<p>Michigan resident
Currently Attending Forest Hills Central (one of the top 3 school in Mich.)
GPA: UW: 3.0 (end of junior year)
Senior Courseload:
AP Stats (A)
AP Lit/Comp (A)
AP Environmental (A)
AP World History (A)
AP Spanish (A-)
AP Calc AB (A)
ACT:31 (SUPERSCORE 32)
Extracurriculars:
-Diversity Club President (11th,12th)
-Founded local Grand Rapids Book Club (12th, currently 32 members)
-Hahn-In CRC Band Bassist (12th)
-Rainbow Community Church Vice-President & Treasurer (9th,10th)
-Varsity Crew (10th,12th)
-Varsity Swim (11th,12th)
-Founded/Organized Local volunteer group. Went to local subway stations to provide food &
drinks to the homeless (9th,10th)
-Entrada Scholars Program (11th, earned 3 college credits on English 205B)
- Odyssey of the Mind (12th)
Essays/Recommendations: I specialize in writing essays (took college courses on English and
plan on majoring in English) Super close to my math teacher.. she's been known for writing<br>
killer recommendations and we know each other personally :) I know my counselor but not<br>
well enough for her to write a personal recommendation, but she wrote recommendations for
my 2 cousins who ended up getting into U Mich
Awards:
MHSAA Boys Swimming state ranked (12th)
Gwanyang High School English recital Competition 1st place (9th)
Odyssey of the Mind State-Ranked (12th)
Hooks: I have 5 cousins attending UMich (i dont know if this helps me though)
Income bracket: ~$22,000 </p>
<p>I'm aiming for getting deferred or waitlisted..I dont really expect getting accepted right away on Early Decision .. so DONT FREAK OUT PEOPLE! I just want to know how good my chances are. Thanks! :)</p>
<p>Moricarak, I don’t think you’re chances are the best, but you definite do have a chance especially if you work and get the grades that senior year. Also, if you didn’t know, michigan has their own grading scale where they do not count gpa. For michigan, I would say deferred -> waitlist [reach]. Work hard on your essays and all and you might have a chance after that. Also, it might be a good idea to tell us what you want to major in.</p>
<p>Purdue - I would say match
NYU - reach
BU - not sure of their admissions
UCLA - reach
Michigan State - match</p>
<p>also great CC name…don’t know exactly what you’re referring to.</p>
<p>Moricarak: I know your school and also know that those who have the benefit of attending FHC are also expected to be competitive among their peers. So what is your class rank? If your g.c. is asked to compare you to the top 10% of the students, what would he/she say? </p>
<p>Re: 3.0; rule of thumb in-state is nothing lower than 3.5 from rigorous program. That said, do you have any kind of extraordinary explanation of GPA? It is the most heavily weighted. The rest of your profile and scores are a fit. Exceptions do occur. However, you’d be in the less-than 14th percentile range as an applicant based on your GPA.
Maybe you can find a way to distinguish yourself through emphasis on a specialized talent – have you won any national writing awards? (Get trying : )</p>
<p>Also, are you dropping your Freshman year marks to calculate Michigan GPA (only gr. 10 and 11; unweighted on 0-4.0 scale; and only core academic subjects.) If not, repost with those results.</p>
<p>Lastly, U of Mich does not superscore.</p>
<p>If you actually manage those As and submit some kind of “what I’ve learned” contrite letter you could conceivably get off a deferred list, and you won’t know if you don’t try. Alternately, you could attend another in-state school (eg. Michigan State), perform phenomenally well and then come in as a transfer student. In your income range, you’d still be eligible for a lot of financial aid so you wouldn’t suffer the fact that there’s not much merit for transfers or any real likelihood of being eligible for merit.</p>
<p>I don’t know what kind of fit you’d be for the other schools (except def. reach for NYU and frankly, you can’t afford that school, they just don’t give enough merit) but you may wish to consider staying in state for your undergrad for financial viability and avoiding unrealistic debt loads.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in writing and communications, take a peek at Grand Valley. It’s actually becoming more difficult than State to get into but has a well-respected creative writing department and an awesome school of communications. Very good value for the dollar as well. Very fast on acceptance or not, eg. about three weeks to find out if you apply now. Then you’d have a GOOD safety to work from.</p>
<p>Considering that you attend one of the top 3 public schools in Michigan, 31 on the ACT, and a UW GPA of 3.0 I think your chances of admission are decent. Attending one of the top 3 public schools within the state, and a high ACT score will likely stand out, and possibly be a explanation of your low GPA, along with many Ap’s.</p>
<p>i attended a public school in korea from 6th grade to 9th grade (although im korean i speak mainly english and only a little korean) so i struggled a lot throughout the school’s rigorous study programs. I returned to Michigan to attend Sophomore year at FHC. My family stayed at korea while I lived with a host family. By then I was having trouble re-adjusting to the American-enviroment, and the host-family was undergoing some difficulties (first-son had drinking problems, the father left the family). Without anyone to guide me, I struggled alone throughout sophomore year. Beginning junior year, my family arrived at Michigan, and my grades shot up from a 2.7 (sophomore year), to a 3.9-4.0. I am finally back on track and struggling desperately to make up the huge damages I had done to my GPA. So yeah thats basically my story.</p>
<p>overall (academics, graduation rates, standardized test-scores, MME test scores, facility, ETC). It was on a 2008 Top High Schools in Michigan magazine. Forest Hills Public Schools ranks next to East Grand Rapids</p>
<p>Mori, the trend upward and the personal circumstances you overcame will help you tremendously so be vigorous in your application! Do also know that while FHC IS among the top schools in Michigan, it is not quite as well ranked in some areas as a few others, including Bloomfield Hills International, a few in the north, City High in GR, and a few other privates. So in actual fact, it is more correct to say <em>among</em> the top HS in Mi - just my opinion. I would not place it firmly as 3rd given the myriad of different performance metrics by which one could gauge same.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, FHC is a competitive pool from which to be applying. Your story and your continued demonstrated upward trend will be absolutely critical to your success.
Good luck.
K</p>
<p>PS Chinaismine: Newsweek’s list is based on some tangible metrics such as IB or AP with less weight on the actual performance of students. Above, for example, I mentioned City, that as an urban magnet, had not IB or AP in the past b/c it was interdisciplinary humanities (all changing now.) Still, in past several years it ranked in top 5 - 7 for student performance with EGR, FHC, Intl School etc. Just so you know the basis from which I am mentioning schools (as opposed to the Newsweek metrics).</p>