Currently a freshman at Wake Forest University, but looking to transfer to umich next fall. Would love to talk to other perspective transfers about their experiences.
I’m a student at OCC hoping to transfer to LSA next fall.
My high school stats aren’t great because I suffered from chronic illness for a long time, but I’m applying 5-6 years out of high school, so I’m thinking they won’t matter so much? Submitting my SAT scores, but again, they’re from so long ago I’m not sure if they’re even still relevant.
HS GPA: 3.1 (I’m pretty sure)
SAT: 1850
College GPA: 3.9 - 60+ Credits
Phi Theta Kappa member
Internship in field related to area of study
Volunteers regularly
Strong essays
Strong letter of recommendation
On track to earn Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts before enrollment
I withdrew from many courses in my first years of college due to medical issues. However, it hasn’t been a problem in over a year and I’m currently managing a full course load. The circumstance of the withdrawals is explained in my essays.
Anyone willing to chance me?
Freshman at Texas A&M
Engineering honors program
3.1 gpa
will have 30 credits by the time getting to ann arbor
hs gpa 3.75
30 act
got accepted out of high school
both parents are wolverines
chances?
I would say pretty good chance @adamtros. @cilrya1 I am not sure how it works for people so far out of high school. but your college gpa is great and you are very involved.
I am a freshman at Wake Forest right now.
College
Currently have a 3.8 gpa and will have 45 credits when I transfer.
Senator for student government
programming team
running club
high school
hs gpa 3.77
34 act
Varsity Cross Country and Track and field (4 years)
President of science club
member of mathletes
crew chief for theater productions
Sister is currently a sophomore at Michigan. I got deferred and then wait listed, but never was taken off the wait list.
I’m a California CC transfer student (will probably decrease my chances).
Applying to LSA CS (probably easier than CoE, although my first choice is CE)
College GPA: 3.90
Units so far: 90+ quarter units
(btw, I will have about 130+ units by the end my last quarter, would that affect my chances?)
EC: Phi Theta Kappa member, Engineering Club Officer, Volunteering
Anyone willing to chance me? Please?
wont it be harder to get in as a transfer because of umich doing guaranteed transfer last year?
Transferring from Oakland Community College to LSA (Psychology) for Fall '16
High School
Public, semi-competitive
HS GPA (UW UM): 3.3
AP Scores— APUSH 3, Language 4, Literature 3, Government 2, Macro 1
ACT: 28 (english: 32, math: 30, reading: 26, science: 23)
Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 5 AP, bunch of honors, fairly hard courseload
Rank: Top 25% or so
College
GPA (UW UM): 4.0 (one W in fall of 2013)
Transferable Credits: 31-37 (I don’t know if they’ll take my 3’s)
Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): very selective (cool) job involving extensive travel across America in the summer. Good community service as well.
Essays: Good (working on them now, I like what they’re turning into)
Instructor Recs: Two; both very good, one my psych prof, both UM grads for what that’s worth
Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): None
State or Country: Waterford, MI
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Chance me and I’ll chance back. Woop woop.
Currently a sophomore at MSU College of Natural Science (human biology major)
Applying to LSA
HS GPA-- 3.3
ACT-- 25
College GPA- 3.65
Credits- 64
Member of Alpha Epsilon Delta (professional fraternity)
Tons of Volunteer Work
Medlife club
Anybody out there in the CC world wanna chance us poor transfers please?? 
This is updated. Some of the things I put in were slightly off originally…
Transferring from Oakland Community College to LSA (Psychology) for Fall '16
High School
Public, semi-competitive
HS GPA (UW): 3.14 (W): 3.3 (UM UW): Unknown
AP Scores— APUSH 3, Language 4, Literature 3, Government 2, Macro 1
ACT: 28 (english: 32, math: 30, reading: 26, science: 23)
Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 5 AP, bunch of honors, fairly hard courseload
Rank: Top 25% or so
College
GPA (UW UM): 4.0 (one W in fall of 2013)
Transferable Credits: 30
Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): very selective (cool) job involving extensive travel across America in the summer. Good community service as well.
Essays: Good
Instructor Recs: Two; both very good
Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): I’m poor. I don’t really know if I’m poverty poor, but I know it’s not much over if I’m not.
State or Country: Waterford, MI
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Chance me and I’ll chance back. Woop woop.
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Im another CC student looking to get in UMich LSA, if somebody could chance me that’d be great
HS Stats: very poor due to a myriad of personal issues which I will not elaborate upon
GPA: 2.3
SATs: 1570
-Varsity soccer player
-30 Hours/week job
-Volunteer at local animal shelter
CC Stats:
GPA: 3.8
-Currently work a part time supervisor job at 32 hours/week
-Intern at county Democratic Committee
-Phi Theta Kappa Member
-Member of CC’s environmental activism club
-Awarded merit-based poli sci scholarship
-Still volunteer at local animal shelter
-Do minimal freelance journalism and have been published in county newspaper, I am hoping to be published in a more prevalent text before sending out my application
-3 letters of rec (I forget if UMich accepts 3 or only 2?) at least 2 are excellent
I know my HS stats put me at a disadvantage; however, I hear HS is largely overlooked during transfer admissions. Im hoping to add some more to my college resume before sending out my application in January, but I operate on a bit of a time constraint with work (which I hear many colleges consider a valuable EC).
Oh, Im also a first gen hispanic American.
Chance me or tell me what I can do to improve my chances!
Also, will be sending in application with 50 credits and will have completed 66 prior to enrollment
@thenarddog1 are you in-state or OOS?
UMich does not require any letters of recommendation for transfer students, but if you trust the profs they can never hurt. Three is the max.
HS is not entirely overlooked - if it was they wouldn’t require them at all. BUT, it can absolutely be made up for at CC… I would touch on the high school troubles in an essay though. Essays are a place admissions offices like to go for answers. One of their questions may be why you performed poorly in HS. Answer it if you can.
@mjr2013 im OOS which brings upon the problem of affording the hefty OOS tuition. Im not sure about UMich’s transfer aid, but im hoping to obtain some significant private scholarship aside from any school aid. As for elaborating on my HS performance, I dont recall UMich’s essays, but I believe they were mainly about academic/transfer goals etc. I suppose I could touch on it in the additional info section of my common app, but some universities explicitly state they dont consider that section unless you paste a resume in there, not sure about Umich.
@thenarddog1 UMich never asks for a resume, couldn’t hurt to put it in the additional info, but it’s your call. At 50 credit hours it probably won’t be looked at extensively.
I know in-state transfer students get pretty good need based FA from UM. Not sure on OOS, I’ve heard it’s good but have no experience. You could look up the net price calculator for a good indication.
A problem you may run into with OOS universities, UM included, is that the counselors may not know your school. You haven’t listed your school here, but most OOS CC’s are unknown, or little known, to admissions counselors. Depending on your interest in UMich, it may help to send a quick email to your admissions counselor expressing your interest and maybe offering course syllabuses if they’re interested. It might get ignored, but it might not.
Good luck!
@thenarddog1 I’m a transfer from Florida and U-M gave me incredible need-based aid (covering full tuition and a bit more). I think it depends on every individual family’s income and situation. You will have to see what the finaid letter says after you’re admitted. (Could try net price calculator too I suppose, I never did though.)
@eyo777 I hope you dont mind me asking exactly what your financial situation is like? I did try the net cost calculator and I come from a family earning just sub 100k annually in an area where living costs are very high and I was disconcerted by the caluclators projections, the grant was small and the estimated family/individual contribution was about double what I/my family can actually afford to contribute
Transferring from Oakland Community College to LSA (Psychology) for Fall '16
High School
Public, semi-competitive
HS GPA (UW): 3.08 (W): 3.22 (UM UW): 3.11
AP Scores— APUSH 3, Language 4, Literature 3, Government 2, Macro 1
ACT: 28 (english: 32, math: 30, reading: 26, science: 23)
Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 5 AP, bunch of honors, fairly hard courseload
Rank: School didn’t rank, class size was 329
College
GPA (UW UM): 4.0 (one W in fall of 2013)
Transferable Credits: 30
Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): very selective (cool) job involving extensive travel across America in the summer. Good community service as well.
Essays: Good to great
Instructor Recs: Two; both very good
Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): I’m poor. I don’t really know if I’m poverty poor, but I know it’s not much over if I’m not. My EFC is 0 and my net price calc for UM says $24.
State or Country: Waterford, MI
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
I have everything in except the college transcript that will be sent when fall semester grades post on January 5th. Chance me and I’ll chance back.