<p>First of all, GPA is the biggest thing. and SAT has to be more than 1900(at least). However, people who say " ok, this is reach stats" are undermining many aspect of each students.</p>
<p>5 minutes ago, I saw one man who made 3.6 GPA (UW). He was attending very competitive high school (even I know) that only accepts students who were 1~4% in their middle school. In this case, if I was admission officer, I would take this into consideration very much because attendning normal school and getting 4.0 does not mean that this student is better qualified than the guy who got 3.6 in competitive school.</p>
<p>And, many people said grade improvements are not considered in admission process but at Umich website, there are criterias for judgment. And they do take the grade improvements into consideration.</p>
<p>What is purpose of looking at scores? I believe that admission officers are wanting someone who can do well in UMICH and someone who have potential to do well if he/she have met a great setback in the future (like having hard times raising their score up)</p>
<p>Please, to those who reply on posts, there are many people who are eager to go to University of Michigan, and I know how desperate they feel. Please give students a chance to get in to UMICH even though you think it is quite reach in your eyes. and also I think those who want to chance themselves should not write your stats here because if you try your best, the chances of getting into UMICH will go up and putting your score up in this forum will not even raise your chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Class of 2013, I hope we can see together next year ^.^ CHEER UP!</p>
<p>The OP is correct, my D's experience was that admissions did look beyond the stats (strong but not stellar) and took into consideration the highly competitve high school she came from, as well as personal challenges she overcame. </p>
<p>I have to say this really impressed me about U Mich, that for the huge number of applications they get from outstanding students; they still take the time to look beyond the numbers.</p>
<p>but the only problem is that umich receives 12,000+ applications a year and dare i say it prolly does not have time to look deep into a student's application to see if they will succeed or not.
when i reply to a chances post, i'm just speaking from experience from what i saw in admissions the year before.
Also the one flaw i've seen consistently is that umich does not take into account where an A is determined whether at 95%,94%, 93%, or even 90%. They seem to only care about what is written on the transcript, which can be explained by the immense number of applications they receive.</p>
<p>Since they can have some time to review everything in the application thoroughly????????????????? I also agree that in regular decision they do not consider about student's situation</p>
<p>actually, i talked to the admission officer when she came to our school last month , she told me that there were a lot of 24 act people that were accepted.</p>
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umich receives 12,000+ applications a year and dare i say it prolly does not have time to look deep into a student's application to see if they will succeed or not.
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Actually Michigan received 26,796 applications last year and admitted 13,253. But then most of the Ivies received as many or more applications (Cornell 33,011; Harvard 27,462) and that didn't stop them from evaluating each application carefully. Based on the limited info I have in my area, Michigan admission has gotten more and more holistic in the past few years.</p>
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she told me that there were a lot of 24 act people that were accepted.
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It's true that Michigan puts more weight on grades and curriculum than test scores. So those people with low ACT probably had high GPA. And it depends on what she meant by "a lot". The mid-50% range of the admitted class of 2007 was 27-31 so there can't be more than a few percent scoring 24 or less. On the other hand, in terms of absolute numbers, about 400 of the enrolled class scores less than 24 and they couldn't all be recruited athletes.</p>