<p>A college representative from umich came to my school to answer questions about the admissions process and she explained to us that each app is considered with regards to what your school offers. For example, I have a 27 ACT, a 3.75 gpa, very few EC’s and very few AP/honors courses. However, I’m at the top 10% of my class, have a better ACT score than most of my class and took the most rigorous courses my school had to offer. I was accepted to LSA. Not saying that this is the norm or anything, but do the chance me threads on this forum take into consideration the student in comparison to their school?</p>
<p>from what my college rep told me they will actually look up your school to see how they rank academically and judge your stats based on the stats of your high school. they also look at other students applying from the same high school and compare you. or something to that effect. not sure how in depth this process goes though…</p>
<p>Yes, the schools that pretend to not rank end up giving the U. the data set it needs to determine rank anyway, so I fail to understand why they don’t just rank
My son’s HS magnet school did “not believe in ranking” but back then I could tell you within a pretty narrow margin of error which kids will get in and what their actual rank would have been and there’s certainly a correlation!</p>
<p>^^ That might be true for that particular school, but I know for a fact my school does not tell the colleges any rank at all. They simply tell them they do not rank because it is not an accurate representation of the student’s actual academic success (which in my class, is around 80 some people).</p>
<p>aside from actual reported class rank though… my point was that umich doesnt only look at your stats as an individual, they look at them with comparison to the high school you went to. class rank is just the only way, really, that the members of this forum have to interpret your stats like umich would.</p>
<p>Honestly a bit surprised you got accepted, too. Are you hooked or anything like that? Mich actually does about care about things other than just stats. You’re proof.</p>
<p>nope. im a first gen college student. i was surprised too. the only thing i can think of is my rec letters and my essays. i also met with and emailed my admissions counselor about questions and got in touch early on. perhaps that helped? my school doesnt offer many ap or honors so i took a lot of college classes at community colleges my junior and senior year. a lot of students from my school have been accepted in the past with low ACTs. this isnt very surprising to me though considering the highest my school sees every year is one person getting a 33. So a 27 here is pretty high.</p>
<p>my self reported status is in state but um reported me as out of state because one of my parents are out of state. so until i file some paperwork im out of state but really im in state… so i guess im not really sure! :P</p>
<p>Like I said, its just some paperwork. I just fill it out and show umich my parents taxes to make sure i live with who i say i live with. So eventually I will be counted as in state. I was just mentioning that they counted me as out of state because I don’t know if they looked at my app as an in state student or out of state.</p>
