Do I have a shot?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>Hey everyone, I just wanted to know if I had any shot at getting accepted. Here are some of my stats:</p>

<p>SAT's: 1780 (Yes, they're really low, but I've only taken them once. I'm still a junior) </p>

<p>SAT II: World History: 740</p>

<p>GPA: 3.822 (weighted) 3.52 (unweighted) Class Rank: 78/362</p>

<p>Course Load:
All academic classes have been Honors courses plus two AP's this year. I plan to take five or six AP's senior year.</p>

<p>Extra Ciruculars:
Volunteer at the local SPCA
Volunteer at the Red Cross
Volunteer at the Salvation Army
Member of Kare (community service club at school, and will be leader next year.)
National Italian Honor Society
National German Honor Society (next year)
NHS
Model UN
Piano lessons for 12 years
Meditation Club (President)
Newspaper
School TV News
Mock Trial
Yearbook
CISV
I also learn Chinese and Hindi outside of school. In school I learn Italian, German and, next year, French. (If you haven't noticed, I focus a lot on languages. I also speak Korean.)
I plan to a) Get a job this year or b) get an internship with my State Senator (if I can..) or c) get an internship at the local courthouse.
Applied to PA Governer's School, and will attend either GU's Summer program or GW's Summer Program if I'm rejected.</p>

<p>Also, I'm the first person to go to college in my family, ever. Heard it helps...</p>

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<p>It's a long shot to be honest :/</p>

<p>Unless you raise your SAT/GPA drastically (3.7 UW, 2000), you don't stand much of a chance</p>

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<p>Where are you from? In state or OOS?</p>

<p>I know some kids with a 3.5 UMich GPA who got in; they had like 26-29 ACTs. They were in state, and this was last year's admissions</p>

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<p>Cvjn, the acceptance rate of students with 3.5 GPAs with sub 27 ACTs and sub 1200 SAT probably runs in the signel digits, probably mostly URMs and athletes.</p>

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<p>That is true, I'm just saying; while there is a shot... it's like shooting a basketball with a blindfold.</p>

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<p>Being first-generation does help, you're right about that.</p>

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<p>Yeah, at Michigan, GPA is easily 85-90% of your application. 3.5 just is not competitive. Raise it to at least a 3.7 to have a fighting chance, and a 3.8 to be competitive.</p>

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<p>"Cvjn, the acceptance rate of students with 3.5 GPAs with sub 27 ACTs and sub 1200 SAT probably runs in the signel digits, probably mostly URMs and athletes."</p>

<p>not really...tons of kids in our school get in OOS with around 3.0 GPA</p>

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<p>not really...tons of kids in our school get in OOS with around 3.0 GPA

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<p>huh? serious?</p>

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<p>What school do you attend Bearcats?</p>

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<p>hotchkiss school ...i got in with around 3.1 GPA, 1500 SAT..and i m probably the most unathletic person, and yes i m asian not URM</p>

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<p>Bearcats, I think it would be only fair if you gave us a little more information about your school. Like the fact that over 20% of the students in your school matriculate into Ivy League schools. Like the fact that another 40% end up at top 25 universities or LACs. Like the fact that the mean SAT score at your school is 2100+. Like the fact that your school has an endowment of over $300 billion (equal to Dartmouth or Stanford on a per-student basis). I bet it isn't uncommon for students from your school to get into Ivy League schools with sub 3.5 GPAs. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.hotchkiss.org/Academics/Coll_Matriculation.asp%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.hotchkiss.org/Academics/Coll_Matriculation.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You should at least qualify your statement lest you wish to give others false hope.</p>

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<p>i thought everyone at this forum's saying UM GPA is all they care about tho...and then the SAT</p>

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<p>Bearcats, that isn't the case with exceptional high schools, like Hotchkiss, or the Philips Academies or St John etc...</p>

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<p>oh...never knew that..one of my friends (he got into harvard EA. .dam him) thinks that public colleges are so systematic that they dont care about the essays and stuff even tho they ask for it, he decided to test it.. he applied to UT Austin, UM, UIUC, UW-Madison..with random alphabets on the essays...he's yet to hear back from UW-M and UT Austin, but he got into UM and UIUC with random alphabets, meaning that they didnt even read his essays. now i am not sure whether he's telling the truth, there's no way i can check ... but he does have 2300+ SAT and almost first honor roll</p>

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<p>He is telling the truth; I know another kid that did the same exact thing, and he even got some money from Umich.</p>

<p>He went to Country Day.</p>

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<p>Brown University - 13
Cornell University - 20
Dartmouth College - 9
Georgetown University - 28
Johns Hopkins University - 8
Princeton University - 10
Yale University - 18
University of Pennsylvania - 17</p>

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<p>so many in Ivy's... T_T;;</p>

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<p>To some extent, he's right--for a really strong student, the essay is not going to make a difference. It matters for the kids on the margins.</p>

<p>As for what he did....If I were a reader, I'd assume that the electronic file somehow completely garbled his essay. And if he were a strong student, I might say "Well, rather than hold up his decision while we chase down a fresh copy of what he actually wrote, I'll admit him anyway because it's hard to imagine an essay that would change his admissability." They wouldn't want to punish him for what they assumed was an unfortunate blameless glitch. </p>

<p>If they believed, however, that he sent random letters on purpose, then he should not have been admitted because he didn't fulfill admission requirements. </p>

<p>U-M has more than one essay--he did this to all of them?</p>