Stats:
ACT: 36
GPA Weighted: 4.8
GPA Unweighted: 3.95 (I had a B+ one semester of AP Chem junior year and a B+ for a semester art elective freshman year)
SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry-800, Math 2-740
School doesn’t rank but i know im around top 5% out of ~500
Freshman year- no APs (not allowed), 4 honors (maximum allowed)
Sophomore year- no APs (not allowed), 5 honors (max allowed)
Junior year- AP Calc BC (5), AP Chem (5), AP Lang (4), 2 honors
Senior year:
AP Statistics
AP Psychology
AP Physics
AP Spanish
Honors English
Honors Mathematical Modeling
Extracurriculars:
Speech and Debate (9,10,11,12)- PF debate, 3 time state qualifier, 1 time national qualifier, won local tournament
Varsity Crew (9,10,11,12) - 5 seasons of crew, 3 on varsity
Chemistry Club (11,12)
Spanish National Honor Society (11,12)- Secretary for senior year
NHS (12)
Tutoring- I peer tutor a lot in chemistry, math, and spanish
CCD- lots of education and service hours with my church
Demographics:
white
female
live in Massachusetts
school: highly ranked large public school in MA
Intended Major- Public Health
Essay- commonapp essay about living in Mexico City for 2 years and how it lead to me wanting to do something to help underprivileged communities with health/healthcare.
Thanks so much to anyone who takes the time to respond. I’m new here
UMich doesn’t use weighted GPA. You appear to be a competitive applicant, but the OOS acceptance rate is 19% for the Class of 2022. And even high stat students are deferred in EA. The average uwGPA of the Class of 2023 was 3.9 and the 25/75 for ACT scores was 32-35. All you can do now is to submit some great LOR’s, write great essays and communicate and/or demonstrate your strong desire to attend UMich.
Agree with the above. You are accomplished. Any chance you might want to row? That could be your way in also. Talk to the coach. They actually have a good team.
Yep, being an OOS student applying to a top public school like UMich, UVa, UNC-CH, UCLA, Cal, UT, etc. is going to be difficult even when you’re a strong candidate like yourself.
You are clearly well qualified. Michigan likes scholar-athletes. As a woman, you might have a better chance in engineering, which is something to consider if you are so inclined.
One of the things I noticed right away is how your junior year looked tougher than your senior year. AP stats and AP psych are relatively easier AP classes. Living in Mexico makes AP Spanish appear fairly easy. Physics is by far the hardest of the 4. Interested while you bailed out of AP Lit.
@gymfanatic2020 Why are you looking specifically at Michigan for Public Health?
Overall, you have a great profile, and would be a strong candidate for any program at any college, especially Public Health programs. However, reaches are reaches, and UMichigan is a reach college for OOS applicants.
@sushiritto As an aside - while UC applicants have a benefit in that their honors are weighted while for OOS applicants only AP and IB courses are weighted, the acceptance rates for OOS students to the most popular UCs (UCLA, UCB, and UCSD) are higher than that of the in-state students - there is no cap on OOS acceptances, unlike for UNC, UT, etc.
@MWolf As I mentioned, the top public uni’s are still difficult for OOS students. I didn’t mention specific rates, but instate vs OOS acceptances at UCLA and Cal are:
And although there isn’t a published OOS enrollment cap for UMich, UMich does appear to have capped it’s OOS enrollment at around 47% of the freshman class, because the last 2-3 years has seen a decline in the OOS acceptance %.
OOS enrollment by class:
Class of 2020 47%
Class of 2021 46%
Class of 2022 45%
my school recommends only taking one ap english because schools only give credit for 1 and there are no more difficult aps for me to take. i skipped a year of math so i have exhausted my school’s challenging math options and i wanted 4 yrs of social science which left me with psych and human geo bc those are the only ones my school offers to seniors. my school is also really big and understaffed so we are not allowed to double up on sciences so thats not an option either. this was the most difficult course load i can take bc i took most of the difficult classes my school offers last year.
