Chances for a hopeful Wolverine

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Here are my colleges:</p>

<p>Reach: Northwestern, Umich(my number 1), UT-Austin
Match: Illinois-Champaign, Wisconsin-Madison, Washington-Seattle
Safety- Arizona, Indiana-Bloomington</p>

<p>I am planning to major in geology.</p>

<p>ACT- 28 with 12 on writing (really bad test taker)
SAT- 1840/1600, 1250/1600 (not submitting)</p>

<p>Public School in Houston, ranked # 80 in nation according to Newsweek</p>

<p>Rank: 146/694 (21%)
GPA: Weighted- 4.21
Unweighted-3.7</p>

<p>AP Exams: 5 on Hum. Geo, 4 on US hist</p>

<p>ECs
-Editor-in-Chief of Newspaper
-Captain of Varsity tennis team (lettered)
-NHS
-President of SADD
-Rep in Students as Allies
-Active in BBYO
-Over 400+ hours of Comm. service at school and Houston Arboretum
-Commended researcher for USGS (geology in Yellowstone experiment)
-Received Future Ranger Scholarship from yellowstone association
-Work Experience- Internship at Houston Arboretum, Checker/sacker at grocery store, internship for Radio Disney
-Also have many awards and much more, PM me if you want whole list.</p>

<p>Taken all mostly AP classes, with a few regular here and there (3 total).</p>

<p>Recommendations- Very good from my hum. geo teacher, and very good from my 4 year tennis coach</p>

<p>Really excellent essays concerning my interest in geology, and michigan and wisc and illinois have been submitted.</p>

<p>Please chance me, it will make me feel a whole lot better.</p>

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<p>Check out this '06 freshman profile taken from the U-Mich website and compare your stats:</p>

<p>Michigan Profile: A Highly Qualified Freshman Class for 2006
25,733 Applications
12,196 Admissions
5,418 Enrolled (Unofficial)
Middle 50th percentile of the class
ACT Composite of 27–31
ACT English of 27–33
ACT Math of 27–33
ACT Combined English/Writing of 26–31
SAT Total of 1900–2160
SAT Critical Reading 610–720
SAT Math 650–760
SAT SAT Writing 610–720
Unweighted high school GPA of 3.7–4.0
28% with a 4.0 GPA
52% with 3.9 or higher GPA
AP and/or IB Credit was granted to over 3000 new freshmen</p>

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<p>Thanks for those...but how do you think I compare to those?</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Well, your ACT composite is in the range of last year's class. You didn't give subscores so I don't know how you compare, plus you didn't mention your combined english/writing score. Sounds like you've taken a challenging curriculum, but is your UW GPA the recomputed Michigan GPA? If not, Michigan does not factor in freshman grades, eliminates + / - 's, does not weight for honors/AP's, and only uses grades in core academic classes when recomputing the GPA. They assign 4 points for an A, 3 for a B, etc. Your EC's look good, recs and essays sound fine from your description, although those components of your app carry much less weight than the numbers...GPA and scores are king.</p>

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<p>Thanks bluealum...anyone else?</p>