An admissions officer I contacted said,
“Once you’re at junior standing (45-60 transferable credits, or three semesters of graded college work), we will primarily weigh your college performance when reviewing your transfer application. When students are at sophomore standing and below, we will still consider the high school performance more strongly”.
Hope this helps 
Just curious, is there a difference between having A and A+ in transfer admission even though my current college count them as the same GPA value (4.0)? How significant is having A+ on my transcripts when applying for transfer?
They are going to convert it to a A=4,B=3, and so on. Not sure if the reviewer sees the non converted transcripts?
Stats:
-Current Sophomore
-Attend 4 year tech school
-Biochemistry major
-Division one athlete
-GPA: 3.47
-All As and Bs in tough courses such as Orgo, analytical chem, chem1&2, Engineering physics 1&2, calc 1&2, just one C in cell&molec bio which I’m retaking in the summer
-Recommendations from biochem advisor, chair of chemistry, pre health advisor, and a practicing physician assistant ( I’m pre-PA)
I know my GPA is a little low but hoping being a d1 athlete helps because of balancing schoolwork with a tough major.
Any tips for writing the essays? I’m not the best writer, English has always been my weakest subject. Any feedback or thoughts on my stats would be helpful even if it’s negative
They don’t use the ± system? Because my college GPA is 3.63, but converted to the other GPA scale it is a 3.75.
edit: nevermind, Michigan does use the ± system
@Nietzschemon where can you see the converted GPA? Is it on the Common App when you plug all your grades in? Does that mean your Common App GPA might be slight different than your official transcript (if your current school doesn’t take +/- into account)?
@transferr2020 My current university uses the ± scale. I misunderstood someone’s comment and thought that maybe Michigan converts that to the A/B/C/D/F scale (i.e. no A- and C+, just A and C), which they do not.
I just calculated mine manually, went over my college grades and converted A-/A+ to As, B-/B+ to B etc.
@Nietzschemon I see, thanks for your insight!!! Good luck on the application!!
Hey everyone! Could somebody chance me, please? I’m new to CC, so I apologize in advance if I make any mistakes!
1st year student at a UC (OOS from northeast)
Biracial male (South Asian and White)
Applying to LSA; hoping to declare CS, data science, or cognitive science (maybe School of Information, if I’m admitted?)
Submitted app on 12/19/2019
HS GPA: 4.0 UW / 4.6 W
SAT: 1540 (800 M, 740 R)
ACT: 35 (34 M, 35 R, 36 E, 34 S)
SAT Math II: 800 (my other subject tests aren’t worth reporting haha)
College GPA: 4.0 (all A+ in 5 classes)
AP Credit: 34 (based on LSA’s AP policy)
By the end of the year, I should have ~40 semester units (60 quarter units) completed, though I’m only expecting about 30 semester units to transfer.
HS ECs/Honors:
College ECs/Honors:
LORs from previous boss from internships and previous violin teacher, who was briefly at Michigan for a PhD. Michigan probably also has my two HS teacher recs from last year on file.
Essays: my activity essay is probably my favorite college essay I’ve ever written; my community essay was kinda quirky (hopefully in a good way), and I feel my “Why LSA?” is strong, but my reasons for transferring essay kinda got strangled by the word limit.
I applied to Michigan RD during my senior year and was waitlisted. I was heartbroken - the more I think about it, the more I realize how awesome of a fit Michigan is (fantastic classical music scene on campus and in AA, very strong CS and School of Information offerings, much closer to home than Cali, etc). Every day I kick myself for not applying early, but my parents deluded me into applying ED elsewhere lol.
I’m a bit worried about not having enough college credit, and I’ve heard Michigan prefers junior transfers to sophomores. Does anyone know if transferable AP credit counts towards the credit evaluation?
Thanks in advance!
Anyone know how long it takes to get a decision? I submitted close to 2 weeks ago. I’m currently a Freshman.
@RedCar27 based on other threads and what other people have said some people have been getting their decisions back already. Usually they start trickling this week and next week. The first week of February is usually the first big wave.
@ogdae99 ahh, ty. Hopefully I’ll get a decision soon, I wish they’d just rip the band-aid off 
@redcar27 if it makes you feel any better I applied in November my application was completed on November 8th and people who applied a month after me have already received a decision.
Did you guys complete the personal statement?
yea, you have to in order to submit I believe.
Has anybody heard back yet? Last year around this time, people have been hearing back about now
If I submitted couple days ago, is that mean I’ll hear back later (Mid-March or later?) since is a rolling decision?
some people have heard back but not a lot. There is a new thing on Umich app, the continued interest statement, I do not know what it means but I suspect I won’t hear back for a while.
It disappeared if that means anything. Anyone else have/had this?
Just wanted to update yall!
I just got accepted into the college of LSA!