Chance Me please

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Applied to LSA - Preferred admission to Ross

32 ACT, 95.15 WGPA, 92.37 UWGPA, n/a rank

IBDP Candidate (1 out of 9 candidates in class of 290)

  • all honors/APs/IBs
  • Science Research for 2 years
  • in AP Econ while in IBDP
  • 5 on IB Envi exam last year
  • 4 on APWH
  • 4 on AP Envi (challenged the AP since i was in IB)

OOS New York

Hispanic/white female

Speak Spanish/read Hebrew

President of Spanish Club for three years (elected)

Student Council Positions for three years (elected)

CTeen (Jewish youth group similar to BBYO) Leader for 4 years - my activities essay is about this EC and the service events I organized in it

House Staff Manager for three years at theater - my CommonApp essay topic - managed/trained/recruited staff; all issues sent to me

Varsity basketball, JV captain bball soph year

Math NHS Treasurer two years (elected)

Volunteer Hebrew School teacher

Volunteer Science Experiment Event teacher (IBM Family Science)

Head Counselor at summer camp (in charge of other counselors & 25 campers)

Member of NHS, Science NHS, English NHS

Two 1st place Science Research Awards in Math category - had short abstract of project in additional info

Included abstract of Extended Essay in additional info; novel research in EE and SciRes hopefully will help

Excellence in IB Math Award

Student Council Leadership Award

Common app essay: leadership skills as House Staff Manager - think it’s very good

UMich Essays: communities essay: very good - talk about Venezuelan culture and how I bring it into Spanish Club

Activities essay: pretty good - talk about what I do in CTeen and how I want to do Chabad on Campus at Mich

Why LSA/Ross essay: could be better; I didn’t know we could talk about UMich as a whole so I basically only talked about it from an academic standpoint so I think this is my weak point!!! very scared ab this part. i talk about LSA, Weinberg cog sci, and Ross and how they are fit to my interests/strengths/perfect for me, but do not mention michigan’s culture. i responded to the question, but i found out ppl use this to write ab michigan as a whole, which i didn’t do!!

Recs should be pretty good i submitted 3 teacher recs all knew me well

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sushirito pls give me your evaluation

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@sushiritto

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@saltypretzel First, the acceptance rate for OOS students is about 19%. And in terms of student population at UMich, New York has the most OOS attending. IL is 2nd, CA is 3rd. But we don’t how many apps come from NY. Anyway, OOS admission is tough.

Second, your Ross app will be a more portfolio-based decision. If you don’t know already, you can be accepted to LSA and rejected by Ross, so prepare for that possibility too.

Can you equate your unweighted GPA to a 4.0 scale? That’s what UMich does and that’s how students (and parents) here have posted them in the past.

Wow, that’s a long diverse list of EC’s, WAY longer than my kids, that’s for sure. And course rigor, which is very important to UMich, appears great. And at least as a parent, speaking/reading/writing multiple languages is a wonderful attribute. What we can’t see are your essays and recommendations and those are important to UMich.

The median uwGPA and ACT score for the Class of 2023 was 3.9 and 32-35. Since EA stats were hard to come by, based on the deferred pool stats, an OOS student with an uwGPA of 3.9+ and 32+ will have a good chance of being accepted to LSA, but may have to wait until RD decisions are released in February and March.

Best of luck to you and please post your results and stats in the EA thread, when they’re released before Xmas.

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Even though you didn’t ask… Lol, I think your a very complete and competent student. Very interesting mix. Don’t worry about the essays and what “others” do. To set yourself apart you “want” to be different. That’s a plus not a minus. Michigan has one of the most active Hillels and Chabads anywhere. Free Shabbat dinners with hundreds of your closest friends. Holidays are an event there and fun.

Being OOS is always a hard get. Be prepared to be deferred since it seems to be the norm but don’t let up. Doing well senior year is important to Michigan.

Good Luck.

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@sushiritto @Knowsstuff thank u both u have calmed my nerves at least a little bit!

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We are here for you and both have kids at Michigan.

Ps. I used to be very involved with BBYO

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@sushiritto @Knowsstuff I GOT IN!!! IM SO HAPPY!!!

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@saltypretzel. Dreams do come true! Big congrats to you. I just got home and can’t believe how this site blew up… Lol…

Go Blue!

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@saltypretzel so very happy for you. Remember to thank your family. And also remember, work hard Day 1. It ain’t easy. ? It’s an entirely different level compared to HS.

Mazel tov.