<p>How does U of M recalculate the GPA of applicants?</p>
<p>They have stopped recalculating GPA since a couple years ago. After all, certain GPA from one school may mean a lot less than from another school. They will have to compare GPA within the context of each school anyway.</p>
<p>As an admissions person said in an info session a few years ago - “you want all As…maybe a B or two.” Admissions people can read your transcript without actually recalculating a numerical GPA.</p>
<p>UofM calculates your GPA on a basic scale.
A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1
Pluses and minuses are ignored.</p>
<p>See article below:
[‘U</a>’ to no longer recalculate GPA in admissions process - The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://www.michigandaily.com/content/u-no-longer-recalculate-gpa-admissions-process]'U”>'U' to no longer recalculate GPA in admissions process)
For those do not know, Michigan Daily is the campus newspaper at UMich.</p>
<p>That information is old. I have been told by TWO admissions councilors at UofM that they recalculate GPA’s in the way I mentioned. Even at an information session on campus they explained this. I would be much quicker to believe information from a few months ago than four years ago.</p>
<p>That was the way they used to recalculate GPA (also only 10th and 11th grade core courses). There is no official notice of resuming GPA recalculation. With the continuously increasing number of applicants, it is unlikely they would return to recalculate GPA. Some councilors may still stick with the old information as they do not process the data themselves. I would trust more their official announcements than information from individuals. I was even told at an admission session that oos and in state students go through the same criteria for admission which no one believe. In fact, they admit more in state students even with much lower stat to ensure a high yield rate.</p>
<p>I agree with Miw140! Additionally, there was something in the LSA Admissions webpage area as recent as Fall of 2013 that mentioned recalculating of HS GPA. Also, at the various information sessions (I have been to a few) they always say “don’t take a class where you can’t get an A!”</p>
<p>I doubt I was given false information at BOTH the college info session and my high school info session from two different councilors just two months ago. Also, yeah they’re probably are a bit deceitful when it comes to talking about in-state and OOS. In fact, when someone brought up a question about the difficulty in getting in OOS vs. in-state at the info session on campus, all the councilor said was “We accept more OOS students”. They’re not going to say that the in-state acceptance rate is at least 15 percentage points higher, it would hurt them. While simply disclosing they way they view GPA’s, does no harm.</p>
<p>Miw140, you sound real convincing, but I specifically remember that the document they gave me at orientation that had my high school information and my placements (language, chem, math) listed my GPA as exactly what it actually was in HS. If U-M had recalculated it, it would have been a lot higher, as I had about a 50-50 split of A-'s and A’s. So the resultant was something along the lines of a 3.83 uncalculated GPA rather than a 3.9-4.0 recalculated one.</p>
<p>While I’m sure what you are saying is true, the policy could have easily changed from two to three years ago. I’m just basing my beliefs after what I was told in the fall.</p>
<p>I dig out this thread below when UMich changed the GPA calculation policy in 2009.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/796954-university-michigan-no-longer-recalculating-gpa.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/796954-university-michigan-no-longer-recalculating-gpa.html</a>
There are some Q&A quoted explaining the reason behind it. The decision was made after several studies in 2006 and 2009. It would be hard to believe if they change back the policy within 2-3 years, particularly when there was no similar announcement for the reversal. It is indeed a lot of work to go through each transcript and punch in the grades of core courses from each applicant and it seems there is little reason to go back when the number of applicants keep increasing significantly in the last few years. Information on website is often outdated. If you find any current information on their website, please post the link here.
Disregarding recalculating GPA or not, it is always better to have good grades and GPA. Nevertheless, GPA itself is meaningless as each school, or even each teacher, would have different grading curves.</p>
<p>Please tell me what chance do i have for University of Michigan chemical engineering undergrad. I am an international student. </p>
<p>Sat scores CR-620, Math-680, Writing-630. </p>
<p>Subject test scores Physics 770, Chemistry 740, Math level 2 670.</p>
<p>High school grades: 91% in grade 10, 72% in grade 12. High school rank not reported.</p>
<p>Extra curriculars.
School Nature club president
Science club vice-president
Voluntary community service
Religious community service
Computer programming course</p>
<p>^ You should start a new thread for that. It is totally related to this topic. After all, your SAT is below the 25% and it would be a reach for you particularly for CoE.</p>
<p>The article from the Michigan Daily is old information. That only lasted one year, then the university went back to recalculating GPAs. They used to only use academic courses from 10th-11th grade. In 2009-10, they tried using the school reported GPA from transcripts as noted in the article. It created some problems for how other areas of campus (Financial Aid, Budget and Planning) used the GPA for decisions and reporting, so it was aborted after one year.</p>
<p>Since 2010-11, the Admissions office recalculates your GPA based on all courses (including electives) taken in 9th-11th. Plusses and minusses are discarded. Weighted or honors points are NOT included. As mentioned earlier, A+, A, A- are all given a 4, B+, B, B- a 3, and so on. So they essentially are recalculating your grades on an unweighted, 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>It’s important to note though that the admissions officers are not relying solely on that recalculated GPA. They look at the individual grades to determine upward trends or declines, to note if the B’s are mostly B-, to view the rigor of your curriculum relative to what your school offers, and how you perform in academic courses and the more rigorous classes that you’ve elected.</p>