Chance me for Engineering!

SAT: 800M/660CR/800W
SAT IIs : 800Math 1/800Math 2/770 Chem
ACT: 35M/36R/35E/34S, 35 Composite
UM GPA: 4.0

AP: 11 AP classes, I took 6 already and I got 5 5’s, a 4, and a 3 (got an extra 5 becuae physics c is two tests)
ECs:
Robotics club, I’m Director of Programming/Safety Committee
Code club, President for 3 years
Math, science, french, and national honors society
LOTS of tutoring for honors society and from outside tutoring places
Volunteer at my county’s hospital
Fencing, varsity for 2 years
Chemistry Olympics team captain for 3 years
Finalist in some fencing tournaments

Awards and stuff:
Tutoring award from math honors society
Ben Carson Scholar
Chemistry Olympics gold medal in 2015
Principal sax player my freshman year

Also, I’m OOS.
Please chance me, and if you’re someone who is currently at UMich and is willing to read essays, can you please PM me to help with my Michigan essays?
Thanks!

Your test scores are well within the admission range, so as your GPA and course rigor. Just work on your essay. It is still a very high match to low reach due to the low admission rate, but your chance is much higher than average applicant.

Apply EA and write good essays. Do not apply for FA is you do not need it or you do not qualify. They look at FA requests once the EA cycle is over and obviously would prefer students who pay full fee and are as good as you. Applying FA tells them that you have other options as well and that M is not your first choice school, the end result in many OOS applicants in that category is that they get deferred and then WL to be eventually denied in May. As always there would be exceptions to this case.

@deslindian597 UMich is need blind.

Only in EA. After that they can and they do look at request for FA

No. UMich has the second largest endowment among public college and pledged to reduce stuent debts. They have do not use need for admission. Financial info would be too late for their admission decision anyway as they start announcing RD in Feb.

Keep your essays full of honesty, humility and kindness…and you’ll get it. Just my opinion, of course, but you have terrific stats. The only way I think you’d blow it…is by coming off as unbearably arrogant in your essays. Keep it real, and from the heart. Good luck!

@MaryGJ Thanks! I’ll try!
@desiindian597 I’m confused, what do you mean? Why would applying for FA affect my chances? You said it yourself, they look at FA requests AFTER EA is over. I’m applying EA, and I don’t get what you mean by “you dont need it or you do not qualify”, I can’t exactly afford to pay 50k every year. Why would applying for FA mean that I have other options?

In EA if you have stellar credentials you will be admitted ( i.e a very small percentage in lower teens ) . But if they defer you in EA cycle, they can and will look at your FA request… I know they do say that they are need blind bla bla… Imagine me coming from CA or Tx and some how got deferred in EA cycle, they see that I have applied for FA. Now tell me if they would take some one who is equally good as me and wants to pay in full OOS or some one who is asking for aid… meaning that the probability of those students joining M will be low as they would opt for their Instate school as in my case I would look at UCLA UC San Diego Austin etc…M does do yield management and an iota of doubt that you do not have M as the 1st choice school will send you in the deferred list and then in WL and denial… Guess what —schools that perform very strongly in California but are not in the economic strata to pay full fee only admit a handful of students at M where as school districts but are in affluent neighborhoods send 20-30 students to M ( taking in to consideration the % of students who apply and % who get admitted to M in a relative sense with everything else being equal) . Check out the admission stats for Palos Verdes peninsula HS. OOS students are mostly admitted as they get the $$ and one’s that can and pay in full get to go to front of the line.All that talk of being need blind is baloney for admission cycles beyond EA.

@desiindian597 Again, this is misinformation above. This is not the case for UMich. The deadline for FA information is in April. Long after the reviewing process at UMich. The yield rate for OOS is less than half of in state students. They are increasing the yield rate by providing more FA to OOS students instead of admitting less students with needs. The OOS admission rate is around 20%, so there is a lot of reason for not accepting 80% of OOS applicants. UMich does not meet the need for OOS students anyway. So why do they bother accept less OOS students with need.
Also, you underestimate the amount of work to review >50K applications and over-estimate the communication between FA and admission offices. They simply don’t have time to do that except for waitlist students.

@desiindian597 where are you finding the stats for Palos Verdes Peninsula High School?

There is a google doc’s on their website. Search for palos verdes matriculation and google will pull it up for u

@desiindian597 Are you referring to the old information from 2010? If so, that’s going back a long time to make a generalized statement about what is happening in 2016.

Hmm, I can not find it any more wither,it was fairly recent with 2014 data… looks like they removed it. Call the school and they will be able to tell you where to find it. I accessed it last many months back.