<p>I want to know if I would have to show my counselor my application before I send it. Will I need to bring proof of things like community service, tutoring, work, etc.?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that totally depends on your high school.</p>
<p>can they even check that stuff. I don’t know how this thing works but I thought that UM sends them an email for the recommendation and they just fill it out and send it back.</p>
<p>I’m sure U of M checks for proof of all of your ECs and awards and everything. If you want your counselor to go over your app, you can print out a preview and show it to them, but it’s probably not necessary.</p>
<p>I’m kinda worried about listing my ECs and honors on my online app. For the ECs, half of my activities aren’t listed in the menu, and there definitely isn’t a way to list them in 30 characters.</p>
<p>For the honors, thee isn’t enough room to write the entire name of the award, and I’m afraid the person reading my app won’t know what the abbreviations mean.</p>
<p>I know there’s a place where you can write down additional info (part 10 of the app), bit do they actually read it? Does anyone know if the admissions person actually pays attention to the additional info page?</p>
<p>Thanks =]</p>
<p>how would they check my app… the information they ask for in the online app is very vague and they dont ask for contact numbers or anything. I am not sure what i should do.</p>
<p>I used up quite a bit of the Additional Information section and apparently it wasn’t detrimental enough to hinder my acceptance to LSA on December 11th (with a sub-par GPA/ACT for OOS UMich applicants; and I’m not an URM, a legacy, an athlete, connected to someone famous, or even a guy with a hook). So it’s completely fine if you can’t fit every award in the Honors category.</p>
<p>Ah, ok. So did you just have separate sections in the “additional info” page where you listed your ECs/honors that you couldn’t fit in the app? Did you attach a separate document with this information or just type it in their box?</p>
<p>Also, did you upload your essays from Microsoft word? Was there any problems?</p>
<p>Thanks aajjc, that makes me feel better :P</p>
<p>And yeah R-KATT, I agree, what they ask for is very vague. Sorry, I’m not sure what to do though. Maybe ECs aren’t very important to U of M…</p>
<p>No problem! I think I just listed additional information in their box and had no problem uploading my essays from word to the application.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks again! Btw, when did you apply aajjc? I’m trying to figure out when I’ll get a response if I apply in October o_O</p>
<p>ok. So i have no idea what to do for proof so I am just not going to put anything. Is anyone else going to do that?</p>
<p>Wait wait wait, won’t your community service and work info be on your transcript?</p>
<p>since when… your transcript just shows your grades and the test scores you reported</p>
<p>I applied at the end of September/beginning of October, but I heard back later than most people who applied when I did, probably because I was a semi-borderline candidate for admission.</p>
<p>Ok thanks aajjc…and sorry R-KATT idk, I’m just gonna ask my counselor what I should do in the fall =]</p>
<p>I am 95% sure they read my additional info section. I’m not 100% sure I’d have been admitted if they didn’t, though I’d like to think so. Why wouldn’t they? It’s part of your application, after all. </p>
<p>I didn’t need any proof for anything except my test scores and GPA, which were on my transcript, and I am pretty sure they didn’t even check anything else. I am pretty close with the heads of my ECs and I’m pretty sure nobody ever got a call like, “IS SHE REALLY IN YOUR CLUB!?” and they didn’t even have contact info for the places I volunteered at. </p>
<p>Because I couldn’t find a few of my ECs in the lists, I had to just improvise as best as I could. Most of mine were at least similar to something on the list. If you’re really worried about them missing something in particular I’d see if I could include that info into one of my essays somehow, maybe in the additional info if necessary.</p>
<p>Ok, and you filled out the online app right Twisted? For example, if you play high school tennis for a year, take lessons for another year and play it as a hobby for the other 2 years, can you just select Tennis for 4 years? I don’t see how else you could do it since there’s only “Tennis”, and NOT, “Tennis Team”, or “Tennis lessons” listed in the menu. And can you combine all of your volunteer things and put it under “community service”?</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help! ;D</p>
<p>I did the online app, yes. I would probably just put tennis for four years if there’s no other way to put it–what choice do you have?. I didn’t combine all of my volunteer things because some were in school clubs and others were things I did myself and I wanted them to see the diversity in my volunteering endeavors, so I listed them each separately as best as I could. </p>
<p>It should be known that I filled out UM’s transfer application, but it sounds like the EC sections are exactly the same-- it even had checkboxes on mine for whether I did the club in 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, or after high school.</p>