Chance Me: Michigan, Virginia and Cornell

  • demographics **
    US Citizen
    CT
    Small Catholic HS
    F/Caucasian

Biology or Neuroscience- pre med track

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
*Unweighted HS GPA: 3.87 ( 2 b+s freshmen year- all As Soph and JR year.
*Weighted HS GPA (incl. weighting system): 4.53/5

  • College GPA (for transfers):na
  • Class Rank:an
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 730 math 720 reading
    1450 - one sitting scores

Coursework

  • majority honors with 4 aps
    Ap Lang (4), Ap Bio (4) Psych and Lit in progress

Awards
Girl Scout leadership state award
School Band award
School Key award

Extracurriculars
NHS, Tri M- leadership team, national Science HS, 2 years marching band, drama and stage crew, violin player (10 years) section leader, held PT job, 12 years as Girl Scout, 200 hours community service.

Essays/LORs/Other
Strong I think- I’ve been working on for months with review by English teacher

Cost Constraints / Budget
No constraint

Schools
*University of Michigan & University of Virginia EA
Cornell University RD

My matches/safeties are Clemson, South Carolina and I’ve already been admitted to University of Alabama where my brothers attended.

If you have other suggestions for medium to large schools with a strong academic reputation and solid pre med program I am open to suggestions.

  • Safety (certain admission and affordability)
  • Likely (would be possible, but very unlikely or surprising, for it not to admit or be affordable)
  • Match
  • Reach

You may want to look at the information contained in Section C of the Common Data Sets for each school: Section C7 gives information on the academic and non-academic admission factors and how they are weighted by each school; Sections C9-C11 give objective information on GPA and standardized test scores for matriculated students in a particular academic year. These numbers may allow you to come up with a rough estimate your chances for admission.

A couple of notes. UVa used to limit OOS admits to 27% of an incoming freshman class; I don’t know whether that cap still applies, or has been reduced or increased. U of M by contrast has close to 50% of its undergraduates from OOS. Also, U of M recomputes academic GPA to eliminate plusses and minuses (i.e., a B+ becomes a B (3.0) and an A- becomes an A (4.0)); this may help you with U of M if all you have is a couple of Bs and everything else an A.

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LSA - is unweighted 3.9 with a 32-35 Act so the conversion puts you right there. But Michigan for OOS is a tough get. Many are deferred but then accepted later on. Having solid safeties is key as you know. It’s harder the last few years even to determine matches due to increase applications etc.

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Pitt and Case Western. Florida State would probably give you OOS tuition waiver with a chance at Honors. Save the money for med school.

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I can’t chance you for those reach schools, but I encourage you to apply test optional at Cornell (assuming you are applying to Arts & Sciences) because your scores are below Class of 2025 (and 2024) median. http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Profile2021-first-year.pdf

I expect your test scores are below the median for OOS students at both UVA and UMich…which I am not sure those are published.

For other less reachy ideas, look at Pitt, Miami Ohio, U Miami, U Cincinnati and any of the other public big 10 schools (why only Michigan?)

Congratulations on your acceptance to Alabama. If it’s affordable, you are in the position where you can just trade up from there, and apply only to schools you would like to attend more than Alabama.

Good luck.

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I see South Carolina as in but not Honors. Clemson 50/50 and no to UVA and Cornell.

Since you asked for others, you’d get into Pitt (city) and Miami of Ohio (it’s really nice but rural…but a way better area than Tuscaloosa).

College of Charleston, if you like city, is one to look at.

Why not UCONN? CWRU? (reach) Miami Florida (reach)

If you’re looking pre-med and cost isn’t an option, what about smaller schools - like Rochester, Case, Wake or LACs. Those 3, btw, all reaches.

Union College is known for pre-med advisory if you are ok at an LAC.

Good luck.

Here you go…

https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/first-year-applicants/first-year-student-profile

I don’t see OOS mid 50% test scores for class of 2025 on that link…I do see the overall range…which is less relevant to OOS students.

Look into the University of Rochester.

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You are correct but close to 50% are OOS. Then you can go to the map and see how many are taken per state. Is the school a known feeder school for Michigan or are you under represented like MS?

Of course this is all fun but leads us to the unknown… Lol…

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This is my opinion also. There are a lot of universities with very good premed programs. Are you applying to U.Conn?

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Yes but prefer to get away from CT and will be able to attend Alabama with pres scholarship for less than UConn

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Halfway point update. I have been accepted at Clemson, Alabama and South Carolina Honors College ( so happy as I really wanted Honors College there). I did not apply to Cornell more due to some feedback I got then anything else but did apply to Northeastern (EA) and UNC CH (RD). Will update in a few months with those and U Mich and UVA decisions.

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Congrats - U of SC Honors is not easy and I didn’t think it would happen (just the school and maybe Capstone) - so that’s a great get for you. I’m sure it came with at least the $86K scholarship too and that helps. Glad I was wrong.

Good luck on your others.

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