Univeristy of Michigan-Ann Arbor--and others

<p>Also, I'm interested in UofChicago, northwestern, UNC, Columbia, Duke, Uoftexas, Notre dame, etc.. so if you have any insight on those, feel free to share!</p>

<p>Location: Illinois
Gender: female
Currently a Junior in a competitive high school; also a well known and accredited public district in Illinois. (D211).</p>

<p>Academic</p>

<p>4.4647: Weighted GPA
3.9091: Unweighted GPA
1 AP as a sophomore (all we could take). AP Euro (4).
Currently taking 4 AP's: U.S., Physics B, Lang and Comp, and Psychology
Senior courseload: AP: lit, calc AB, Macro, Human, bio, spanish,
Rank: 31 out of 641-4.8%</p>

<p>I have not taken my SAT or ACT yet. Waiting on my PSATs. Are tests important to uofmichigan? I'm not that great of a test taker, I think my pre-ACT was a 24? I hate how I can get great grades every year but for some schools a test score matters more. =/</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:</p>

<p>Student Council Member-9,10,11,(12) Plan on having a couple chairmanships by the end of this year and possibly shoot for the board for senior year.</p>

<p>Freshman-Soph Bowling team-9
Varsity bowling team at Hoffman Lanes also during the season.
Have not continued bowling with school, but I will join a league this summer.</p>

<p>Philosophy Club- discuss whatever's on our minds, life issues, music, justice, etc..
Plan on taking a Philosophy course this summer at a community college</p>

<p>SAE (Student Action for Education)-10,11,(12).- Diabetes/cancer walks, Special Olympics volunteer, give out turkey dinners/gifts during the holidays, etc..</p>

<p>Book Club-9,10,(11), (12)-not of a whole lot of importance, just listing it here for you guys to see.</p>

<p>Science Club-9-again, small club that I just joined.</p>

<p>Physics Club-10-more of a prep class for AP physics, learned some of the curriculum ahead of time.</p>

<p>Varsity Girl's Basketball Manager-11,(12)-basically set up the boards, pass out water, help the girls out, film games, take score, etc...</p>

<p>Also a Co-captain for Relay for Life (cancer awareness). Earned over $1000 for cancer research and participated in hosting games, fund raisers, etc at the relay. Really fun, plan on doing it again this year.</p>

<p>Finally, My friends and I are tryiiing to start up a Volunteer club that would cate to a bunch of local, national, and international charities. I don't think it'll get as far as we hope, but I'm thinking we can get it started soon.</p>

<p>Oh, volunteer work:</p>

<p>Alexian Brother's Hospital: Work at the Front Desk, greet people, help with directions, deliver items to patients, escort patients, etc..</p>

<p>Volkening Farm: Work at the Special events held for kids-do crafts, cook, kid's games, showcase heritage, farmlife, etc..
Also work at the cabin and do the above, along with gardening, historic preservation, etc.</p>

<p>I also plan on finding some sort of animal shelter to volunteer at soon.</p>

<p>and I would like to become a pharmacist, but I have many different interests as you can see ^ =).</p>

<p>Thank you to anyone that replies! =)</p>

<p>bump. Anyone?</p>

<p>It looks like you have done very well in school and that you have taken a strong courseload. Also your activities look fine. All of these schools are very selective so make sure you add some safety schools. Take both the ACT and SAT because some people do better on one than the other. Also, you most likely will have take some SAT subject tests for most of these schools. Michigan, UNC and Texas are very difficult to get into if you are from out of state.</p>

<p>Oh, I definitely have some safety schools that are instate and I plan on taking both the SAT and ACT. The three you listed are my top schools, hopefully at least one of them will accept oos.</p>

<p>UT (I'm assuming Austin?): Match
Northwestern: Reach
UNC: Probably not, considering you're from OOS. But then again, I don't know very much about UNC.
U Mich: Slight reach
Columbia: Reach. You'd need some pretty good test scores though. (As in much better than 24 on your ACT.) </p>

<p>Michigan would probably be the best. :D It's cheaper and a pretty good match/ slight reach school, at least I think.</p>

<p>Thank you! any other opinions?</p>