What are my chances? University of Michigan, Harvard, and other ivies?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello I am wondering what are my chances for the colleges listed above. Here are my credentials:</p>

<p>GPA:3.83
ACT: 24 ( only had 3 hours of sleep before the test, was scoring higher on the practice.)</p>

<p>ECs:
Wrestling 4 years, 2 year varsity captain, 1 year JV captain.
Football 1 year, freshman year captain
Baseball 1 year
National honor society
link crew
student congress
Currently trying to start Mu Alpha Theta at school along with key club and Science olympiad.
Internship with an orthopedic surgeon who is a U of M alumni along with a letter of recommendation
Many hours of tutoring, volunteering, religious services, community clean up services, and hours outside of school.
Awards: Academic achievement awards, Charger Award ( School Award), Good Cause award ( Donate a certain amount of money), first time donor award, Recycling awards, and tutoring awards.
Income bracket <30,000
Senior year ap course load: AP Bio, AP lit, AP calc, AP Gov, AP world, and AP physics (self studying.)
Race: Middle Eastern, so white.
Hooks: gruesome injury story that shows an upward trend.
Huge increase in GPA ( part of upward trend).
Michigan resident.</p>

<p>Major: Biology</p>

<p>P.S. I understand my ACT is pretty low ( Disgraced my family lol). I am planning to take my subject 2 tests. Anything I can do to increase my chances? I also understand my credentials arent the best but please try and give some helpful insight.</p>

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<p>Retake the ACT, bring that score up</p>

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<p>Retake act try to score 32+ and score 750+ sat 2 and make sure Ur essays are great and describe Ur injury and how it affected u and u should be fine</p>

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<p>Also try to get awards from mu alpha thetha and science Olympiad</p>

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<p>Your GPA is right at the average for UMich admission last yet, but you need to bring your ACT score up to over 30 (mid 50% 29-33) to make you high match. Others would be reach to high reach for you.</p>

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<p>You should get those scores up… especially if you want to go to an Ivy school.</p>

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<p>june 8th is redemption day</p>

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<p>I would be very careful how you emply the “gruesome” aspects of the injury story. Definitely fine to explain how the injury (and recovery) might have negatively impacted your GPA at the time, but a gruesome injury is not a “hook.”</p>

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<p>No no you got it wrong. My injury is what caused me to want to do better in school.</p>

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<p>Either way, I think the theme is too formulaic and predictable to make a good essay.</p>