<p>UofM is my dream school, and I think I have a shot, though I'm wondering if my GPA will be an issue down the road...want to do my undergrad in some form of Engineering
Ethnicity: Indian (sub continent)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: upper middle
Hooks(?): Dad went to Ross for Grad</p>
<p>I'm an in state student</p>
<p>Gpa: 3.7uw (3.2 freshman gpa, but transferred schools great trend upward)
SAT/ACT: 2180/33
AP's: (4 or 5 on all of them): Chemistry, Calc AB, Calc BC, Physics Mechanics, Physics EnM, US History, Biology, AP Stats</p>
<p>JV Tennis Freshman/Sophomore Years
Principle Bassist in highest orchestra since Freshman year (top honors at state festival)
Featured Bassist in school wind ensemble (highest band)
Lead Jazz Bassist for school (top honors at state festival)
Pit Orchestra all four years
Selected to Model United Nation's team that went to MSUMUN and SEMMUNA competitions
Member of Science Club
60+ hours as co-captain of relay for life team, raised over 3000$ for cancer awareness</p>
<p>Awards
Placed Top 1000 in Michigan for MMPC contest (also in Math Club)
Waiting on results of SIEMENS
Medalist at district Solo and Ensemble festival
Scholastic Silver Key (in writing)
Jobs:
Spent three summers working as a Data Analyst for Ferndale Pharma Group
One summer at a TARDEC internship w/ the US gov't in Warren, MI</p>
<p>Volunteering:
300+ Hours of Community service (various places/events)
Essays: Great
Teacher recs: good
Counselor rec: great</p>
<p>Miscillaneous: was diagnosed w/ ADD after poor frosh year, and medication helped pull my grades up
Please please please help me out!</p>
<p>You should be able to get in with those stats. You should make sure they know of the medical condition that affected your performance during freshman year. U-M used to look at 10th and 11th grade performance and did not give serious consideration to freshman grades so I think there is a good chance they will look beyond freshman year GPA. Your counselor recommendation may be of additional help here so you may want to talk to him or her before he or she writes it. Good luck.</p>
<p>Again, make admissions aware of your freshman year circumstances. Try and pull up that UW GPA if possible. You’d be an admit though. Don’t worry too much about it. Good luck!</p>
<p>As far as I know Michigan calculates your gpa entirely without your freshman year</p>
<p>I thought that wasn’t the case anymore?</p>
<p>UM does NOT recalculate your GPA.</p>
<p>UM does NOT recalculate your GPA. That process was stopped a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>res ipsa is very correct; U of M admission admission process:
['U'</a>; to no longer recalculate GPA in admissions process - The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://www.michigandaily.com/content/u-no-longer-recalculate-gpa-admissions-process]‘U’”>'U' to no longer recalculate GPA in admissions process)</p>
<p>You shouldn’t have any problem. A 33 on the ACT is more than adequate. You will have to write a couple of essays and in one of them you can mention the ADD and how things changed. Good luck and GO BLUE!</p>
<p>That’s a old story. Just few days back, I heard directly from UofM that they are going to recalculate the GPA with higher weightage for AP and Honors and 3.7 for A- for other courses. Other than I have no other info. I am trying to get clarification from others here.</p>
<p>Your gpa and test scores are fine. Use your essays to explain any reason that your gpa was “lower” your freshman year. Good luck and GO BLUE!!!</p>
<p>ik people who have gotten in with way worse stats, you’re fine.</p>