<p>Do I have a better chance of getting in if I do Early Response? What is their minimum GPA requirement? Can I get in with a 3.3 GPA? Do they require SAT Subject Tests? If so, how many and which ones?</p>
<p>Yeah definitely do Early Response. The average GPA of people getting in is around 3.8 I think, but it depends on the college. Your GPA is a bit low, but you could still get in since there are many other factors. They require either the ACT with writing, or the SATs. I took the ACT, so I don’t know the details about the SATs. Give us more info about your stats (test scores, ap classes, class rank, ECs, etc) if you want people to tell you your chances.</p>
<p>3.3 is too low of GPA and basically eliminates you from any chance of admission.
SAT2s are not required.</p>
<p>3.3 is really low, yes, but if you’ve taken all honor/AP classes, have really good ECs, recommendations, essays, and do really well on the ACT/SAT, there’s always hope. Also, if you went to a school were the average GPA is really low, they might overlook your low gpa too.</p>
<p>Having a 3.3 is really really going to hurt (well I don’t know about nursing). Unless you go to a rigorous prep school and had a tough schedule.</p>
<p>So even with that low of a GPA, I still have a chance of getting in.</p>
<p>No.
Unless you went to a very very good school and have a class rank of 10% or better.</p>
<p>I got in with a 3.2UW, but I had very good EC’s,Recommendations and Essays. I’m also an URM(African American Male). Since Michigan uses race as a factor in their admissions, I guess I’m a product of affirmative action, or what Ring of Fire called, the “diversity quota.” I also had very bad test scores, but took rigorous courses. I was always in AP, Advanced, and Honors classes. My class rank was like 24%. I had a uphill trend when it comes to GPA. My school weights grades. 3.6W(3.0 UW), 3.9W(3.25 UW), 4.0W(3.26 UW), 4.4W(3.52 UW).My grades go from Freshman year to Senior year. I sent them my mid year grades and I took SAT II’s because I applied to some colleges that required them.</p>
<p>I thought Michigan banned affirmative action. If not, that’s probably a good thing since I’m Asian :)</p>
<p>Sorry to burst your bubble yosup, but affirmative action doesn’t help Asians at all.</p>
<p>Lol, ok. I thought it was banned anyways, so I wasn’t relying on it xD It probably depends on what what country in Asia I’m from, and whether or not many people from my country go to U of M though, right?</p>
<p>They’ve banned the sort of explicit affirmative action, but if someone mentions they’re a URM in their essays, it’s certinly to their advantage. </p>
<p>Affirmative action wouldn’t ever help Whites or Asians. They don’t seperate the Cambodian/Vietnamese Asian from the Chinese/Japanese Asian. When they ask your race, you say Asian (or I guess you can say nothing). If you’re actually comming from that country, I don’t know how that effects things.</p>
<p>Asians are over-represented in colleges and universities anyway. Asians make up about 4.5% of the population, but in most colleges and universities they represent 10-20% of the student body. Even though they are qualified, they get no benefits from affirmative action. The supreme court decision allowed Michigan to use race as a factor in its admissions process.</p>
<p>Michigan does not give benefits to URM. They ended affirmative action</p>
<p>They don’t directly give benefits to URM, but race still plays a role in their admissions process. Go look at the supreme court case. They are allowed to use race to achieve a more diverse student body. That is like a legal form of affirmative action.</p>
<p>No, it has not been legal for Michigan to use racial preferences since the people of Michigan passed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in 2006.</p>
<p>[Michigan</a> Civil Rights Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Civil_Rights_Initiative]Michigan”>Michigan Civil Rights Initiative - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Oh I guess race does count, but it won’t really give a “boost”.</p>
<p>Michigan cannot use racial preferences explicitly, but the university can still pursue its mission to achieve a diverse student body (cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic backgrounds). The U.S. Supreme Court Grutter decision (federal law) trumps Proposal 2.</p>
<p>Ugh, tensighs, you should really stop making these incorrect and overly broad statements of fact. The SCOTUS decision does not “trump” Prop 2. That decision only ruled on whether Michigan’s admission standards violated the US constitution. It most certainly did not decide whether that admission standard would violate Proposal 2, an amendment to the Michigan constitution which didn’t even exist at the time!</p>
<p>Honestly If I was asian or white with the same grades that got me into Michigan, I would have been rejected no doubt about it. Being black did give me a boost whether people deny it or not. One of my teachers who graduated from Columbia University basically stated that If you are black and you have a pretty good GPA and average test scores then you can apply to schools that a white or asian person wouldn’t normally apply to. Don’t forget Average SAT for African Americans or Hispanics is a 1280-1300. There is a lower standard used by college admissions officers to admit URM’s. Michigan does use race in its admissions. Its obviously clear many other universities and colleges do the same. They don’t compare an African American or hispanic to an asian or white person. If they did then most African Americans or hispanics would have been rejected from the elite schools they applied to. They compare African Americans and hispanics to the URM pool of applicants that have applied. They also compare URM’s to the statistical national average. </p>
<p>Not sure if I made sense here, but thats just my opinion on the issue.</p>