Hello I’m a freshman in high school and I have a few questions about getting into Michigan. First of all I go to a private school and I am curious as to whether or not that will help me? I think My current GPA is a 4.2 and my ACT score is 20 but I have only taken it once and I still haven’t learned much of the material covered on it in school. I have only taken the PSAT and not the SAT yet. What would I need to score on the SAT? What ACT score should I target if I want to be accepted here? Also I either want to be a doctor or just be in business in general. What majors would be best for either of those two fields? I don’t live in Michigan so I see the tuition is expensive. What scholarships would I be able to apply for? I do two sports in school and am in the Spanish Club and a Community Service Club. Any other clubs I should join? Do the visual arts look good on a college application? I’ll think if I have any more questions. Thank you for your time if you respond to this post.
Honestly I’m really inclined to tell you to get off this forum for another 1-2 years, cause you should not be worrying about the ACT/college (especially college) as a freshman in high school.
However, the entering class of 2015 had these stats:
Avg GPA: 3.85 (Unweighted)
Avg. ACT (mid 50% range): 30-34
Avg. SAT (mid 50% range): 2040-2280
So generally you want to aim to be in that range, if not over that range (these stats can change by the time you apply, hence why it might be pointless to tell you all this right now)
I’m not gonna even bother going in-depth into majors since you don’t even know what school you’re going to. For medical school it doesn’t matter what you major in (genuinely, admission committees don’t care what you major in… Just do well in the pre-requisite science courses). For business, if you are going for a BBA (through Ross School of Business), you won’t even have a major when you apply to Ross. MBA I genuinely have no idea, but I’d guess somewhere in the likes of Econ or having a BBA would be very beneficial.
Scholarships are something that you won’t have to worry about until your senior year. You school should offer some local scholarships, and there are many different scholarships offered by UMich to select students (i.e. HAIL scholarship, Regents Merit scholarship, etc.) that you will hear more about once you get into the application process.
I think what you have is good, but really you should also just pursue what genuinely interests you to add onto your list since you already have community service down. Whether it’s undergrad or applying to medical school, showing your involvement and passion for a EC is going to be what makes you stand out. So it’s not about “what should I do” but more so “what can I do with the activities that I’m doing”.
Just my opinion, and I really hope you aren’t some troll account lol. But either way I hope it helped.
Ok thanks @hailbate
If you want to go into engineering the range is a bit higher, 3.9 and ACT 32-35. Math sub-score counts a lot for engineering too.
Your best bet is to apply to LSA if those are your career goals. You can apply to Ross preadmit and you will receive a separate decision from both LSA and Ross. You must first be accepted into LSA before your application gets forwarded to Ross.
To get into umich, you would ideally want at least a 30 on the ACT. The higher the GPA, the better, but they pay more attention to the unweighted GPA, not the weighted one. This is because unweighted GPA is less likely to differ from school to school, thus making the playing field more leveled for other applicants. What you listed is not your unweighted GPA because an unweighted GPA never exceeds 4.0. If your unweighted GPA can be at least 3.8 by the time you apply, you have a decent chance. In addition, they will recalculate your GPA with only your math, English, social studies, science, and foreign language courses to get your core academic GPA. Take out all of your gym, music, and other elective classes when doing the calculation.
For your activities, the important thing is to be able to talk about each of them with substance. It is better to have four or five activities that you can really discuss meaningfully rather than 20 or 30 where you cannot say much about the majority of them. You want to show that you are really involved and committed to your activities rather than just trying to check boxes. Think about the difference between “as a member of this team, I accomplished this and that…” and “I showed up to the club meetings every other week for free pizza”. As a rule, you should be able to write a meaningful paragraph about each activity you are doing. There should also be roughly two activities which you can discuss in depth. That is, you should be able to write at least half a page single spaced regarding how they have helped to shape you.
As you are from OOS, you will expect an even tougher competition than the admission stat appears. Also, the OOS applicant pool is getting bigger every year and the admission stat is going higher each year too.
In a word, No.