University of Michigan Chances?

<p>Hi, my name is Nick and I am currently a junior at a public school on Long Island, NY. I am white.</p>

<p>Grades: 4.4 scale (Standard 4.0 scale, except an A+ is a 4.4; AP classes weighted 1 GPA point, no honors weight)
Freshman- 3.8 UW/W (0 AP, 2 honors, 1 advanced)
Sophomore- 4.0 UW/4.28 Weighted (2 AP, 1 advanced)
Got 5's on both AP's
Junior (so far)- 4.16 UW/ 4.51 Weighted (3 AP, 1 advanced)</p>

<p>I expect to take 4 AP classes next year. (9 total)</p>

<p>SAT: 2120
700 CR
690 Math
730 Writing</p>

<p>SATII- 720 Biology E
740 World History</p>

<p>EC's:
Club president of DECA (school's largest club)
-Placed 6th in state on my business competition last year
-Hope to make it to nationals this year
-Plan to run for County President of DECA
Trying to start a Model UN club
Will complete paid internship at local CitiBank Branch this summer
Will take courses at SUNY Stony Brook this summer.
1 year of Tri-M music honor society
Spanish Honor Society Officer
English Honor Society
National Honor Society
2 years of Varsity Volleyball
1 year of Varsity Badminton
150+ hours of community service.</p>

<p>What are my chances of getting into Michigan EA? Either Ross School of Business or Arts and Sciences.</p>

<p>UMI Ross: Reach
UMI A&S: Reach (but lower than Ross)</p>

<p>Your GPA is good, but your SATs could be higher for OOS. As for ECs, you’re really lacking. Only 1 leadership role and a few generic clubs and societies. I don’t think your chances are that great, it’s going to be a reach for both schools (as Catria said, though, Ross is more competitive than A&S). What other universities are you applying to?</p>

<p>I agree with you about SATs but disagree with you about EC’s. I will have 3 or 4 leadership roles. school DECA pres, hopefully county pres, President of model UN, and spanish honor society officer. along with those other honor societies and sports. Plus that internship at Citibank will look nice (and pays well xD). I was planning on applying ED to Cornell and EA to michigan, bc, illinois, penn state, and maybe emory </p>

<p>I would say to focus your EC’s more on what you want to do and not just general clubs and activities</p>

<p>What I see from what you posted above: you’re in 4 honors societies which don’t really help you unless you have a leadership role, you have 2 sports that you haven’t been playing since Freshman year and no leadership role or anything mentioned of being recruited. You are president of one club which you seem pretty dedicated to and seems to be your strong point (although your internship is interesting too. I don’t think I read it the first time and didn’t put it into consideration when I first posted). If you do found the Model UN and get a leadership role in SHS, it might be a match. It’s a little hard to chance someone when they’re not even done with their Junior year.</p>

<p>Thanks for your input. I will definately work on improving my EC’s</p>

<p>You will get into UMich LSA for sure. Put Ross preferred admit but you get into LSA before Ross so even if Ross doesn’t work out you can still go there. </p>

<p>Can you recalculate your uw GPA in 4.0 max scale? It is a bit confusing. Assuming your overall uw GPA is ~3.9, SAT at 2120 is slightly below average. For oos, it would be a low reach for LSA. Ross pre-admission would be a reach. I definitely would you say you can get it for sure as I have seen many oos students got rejected even with much better stat.</p>

<p>I cant recalculate my GPA but i think it would be in the 3.85 ballpark. Strong upward trend too ( about 3.7, 3.9, 3.95). I am going to take the SAT again next Saturday. However, on businessweek.com it says the average 1600 scale SAT for admission at Ross is a 1370, and I have a 1390 as is. Is my SAT that bad?</p>

<p>I am not sure if the number from businessweek.com is from recent years or if it is for all undergraduate students. Pre-admission to Ross is very competitive and you are likely to need 2200+ in SAT. CR+M at 1370 is not even sufficient for LSA these days. The mid 50 SAT for UMich overall is 2030-2250 last year. When you see stat in CR+M, it is likely very outdated.</p>

<p>I just checked business.com. The data are indeed very very outdated. The current school wide admission rate is 31% while it said 58% there. It must be from more than 5 years ago. I think the stat there is from last decade and is from all students, not pre-admission.</p>

<p>Yikes! Thats bad news. Better study really hard for the March SAT! </p>

<p>Also I am in the top 5% of my class</p>

<p>Why UofMich specifically? Since you’re OOS it’s not like your tuition’s gonna be any cheaper. Have you looked at some other private schools?</p>