Chances for COE?

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What are my chances for RD? I go to a top 10 feeder high school. Nearly everyone I know who had a 3.7+UW and 30+ ACT got into the COE this year from EA admissions.

Asian male, in-state, legacy (parents got their master’s from UM)
ACT: 34 (34M, 33S, 33E, 32R)
GPA: 3.8W, 4.16W
APs: US History (4), , Bio (5), Macro (5), Micro (5), English Lang (5), Calc AB (5)
Senior APs: Calc BC, Chem, Computer Science, Spanish

Awards:
AP Scholar with Distinction
Congressional recognition

ECs:
National Honor Society
200+ hours of community service
Treasurer for Key Club
Varsity Track & Field (9, 10); Varsity Baseball (11, 12); Varsity Soccer (11, 12)
Engineering internship at a local manufacturing company

Intended major: Biomedical Engineering w/ a minor in CS

2

From in state, your should be a match for CoE considering your legacy. Your GPA is on the low side but it seems it is fine with your school.

3

Thanks. Out of curiousity, is a 3.8UW considered low for COE?

4

Yes. The admission average has been 3.9. For UMich overall, 21% of enrolled freshmen in 2014 had 4.0 GPA in high school. The ratio should be even higher for CoE.

5

Regular decision will make it harder, because after early action, UM goes by a rolling admissions system. That means that the competition will be based on not only how other applicants look, but how many open seats are left. If UM has around 6,000 seats for freshman per year, applying EA means that you will be competing against other applicants for 6,000 open seats. Waiting until when right when RD begins means that you will be competing for 3,000ish open seats. The later you wait, the fewer seats remain open, thus the competition keeps increasing.

6

Your school may be very competitive. I know a student from a top 5 feeder in state with 3.8+ uwGPA and ACT 33 got deferred from CoE EA and rejected at the end last year.

7

Remember that UM recomputes grades - many students will just A’s and A- grades are considered 4.0 students under UM’s system. At my son’s school, EA acceptance was close to 100%, but around 50% in RD.

8

I don’t think UM eliminates + and - when looking at GPA. However, they do recompute it to include only academic courses (i.e., gym, music, art classes and other classes of that nature are taken out of the calculation).

9

@umcoe16 They do omit subgrades. It has been the case before they stopped recalculating GPA and after resuming recalculating GPA. The main difference between the old way and new way of GPA recalculation is now they include freshmen grades which were omitted in the old formula.
That is one of the reason 21% of enrolled freshmen has GPA 4.0 from high school.