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<p>Nonsense. The median unweighted HS GPA of enrolled freshmen at Michigan is 3.8, and they weigh GPA most heavily in admissions, along with rigor of HS curriculum. Michigan was at best an extremely high reach for an applicant with a 3.2 GPA. The rest of the application would have needed to be extraordinary for this applicant to have any chance at admission, and that was not the case.</p>
<p>OP’s SAT scores alone would have been marginally OK for Michigan: SAT M top quartile (but just barely), SAT CR third quartile (but just barely, very close to 25th percentile), SAT W third quartile (but just barely, very close to 25th percentile). In short, these are not SAT scores that are going to impress the admissions committee at Michigan, especially for an applicant who is well below standards on GPA, and especially for an applicant to Michigan’s College of Engineering which at this point has significantly higher admission standards than the rest of the university.</p>
<p>I think this is a case of an international student getting poor counseling about where to apply. The situation is not helped by CCers chiming in with equally uninformed advice.</p>