<p>Hi everyone, I'm an incoming senior at a public high school in the northwest Chicago suburbs. My stats are as follows:</p>
<p>Gpa: 4.0 unweighted
Class rank: Either top 1% to 2% (Last terms grades aren't in the ranking system yet)
Act: 31 composite (32 English, 36 Math, 25 Reading, 31 Science)
APs: AP Calculus AB (5) AP Computer Science A (4)
Senior Course load: Calculus 2 at local community college, AP Physics B, AP Psychology, Honors English, Honors Spanish 4, Accounting 1 (needed to fulfill graduation requirement)
Intended major: either mechanical or aerospace engineering
State of residence: Illinois
Extracurriculars: Varsity Baseball two years, President of 3 religious youth organizations, attended a selective leadership training course for athletics at my school, ran a community event website and Facebook page
Ethnicity: White</p>
<p>My real question is do you think that I have a good shot at being accepted to mechanical or aerospace engineering at Michigan. I appreciate all responses. If you need more information to chance me please ask.</p>
<p>If you have any advice on how to make myself a better applicant please share that wisdom as well. Thanks!</p>
<p>ACT 31 is at the bottom of mid 50 for admission at CoE. As an oos student, your chance is rather low. However, your chance at UIUC in state would be much higher although the admission stat is very similar to UMich there. On the other hand, UMich would be very expensive for oos students.</p>
<p>I do understand that uiuc is a good option for me and as such I am looking at it seriously. I appreciate your response. </p>
<p>I know my composite score of 31 is on the low end of the middle 50 percentile but does my 36 in math when applying to engineering help my standing at all?</p>
<p>You’re a lock. If you spent the summer reading, I’d bet a 33 composite is within reach by the fall.</p>
<p>Not a lock and not “rather low” chance either. And you know that. Yes, if you can get the ACT up that would help and yes the 36 on math does help</p>
<p>The Math score at 36 does help, however, it is rather common to have great score in Math among CoE applicant. Considering the admission to CoE to be below 30% (was 30% last year) and you are from oos with ACT at 25%, it cannot be more than a low reach for you.</p>
<p>@billcsho where are you getting the admissions statistics for the CoE? I can’t find them specific to the college, just the general middle 50% for the whole university,</p>
<p>Here is the site you can find many engineering school admission stat:
<a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6018/screen/19?school_name=University+of+Michigan”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6018/screen/19?school_name=University+of+Michigan</a></p>
<p>Note that the mid 50 listed are for enrolled students. The admission mid 50 is slightly higher and is more relevant for admission chancing.</p>
<p>thanks, I’m also a prospective CoE OOS student, so these stats will definitely help me in judging my own chances</p>
<p>The CoE received 15,000 applications last year (up from 11,000 the year before) and admitted 3,000 of them. The average unweighed GPA of admitted students was close to 4.0 and the average ACT score of admitted students was 33. This year, the CoE could well receive over 17,000 applications. In other words, the CoE is a reach, not matter what. </p>
<p>Wow. The admission rate went down from 30% to 20% in one year.</p>
<p>OP, are you full pay?</p>
<p>billcsho, the CoE is small. It is easy for a college with 5,000 undergrads to drop its acceptance rate quickly. The CoE will have an acceptance rate in the 15% or less sometime in the next 2-3 years. The University of Michigan has a whole will take a little longer to reach that point. All of this has nothing to do with the reputation of the school or of its academic excellence. It is entirely a result of joining the Common Application. All top universities that have joined the Common Application have seen their admit rates drop from a third or a half to less than 15%. Michigan is no exception. </p>
<p>^ Yes, I noticed the big drop in admission rate a few years ago when UM joined CommonApp, but that has been several years. I think it is the reputation of the engineering school that attracts more and more applications. But still, an increase from 11,000 to 15,000 (>33%) applicants in one year is exceptional, although that has been a trend. The number of applicant in 2012 was 8,700, so there was an 28% increase the year before that. With this ~30% increase in application per year, it will be around 15% admission rate within the next 1-2 years…</p>
<p>I just got admitted as an out of state engineering student (white female from Ohio), prospective BME major (you don’t declare until soph year). You’re probably fine. I had a 35 ACT (36 superscore), 2140 SAT, 10 APs (including Calc BC, Chem, Bio, Stats), valedictorian at public school out of about 300 kids. Get your ACT up and get more involved…any science/math clubs you can do? Do you have any awards (Nat merit scholar, etc)? It’s getting harder and harder to get in every year though- at any school. Admissions rep told me the acceptance rate for CoE was probably in the 20%'s this year.
Good luck!</p>