Chance me PLEASE

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>Senior(chinese male) from a very competitive high school. Michigan is my dream school so yea. chance me plz</p>

<p>Current classes
English 12
AP Calculus BC
AP Human Geo
AP Physics B
Gov.
Digital Photo
4.0 unweighted this year currently </p>

<p>3.78 unweighted freshmen to junior year.
4.06 weighted freshmen to junior year
took ap chinese sophomore year, ap environmental science, ap biology, ap stats junior year. all 5s on the ap exams </p>

<p>been in the united state for 5 years. first generation to attend college. thinking about business or engineering major </p>

<p>sat score 760 math 470 reading and 540 writing. took it once, going to take it again, but didnt really study this summer so not expecting to improve dramatically.
sat2 chinese 800, sat2 math 2 in progress </p>

<p>E.C.
key club 2 years. one year officer
wrestling sophomore year
soccer junior senior year</p>

<p>worked at a farmers market for 4 years every sunday.
internship from nasa this year
summer program with special aid elementary students
200 service hours
started my very own online business store this year</p>

<p>essay
going to talk about how i changed my life coming here, the hardship living in china,
fortitude of taking care of my disabled sister growing up, and job experience</p>

<p>also applying to nyu, usc, rice, boston college, georgia tech, university of washington, carnegie mellon, and university of north carolina.</p>

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<p>In general, your stats look good. But you’re SAT CR and W are very low. You say you’ve been in the US for 5 years? How proficient in English are you? Since you have an 800 in SAT II Chinese, then it seems like you’re smart enough to have done well on the SAT CR and W had you been fluent in English. I would suggest taking TOEFL.</p>

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<p>i dont know, my english skills are alright. they arent horrible, it just that i hate spend hours on vocabs you know? i guess i am a slacker? because i would rather spend hours on watching physics tutorials or calculus stuffs instead of boring vocabs</p>

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<p>does michigan take TOEFL? i am so white washed that i didnt even know TOEFL exists thanks stem</p>

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<p>Yes, they do. [Instructions</a> for First Time Enrollee Applicants Whose Native Language Is Not English International Applicants Admissions Helpful Information Rackham Graduate School](<a href=“http://www.rackham.umich.edu/help/admissions/international_applicants/applicants_whose_native_language_is_not_english/]Instructions”>http://www.rackham.umich.edu/help/admissions/international_applicants/applicants_whose_native_language_is_not_english/).</p>

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<p>haha dude. I kind of feel the same way, but seriously, having a strong vocabulary is important. You’ll learn to enjoy a lot of other things beyond math/science…like catching a subtle pun while reading a newspaper. Even many science articles are heavy in non-science vocabulary. And since you might study business, vocabulary is huge in that field (at least one of the parts of being successful in it).</p>

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<p>Woahh…so sorry about post #5! I did not realize I linked you to the graduate policy.</p>

<p>But yes, they do actually require TOEFL for all speakers of English as a second language…this only applies to you if you are considered such. But keep in mind, they still require seeing your ACT/SAT scores in all cases. In no case is TOEFL a substitution for either.</p>

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<p>I also just noticed your NASA internship. Depending on the extent of your involvement in that, I think that’ll help your chances.</p>

<p>But really, you shouldn’t take my opinions too seriously. I’m just one of you (a nervous high school senior in the application process) with absolutely no experience in college admissions. Chance me threads undermine the admission process. And they’re a bit paradoxical in that we ask a question to those as clueless, if not less since they don’t even know much about you more than numbers, as we are. And when I say, “we” that means, yes, I’ve even posted my own “chance me” thread. I did it when I was new (at least after spending some time away) to this site. I saw that everyone was doing it, and so I did it to see what I would get. In retrospect, I think it’s kind of ridiculous, and I wish I could delete it. </p>

<p>Only you should decide on your chances and whether you should apply, and only the admission committee of whichever school you apply to will be able to determine your fit. Only they will see your essays (which tell a lot about your context), your teacher recommendations, and the rest of your application. Here is an appendix <a href=“http://www.admissions.umich.edu/prospective/prospectivefreshmen/Template_Rating_Sheet-REV2009-10.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.umich.edu/prospective/prospectivefreshmen/Template_Rating_Sheet-REV2009-10.pdf&lt;/a&gt; from the UMich that includes all factors which may play a role in their decision on your admission. </p>

<p>I tell you this because I see you are new to CC, and you may feel that chance me threads have even a bit of legitimacy in them and possibly get discouraged if someone says you don’t have a chance or if people don’t respond to your thread. You’ll notice that actual college reps/admission officers never comment on these threads (expect when saying that no one can really chance you) because they cannot make informed decisions themselves w/o knowing everything about you, and they’re the adcoms.</p>

<p>This is a great site…I mean w/o it you would not have come here and found out TOEFL exists, but don’t take chance me threads too seriously. </p>

<p>I apologize for the semi-rant here, but please take what I am telling you into consideration.</p>