Michigan engineering? Admission and possibility of merit aid?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I'm going to be a senior this fall, and I am very intrigued as to what colleges I could hope to get into. </p>

<p>I would like to know about being an out of state applicant to the engineering (CS) program at Michigan. Do I have a shot at getting in? Also, my college counselor at school says Michigan is notorious for being stingy with merit aid. If accepted, would I have a chance at getting any scholarship money?</p>

<p>Stanford offers some of their CS lectures on-line (Check 'em out! They're awesome: Stanford</a> School of Engineering - Stanford Engineering Everywhere ) and I started working on them before I was able to take AP CS at school. I plan on continuing to learn more about programming this summer and next year, and writing a program with my friend who finished AP CS. I have taken a computational finance course from Georgia Tech online.</p>

<p>I have a 3.70 GPA (uw) and a 4.39 weighted (my school only reports weighted on transcript). I'm going to be taking these AP classes next year: calc ab, macro and physics c. </p>

<p>I have already taken AP Psych and AP English lang and comp.</p>

<p>I have taken the ACT twice, the first time I got a 33 with a breakdown as follows:
-Reading and Science -- 35
-Math -- 33
-English -- 28
-Writing -- 8 </p>

<p>I have not yet received my scores for the second test, but probably will in a couple of weeks.</p>

<p>EC's: I am involved in MMA fighting (it's pretty awesome), founder and president of an improv comedy club that meets in local bars, I ran the chicago marathon for charity (even though running stinks), I'm very involved in my church and am part of the student leadership team (so obviously I've done the mission trip thing) and that's it! (plus those Stanford lectures, I don't know if those count....)</p>

<p>Thanks for all the help, if any other info is needed or wanted, I'd love to share.</p>

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<p>To be quite honest, your GPA and act are pretty solid for michigan engineering. I think the best thing for you would be to join a couple of clubs and get involved a little bit. Otherwise I think you are pretty well off.</p>

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<p>^^ I just think otherwise. UMich’s average admission GPA was 3.83 last year. 3.7 is significantly lower than the average (particularly for CoE) and should be at around 25%. ACT33 is at the 75% of overall admission, it would be around 65% for CoE. So the overall chance would be a match to high match for LSA and a high match to low reach for CoE. Nevertheless, you can still be a CS major in LSA.</p>

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<p>I just got the ACT results from our school testing day and got another 33 with a breakdown as follows:
-English: 27
-Math: 36
-Reading: 32
-Science: 35</p>

<p>This is a superscored 34 (I don’t know if Michigan superscores).</p>

<p>Does this new score help/hurt my chances at all?</p>

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<p>Sounds like you can get in. Merit aid, hmmm I hear the publics are in a crunch and only usually offer instate aid to people with need. Usually very little merit aid, especially to out of staters.</p>

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<p>There are merit aid for OOS students, but I am not sure how competitive it is. You may find out from the College/UMich forum.</p>

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<p>Thanks, I’ll post in there and see if anyone can help me.</p>