<p>i think they count all AP classes, regardless of what it is, since it requires a lot of work.</p>
<p>If I had a 3.66 for my Soph+Junior years would they round that to a 3.7?</p>
<p>90% for a class and better counts as an A right?</p>
<p>I am deferred, would it be impressive enough to gain admittance if I had an A in every class to raise my UM GPA from a 3.6/3.7 to a 4.0 for senior year?</p>
<p>^^no, yes, and not necessarily…based on previous years…</p>
<p>Thanks rodney! My counselor says that the school forwards mid-semester grades automatically so my next question to you guys is this: </p>
<p>I wrote a cover letter as has been suggested in another thread, but I also wish to include another letter of recommendation from a different teacher and a clipping of an article of mine which got published in the local paper. </p>
<p>Should I have my school include my transcript, cover letter, letter of recommendation, and article all in one envelope, or should I let the school send in the transcript, my teacher send in the recommendation, and send in the cover letter and article on my own? <—(Hope that isn’t too confusing.)</p>
<p>Also do you think it matters if I have my teacher fill out that recommendation form they make teachers fill out to go with their letters or not?</p>
<p>Have your school send it all at the same time. Once they receive it, it will be processed and put with your file a lot faster (as opposed to them getting 3 individual mailings and having to process all of them separately).</p>
<p>If I were you I’d use the teacher rec form that they provide. Since they made it, all the info they want is sure to be included. (for example a regular letter might be of little use to them if doesn’t include all the ranking boxes or whatever those are called)</p>
<p>ACT: 32
GPA: UM GPA is a 3.55. W GPA 4.1, UW GPA 3.8.
Course load: 7?
Extracurricular: 7ish again.
School: 8
State: OOS
Letter: Option 1 
Wolv. Access: Option 1 again.</p>
<p>This doesn’t look good for me. I had good grades last semester, though… with the toughest coursework I’ve taken yet. Plus, since I submitted my application I received a national award for journalism. … Do you guys think I have any chance at all if I tell them about the award and my grades last semester? I’m not feeling very optimistic. :(</p>
<p>SAT (1600): 1220
SAT (2400): 1870
GPA: around an 86
Course load: 10
Extracurricular: 11
School: 11
State: OOS
Essays: Phenomenal
Recs: Phenomenal
Awards: Senior Spotlight, Numerous DECA awards
Letter: Deferred</p>
<p>To be honest, my school doesn’t calculate GPA’s for us, so I am not exactly sure what scale the majority of your “weighted” “un-weighted” and “UMich GPAs” are on. Could someone clarify for me?</p>
<p>I just realized I have a small typo in my stats, I have a 1260, as opposed to a 1220.</p>
<p>dsieg1029- what extracurriculars did u do? im just curious since you put an 11</p>
<p>and yea, i dont understand the grading system scored off of 100.</p>
<p>but as for gpa’s…
A-4.0
B-3.0
C-2.0
D-1.0</p>
<p>you add up all your grades and get the average.</p>
<p>UM gpa only counts the grades of your sophmore and junior years.</p>
<p>weighted gpa means that you get more gpa for tougher classes, like AP’s.
our school gives 5.0 for A’s, 3.75 for B’s, and 2.5 for C’s.</p>
<p>did that kinda answer your question?</p>
<p>Thank you for the info about the GPAs, my school doesn’t calculate them for us, they actually don’t give us class rankings either.
For a GPA out of 100 you take the final numerical grade in a class, multiply it times how many credits the class is, and then add the results in one column and put the credits in another column, you do this for every class and add them up in their respective columns, then you divide the accumulation of credits by the other column, and you should have your gpa out of 100.</p>
<p>About my ecs, I am a dedicated member of 8 clubs, 3 school publications, 2 honors societies, and I keep a part time job on the side. I hold officer positions in 4 of my 8 clubs (one of witch I co-founded). My after-school day is longer (believe it or not) than my actual classes, thus the low grades.</p>
<p>SAT (1600): 1440
SAT (2400): 2150
SAT IIs: Lit-680 US Hist-700
GPA: 2.9 <—I caught mono in junior year
Course load:
7
Extracurricular:
6
School:
8, but compared to other public schools, a 10</p>
<p>State: (Instate or OOS) Out of State</p>
<p>Letter: </p>
<p>Option 3: You’ve received no letter</p>
<p>Wolv. Access: </p>
<p>Option 2: 7th semester grades is there</p>
<p>also, on WA, it says “7th semester grades” and that I’ve been “notified”, but I’ve received no letter (perhaps it’s on it’s way?). I applied early november, and I thought that I would be one of those people who doesn’t find out I’ve been rejected until mid-April because my stats suck.</p>
<p>If the 7th semester grade space showed up just recently (like a few days ago), then you will probably get a letter soon. Since you have the space on wolverine access, it probably means you’re supposed to get letter 2. If you don’t, basically it just says to have your counselor send them 7th semester grades and to include your UM-ID. I posted the full letter further back in this thread.</p>
<p>I have no idea when you’ll get a final decision though.</p>
<p>I got my letter today, and it was the second one, saying that they need “additional information in order to make a decision”.</p>
<p>I talked to my uncle about this. He’s on the board of admissions for UVA and i figured he might have a better understanding than I do. He basically said exactly what uofm33 just stated. He thinks that if you get Letter 1, your stats most likely match the average stats UMich is used to seeing and now they want to take those stats and compare them to all applicants. Letter 2 says that your stats are not up to par and are basically giving you another chance to prove that you have what it takes to get accepted. </p>
<p>He also said that he expects a lot more people from Letter 1 to be accepted regular decision over those who recieved letter 2. And one final note he added is that if you have really good semester grades or have retaken a test with better scores, send them in! It can only help.</p>
<p>Hope this helps a little bit…</p>
<p>i had letter 1, but my fall semester grades kind of suck. should i still send them?</p>
<p>tilohnine, thanks for that info. thats a bit of a relief knowing that i still have a decent shot.</p>
<p>and psp-fifa-fan…what was ur gpa when you applied, and what is it this semester? if its much lower, then dont send it in. But if your taking tougher classes and just did a little worse, then you could still send them in.</p>
<p>i looked through all the posts, and from what i saw almost everyone in option 1 had pretty good test scores but had below average gpa’s.</p>
<p>just rough estimates…they had about 30-32 act and about 2000-2100 sat. they also had about 3.4-3.6 gpa’s.</p>
<p>so yea, they were similar to what UM usually sees, but theyre just waiting to compare option 1 applicants with the rest of the regular decision applicants.</p>
<p>there werent many people who posted with option 2, so i cant really conclude on anything. but compared to the other deferrals, they had similar test scores, but even lower gpa’s.</p>
<p>if any of you are writing “letters of continued interest” what are you saying in them?
and what format are you using?</p>
<p>im kind of lost on where to start mine…</p>
<p>maybe the letter you get depends on where you live or which admissions officer handled your app? (like midwest gets a different letter than ne?) i know it makes absolutely no sense that way, but all the people at my school who got deferred (that i’m aware of) got letter 2. some with higher gpa, some lower. we’re all in michigan.</p>