<p>Not finalized by any means, as I'm only a junior, but hoping to be on the right track? Also, wondering for potential level of consideration (low consideration, medium, high)?</p>
<p>In-state, white female (junior as of now).</p>
<p>3.8 GPA unweighted, aiming to have this up to a 3.9 by the time of early application next fall.</p>
<p>ACT- 30 first try, will be taking it again in december, aiming for 32 or higher.</p>
<p>AP Courses:</p>
<p>Sophomore:</p>
<p>AP U.S. History - 5</p>
<p>Junior:</p>
<p>AP Statistics
AP Economics
AP English Language and Composition</p>
<p>Senior:</p>
<p>AP Physics B
AP Spanish
AP World History
AP Psychology
AP English Literature and Composition</p>
<p>Leadership:</p>
<p>Ciricculum Council representative
Student government representative
Lacrosse captain
Troy Foundation for Educational Excellence representative
Literary Magazine
Enviromental (Hoping to secure positions in both literary magazine and enviromental by time of application)
NHS
Job experience
Project Lead (a volunteer organization)
Volunteer hours (20+)</p>
<p>Well, your GPA is right at their median, 3.8 unweighted. Your ACT is in their second quartile (27-31 middle 50%), which is pretty good; if you can get it up to 32 you’ll be top quartile, which will be even better. Your ECs and rigor of curriculum look good. You’re in-state which will help as they’re always looking for highly qualified in-state students. Their overall admit rate has been right around 50% but it may have dropped some this year with a record applicant pool. It’s probably a bit easier for someone with your stats—currently right around the middle of their class—to get in as an in-state applicant than as an OOS applicant. I’d say as long as your teacher and GC recs are good and you write good and interesting essays, your chances look quite promising—but no guarantees. </p>
<p>Are you a Michigan legacy? They do give favorable consideration to that. </p>
<p>Is your lacrosse game good enough that they’d recruit you? I assume you’ve got game if you’re captain of your HS team. Michigan is just starting up varsity-level women’s lacrosse for the 2013-14 academic year, which would be your freshman year. They’ve already hired the coach who is going to need to fill up a complete roster with probably just a few scholarships (probably mostly partial) and help from a lot of walk-ons, including current students who have been playing at the club level. But if you’re good enough to help a start-up varsity lacrosse team, that’s a potential “hook.” Worth talking to your coach about. No question you meet the academic standards they’re looking for in student-athletes; the question is, can you help the lacrosse team?</p>
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I have something from Michigan that I’m looking at that says the middle 50% ACT numbers for 2011 admitted students is 29-33, so bclintonk’s info is a little off.</p>
<p>The average GPA still says 3.8, though.</p>
<p>Also, last year Michigan’s acceptance rate dropped to 40%.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think so. Stats for admitted students are significantly higher than stats for enrolled students because every year they admit a lot of high-stat students who they lose to other schools where they’re cross-admitted. Michigan kids who apply to Michigan and several Ivies and get into one or more Ivies will often choose the Ivy. OOS applicants just looking to get into the highest-ranked school they can often go elsewhere if it’s higher-ranked. And a lot of well-qualified OOS admits are turned off by the financial aid, who isn’t always great for OOS students, so a lot of the highest-stats OOS admits, those with the most attractive alternative options, go elsewhere. This happens at all schools except at the tippy-top. Be careful in reading this stuff. The admitted students data tell you about the students they’d LIKE to have from among those who apply. The enrolled students data I quoted tell you who they DO have after everything shakes out.</p>
<p>And not to worry. Their admissions people know the stats of the people who actually attend, as well as the stats of the people to whom they make offers. At a school like Michigan with an admit rate hovering around 50%, if you’re in the top half of the people who actually do attend, you should be in pretty good shape.</p>
<p>Your from Troy and your not Asian lol… I think you should get in easily. I’ve seen people get in with 3.6s and 26s on ACT, and seen people get rejected with ACT scores in the mid 30s with GPAs around 3.7m, but this is rare. I just talked to the adcom for our area, and she said that a huge thing she looks for is an amazing essay.</p>