<p>White Male at one top the top public schools in CA
3.8 9-12 Unweighted GPA
ACT 27: ACT Super score: 29
Taken/planned 6 AP/Honors
Rigorous Senior schedule (4 AP/Honors classes)
Lived in 3 different countries
Had 4 jobs through high school and community service
Want to major in business</p>
<p>Please let me know what you think my chances are of getting into Michigan</p>
<p>Michigan! You are on the BC site.</p>
<p>Sorry copied and pasted meant to say BC</p>
<p>Bump bump bump</p>
<p>surfer101,</p>
<p>BC to my knowledge doesn’t post average admitted UW GPAs though visiting the results threads of the last couple of years and looking over the common data set a reasonable guess would be around 3.75. If true, your 3.8 makes you “average”.</p>
<p>The bigger problem are your standardized test scores. You don’t provide detail but even a super-scored ACT of 29 puts you at the 25th%-tile for BC. You don’t provide any real detail regarding, sports, arts or any other extra-curricular activities though if those hours were eaten up by your jobs that may be an acceptable explanation. </p>
<p>Further complicating things is the general belief that acceptance standards to the Carroll School of Management are even tougher than the overall BC population. As a result, barring some extenuating circumstances we haven’t heard about I think that BC-GSOM is going to be a reach.</p>
<p>Since you inadvertently asked about Michigan and since I live in Ann Arbor I’ll throw in a bonus assessment. Regrettably the story isn’t much better there. The average UW GPA at Michigan is over 3.75 and the 25th%-tile ACT is 27. With it’s higher acceptance rate I think you have a better chance at Michigan but I doubt you will be a pre-admit to the Ross School of Business (I personally know three students from last year’s Ross pre-admit applicant pool. All were at least 3.8/ACT 32, all were admitted to Michigan but none pre-admitted to Ross), so if accepted you’d come to campus with no guarantee that you’d be accepted into the program as a sophomore. The good news is that Michigan loves out of state students, the bad news is they love them because they pay full ($45K+) prices and they get offered little if any merit aid.</p>
<p>Thanks Vince, The act details are 28 in english, 33 math, 27 reading, 27 science. Do u think the good math score will help since I want to major in accounting ?</p>
<p>Does a 33 Math ACT help? It certainly doesn’t hurt, but you’re in competition with everyone in the pool. So the question becomes why should they choose you over someone with a 33 math and a 30 overall ACT? That’s where ECs, essays and recommendations come into play.</p>
<p>Dear surfer101 : When reading your scoring breakdown on the ACT, I had a very different interpretation from the value of the 33 score in the Mathematics section. The middle 50% of the admitted class scores a composite 30-33. This means that the 25th percentile is at a 30 and the 75th percentile stands at a 33. Now, I accept that the scoring is not smooth, but let’s assume linearity for a minute. This means that each quartile covers about 2 points on the ACT.</p>
<p>Why is that number important to this discussion? This would place the “zeroth” percentile at a ACT composite of 28.</p>
<p>Now, coming back to your scoring breakdown, this would mean that 75% of your section scores are bottom quartile … or below. Hence, the 33 Math score is not what really stood out - it was your other scores that are providing a major roadblock here.</p>
<p>While I would advise you to continue forward with your application, I see you as a major stretch candidate right now.</p>
<p>Yeah scores are not great hopefully my good highschool and unique ECs will help</p>