<p>Just because your school send many kids each year, does not mean you can get in with a low gpa. </p>
<p>I attended Northville HS. Those who are familiar with it would likely classify it as a very good school. My year, we sent about 65 or 55 kids (I forget which) to Ann Arbor from a class of 550ish. Most of those kids had a 3.7+. Having a low GPA from a good public school won’t get you into umich.</p>
<p>^You deal with absolutes too much. Is the GPA low? Yea, but he still has a good chance because he has a lot of other activities and a high ACT. You gotta look at his whole body of work.</p>
<p>I still say there is a low chance you will be accepted right away because i’m thinking you will be deferred at first. Don’t be too worried, just write a good letter about your improvements/strengths of your high school career and send that into the admissions office as soon as you can after being deferred. Not only wil u be showing them your continued interest in U of M, but it will also give u another opportunity to show them more about yourself in detail that won’t be in your essays. I was initially deferred in December, but was accepted in February. I also advise you to take a challenging senior courseload and perform well. My hardest courseload ever for high school was for my senior year and I ended up getting a UM 4.0 gpa for both semesters. I wrote about how I was improving throughout my high school career in that letter i sent to them, and so for my fall semester year I proved that I was serious about what I had said. Just have hope and don’t give up.</p>
<p>Samuelson, my biggest worry is that i wont get deferred and be rejected. I really hope that I will overcome my tough senior courseload with a UM 4.0 for both semesters. Also, can i ask what your cumulative GPA was (at the end of junior year)?
I’ll never give up hope even though my chances seem dim, but i really really hope i can join you at UMich, thanks!</p>
<p>Moricarak, </p>
<p>Hardly anyone gets rejected in the Early Response round. Most people get either accepted or deferred. It’s only during the Regular Decision round in March or April when people get flat-out denied.</p>
<p>wait, i thought early response and early decision were different? im confused now</p>
<p>there is only early response I believe… It just means that if you apply before nov. 1, then you will hear of the decision before christmas. If you apply before nov 1, then it is HIGHLY unlikely you will be flat out rejected, because there are still plenty of regular applicants yet to come in and the university will want to see how you compare to that pool as well. Therefore, they defer many applicants from early response. Some get in later (like me), some don’t. It really just depends on the amount and quality of the applicants that year. I had a um gpa 3.4 i think after junior year. 3.0 soph, 3.8 junior year, or something like that. like aajjc said, they generally reject students much later. </p>
<p>Like i said before, get good grades for your fall semester, go for that 4.0 because you won’t know until you are done with that semester whether you were accepted or were deferred. If you get defferred, they will take into account those fall grades, so make it look good. The second semester is not as important because by the time you are done with high school you will have recieved your final decision. I just recommend good grades then so that if you do get accepted, they won’t decide to rescind it because of bad grades.</p>
<p>We here generally seem say “early action” instead of “early response” (non-binding in either case). “Early decision” is binding except when the financial aid offered is insufficient to allow attendance (the family’s decision), in which case you can say “Thanks but no thanks.”</p>
<p>Moricarak, I am familiar with yours and Samuel’s schools (my s. was from City). Have had adcom tell me it’s very competitive to get in from EGR or FHC insofar as the internal competition – eg. they evaluate how you’ve done with what you’ve been given – goes; you have to perform well within your pool of students. They consider FHC and EGR to be excellent academic environments, so they kind of “expect more” insofar as performance. Blackpen’s point about Northville is a good one. Ask your GC what your rank is in terms of percentile. Then calculate the percentage that 60 kids accepted last year represents. Then you will have a better idea where you sit. Definitely apply early, and definitely trend up the GPA, and definitely explain any circumstances.
Rule of thumb with instate, rigorous school – generically – is “make sure you’re above 3.5.”
Now, that said, if you were outright rejected (which isn’t likely, as other posters mentioned re: EA and deferral), know that there is also an appeal process with which your guidance counselor can assist.</p>
<p>Also know that U of Mich is the MOST difficult school for which to be granted Michigan residency, and that same takes about 10 weeks in my experience. I have lived here 6 years with perm resident greencard, co-own business, homeowner; paid taxes; son had attended all of MS and HS at City, and we still had to “prove” that we’d severed all ties with Canada (fiscally, in terms of property ownership, business entities, and parental custodianship, etc.) in order to be considered in-state. Find out NOW if you meet the residency criteria; make sure your immigration docs are in order if you are not a full Citizen, etc., because the cost as OOS is tough to take (apx. $46 k a year incl res/meals).</p>
<p>Good luck. You can influence your outcome in a myriad of ways. Go for it. Just keep your eyes wide open and give yourself lots of options.
Cheers,
K</p>