Panicked transfer student: Chance Me Please!!!

<p>Hello, I am a prospective transfer to the University of Michigan; I did poorly in high school, well on my ACT and ACT retake, and fair my first semester...</p>

<p>HS GPA: 2.1 (I had moved a lot, and was a generally unmotivated student)
University GPA: Wayne State University</p>

<p>semester 1: 16 credit hours, 3.56
semester 2: 19 credit hours, if I get a 4.0, my GPA will come to 3.79
spring/summer: I am taking honors calc 1&2 and German 1&2, respectively. If I do well, and receive a 4.0, I will have landed a 3.86 GPA</p>

<p>My ACT was a 25 the first time around, but retaken was a 31.</p>

<p>I was a volunteer, then an intern, then a paid organizer for the Obama campaign, belong to student Dems, the WSU philosophical found., have community service under my belt, and graduated HS with music honors and was a section leader in my HS marching band.</p>

<p>by all measures, I am a top-notch writer, having edited papers in all of my HS English courses and received perfect scores in ACT reading and writing (11 of 12).</p>

<p>I am participating in the 2009 Butler Undergraduate Research Conference, presenting papers in Philosophy and in Mathematics, my prospective double-major. I also intend on publishing a paper in an undergraduate journal of philosophy. </p>

<p>So what might be my chances to get into Michigan as a transfer? My other school choices are Rutgers New Brunswick, Cornell (for which my chances are slim to none, I know), and NYU. I am quite set on Michigan, however.</p>

<p>Thanks for any help!</p>

<p>You're applying as a junior? If so, you have great chances, if you're applying a sophomore though your HS record is supposedly fairly important.
UMich is actually pretty easy to transfer into (compared to as a freshman at least) and with a 3.7+ I would be surprised if you were rejected. I wouldn't assume that you will be receiving 4.0s, but your chances for Michigan are good.
Sorry, can't tell you about the other colleges except that Cornell, as an ivy league school, is unlikely to accept very many transfers so you probably have slim chances.</p>