Chances for UMich Engineering, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University

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Hi all,
The colleges mentioned above are my top picks for colleges that I would like to attend. I am currently a senior and will be graduating in 2018. I am an Indian male and I live in Michigan.

Here are my Grades!

Freshman Year
S1 S2
Pre- Calculus B+ A
Civics and Econ A A
Honors Bio A- A
Honors English A- A
Spanish 2 A A
Honors Orchestra A A

Sophomore Year S1 S2

Intro to Scientific Research A A
AP Statistics A- A
AP Calc A A-
Honors Chemistry A A
Honors English 10 A A
Spanish 3 A A
Honors Orchestra A A
AP US History A A

Junior Year S1 S2
Honors Orchestra A A
World History A A
AP Chemistry A A
AP Language A- A-
Spanish 4 A A
Honors Model UN A

Also dual enrolled in Multivariable and Diff EQs and got A’s in both.

Senior Year
I plan on taking AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Physics, and AP Spanish

Test Scores
SAT: 1500/1600 Retaking to see if I can do better
AP Exams: AP Calc-5
AP Stats-5
AP US History-3
Haven’t gotten results for AP Chem and AP Lang yet.

Extracurriculars
I am not involved in too many Extracurricular activities but I have focused on a few. I am a 3rd Degree Blackbelt and have been doing Karate for 10 years. I have played the violin for 6 years and am a member of the Grand Rapids Youth Symphony. I am a member of NHS and am the Treasurer of our schools Red Cross Club. I have around 50 hours of volunteering at the West Michigan Refugee Center and 25 hours at Grace Hospice.

Feel free to leave suggestions!

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Bump

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Can you list your section scores? For CoE at Umich, they will look at your Math score as well. Anyway, it is likely a math for you from in-state.

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Plan on going to UMich, much better cost to reputation ratio than the other two. If you come from a low income situation than Northwestern would be in play also.

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If you were my kid, I’d figure out a way to make UMich Engineering happen. It has a global reputation and in state tuition even with zero merit aid is a steal. If you can’t get in the ‘front door’ by applying and being accepted into the engineering program find a side door - possibly start out at a branch. I even know someone who got into a competitive grad program by enrolling as a continuing education student and working his way into the program by signing up for the classes and meeting the professors. Where there’s a will there is a way.

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I got 790 on Math and 710 on Reading

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Then UMich should be a good match from you from in state. The in state admission rate is around 45 percent and you are above average applicant.

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@billcsho Thanks, I just wanted to make sure i can get into the College of Engineering which from what I heard is a little harder to get into than LSA.

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It is slightly harder, but your should be fine. I do know an in state student got rejected by Umich with GPA 3.8 and ACT 33 though. Your GPA is above 3.97 (UMich recalculated) so it is around 75th percentile while your test score is above admission average.