<p>hi guys, chance me for michigan pls?</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>International Student from Pakistan.
Not applying for aid
SAT I: 1410 - 750 CR, 660 M (retook in May, hopefully much better score)
GPA: not calculated at my school but if it were it'd be 3.87 UW
GCSEs: 11 A's
Class Rank: Again not calculated, per se. Was 8/176 in the GCSE results at my school. Definitely top 10% if not Top 5%.
My school sends a great deal of people to Ivies and other top universities each year. This year we had Princeton, Duke, Northwestern, Brown, Middlebury, amongst others. Last year, we had Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago, Vanderbilt, etc.
Essay: I topped in my school in English Language, and I won the award for best essay writer so I think they'll be reasonably good, hopefully.
Recs: Will be very good, fingers crossed
I'm President of the Drama Club, Lead Role in the Play, done 3 years of debating, won numerous tournaments, shortlisted for national team, MUNs nationally and internationally, won the best english declamation speaker and parliamentary debator awards at school. I've been a regular freelancer for a national newspaper for the past year. Chief Editor of literary magazine.
on the school tennis team this year.</p>
<p>Also, my brother is a Michigan alum. does that matter?</p>
<p>Guys, I’ve been to Ann Arbor twice before, and I loved the town and the university so so much! It’s one of my top choices, so I’d really appreciate any responses. Thanks!</p>
<p>thank you! as in, match good, or safety good?</p>
<p>I would say match. Your credentials are very good, but international students, perticularly from overrepresented areas such as the Subcontinent and East Asia, stand pretty steep competition. Two years ago, Michigan received 7,000 international applications (mostly from Asia) and admitted only 1,000 of them. Last year, I hear Michigan received over 8,000 international applicants and again admitted only 1,000 of them. If Michigan has another similar increase in international applicants, you are looking at a 10% admission rate.</p>
<p>One tip I will give you is the following. Whether you apply EA or rolling/regular decision, make sure that your application to Michigan is completed before October 30. That means that you should send your SAT, TOEFL, GCSE results, school transcripts and application before October 20.</p>
<p>Hey, an important thing is to consider the college youre applying to. This is because the college of engineering and ross both have higher average stats, and a lower admissions rate especially for internationals(alex please do correct me if im wrong!). That said though I dont have outstanding ecs like yours and got in to the college of engineering for fall 2012. Im from Singapore and the situation here is a lot like yours, except probably worse (my school sends boatloads of students to ivies so competition is crazy tough). I’d say you’d have a super chance if you just up those scores! PM me if you wanna know more :D</p>
<p>I’m probably going to be applying to either the LSA or Ross. I think i’ll apply to the LSA, and cross-register at Ross if I get in. Is that done? Yeah, I know, HOPEFULLY, The SAT gods will be kind to me. It seemed like it went much better than Jan, but still, you never know!</p>
<p>Thanks for the chance!</p>
<p>Techtechy, getting preadmitted to Ross is significantly harder than getting into LSA. The CoE is not much harder to get into, but it does have a very different approach to admissions than LSA. Typically, I agree that for international students, the CoE is harder to get into, primarily because a disproportionate number of international applicants apply to the CoE. For US students, I think the odds of getting into the CoE are in fact better than for LSA if highly qualified, but for marginal cases, LSA is a safer bet.</p>