Wanting to transfer to michigan ASAP

I’m currently a high school senior who just received their rejectection from the university of michigan for fall 2017. When you look at my transcripts/gpa/ACT it’s understandable even though they were far from terrible (3.68 & 27) but I was diagnosed with cancer before the 9th grade and was dealing with that and it’s effects my high school career. Especially disheartening considering I was treated at the university medical center and had a letter of rec from my oncologist there, a harvard grad. I’m a fencer and raise money for the leukemia and lymphoma societies annual charity walk (the team that i’m captain of has raised over $5,000 the past 2 years) I’m a writing tutor, honor society, hispanic honor society, honor roll, around half my classes each year have been ap or honors. I’ll be enrolling in another university in the fall but my heart is still so dead set on umich. After what I’ve experienced on their campus as a cancer patient there is nothing I want more than to be there as a student. Can I apply as a transfer as soon as the winter semester of freshman year? spring semester? I want to be there as soon as possible and will retake my act etc as many times as it takes. Sorry for the hurried post. I just got the news today and am extremely heartbroken.

I think UMich takes MI CC students with good grades pretty readily. Also from the branch UM’s.

Check with a guidance counselor at a local CC.

umich prefers students to transfer after 2 years at another institution but there is a person in the umich facebook group who transferred from umich right after his first year. umich wants to see that you will do well in college so thats why they like to see the 2 years, otherwise they will pay more attention to your high school performance.

@Eeeee127 how do you know they prefer transfers after 2 years?

@mommamia26 it’s somewhere in the transfer email that umich sends and on the umich admission transfer section of the website. my friends sister transferred from wayne state to umich after her second year in 2012, but it was probably less competitive by then.

It say here “Has earned sophomore (30+ credits) or junior standing (55-60 credits) with transferable credit earned at a community college or another two- or four-year college or university.”
https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/transfer-students

Make sure to pay attention to Transfer Credit Equivalency http://www.ugadmiss.umich.edu/TCE/Public/CT_TCESearch.aspx

Good luck!

UM Dearborn is a good option since many of the same professors teach at AA. Alternately Michigan holds about 300 transfer spots each year for Michigan CC students. You can save a lot of money at a CC too. If you are not admitted after your 1st year, do not be discouraged. A woman in one of my classes was denied, talked to the dean of the school she wanted to major in to see what she could do differently, was denied again after 2nd year AND doing what the dean had outlined. She then called and mailed the dean, filed an appeal with admissions, and was admitted 2 weeks after her denial.

Michigan has a transfer equivalency document for all of the Michigan public universities - it will not give any credit for a course that has no equivalent at Michigan - e.g. “College Algebra” or Econ 100. Be very careful in your course selection! Generally at least half of your credit hours have to be earned at Michigan for a degree.