<p>From experience or what people have seen, for IN-state students from a private prep school...what would one say is the ball park GPA required for admissions?</p>
<p>Your best chance is to have a GPA above a 3.7 because I know people who had that type of GPA and were still deferred. The higher the GPA is above that mark, the better your chances will be. However, they do also take a look at the type of course load you're taking and what type of school from which you will be graduating. However, you still have to take the initiative to do well in a difficult environment.</p>
<p>Kids that have above a 3.7 usually had low test scores or took all easy classes. Almost everyone in my school that had a 3.7 got in if they took mostly AP/AC classes. If you go to a strong prep school/very high test scores, you still have a chance with a lower GPA though....I know someone that got in with a sub 3.3 gpa because he went to a prep school and he took ALL AP/AC/IB classes and had high test scores.</p>
<p>For the "general" applicant though, your chances are best if your GPA is above a 3.6</p>
<p>That is not always true badkarma89 (though it certainly is true sometimes). I went to a magnet school in math and science (half time) where every course availabe was a honors or AP course. (The other half of the time I spent at my home school where I worked on graduation requirements and whatnot.) Some of the students about which I am talking came from there.</p>
<p>However, I noticed that it was more likely that the students got the high grades/took easy courses at my home school rather than the magnet school, and it annoyed the heck out of me. I received my only B's from one accelerated chemistry course during my sophomore year of high school. I still had a 3.96 UW GPA in the end, but I was competing with people from my home school (and not the magnet school) for class rank. That's where it hurt me.</p>
<p>Thanks guys...I know that Michigan recalculates GPA. Does anyone know how or have an idea of how they do it?</p>
<p>Yes, they take your 5 core classes from only your sophomore and junior years. I think those 5 classes include math, science, social studies, english, and a foreign language. Then they take your unweighted gpa from those 4 semesters. So basically, there are 20 individual grades that are averaged into your umich gpa. For example, my umich gpa was 3.55, because I had 9 Bs and 11 As in those two years.</p>