Any chances at UMichigan?

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<p>Stats:[ul][<em>]SAT: 740 Math (770 Super-score), 800 Writing, 730 Reading - 2270 (2300 Superscore)[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics[<em>]GPA: School does not give GPA, but 4.0UW, 4.9W[</em>]Rank: School does not rank, but 1-2/200[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 44/45 for IB Diploma - Full Candidate[/ul]Subjective[ul][</em>]Essays: Excellent[<em>]Recs: Excellent[</em>]Supplementary Material: Abstract - Economics Extended Essay[<em>]Summer Activities: taught ESL (Second Language English) to class of 10 students - 8 weeks/400 hours at prestigious Internship - Breakthrough Collaborative/Summerbridge[</em>]Hook: None[/ul]Personal[ul][<em>]Location: Hong Kong[</em>]High School Type: Private - International[<em>]Ethnicity: Indian[</em>]Gender:Male[/ul]Extracurriculars[ul][<em>]Founder/President of Revision Club (11,12) - Head of Class said that it was the first time she had seen initiative of this sort in all her years at the school, but I'm not getting a recommendation from her[</em>]Founder/President of Guitar Club (11,12) - The most popular student founded/led club at the school with over 30 students signing up within a day[<em>]Varsity Golf (11,12) - Represented school in golf tournaments after playing for only 3 months - been playing for 2 years now - ESSAY TOPIC[</em>]Started a proper business (11,12) - In charge of all Economic/Business decisions[<em>]Organizer/Leader of group project - building a small scale cloud chamber, writing research on muon decay and cosmic ray collisions[</em>]Organizer/Leader of group project - building a small scale particle accelerator[<em>]700 hours of community service over one year (11) - possibly continue till I get a 1000 hours (11,12)[</em>]Group leader of 6 - school trip to rural China to teach 10 year olds English for a week - they have never had contact with the language[<em>]Work with tutor class annually to earn about 1500 USD (annually) (6,7,8,9,10,11,12)[/ul]Awards:[ul][</em>]UKMT Gold Medal (8,9,10) - Teacher screwed up in 11 or I would have got gold again - International Award[<em>]UK Junior Olympiad (8) - Grade 8 too early to write on application? - International Award/Distinction[</em>]AMC12 (11,12) - 87 marks (particularly hard paper) - 89 was cut off for AIME - International Award/Distinction; 4th in school - School Distinction[<em>]Sunlife Maths Scholarship Competition (11,12) - 1 mark off distinction/top 25% - International Distinction[</em>]Euclid Scholarship Maths Scholarship Competition (11,12) - Distinction - 2 marks off International Honor Roll and mention on official website (top 2%) - International Award/Distinction[<em>]Elected Student Council Representative (9,10,12)[</em>]Economics Commendation (10) - School Award[<em>]Media Studies Commendation (10) - School Award[</em>]Merit Level Certificate of Achievement - International Citizenship (9,10) [SCHOOL][<em>]Spanish Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[</em>]Physics Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[li]Economics Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[/ul][/li]I am applying to UMich rolling decision, around October so that I can find out the decision early.</p>

<p>Just of note: I am taking part in a virtual stock exchange game with 100s of students around Hong Kong and am currently in the top 3. Even if I come in the top 20 I will win a award for representing my school, and if I come in the top 5 I will win an individual award. Furthermore, I will be doing a similar kind of competition, but in school only, and will most probably win that. How will these affect my chances?</p>

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<p>Shoe-in .</p>

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<p>yup. Easy safety</p>

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<p>I would be surprised if you did not get in.</p>

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<p>Slight reach. Try to get that GPA up a little more.</p>

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<p>Hmm. I see…</p>

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<p>UMich won’t have rolling admissions starting next year…and it will either be EA or ED.</p>

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<p>I would never say “guaranteed” (since nothing is) but you’re pretty much there.</p>

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<p>go to HYP. Umich should be your safe school</p>

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<p>Wait… If I am applying in the coming fall there will be no rolling decision?</p>

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<p>No, U of M is now on commonapp.org so it will make admission rates fall too.</p>

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<p>I am not sure I understand.
When I apply admission rates will fall because UMich is on the common app. Furthermore, there will be no rolling decision. Am I correct or wrong?</p>

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<p>RocknPiano, could you explain why admission rates will fall because of the Common App?</p>

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<p>No rolling decision, commonapp will cause a decline in admission percentage because there will be more applicants who aren’t that committed to Michigan but just add them to their list because it’s only a click away. It will be harder for Michigan to sort out who really wants to go there and who just applied because they could.</p>

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<p>You are correct, Jebar. But it doesn’t affect you anyway. I’d say you have a 90% or higher chance of getting into Ross preferred admission, actually.</p>

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<p>I’ve also heard the argument that the common app would decrease the admissions rate. I’m not too sure that it will actually happen or if there is a decrease it will be very small. It is not just a matter of adding Michigan to the list of colleges you want the common app sent to and “clicking”. It will (presumably) require you to pay another admissions fee and also to complete a supplemental application unique to Michigan (with required essay(s)). Other than the basic information on the app, I don’t think the common app really simplifies applying to colleges very much and I doubt that this will have much of an impact on the number of people applying to Michigan. Just MHO…</p>

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<p>Could anyone post a link showing that there will be no rolling admission as I have not seen it on their website.</p>

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<p>they haven’t changed their admission policy from this year yet…but it will be up along with the 2011 essay questions when it comes out in late june.</p>