<p>so i'm a junior in high school, in michigan, and i really would love to attend the university of michigan ann arbor next year.</p>
<p>my cumulative right now is a weighted 4.27, unweighted i'm not too sure (my freshmen year i got b+'s in my honors, so my unweighted isn't as high as one may think, but i know michigan doesn't look at frosh grades). i got all a's on my last report card with 3 AP and 1 honors. i took the ACT for the first time and got a 31, but i am taking it again in march (for free, it's part of the state of michigan's merit scholarship).</p>
<p>i want to go into engineering, if that counts for anything. i know engineering is harder to get into than LSA.</p>
<p>i'm still working my ass off this year, but what were your stats? i've read in some places about these people getting 33 ACTs and having 3.8s and getting deferred.. and it seems ridiculous! i know someone who got in last year (well, was deferred with a 25) and i don't know. i know grades and ACT aren't everything, but that still worries me a lot. maybe those people didn't take the required classes to apply or some technicality..</p>
<p>i guess i'm just asking what you think of all of this? maybe anything i should change (although my schedule is set next year), think about next year. how was it when you applied? and congrats!</p>
<p>If I'm not mistaken, when UMich reweights GPAs, all A range grades get a 4, all B range grades are 3, etc.</p>
<p>Just FYI. Also, you may just want to apply to LSA, and then transfer to engineering. In school transfers are usually paperwork intensive at worst, but it's better in that LSA is easier to get in to.</p>
<p>Apply as early in Fall as possible -- I believe UMich starts receiving and processing applications late August-early Sep, check with your GC. You are in-state and have a good GPA. Go for it. Go Blue!</p>
<p>Apply early (read: September, earlier the better). Start your essays over the summer, finish the app before school starts, and maybe even contact the teachers you're going to ask for recs this spring. The recommendation forms will be online in June. If you want to tell them how to get the forms or something and tell them that you'll pick up the rec the first week of school, that should be fine and you could conceivably have your entire application ready for review by September. With your stats, you'd be in. People with great stats who are deferred usually applied too late.</p>
<p>I'm from MI, FYI, so I've heard the horror stories, too, but the rule of thumb is the earlier you apply, the better.</p>
<p>i actually just found out my unweighted that way, and if i get another 4.0 unweighted this next semester (pretty much all of the same classes), i'll have a 3.79.</p>
<p>i'm actually planning getting out my mich app ASAP! haha, seriously, as soon as the application is up online, i'll begin filling it out and everything else can wait. i really want engineering though, and i am a girl which i heard could help since girls in engineering are a huge minority.. just what i heard though.</p>
<p>i actually think i'm making a very good decision in my life, thanks for your opinion though!</p>
<p>mt522 -- My D has the same stats as you and was accepted at UMich OOS. She applied in late October and heard back in about 5 weeks. I think you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Did anyone else possibly mention that you should...</p>
<p>APPLY AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE?!</p>
<p>-- because you should definitely do so, as everybody else has said. Some of my friends were unfortunately deferred because they applied late, even though they had solid "stats." Your stats fit right in with engineering's midrange. Try to get your application in by early October at the latest, and you should be fine.</p>