Transferring from Michigan community college to LSA (Psychology) for Fall '17
I applied for fall 2016 and was rejected, but the rejection letter was pretty personal. Said my recent semester grades were impressive, however they prefer incoming juniors, and that if my interest in UM persists, to mail them with the additional courses I have taken and implied that they would most likely waive the application fee.
High School
Public, semi-competitive
HS GPA (UW): 3.08 (W): 3.22 (UM UW): 3.11
AP Scores— APUSH 3, Language 4, Literature 3, Government 2, Macro 1
ACT: 28 (english: 32, math: 30, reading: 26, science: 23)
Course load (# of AP/IB/H, special courses, etc.): 5 AP, bunch of honors, fairly hard courseload
Rank: School didn’t rank, class size was 329
College (after fall '16 and winter '17 semesters)
GPA (UW): 3.96 (UM UW): 4.0 (one W in fall of 2013)
Transferable Credits: 53 (Also plan on taking 4 credit class in summer '17 to make it 57)
Subjective (ECs, special circumstances, etc): very selective (cool) job involving extensive travel across America in the summer. Great community service (~350 hours/year) as well.
Essays: Good to great
Instructor Recs: One, will submit another
Hook (legacy, recruited athlete, etc.): I’m poor. I don’t really know if I’m poverty poor, but I know it’s not much over if I’m not. My EFC is 0 and my net price calc for UM says $24.
State or Country: Waterford, MI
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M