Chance my friend for UMich?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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He applied to CoE for Computer Engineering

His stats are:

ACT Composite: 31
Highest Subject Scores: 33M, 27E, 31S, 34R
GPA: 3.98/4.0
4.8+/5.0
Ranked 7th in class of 244. (Most competitive top 10% school has had since class of 2012)
EC’s: Math Club, National Beta Club, Chess Club, 30+ hours of volunteer work. 2 AP’s out of 4 offered at school; 2 on both tests (AP US History and AP English Comp)

He was rejected by MIT and waitlisted by Georgia Tech this morning. He hasn’t received any other decisions yet as they come out on April 1: Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon. Purdue’s decision should come in a week or two

Also, ACT score is 3rd highest in graduating class.

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Purdue and Michigan are both a high match to low reach. Everywhere else is a mid to high reach.

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Yeah, Purdue is probably a mid to high match, while Michigan is a low reach. His ACT is a little low

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assuming in-state, pretty good chance for UMichigan- high match. Purdue is a match.

very unlikely for him to make harvard, stanf, or columbia. same with CMU SCS, although the rest of CMU is a high match.

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@puzzled123‌ he is OOS for both

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I hope your friend applied to some safeties as well.

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@viphan‌ Purdue is really the only “safety”. He’s been accepted by University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but that’s his last resort as its not ranked/reputation for his subject. I thought Gerogia Tech would have been a match for me and him both but he were waitlisted

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Purdue would be a high match, not safety for him. UMich CoE would be a reach. ACT 31 is the 25th percentile or less. Chance is not very good even if he is from in state.

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@billcsho‌ I got in to purdue in EA with a 32 ACT and a 3.75 GPA. Purdue’s ACT is like a 25-30 Also, a lot of the other applicants that I’ve seen on the EA thread for Purdue have stats lower than mine and still got in so it seems like a safety. I’d agree that Michigan would be harder so get into based on its average ACT scores

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@Dhruv97 The admission stat of the whole school is lower than that for engineering. For 2013, the enrolled freshmen have mid 50 ACT 28-32. The admission stat is higher than enrollment stat as the top admitted students may go somewhere else (yield rate only 26% in 2013). Also, the admission stat kept going up in the last couple years as more students applying to engineering. That’s why ACT 31 is a high match for OOS applying to Purdue engineering as it is only around the admission average.

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@billcsho‌ Does Purdue admit by major?

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@Dhruv97 No, you apply to engineering school as a whole for first year engineering program.