<p>Ok so I heard that general univery of mich (coa or something) is easier to get into then Ross pre-admit. My gpa is a 3.4-3.5 right now and I know I will not be able to pre-admit to Ross. Since Ross is a 3 year program if I get into regular UofM then I could apply to Ross after my freshman year. I was wondering what do the Ross admission people look at? Do they look back to high school or do they focus on college?</p>
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<li>Your freshman yr GPA (academics) + Extracurricular + essays</li>
<li>They do not look at high school academics. Though you can write a few activities from high school in your application. Basically, high school doesn’t matter (at all).</li>
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<p>In your freshman yr, you should aim for at least 3.7. The acceptance average from last year was 3.65.</p>
<p>Your first challenge will be getting into LSA in the first place. 3.4-3.5 is quite low even for LSA and even if you’re in-state. You might still have a chance if you’re a URM, but guessing from your name most likely not.</p>
<p>I thought the average gpa was 3.4 for lsa?</p>
<p>No, the average college GPA of a student in LSA is around a 3.4. The average unweighted high school GPA for an admitted student is a 3.9 according to the most recent LSA statistics. Your chances of getting into LSA even as an instate student is unfortunately very low. Only about 5% of Michigan’s entering class had below a 3.5 in high school, and those that came in with those GPA’s typically had an amazing hook, or were accepted into one of U-M’s colleges where GPA isn’t extremely important (such as art or kinesiology).</p>
<p>@ForeverAlone Michigan does not give preference to URM’s. U-M stopped participating in affirmative action in 2006.</p>
<p>How hard is it to go to another school and then transfer to Ross after one year</p>
<p>Very, very hard.</p>
<p>Practically, you might as well transfer into an Ivy league for outside transfer.</p>
<p>There’s always the option of first transferring into LSA after your freshman year and then going for Ross after your sophomore year. The downside is you have to stay 5 years.</p>
<p>Wow this stinks I really wanted to go to UofM :(</p>
<p>I doubt being a URM doesn’t help you now. The OP isn’t, but still…</p>
<p>The average LSA GPA is a 3.4? Damn</p>
<p>^ Well I am surprised that it is high. From what I saw, I guessed around 3.0. Maybe 3.2.</p>
<p>Yea, I’m not sure if it is actually a 3.4. I heard that once, and I never really questioned it. Now that I’m thinking about it, I would have to imagine the average is probably a little lower.</p>
<p>^it is 3.35 or so. It was FOIAed by the daily last year.</p>
<p>They may state that URM no longer officially helps an applicant; however, if you browse through the accepted threads whenever you see someone with below-average stats(e.g. 3.6 GPA, 27 ACT) get in, don’t be surprised that more than likely the applicant will be a URM.</p>
<p>The engineering school is a good place to start as far as finding out if any URMs get a boost</p>
<p>Generally, the way UM gets around the affirmative action ban is to partner with certain high schools that have large numbers of URM students. UM then gives admission preference to all applicants from that school. As most of the students are URM, they get preference that way. But UM does not look at the race of individual applicants (that would violate the affirmative action ban), thus a white student from a partnered high school, also gets admission preferance. A rather bizarre system, but on the othe hand perhaps a white student who decides to go to a majority-minority high school and does well there, is the type of student that UM wants.</p>
<p>I’d guess the vast majority of high school students don’t choose their high school</p>
<p>Michigan’s love for racist affirmative action policies in the guise of “diversity” despite the immorality of it and a vast majority of the state’s residents objecting to it as shown in prop 2 voting is nothing new.</p>
<p>And this will enrage a lot of PC police out there despite it being the truth. At least in the college of engineering, it’s very obvious who benefited from Michigan’s racist and non-meritocratic admissions policies; especially while working in a team. </p>
<p>I am guessing one of these “partners schools” MichorPlan2 references is Cass Technical. Unfortunately I have been randomly assigned in teams with kids from that school and some of these kids struggle in even basic writing (and this is coming from an ORM who grew up in a non-english speaking country until high school). There are so many 3.9 Cass Tech, 21-25 ACT types at Michigan that would not have gotten in had it not been Michigan’s racist policies.</p>
<p>The admission average GPA for 2012 was 3.83 (3.9 for CoE). I have not seen the number for 2013 yet as it is still very fresh. Since it joins the CommApp, the average GPA has gone up and the acceptance rate has gone down. I would not be surprise if the average went up further this year.</p>