Ross as a second major

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Hello, I know everyone hates chance me posts but in this case I’m really unsure what to expect in a few weeks. I could really use your help if you know more about Ross.

I was accepted to Michigan for jazz studies this past Friday and I’m super excited and thankful. However I applied as a double degree student with the Ross school of business and wouldn’t want to pay out-of-state tuition without getting a BBA.

Here are my stats:
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.4 W from competitive top public school without grade inflation
Test Scores: ACT: 35, SAT: 1550, SAT II U.S. History 780, Math II 780
AP Tests: 5s on AP Calc BC, AB, Statistics, U.S. History, World History, AP Lang, 4 on AP Physics 1

My E.Cs are strong but not necessarily business related:

As a jazz musician, I deal with marketing, web design, taxes, paying and dealing with colleagues, deal making, working with businesses etc… on a daily basis and I wrote about this a little in my Ross Application.

I also am part of an elite after school Humanities Program at my high school but this really isn’t business related.

I worked as an intern at a small tech firm for 5 months last year and worked in marketing and app testing.

Essays:
My CA and general Michigan essays were very strong and edited by a professional. For the longer Ross essay, I wrote about an idea I’ve had for a virtual solar management company. I got help editing first from my dad who has experience in the field and then from my professional editor. It is still 90% my original work though.

I am a white guy from a high income bracket in California if that makes a difference.

Thanks and let me know if I have a good shot because I really don’t know.

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Btw, I visited the school earlier this month when I auditioned and there is no issue with double degrees in Ross. However, I would be a pre-admit, not direct admit—I would start business classes in Fall of 2019.

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@piranhavator https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/bba/class-profile

Check this out if you haven’t! You have a great shot and it shows since you got into UM AA already… there’s no sure fire answer but your stats look great… UM Ross is hard to get into as in state too so out of state is naturally harder.

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@“AKK@uofm” thanks for sending. One question though: In the link you sent, over 5,200 people applied direct admit to Ross and a little under 1,000 were offered a spot. Were those 5,200 already accepted to Michigan? If those 5,200 were accepted at the 28% (regular acceptance rate), that would mean that almost 19,000 people applied to Ross, about 1/3 of the applicant pool for UofM. I assumed that much fewer people would apply.

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I doubt that 5200 is after admitted to UMich as that would be more than 1/3 of total admission. It is likely 5200 out of near 60000 total applicants last year applied to Ross pre-admit.

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@billcsho that makes sense to me too but everyone on other threads is saying that the 18% acceptance rate is after acceptance to UMich. However, some guy said this:

http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/2042302-ross-decisions.html

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I don’t buy it unless it is official. Admission rate is always calculated from the number of admission to the number of applicants. The admission to LSA or other school first is just part of the process. If anything, using the admitted applicant as base would lead to a higher admission rate which would hurt their ranking.

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Before the change to direct admit for the majority of the Ross class, the admit rate was about 1/3 for Michigan freshmen applying to Ross for sophomore year.

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That would be very different with the original regular admission in sophomore year. The new pre-admitted procedure may actually attract a lot more applicants as there is no more uncertainty.

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@billcsho so do you think the 18% represents the overall admission rate or admission rate for those who already were admitted into UofM?

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I don’t have the official figure, but they said there were 5288 applicants which should be defined as the number of students submitted the applications before the evaluation process. Even there is a 2-step process, it should still use the original application number as the base.

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@billcsho thanks. That figure makes sense to me.