<p>My friend was deferred with a 32 ACT, in state, 3.7 weighted GPA, with a total of 5 APs
also her father is a graduate professor in nuclear engineering at UMich and her sister graduated at the top of her class for biomedical engineering in june of 2010 from UMich</p>
<p>anyway, is there anything she should do specifically to improve her chances of getting into UMich in April?</p>
<p>Extra rec letters?
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>Pray? (10char)</p>
<p>Assuming they help her cause, submit mid-year grades.</p>
<p>Those stats are similar to my daughter’s. She was also deferred. Michigan State is looking better all the time.</p>
<p>In all seriousness, you provided her weighted GPA. What is her UNWEIGHTED GPA?</p>
<p>Its strange that your friend didn’t get in with her father being a professor… Regardless, a 3.71 weighted gpa isn’t very impressive. The average gpa unweighted is around 3.7. The best she can do now is aim for straights As as a senior and submit her mid-year report.</p>
<p>The unweighted GPA is the biggest determining factor. If the weighted GPA is 3.7, then the unweighted may not even be a 3.5. It is tough to gain admittance to U-M with a 3.5 unweighted GPA even with high test scores. A strong mid-year report may help.</p>
<p>Yes I agree with the last two posts.</p>
<p>your schools are different than ours
we don’t weight honors classes only APs
and yeah her midyear report will be pretty good A in AP psych and i think a B+ in ap statistics but the rest all honors and all As</p>
<p>yeah i was surprised when she didnt get in because of her dad too</p>
<p>she got in</p>
<p>With so many connections and being IS I think it was inevitable</p>