<p>White, M, Tampa, FL
Good public high school in area, in the IB program at the school (there's an IB, medical, and regular program)
ACT: February - 30, with a 36 in reading, April - 32 (im not sure if they mix and match scores or if they look at all of them or not)
HS GPA through junior year: 4.7
UM GPA: 3.79 (had all a's freshman and junior year but freshman year gets factored out so its lower, sophomore had 4 a's 3 b's both semester because i moved from farmington hills michigan to florida right before and was adjusting to the IB program from public school)
Rigor: All honors except for like health and gym freshman year, all IB classes the rest plus two which doubled as AP classes (Psych and English, which I got a 5 and a 4 respectively)
Rank: Like 27/135 just out of IB but in the county I'm top 1%.
Extracurriculars: Very involved in Big Brothers, took on leadership there managing sports in an after school program, Physics Club, National Honors Society, French Honors Society, IB Student Union Board (kinda like student gov but more with the community), Internship at 47th District Court (in Michigan)
Essays: I would say strong, talked about moving and transitioning into IB as my biggest setback and how I overcame it with bouncing back to all a's in junior year. Talked about cultural and intellectual diversity being in a school with the three different programs and IB having so many different cultures. Then in the other I talked about how I wanted to double major in economics and political science.<br>
Rec letters: One VERY strong one from a teacher who taught a two week enrichment course I attended at U of M called summer discovery, one from the judge i interned under, and one from my history teacher who I've had all a's and performed well, and he's the deputy chief examiner of all of IB higher level history, plus counselor rec I hear he writes amazing letters.
Other: Grandpa, grandma, aunt and uncle went there. We have a family brick on campus, and I went to every home football game from age 5-15 (talked about it as ties to the university in my essay). Moved from practically a U of M feeder school in Michigan after freshman year to Florida. Everything was in on October 8</p>
<p>Any insight will help, I'm just trying to get through the time til I get the response back with a shred of sanity since I've wanted to go to Michigan since I was 2</p>
<p>Hi, OOS accepted class of 12 here. Looks solid to me. I wouldn’t worry too much. I applied with the same ACT, bit higher GPA, only 4 APs (all that my school offered), lot of extra curriculars as well. I’m not familiar with IB at all so I can’t say there. You do any sports? I sent my stuff in about the same time you did and I recieved my acceptance on December 15. There are people with worse stats that I’ve seen get in here. I say you’re a good chance.</p>
<p>My GPA’s only that low cuz of the way they recalculate…its a 3.83 and a 4.68 weighted. IB is like taking 7 AP classes on roids per semester. And no, never was athletic enough for anything but pickup games haha.</p>
<p>A) A 3.79 UM GPA is not that bad. After all, UM’s mid-50 is 3.7 to 4.0 — you’re inside that range, which also means there are people who get admitted with less than 3.7s. (It’s just that there are a bunch of overachievers here on CC) Your case is very understandable because an IB curriculum is more rigorous than an AP curriculum, and the fact that you had to take time to adjust will factor in. Also, you have an upward grade trend in an IB curriculum – having all As your junior year, which shows that you adapt really well to new environments. This shows up well in admissions.</p>
<p>B) You don’t need to play sports just to get into college. It’s a misguided myth in this country. Admission officers don’t expect everyone to be athletic. You only play sports if you can do it along with your schoolwork and if you really enjoy doing it. Being in it if you don’t like it would only add more misery into your life.</p>
<p>Other than that, your ACT scores are quite high for michigan at a 32 … that’s in their 75% percentile. Your ECs look good and I really like your internship at the district court. It’s quite unique.</p>
<p>Overall, I think you’re a match. You would be a safety match if you were still an IOS.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight guys. Hopefully being OOS they’ll want me more cuz I’m worth like 20g’s per year more to them haha</p>
<p>As for the internship, it was really just luck. My dad happened to be a good friend of the judge’s wife, and the judge ended up knowing my girlfriend’s grandmother too. Small world eh?</p>
<p>I play sports just with the kids at big brothers not for my school…for some reason I seem to perform better when I have a 2 foot height advantage on everyone haha</p>