<p>End of junior year and I am very nervous for college app season.
In-State, Caucasian, Male
Competitive HS- ranked #1 in michigan
Rec Letters- Both are good
Legacy: Sister went to CoE
Essays- decent
Stats:
GPA: UW:3.44 W: 3.75
ACT:34(36R, 33E, 34Sci, 31M)
Curriculum:
AP's: Human Geo(5), APUSH(5)</p>
<p>Junior Year Schedule:
AP Chem(4?)
AP English(4?)
AP Psych(5?)
AP Econ(5?)
Honors Pre-calc
Honors Spanish </p>
<p>Senior Year: AP Physics C, AP Calc AB, AP Spanish, AP Comp Sci, AP Gov, AP English</p>
<p>EC's: Travel Soccer(9-12)-Captain, 3-4 times per week
JV(10), Varsity(11-12)-Starting Goalie
Habitat for Humanity(in ann arbor)- over 300 hours volunteering during the summer
Tree Planting(unique?)-Planted over 2,000 trees
NHS(meh..)
National Forensic League-Vice President</p>
<p>That GPA does look a little low, but you are in state, so you still have a shot. Your sister be benefitted from being female, so you may not get in and you’ll have to deal with her :(</p>
<p>I still love how every high school anyone on here goes to is “competitive” lol . If it really is that amazing Michigan should take note. Especially if there’s a lot of grade deflation at your school which looks like there could be.</p>
<p>If you went to the International Academy, then I’d say your odds are very good for admittance. For those who are not aware, that school is always in the top 25 FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY! It even has been ranted as the top public school in past years!</p>
<p>any list that ranks public schools that dont have stuyvesant in the top 10 is flawed to say the last. </p>
<p>and L.M.F.A.O… international academy (1304 average SAT/28.9 average ACT) 30+ spots ahead of stuyvesant (1408 average SAT)… what a joke, even more so than its college rankings.</p>
<p>I don’t make the rankings bearcats and I agree that many of them are jokes. I was just trying to figure out if the gpa of the poster would be a major problem. For example, IA is an IB school, and Troy high is not.</p>
<p>Well, Bearcats is right. Excuse him now while he goes back to hedge fund consulting I banking strategy programming with president Obama and Superman.</p>
<p>The college of engineering is going to be interested in your grades from math/science classes. I know of a few examples of students with GPA’s around 3.5 that got in, but they excelled in relevant classes.</p>
<p>“well this is disappointing considering i know kids with similar or worse stats that got in from my school this year”</p>
<p>That is why I always ask applicants not to bother with chance threads. They know their personal circumstances better than we do. Perhaps a 3.4 at your school is the equivalent of a 4.0 at most schools. You should check Naviance and ask your school counselor.</p>
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<li> How do you know both are good?</li>
<li> What makes those letters of Rec better than all of the other letters of rec out there? No one is going to have a teacher write a letter of rec stating “student X sucks.” </li>
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<p>I disagree. I think you have a very good chance assuming you keep your senior year grades up. My D is at UM and I am aware of stats of incoming students from your school. There are very many from your school accepted. You are taking very difficult courses and are obviously challenging yourself. Yes, 4.0 is better GPA, but one has to consider all other things going on and it looks like you have a difficult load at a respected school with excellent extra cirriculars. So GO BLUE. Keep your grades up and best of luck to you!</p>
<p>You have a good chance. Youi have good xtra cirriculars along with a tough load. Keep your grades up and don’t believe these other folks telling you your GPA is too low. Yes, UM wants high GPA, but they look at WHAT you take and WHERE you go to school and the stats from kids at that school. Good luck to you. GO BLUE!</p>