinking about EC’s (nobody cares about them in the UK or Canada, it seems), so if anyone wouldn’t mind throwing some other examples of good EC’s out there, I’d very much appreciate itit’s possible that I have really good EC’s that I don’t even consider to be EC’s at this moment.</p>
<p>[ *] Essays: I’ve written some for English and Psychology that were highly acclaimed by my professors; one of my English essays earned me a spot at a convention at the University of California, Irvine, where I gave presentations on the aforementioned “behaviour modification” facilities that are destroying tens of thousands of young lives in North America annually. I’d say it was a success, as it made some people cry (!). That being said, I’ve since reread my essays, and I’m personally not proud of them; I know I can do much better, and with less bias in my writing (or at least superior concealing of it :)</p>
<p>[ *] Teacher Recs/[ *] Counselor Rec: This is a bit embarrassing, but I have no idea what these are. Can somebody please explain?</p>
<p>[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): Nope. I come from a family of underachievers, and I have asthma.</p>
<p>[ *) Location/Person: I’m originally from California; now I’m living in Michigan (sorting out residency should be a blast); in between, I’ve been abducted and shipped around Montana, Idaho, and Utah; I’ve also (voluntarily) lived in England and Nova Scotia.</p>
<p>[ *] State or Country: I thought this was the previous question?</p>
<p>[ *] School Type: I don’t understand this one either. UCAS is so much more straightforward!</p>
<p>[ *] Ethnicity: Apparently white (don’t really know; mum was adopted and hasn’t a clue who her father was). That being said, I remain unconvinced that I genuinely am the offspring of either of my parents…</p>
<p>[ *] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[ *] major strength/weakness: Strength: When I’m on my game, I am unstoppable; I finish at the very top. Weakness: I’ve been off my game due to PTSD relapsing in this past year, and I don’t know how to sort it out/when I’ll be all right enough to perform as well as I previously did.</p>
<p>[ <em>] Other Factors/questions: I’ve enrolled inand subsequently dropped out oftwo universities already. The first was a very prestigious collegiate university in the UK; I withdrew for health reasons, but I’m hoping the fact that I even got in will be impressive and thus make up for that disappointment. After changing my course from computer science to languages, it made more sense to transfer to a university in Canada, but I ended up withdrawing for a rather different kind of health reason (referring this time to depression/PTSD/just plain hating it there). They maintain that I still owe them thousands of dollars, but that isn’t entirely accurate, and I also have this funny hangup about throwing even more money (they already took $6,000 from me) at people who have treated me like *</em>**. I’m not sure if there’s a way of getting around that or notthey’re holding my transcripts hostage for the money, but I didn’t get any credits from them anyway, so might I be able to convince the universities I apply to to ignore this? I’d have sued this uni, but that’s awfully hard to do when they’re in Canada. They can essentially hold my transcripts hostage for whatever sum of money they please, and I can’t really fight them on it.</p>
<p>… did I mention that I have a very difficult time with concision?</p>
<p>Thanks to all who read this and offer advice!</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT: 2240 M800, CR720, W720
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Math 2-760, Biology-720, Chemistry-760
[ *] ACT: 35
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.95
[ *] Rank: School doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats: AP World History-5 AP Psychology-5 AP Human Geo-5
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc) pretty good, 2 leadership positions, over 400 hrs community service
[ *] Essays: good
[ *] Teacher Recs: good
[ *] Counselor Rec:good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): N/A
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Texas
[ *] School Type: Public for 9th and 10th, Private for 11th and 12th
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strengths:
[ *] other: Shadowing experience over the summer</p>
<p>upennletsgo, very, very likely to be admitted. As long as your essays are fine you’ll be in.</p>
<p>Apply EA to Michigan upennletsgo, and I like your chances. Be sure not to let Michigan know that Penn is your first choice!</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent):
US history: 710
Math I: 640
[ *] ACT: 29
Math: 31
Reading: 30
English: 30
Science: 25
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.7
[ *] Rank: no ranks at my school
[ *] Other stats:
AP US history: 4
AP Psychology: 5
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): lots of ECs
[ *] Essays: good
[ *] Teacher Recs: good
[ *] Counselor Rec: good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Hawaii
[ *] School Type: Private, very well respected
[ *] Ethnicity: white
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] major strength/weakness:
[ *] Other Factors/questions:
spent the summer interning for a program where we traveled to Cambodia</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Engineering
[ *] SAT: superscore M 800 R 630 W 640 (2070)
[ *] SAT II’s (if sent):MII 800 MI 800 Chemistry 760 Physics 760
[ *] ACT:
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.74
[ *] Rank: School doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats:
Rigour of Curriculum - Full IB Diploma - HL (Maths, Chem, Phy) and SL (Econ, Spanish, Eng)
[ *] Subjective (EC’s, special circumstances, etc)
- Over 1000 hours of community service (Gold Award)
- Interned at a slum development NGO for 7 weeks
- Interned at a school for spastics for 8 weeks
- Taught local children maths and english - throughout junior year
- Helped a doctor on wheels programme for 4 weeks
- Assisted on a dentist on wheels programme for 3 weeks (Winter)
- President and active member of School’s study club
- President and active member of Education for all society
- Led Cancer, AIDS, TB, Schizofrenia and interfamily marriage awareness programmes in Indian Slums
- President of - Badminton Club, Table Tennis Club, Comedy Club
- Manager of Cinematography Club
- Taught at a rehabilitation centre for highschool drop outs and child labout victims
- Member of - Photography Club, Cricket Club, Environmental Club
[ *] Essays: good
[ *] Teacher Recs: Very Good (Physics Teacher)
[ *] Counselor Rec: good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): None
[ *) Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Indian living in Nigeria
[ *] School Type: Best private school in west africa
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strengths - Extracurriculars and Teacher Recommendation
[ *] other: money not an issue and applying for EA</p>
<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT: 2070. 790M, 670CR, 610W
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): Not Taken
[ *] ACT: 33. 36 Sc, 35M, 34R, 27W
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.85
[ *] Rank:10/230
[ *] Other stats: 60 College Credits to Transfer
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): Eagle Scout, Mensa Member, Special Olympics Coordinator, NHS, Speech and Debate, UIL Academic Champion District.
[ *] Essays: Very Good
[ *] Teacher Recs: Great
[ *] Counselor Rec: Average
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): Cousin works at the U of M Hospital
[ *) Location/Person: Dallas
[ *] State or Country: Texas
[ *] School Type:Highly Competitive Collegiate Charter School
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strength: Test Scores Weakness: ECs
[ *] Other Factors/questions:</p>
<p>jessie - slight reach
kehisbad - match
dallas - likely accepted</p>
<p>Chances?</p>
<p>College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Engineering
SAT (one sitting): 2110: 610 CR, 800 M, 700 W (plan to retake in October)
SAT IIs (if sent): Math IIC: 760, US History: 750, Bio M 710
ACT: N/A (will try in September)
UM unweighted GPA: 3.95
Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 14 AP/H throughout HS
Rank: does not rank but top 10%
Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
-Marching Band
-Pep Band (Section leader and President)
-Jazz Band
-Umpire for local Baseball League
-Scorekeeper for local Baseball League
-Member in Church and youth group: 30+ hours volunteering to aid homeless and graphics ministry
Essays: good, CA one explained how baseball taught me essential values at a young age and continue to be a central part of me today, UMich ones were well thought out and took over a month and a half to write
Teacher Recs: A good one from my chem teacher and a great one from precalc teacher.
Counselor Rec: Good
Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.):
Location/Person:
State or Country: NJ
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
major strength/weakness:
-Weaknesses: SAT CR, ECs
-Strengths: SAT and SAT2 Math, GPA, essays
Other Factors/questions: :)</p>
<p>^ essays are most likely what will happen</p>
<p>College (LSA, engineering, etc.): Engineering (most likely Mechanical)
SAT (one sitting): 2110: 630 CR, 750 M, 730 W (going to retake in Oct)
SAT IIs (if sent): Math II: 800, Bio E 800
ACT: will take in September
UM unweighted GPA: 3.95, Weighted: 4.19
Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 11
Rank: school doesnt tell me, would safely guess 10%
Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc):
-4 years Varsity Track and Field
- Track Captain Jr (and will be Sr) year
- 2 years jv soccer
-Eagle Scout- been in boy scouts since 6th grade
-California Scholarship Federation- 2years
-Key Club- 2 years
-Have played Guitar since 7th grade - 5years
-Very active in Catholic Church and youth group - Volunteer as a youth leader for a middle school youth group at church- 2 hrs/week throughout the whole school year. Will be leader for high school group this upcoming year
- will probably finish with 120+ hrs of comm service
- 4 years of spanish so im considered a fluent speaker
-AP scholar - tutor kids for $ (i guess you can call it a job)
Essays:how cities reflect my interets in engineering in the real world, still a work in progress, just a draft
Teacher Recs: great from calc teacher
Counselor Rec: Good
Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): depending on how season goes for track, pretty sure Im good enough to walk on though, just not recruited yet
Location/Person: San Jose
State or Country: CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
major strength/weakness:
-Weaknesses: SAT CR,
-Strengths: solid SAT not out-of-this-world, SAT2 Math and Bio, GPA
Other Factors/questions:</p>