<p>African American Male</p>
<p>SAT = 2050 650/650/650</p>
<p>GPA</p>
<p>Fresh=3.92 uw (4.5 w)
SOph= 3.35 uw (3.92w)..two C+'s... ouch
JUnior= 3.78 uw (4.214 w)</p>
<p>Cum GPA = 3.7 uw (4.214 w)</p>
<p>Really good Ec's</p>
<p>Lots of Honors and Good REc's.....</p>
<p>You fall into the middle 50% in terms of stats. I don't know any specifics about your ECs or your courseload, but if they're good like you say, you should have a decent shot. Just make sure you apply early (don't be dumb like me and apply the day of the deadline lol).</p>
<p>cool thanx...and i also meant 1950</p>
<p>What is your Michigan GPA? To calculate, you take your 5 core academic classes in your sophomore and junior year (English, Math, Foreign Language, Social Studies, and Science), and assign a point (4 for an A, 3 for a B, 2 for a C) for each semester grade. All classes are unweighted, meaning a B+ in AP English would be a 3.0, however, a A- in English is a 4.0.</p>
<p>3.3 Umich GPA...i kno a girl who got in with a 3.3 U MICH GPA too</p>
<p>You're a minority, so that helps a lot. I know a kid who got a full ride to Michigan with much lower stats than you (he was African American as well).</p>
<p>I had a 3.3 UM GPA and a 29 on the ACT (equal to 1900-1950 SAT) and was deferred. Do well this second semester, you don't want to be deferred.</p>
<p>Clue, would you mind posting the stats of that kid you knew? I'm just curious as to how much URM status really helps you (I'm a URM too, by the way).</p>
<p>It helps. I had a friend who was a 3.5 GPA, 28 ACT, admitted (UM GPA unknown). I have a 3.6 GPA, 29 ACT, deferred. We did apply to different areas though (She was LSA, I was Kines). She may have had stronger ECs, but i'm not a slouch in that area.</p>
<p>KuniKuni, it's hard to know how much any one thing helps a student, because there are many things that can give a student a boost. </p>
<p>URM status is undeniably one of them. </p>
<p>However, the state or county one lives in, the education status of one's parents, the quality and subject matter of the essays, the decisions made on other students from the same high school, one's status as a legacy, one's income, the courses taken given the curriculum offered.... all these things are factors. No one, except for admissions readers, know how they all stack up for any student. You can't comparing two students with similar scores who got different decisions and atttribute it solely to one thing like their race or their high school. A lot of students on CC want to do that, but the point of holistic review is to take these many things into account.</p>
<p>Also, FWIW, I have seen students here declare their "U-M GPA" and get it wrong, so that also makes it difficult to know one is truly comparing equivalent academic measures.</p>