Hi!
I recently applied to the University of Michigan and was invited to receive the HAIL scholarship. This was super exciting news, and I just got my application in last night.
It is a very exciting opportunity, but I am very skeptical of my chances of being accepted. Currently, I have a 3.27 and a score of 1260 on the SAT. These figures are… not good, especially considering I want to get into UofM. However, I have a lot of extracurricular experience under my belt including being the president of our Japanese Culture club, and the team captain on one of my school’s robotics teams. I’ve also spent a lot of my time off of school studying programming, development, and other things I plan on studying while in college. I’ve even done a few community service tasks like being a public speaker at an elementary school where I talked about game development and programming and helping paint buildings with our school art club. I feel as if everything else but my grades are a strong point in my application.
I suppose my question is, are my chances low? And, would they even have sent me an invitation to the hail scholarship if I didn’t have a chance of being accepted? I hope my application bears fruit, but I wanted to come here and maybe have a few others give me their thoughts.