<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): N/A
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): Didnt send
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.95/4.0
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): School doesnt rank, but probably top 10%
[<em>] Other stats: ACT: 30, Superscore 32
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Common App Excellent
Why Michigan Excellent
Community Pretty good
[<em>] ECs: Forensics Public Speaking (3 years, Captain), Youth Action Board (3 years, Vice President) Symphony Orchestra (4 years, 2nd Violin Assistant Principle), Chamber Music (4 years), Two out of school orchestras (3 years), Cross Country (3 years, Varsity Letter)
[</em>] Teacher Recs:
History Teacher Didnt read but probably really good
Chinese Teacher Great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Amazing
[</em>] Hook (if any): N/A
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MICHIGAN
[</em>] School Type: Public (Big Feeder school to UofM)
[<em>] Ethnicity: ASIAN -_-
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I applied Ross Pre-admit…waiting until April for the decisions. Overall, IT’S GREAT TO BE A WOLVERINE!</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted-Kinesiology ** Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 2210-650CR 760M 800W single sitting (2320 Superscore 760CR 760M 800W)
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any):790 math 2; 730 Biology E (didn’t send 790 retake)
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 4.0
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): Top 10% (school ranks by 10%)
[<em>] Other stats: around 4.5 weighted GPA
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: common app and community ones were ok. Why the school of kinesiology one was a bit generic.
[<em>] ECs: Volunteer clubs, track and field, two years of football, four years of wrestling+team captain.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: good. Also got wrestling coach to give me an additional rec which helped.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: probably not amazing
[</em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:California
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity:Asian
[</em>] Gender:Male
[/ul]Other Factors: I think I showed good commitment to sports on my app, which contributed to the decision. General Comments: Really happy that I got into a good kinesiology program. If I also get into USC, its going to be a hard decision to make.</p>
<p>[ *] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 1950 M:660 CR:630 E:660
[ *] SAT IIs (if any): M:660 Chem:640 (did not send)
[ *] Unweighted GPA: 3.65
[ *] Weighted GPA: 4.31
[ *] Rank (if applicable): UW: 20% W: 10%
[ *] Other stats:
[ *] Essays: Excellent
[ *] ECs: Johns Hopkins Oncology Internship, Run a nonprofit tutoring organization called GlenTutors, Attended a medical mission in Vietnam, organize health fairs in the community, Apart of a group called VNMAP which organizes charities and activities for those without healthcare, secretary of SGA, head of the tutoring and tech commitee in NHS, NHS, DECA President and Vice President, AP Scholars club, Varsity tennis, JV Basketball, Basketball Referee, Waiter at a restaurant
[ *] Teacher Recs: The usual.
[ *] Counselor Rec: The usual.
[ *] Hook (if any): Will take 9 AP classes by the end of the year. Gov, Calc AB, Calc BC, Chemistry, Biology, English 11, English 12, Statistics, Physics
[ *] State or Country: Maryland
[ *] School Type: Small public school with about 300 students in the class. (I know two students who got in UM from my school this year)
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian (Vietnamese)
[ *] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[ b]General Comments:I hope that my extra curricular activities will help me out. I think that’s the strong point in my application. Hopefully they see that I continue to challenge myself and that I’m a dynamic student. :p. I hate to come off as pretentious (especially in this thread).
What do you guys think? Am I in good shape? :/</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 760 W, 750 CR, 680 M = 2190
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 620 US Hist., 660 Bio, 610 Lit.
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.58 (great upward trend, though!) 10 AP/Honors Classes throughout HS, only could have taken about 12
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): School doesn’t rank
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Very good. Talked about what music means to me, how umpiring has shaped my sense of justice, and killed the “Why LSA” essay
[<em>] ECs: National and Regional awards as part of jazz group at high school, school newspaper (nationally renowned, also) writer and copy editor, little league umpire for 6 years, summer camp counselor,<br>
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Very good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Incredible
[</em>]Hook (if any): Family members go to/work for UM
[<em>]State or Country: CA
[</em>]School Type: Public, Urban, Large
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors: A member of my extended family is a very influential professor who’s on great terms with Ted Spencer. He and Ted definitely talked about my application, I have no idea if it was for an hour or for 30 seconds in passing. This honestly could have been the reason I got in, but it also wouldn’t surprise me if it had absolutely nothing to do with my decision. I have no idea… General Comments: They say it’s really a GPA-focused admissions process, but my sense is that if you have great extracurriculars and great essays to make up for a somewhat weak GPA, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): didn’t send
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 710 math 2, 730 chem, but didn’t send
[<em>] ACTs: 33 composite
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: unknown; weighted is 3.9 on 5.0 scale
[<em>] Rank (if applicable): unknown
[</em>] Other stats: 6 APs, 11 honors; 4 on ap chem and 5 on ap lang
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: very strong and well-researched
[</em>] ECs: relatively strong
[<em>] Teacher Recs: glowing
[</em>] Counselor Rec: pretty stellar
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: connecticut
[<em>] School Type: highly competitive, top-ranking public school
[</em>] Ethnicity: caucasian
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: a lot of kids got in from my school; we seem to be very well-liked by the admissions representative</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): n/a
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): n/a
[<em>] ACT: composite 33, english 33, math 34, reading 32, science 31
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: 4.0
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 6.0452 out of 6.5
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): 4/342
[<em>] Other stats: AP Chem (4) APUSH (3), this year: AP Biology, AP Calc, AP Psych, AP Spanish, Honors With Distinction District Award (4 years), Illinois State scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: common app was about how I met this girl in junior high and made me more outgoing (8/10), group one was about how I organized a ping pong tournament (7/10), mentioned attendance of tech day for why college of engineering (7/10)
[<em>] ECs: Student Council (Vice President), NHS (Vice President), Pep Club, Junior/Senior Leadership, Badminton, Tennis, did this pageant & went to the philippines to give medicine books and slippers
[</em>] Teacher Recs: one from APUSH teacher who loved me, other from my AP Bio teacher who also coached me for badminton for 4 years, both good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t see, but she’s the sweetest lady and it must’ve been good
[</em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Illinois
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: sooooo excited that I got in and can’t wait to see the rest of you there (:</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 2030; 710 W, 670 M, 650 CR
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 610 Bio E, 640 M1
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.93
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): 5/394
[<em>] Other stats: 4.1 W GPA. 31 ACT composite
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Common App was very good, Supplement was average
[<em>] ECs: Varsity Tennis (9-12, captain 12); United States Tennis Association tennis (since I was 8); NHS Senior Rep, Spanish Club (11-12); Peer Assistance Leaders (10-12); Volunteer hours over summer teaching elementary kids how to play tennis.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One was generic, the other was outstanding
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Average
[</em>] Hook (if any): Star tennis player of my area, brother and grandpa went to U of M
[/ul][ b]Location/Person:**[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Michigan
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] General Comments: I kind of feel bad for those who were deferred because U of M was my backup school. I applied ED to Northwestern not thinking I would get in, and I was accepted there, so I feel like I stole a spot away. But I will withdraw my app soon so somebody can be happy :)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): n/a
[</em>] ACT C:27 (E:29 R:29 M:26 S:26)
[<em>] SAT IIs (if any): n/a
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.6 gpa (started freshman year with a 4.1, dropped tremendously soph year, jumped way back up junior year)
[<em>] Rank (if applicable): school doesn’t rank
[</em>] Other stats: honor roll, academic letter, etc
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: really great. common app essay was about being diagnosed for obsessive-compulsive disorder sophomore year of high school and how it affected both school and my entire life in many ways; communities essay about an odd job i held, why mich essay about being obessed with forensic science as a kid (although i no longer want to major in bio…oops)
[</em>] ECs: lots of volunteer work all four years at many different places, spent a summer tutoring the underprivileged every day, nhs, french club, school service club, school spirit club, community leadership board.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didnt read but ive had different teachers in every class all 4 years except for art, so i had my art teacher of 3 years do mine since she knows me best. it was probably good, should have picked an academic though
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didnt read but probably good! i talk to him a lot
[<em>] Hook (if any): having ocd was a pretty good hook for me, much different than the usual adhd hook colleges probably see in apps. i think that helped me a lot because it explained my gpa.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: instate
[<em>] School Type: small religious private
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]Other Factors: none General Comments: i wasn’t expecting to get accepted, that’s for sure, so i’m really happy i didn’t get denied! here’s to hoping i get in with my great 7th semester grades, i really hope i do.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred LSA Residential College
Stats
[ *] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): did not send
[ *] SAT IIs (if any): did not send
[ *] weighted GPA:4.2
[ *] Rank (if applicable):
[ *] Other stats:ap scholar with distinction, 31 on ACT one sitting
Subjective:
[ *] Essays: really good. i applied for the LSA residential college and wrote an essay that conveyed my desire for what that program has to offer
[ *] ECs: principle violin in orchestra for 4 years, concert master of orchestra outside of school, member of gay-straight alliance, over 260 hours of community service, worked as a camp counselor for 2 summers
[ *] Teacher Recs: waived my right to read, but i knew both the teachers very well
[ *] Counselor Rec: most likely decent
[ *] Hook (if any): i was in a humanities magnet program for high school that I had to test into
Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Maryland
[ *] School Type: public magnet school
[ *] Ethnicity: white/Filipino
[ *] Gender: Female
Other Factors:
General Comments: I knew I was getting deferred once I didn’t get an email on Friday. I wasn’t really expecting to get in and I’m a little wary about getting in after being deferred because U Mich has already accepted 5 people from my school.</p>
<p>Out-of-state
3.8ish unweighted GPA, 4.2ish weighted
5 APs including this year’s
6 years of Latin
SAT: 650 M, 660 CR, 730 W
National Honors Society, Commended Student for the PSAT thing
Rank: 81/323 (this is what killed me…my high school is really competitive)</p>
<p>Around 400 volunteer hours, 80 of which are from Cambodia and Thailand
Founded an organization to send refugees to summer camp
Tutor of ESL students for 4 years and counting
Indian classical dance for 12 years and now a teacher
At least one of the teacher recs I know was REALLY good, the other one was probably OK
Hooks: Type 1 diabetes?</p>
<p>I’m ****ed I got deferred Good luck to everyone else though!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 1920 (660 CR, 550 M, 710 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 640 Spanish 660 Lit
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.89 UW 4.56 W
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): High school doesn’t rank, but probably one of top 5 students
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Good, I don’t really know how I can judge them. Common app about my fears growing up, Michigan ones about my love for the dual degree program, why I feel it’s important, and some of my directing experience, and about my community with the organization I work with in Guatemala.<br>
[<em>] ECs: Theatre for my entire life, three community service trips to Guatemala, student ambassador, presented a workshop at a national education conference, and more.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I haven’t read them but I had incredibly close bonds with my teachers so I’m sure great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: He told me it was one of his best.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Very unique high school.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] State or Country: California
[</em>] School Type: Private, very progressive and small
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Female[/ul] General Comments: I am applying dual-degree with LSA and the theatre school, so I’m not sure if it has to do with that. It may be that I can’t be accepted to either school until after my audition in February. But if not I’d assume it has to do with my SAT score, although my GPA is very high.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 580 CR 710 M 690W 1980
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 730 Math II
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.90/4.0
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): 3/120
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were quite strong.
[<em>] ECs: Varsity Basketball Captain. Student Council. Bunch of Community Service. Too lazy to post everything else.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Did not read.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: 8.5/10
[</em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I’m thrilled!!! Good luck to everyone else…!!!</p>
<p>Subjective:
•Essays: CommonApp was great, supplements were detailed programs of interest at Michiga
•ECs: Really involved with xcountry and track (captain for both), Invisible Children leadership stuff and lots of community service with Girls Inc.
•Teacher Recs: Really good, I think
•Counselor Rec: Not sure
•Hook (if any): Possibly American Indian (w/card)</p>
<p>Location/Person:
•State or Country: California
•School Type: Public
•Ethnicity: White
•Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors: Lots of AP/Honors classes including a strong senior year load of 5 AP/IB and one Honors class
General Comments: Very excited!! She just has to visit campus to assure that she’ll be a Wolverine!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 800 R, 760 M, 700 W (2260)
SAT IIs (if any): 800 U.S. History, 730 Literature
Unweighted GPA: 3.92, 4.32 W
Rank: 3/225
Other stats: 5 AP exams passed; Lit (5), Lang (5), U.S. History (5), European History (5), CS (3 - I hated the class). Taking three AP classes this year and a total of four classes at WMU; AP Calc AB, AP Gov, AP Stats, Arabic I and II, a history class, and a creative writing class.</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Good - I wrote about my experience at an Austrian concentration camp for the Common App and mentioned a handful of specific professors for the “why michigan” one.
ECs: Gay Straight Alliance (9-12, executive board 11-12), NHS (Secretary), successfully helped run a political campaign in 2009, internship with local progressive nonprofit, Computer Science team, Math League, 4-year job grading research papers for a professor at Western Michigan University, 8-year position as judge for Community Literary Awards, published as a poet last year
Teacher Recs: Very good - my AP physics teacher is mentioned on the tours at Michigan as someone to ask for a letter (he writes about 70 for Michigan each year and has it down to a science), and my English teacher is the one who lets me grade her papers
Counselor Rec: Pretty good
Hook (if any): I guess my political experience</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: MI
School Type: I go to a pretty crappy urban high school for part of my day and a magnet school for math and science that sends a lot of kids to Michigan for the rest of my day. I’ve also been dual enrolled at WMU since my sophomore year
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors: My older brother went to Michigan for his undergrad and came back to get a double masters.
General Comments: Go Blue?</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 2240 superscore (760 CR 700 M 780 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 770 US History
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.95/4.00
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): Top 10% (only way school ranks) but probably in top 10 students
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: CommonApp was great but I wouldn’t say that my supplements were anything worthy of much praise seeing as I wrote them in about an hour or so with minimal editing.
[</em>] ECs: DECA executive director and international competitor, Invisible Children fundraising director, international trade internship, French Club, school store manager, school newspaper staff writer, NHS, HOBY Ambassador, etc.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: I didn’t read them but I’m sure they were very complimentary.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I doubt it was exceptional, she barely knows my name.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Pennsylvania
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors: I have the heaviest courseload available at my school, and maybe they liked the obscure references to recent Michigan alumni in my supplements. General Comments: I’ve gotten four acceptances thus far but this is the first I’m actually excited about. Now I just have to wait and see if I got preferred admission to the Ross BBA program :)</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted **
Applied preferred to Ross, but we don’t hear back about that for a few more months.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 2330 (790 Math, 740 CR, 800 Writing)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.99 (4.8 weighted)
[li] Rank (if applicable): no rankings, but top 3%. Officially goes down as top 10% b/c my school only does deciles</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Common app essay was really risky. If they like the risk, 9/10. If not, who knows.
[</em>] ECs: debate team captain with multiple regional wins, vice president of quiz bowl, 2 time captain of first place tri-state Latin Certamen competition, Gold awards for both years I took the Nat’l Latin Competition, 13 years of dance, hundreds of hours of creative writing donated for charity projects, 3 years of science research with many regional and state awards, CEO of small company
[<em>] Teacher Recs: I have no idea, hopefully good. math teacher, latin teacher, debate coach
[</em>] Counselor Rec: hopefully good. I would think so at least.
[<em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New York
[<em>] School Type: Competitive, well-ranked public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul] Other Factors: I’m the only student in my school of 1600 kids who is in 2 AP languages and I jumped ahead to AP Latin after only 2 years of studying it. Perhaps it makes me a bit different? General Comments: I’ll probably only go if I get into Ross as a preferred admit, but I’m still happy. So far about 20+ kids got in from my grade to UMich EA, so I assume at least a couple will go.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (Breakdown + Combined): 660 CR, 780 Math, 660 Writing 2100 superscore
[</em>] SAT IIs (if any): 670 Chemistry
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.87
[</em>] Rank (if applicable): 5/450
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:Pretty good and original
[<em>] ECs: Pretty good, probably helped me get in
[</em>] Teacher Recs: great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: should have been good
[</em>] Hook (if any): none
Location/Person:**[ list]
[<em>] State or Country: Florida
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
**General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>stats:
sat: 1960 CR-610 W-640 M-710
gpa: 4.1 W
no rank at my school but in top 9%
8 APs and 5 honors taken all ap test and passed with 4 or 5</p>
<p>subj:
essay: very good I think but who knows?
Recs: From calculus teacher and counselor they both love me…but again who knows
hook? jewish</p>
<p>ec’s: accepted into a prestigious research program and conducted personal research project for 3 weeks, club president and founder, varsity sports 4 yrs, over 400+ hr volunteer</p>
<p>location:
California
public school
white
female</p>
<p>really excited I love this school can’t wait to visit Ann Arbor!</p>
<p>Stats:
ACT: 31C - 27E, 28CR, 34S, 36M
SAT IIs (if any): None
Unweighted GPA: 3.96
Rank (if applicable): N/A
Other stats: 5 AP classes, and 3 college classes by graduation. Plenty of honors and accelerated courses.</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Decent, not amazing
ECs: Robotics (leadership position), science team, piano, NHS, plenty of community service
Teacher Recs: Amazing
Counselor Rec: Good
Hook (if any): Nothing major</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: MI
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>General Comments: I am super excited, Michigan was my first choice and I can’t wait to attend next fall.</p>
Good luck to everyone else though!</p>