Chance me please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<li>SAT score of 1930 (W:690, M:640, CR:600)</li>
<li>Play 2 varsity sports, captain for both, school record holder</li>
<li>Go to decent high school in NJ (in top 800 in country)</li>
<li>Volunteer in soup kitchen</li>
<li>Active in school club</li>
<li>Single parent home</li>
<li>Extremely low income</li>
<li>first generation college student</li>
<li>GPA of 3.7 unweighted, 4.6 weighted</li>
<li>was chosen to present a project of mine in front of the Board of Education</li>
<li>top 10% of class </li>
<li>by the way I'm black (just throwing that out there)</li>
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<p>Please chance me</p>

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<p>Low match/slight reach</p>

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<p>Affirmative action is very strong at UM, statistically you have better chances than somebody who is white and has an SAT score 200 points higher than you. They don’t look at your UW gpa, and they don’t count freshman year or art/foreign language classes unless you plan to major in art or a foreign language. </p>

<p>Being out of state improves your odds if you are going to pay your way through college because they get 27,000+ a year from you rather than 12,000. </p>

<p>Overall I would bet that you get in unless the grade recalculation really hurts you.</p>