Chance Me - U of M EA

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Hey everyone, I am a prospective student for UMich’s Class of 2021.

I applied to the College of Engineering as an Asian male from Georgia.
ACT (ENG, MATH, REA, SCI): 33 (35, 29, 35, 31)
ACT SuperScore: 35 (35, 35, 35, 33)
ACT Writing: 29
GPA: 3.73 UW / 3.81 W
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank but ~top 10% of 273 students at a private school
APs: AP Physics 1, AP Chemistry, AP Physics C, AP Calculus AB

Senior Year Courses:

  • AP Calc AB
  • AP Physics C
  • Adv. Painting (Art Elective)
  • English 4
  • US History
  • Independent Scientific Research (ISR)

ECs:

  • Vice-President Business Club*/Member (9, 10, 11, 12)
  • Co-President/Founder Investment Club (11, 12)
  • Co-President/Founder STEM Club (11, 12)
  • Member of Yad B’ Yad (Jewish Identity Club)
  • Member of Sikhism Awareness Club
  • NHS (11, 12)

Work Experiences:

  • Summer of 2015: Mobile Applications Developer for a start-up company
  • Summer of 2016: Conducted research on polymeric semiconducting n-channel field-effect transistors at Georgia Tech (submitted research paper to Siemens and Intel + will be published–minor mention–in paper from GA Tech)

Awards:

  • Best Game/Web Design CAPSTONE Proejct (GaTech)
  • Honor Roll

Teacher Recs (School requires student to waive FERPA):

  • Rec 1: 10th grade HP Chemistry and 11th grade AP Chemistry teacher + my ISR mentor for Georgia TEch
  • Rec 2: 12th grade AP Physics C Teacher (my favorite teacher who is actually classified as a genius, talk with him after class about various topics: physics and non-physics related)
  • Rec 3: Professor at Georgia Tech and former President of the American Chemical Society (worked with her and a graduate student this past summer to conduct my research.)

Essays:

  • My essays were strong and were read by admissions counselors at other universities mostly focusing on my philosophy of money and service as well as my summer experience working in a graduate laboratory.

Thanks!!

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Hi!! Your whole application is very impressive from what I can garner. What might hurt is that you’re out of state with basically perfect stats, so it comes down to how well you portrayed interest in UMich.

The general consensus is that UMich isn’t a safety for anyone, and they reject many perfect applicants that treat it as a safety. If you showed how much you want to go to UMich, you should be a shoe in!!

Of course, this is just an amateur opinion so take it how you’d like. Good luck!!