<p>Hey, I'm a rising senior and will be applying soon.</p>
<p>I visited Michigan and I really want to go there but there is just one problem: my gpa.</p>
<p>I have a 3.4 UW and 3.75 W at a top 100 hs in NJ.</p>
<p>2200 SAT (800M, 670CR, 730 W)</p>
<p>Above average ECs</p>
<p>Great Recommendations (one from a princeton professor who taught me about electrical engineering @ my internship)</p>
<p>Great essays (already done)</p>
<p>I reallllly want to go to Michigan for engineering, i screwed up freshman year b/c i had no idea how important...I was freakin 12 years old for the first 2 months of freshman year (a year ahead of everyone)....be as honest as u can</p>
<p>Unless your HS has super grade deflation, I would think you won’t get in. Doesn’t hurt to try though</p>
<p>^I disagree, he has a good SAT score.</p>
<p>Michigan puts a lot of emphasis on UW GPA, so it’ll be tough for you to get in. But there’s no harm in applying</p>
<p>“i screwed up freshman year b/c i had no idea how important…I was freakin 12 years old for the first 2 months of freshman year (a year ahead of everyone)…”</p>
<p>What was your GPA soph. and junior year? Try to include something about your young age as a freshman in your essay.</p>
<p>3.4 usually is not good enough irrespective of SAT score. There may be a case if it attributable solely to freshman year and sophomore/junior GPA is strong.</p>
<p>9th: 3.1
10th: 3.5
11th: 3.6</p>
<p>All my academic classes where honors or ap…so my transcript will have my schools weighting and and the other classes. That gpa is about 3.88.
But obviously they don’t care about that.</p>
<p>Well they care about your course rigor, which it sounds like you might have. But I don’t think your GPA is high enough</p>