<p>planning to apply early action
I'm a female international student (not from canada). I go to school in the states (not michigan), and my school's pretty competitive.
-top 25%, approx. unweighted GPA 3.65 (I got about 3.2 for the first sem. of my freshman year and the trend increases)</p>
<p>-AP chem -4
AP physics B - 5
AP stats - 4
AP calc ab - 4
taking AP calc bc, AP physics C, AP world this year</p>
<p>-sat chem -740
sat physics -750
sat 2 math -790</p>
<p>-(anticipated) sat cr- 630-650
m- 750
w- 700-730</p>
<p>-EC. played two JV sports for the first two years (not significant..i guess)
.my friend and I created a company(sophomore year), made about $500 (donated all), t took 1st place in small business plan competition
.founder/president of business club
.vice president of international club
.president of one more club</p>
<p>According to the school's naviance, gpa/sat/act to get into umich is 3.88(unweighted)/1320 (1600scale)/29. </p>
<p>I heard that women get advantages for applying to engineering school and physics major...right? but I don't know if I should apply to engineering or physics. um..well I think it would be hard for me to get in to the CoE, so would I have more chance if I apply for physics than when I did for LSA undecided?</p>
<p>Females do get an advantage applying for the CoE. I’m guessing that goes for physics too. I don’t know the demos, but I can’t imagine that there are that many females.</p>
<p>With a 3.88, being female, and interesting ECs I think you have a good shot.</p>
<p>Your SAT is on the low end of that, and your GPA is as well (weighted GPA is not taken into very much consideration). Your SAT II exam scores are excellent but unfortunately are not taken much into consideration either at UMich. Your ECs are moderate, and being a female engineering student does help, although being international does hurt your chances.</p>
<p>P.S. I don’t believe there is any difference between applying to LSA for physics and LSA undecided. Either way, you’re applying to the same school and your application will be considered equally. Getting into the engineering school is more difficult, but your female status helps you.</p>
<p>thanks for your advice ThisIsMichigan and entenduintransit</p>
<p>I just want to add some more ECs.
-school stock market competition 1st place
-national ocean science bowl 3 years (my school took state 2nd place when I was in the club/team, but I wasn’t at the competition tho. maybe I can put the 2nd place stuff in my resume? or I better not?)
-yearbook 4 years, received 2 awards (10th, 11th)
-environmental club 4 years
-honor council 1 year (this year)
-externship/ pharmacological research at a prestige university for 5 months (i’m also getting a recommendation from the professor whom I worked with)
-biomolecular research at my school (this semester)</p>
<p>I already have my SAT score from march- 2000 cr 580 m 720 w 700
but of course i’m going to take it again in october and november
hoping to get 2100-2250 fingers crossedddd</p>
<p>any better…?:*(</p>
<p>p.s. yeah…i better apply for lsa either physics or chem</p>
<p>I think the CoE looks for engineering related ECs. All your business ones are cool and will definitely help, idk though if they will help as much in the CoE</p>
<p>Oh, and I did read that GPA wrong. 3.66 unweighted in kind of low, baring some GPA deflation at your school.</p>
<p>I guess this will come down to how much they care about ur GPA trend, ur new test scores, and how much being essentially a URM will help</p>