Any idea if I have a chance?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>[ *] College (LSA, engineering, etc.): LSA
[ *] SAT: 2210
[ *] SAT IIs (if sent): N/A
[ *] ACT: 34
[ *] UM unweighted GPA: 3.82
[ *] Rank: My school doesn't do ranks
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): President of DoSomething club and Urban Dance, regular member of UNICEF, Model United Nations, DECA, Tri-M Music Honor Society, Ski and Snowboard club, and BuildOn. In the DECA State Competition, I was able to achieve state finalist.
I also take 6 IB classes as required by my school, with one being HL Mathematics, equivalent to AP Calc BC
[ *] Essays: Pretty good
[ *] Teacher Recs: Got a good one from my physics teacher.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Good
[ *] Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): N/A
[ *) Location/Person: Canton, MI
[ *] State or Country: Michigan
[ *] School Type: Public, top 20 in the US, participant in IB Diploma Programme
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] major strength/weakness: no sport :( i live 40 minutes away from my school so unfortunately because of the commute i can't do any sports
[ *] Other Factors/questions: D: none</p>

<p>please help >_<</p>

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<p>In state for LSA, you should be a low match.</p>

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<p>what does a low match mean?</p>

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<p>You are in good shape.</p>

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<p>Low match means even better than match. You will have a very good chance to get in. </p>

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<p>Your unweighted GPA is slightly below average, but your ACT and EC’s are solid. Being Asian and in-state will definitely help as well. I’d say you have a really good chance of getting in. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>You have a very good chance.</p>

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<p>@gulogulo Being Asian would not help but in state will. Past study at UMich has shown that Asian applicants required higher stat to be admitted and the admission rate was lower than average.</p>

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<p>Here’s one blog that captures what Bill’s talking about (seems to be applicable to both PUBLIC & PRIVATE schools with Highly Selective admission criteria):</p>

<p><a href=“http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians”>http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48794283011/do-elite-colleges-discriminate-against-asians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>We also personally know a few Asian kids who experienced this; it seems to be even worse for Asian males who want to go into STEM fields.</p>

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<p>Here is the report more specific for UMich up to 2006:
<a href=“http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/548/UM_UGRAD_final.pdf”>http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/548/UM_UGRAD_final.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>so i should be relatively safe right?</p>

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<p>I would say you’re fairly safe,however, I would not get over confident. If you choose to not put in quality effort in your essays, I could see the admissions office waitlisting/rejecting you. You do not want to come off as a student who is not interested and is using the school as a backup plan. Best of luck to you! Also, be sure to apply EA. </p>

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<p>Low match? Hahaha! He’s obviously a lock. OP, are you at International Academy? So what college are you really gunning for? I’d bet Cornell.</p>

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<p>yeah im at international academy :stuck_out_tongue: i actually just want to go to u of m</p>

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<p>“So what college are you really gunning for?”</p>

<p>That’s an insult to U-M. There are plenty of phenomenal applicants who get rejected by U-M.</p>

<p>“yeah im at international academy :stuck_out_tongue: i actually just want to go to u of m”</p>

<p>Yeah yeah! @master0062‌ :)</p>

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<p>Kids at IA treat U-M like a safety. It’s not an insult, it’s just reality and a result of the school being so strong. U-M recruits those kids heavily. The in-state OP’s numbers are an obvious lock for U-M and s/he’s going to apply to other schools, obviously. If s/he wants to play coy, it’s whatever. I know better and the ‘just’ in “i actually just want to go to u of m” is obvious tell that s/he is gunning for higher ranked schools. </p>

<p>The OP’s parents don’t have their teenager driving 1hr 20min each day on the highway for him/her to go to U-M. If U-M was the target, that could be accomplished going to Canton or Salem HS, where roughly 100 students get into U-M each year.</p>

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<p>do you have any other schools you’d recommend me looking into for computer science/engineering? </p>

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<p>@Oliver18‌ </p>

<p>"The OP’s parents don’t have their teenager driving 1hr 20min each day on the highway for him/her to go to U-M. "</p>

<p>Wow. Just wow. Are you serious? You don’t know the OP or his/her parents (I don’t either). Not everyone who goes to IA gets into U-M. U-M is a very selective school. Is it’s acceptance rate close to Harvard’s, Yale’s ,etc? No, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be the dream school of a highly competitive applicant.</p>

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<p>Lol. Cornell gunner is obvious.</p>

<p>@777Blue77‌ Yes, I’m serious. I’m done debating with you. You probably don’t even know IA kids. When they have the numbers OP has, U-M is their safety. This is a fact. The culture there is for students with these numbers to gun for out of state top 20 schools, especially Ivies. U-M pulls a lot of students from there, but most go out of state. It’s all but a guarantee the OP gets into a couple of top 20 schools.</p>

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<p>@Oliver18‌ </p>

<p>"@777Blue77‌ Yes, I’m serious. I’m done debating with you. You probably don’t even know IA kids. When they have the numbers OP has, U-M is their safety. This is a fact. The culture there is for students with these numbers to gun for out of state top 20 schools, especially Ivies. U-M pulls a lot of students from there, but most go out of state. It’s all but a guarantee the OP gets into a couple of top 20 schools."</p>

<p>I probably have met IA kids, but I don’t ask anybody what high school they went to. Do you know why? I don’t ask because NO ONE CARES! It doesn’t matter what high school you went to when you are in college.</p>

<p>I’ve met people who go to Cornell, Harvard, MIT, and other selective institutions. They’re are people just like you and me.</p>