Chance Me for University of Michigan

Please rate my chances for getting into University of Michigan as a freshman for 2019/2020 year. I think UMich would be a reach, but I’d really appreciate your criticism/advice. This isn’t exactly my situation, as I plan to apply for the 2023/2024 school year as a freshman with these stats and more life experience under my belt, but it would be hard to predict how admissions might change that many years into the future so I am just asking for you all to chance my shot for this coming year. I’m going to be a loadmaster in the Air Force, so please chance me with veteran status, as that will be the case when I apply for real.

Parents make over 100k combined, but I’m guessing that wouldn’t affect admissions, as I would probably just report my own salary from in the military, right? I think?

Hispanic white female from Catholic high school, instate, will be veteran when I apply to UMich.

Merits: AP Scholar with Honor, National Hispanic Recognition Scholar

ACT: 29
GPA: 3.5UW/3.85W - there is an upwards trajectory from my freshman year to my senior year.

Extracurriculars:
Model UN at UMich (10,11) - I’d rather not include this on my app because I wasn’t passionate about it at all. Should I use it as fluff?

Debate Club (11) - Again, I’d rather not include this on my app because I wasn’t passionate about it, but I’m wondering if I should use it to pad my app.

Mock Trial (11,12) - I don’t want to be a lawyer, but I loved Mock Trial. I will include it on my app, unless it would hurt my chances, which I doubt.

Quiz Bowl (11,12) - Co-captain for state-qualifying team both years.

If it matters, I plan to major in pharmacy. I’m not sure then if that means I would apply to something besides LSA. I went to a career tech school during my senior year of high school every school day before my high school classes to learn the trade of being a pharmacy technician (4.0 in the course). I could probably get a good letter of recommendation from the teacher of the course if that would help. I currently work as a pharmacy technician as I wait for my ship date for basic military training, so I have experience working in a pharmacy.

I’m not sure how the essays work, but I would probably write about how I want to help connect Hispanics to better healthcare, for one of them, if that makes sense. I want to mitigate discrepancies between the quality of healthcare Hispanics get compared to white people. In my job, I often have to help translate and decipher what Spanish-speaking patients are trying to convey. Hispanics have higher rates of obesity and diabetes than whites in the U.S., so what I am trying to get across is that my motivation for pharmacy comes from wanting to offer Hispanics a quality of healthcare that I’m afraid language barriers might hinder sometimes. I hope that makes sense, but I can elaborate if it doesn’t come across correctly.

Also for why the UMich essay (if there is one), well, basically since I want to do pharmacy, and the GI Bill would cover 100% of instate tuitions for public universities, my choices are pretty much limited to Wayne State University, Ferris State University, and University of Michigan, though I might consider some Yellow Ribbon programs from OOS. I’m really not interested in attending Wayne State, but I would be happy going to Ferris. I would be elated if I got into UMich, however. When I was in 7th grade, my older cousin who graduated from UMich took me to my first football game ever: University of Michigan vs. Northwestern (IIRC). That’s when I fell in love with Ann Arbor, the campus architecture, and the school pride. I will probably find a better way to demonstrate why U of M is my dream school.

Thanks for chancing me. I would really appreciate any advice you have for me, and I appreciate bluntness and realistic answers.

I meant get my PharmD. I wonder what I would major in then: premed maybe? chemistry?

Bump. Don’t be afraid to give negative replies. Pls. :]

I think that your chances of getting into LSA at the University of Michigan are not impossible. You have a good list of activities you have been doing so make sure to include them in your application. Just because you feel like it is not important in your opinion doesn’t mean that the university will not find it important. Make sure that when you write your essays you sound passionate about why you want to study in that field specifically and why the University of Michigan is the only place you can accomplish your goal. If you make your essays very strong and really harp on the EC’s that you have been doing, talk about them with passion, you stand a good shot at getting in.
For the Why Umich Essay do NOT talk about money and finances in why you would go to this school. Instead talk about how you would continue the activities you did in high school into UMich and how you see yourself as a student on campus fitting in. Make yourself sound passionate about the school, I would even encourage you to talk about the football game (a little) as an interesting introduciton.