<p>Your app looks pretty decent. It looks like you had to overcome some pretty harsh circumstances, but with an Ivy League school, that’s not going to guarantee anything. Your academics and EC’s are good too. I’d say the biggest thing for you is to avoid making your application’s central theme your “overcoming adversity”; don’t make the admissions officer’s only reason for accepting you be the challenges you overcame, make them think “Wow, he achieved all of this while going through all that?” Like the person above me stated, focus on your strengths and your accomplishments. </p>
<p>Anyways, I would say Ivy league schools are a reach for you just as much as anyone else. As for U-mich, if you live in Michigan then you could definitely get a killer scholarship to go there, but if you’re out of state then it’ll probably be a lot harder to get money.</p>
<p>Chance me back? 
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