<p>Basically I'd like to know what your guys' GPA and ACT/SAT scores were to get accepted into Michigan. I'm a Junior in highschool and really want to go to Michigan, but am worried about not getting accepted. So far my weighted GPA is around a 4 and I got a 28 on my ACT(re-taking, looking for atleast a 30).</p>
<p>I’m not going to Michigan, but I had a 33 and about a 3.8 unweighted, 4.3 weighted.</p>
<p>Gpa uw-3.9 w-4.25
act 32</p>
<p>3.75 and 31</p>
<p>GPA: uw - 3.97, w - 4.08. ACT: 27. Class Rank: 1 of 168.</p>
<p>Son had 3.78, 30 ACT w lots of ECs and awards</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses so far guys. My ECs are pretty average, nothing over the top, but I have enough I think.<br>
@Rockbiter, you got in with a 27? That makes me feel better, since all the research I’ve been doing has shown Michigan’s ACT scores for students being 29-33. I guess those are just the averages and below a 29 can get in. I’m feeling a lot of pressure for this upcoming June ACT, I just need to improve my score by 1-2 and I feel more comfortable. With the right amount of studying hopefully I pull it off. Thanks again guys!</p>
<p>According to the most recent CDS, Michigan’s ACT range is from 28-32.</p>
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<li>and 3.7/4.2</li>
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<p>I heard from my old high school that it was much easier to get int to Michigan this year for out-of-staters. People were getting in with 27 ACT scores. The university may need the money…</p>
<p>I’m in-state. The only weakness of my application was my 27 ACT (I’m a pretty slow test taker and tend to analyze the reading section rather and thus answer objective questions poorly.) I do rank first in my class with lots of extracurriculars (being President of a couple of them), community service hours, and some awards. I got a 5 on AP Psychology my sophomore year and 5 on AP Statistics my junior year as well. I wrote some pretty darn good essays with great teacher recommendations. I also got into the honors program at Michigan (9% admittance - regular and honors admission probabilities combined) where typically the ACT average is above a 32 and the GPA is above a 3.9. That tells you that ACT scores and GPA aren’t everything! You have to know how to write as well!</p>
<p>Out of state with a 30 ACT and 3.75/4.25 gpa and am waitlisted. 3 sports and lots of ecs. I think it depends on your major. Mine was biomedical engineering.</p>
<p>3.8/4.3
30
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<p>There is much that goes into Michigan’s admissions decisions. Here are a few points:</p>
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<li><p>Michigan has now reached a point where virtually all applicants should approach it as a reach. Even excellent students with stellar ECs and test scores can treat it as a safety any longer.</p></li>
<li><p>Michigan considers curriculum and GPA above all other criteria. Students who take a very challenging group of classes in high school and maintain unweighed GPAs over 3.8 are in good shape. An unweighed GPA lower than 3.7 does not sit well with the admissions committee, unless one attends a high school known in the admissions office at Michigan for having severe grade deflation. </p></li>
<li><p>Michigan does not care about standardized test scores as much as its private peers. Private universities tend to artificially choose students with high scores and use it as a weed-out factor in admissions in order to maintain very high ranges. Michigan does not. As such, students enrolled in robust high school curriculae and with high unweighed GPAs can get in, even with relatively low standardized test scores (sub 28 on the ACT and sub 1250 on the SAT). That being said, applicants with sub 30 ACT /sub 1400 SAT scores do not stand a good chance of getting in.</p></li>
<li><p>Michigan’s applicant pool is growing very rapidely. Three of four years ago, Michigan’s applicant pool hovered around 29,000 of which 14,000 were admitted. Michigan still admits around 15,000 students, but the applicant pool has grown to 42,000. Next year, Michigan should received anywhere from 43,000-50,000 applications of which 15,000 will be admitted. </p></li>
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<p>The best thing an applicant can do is take as many AP classes as possible, maintain an unweighed GPA over 3.8, get a strong score on the ACT/SAT (30/1400 or better) and apply EA. Such students stand a good chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Agree with everything Alexandre said. Final numbers are not out yet, but U of Ms acceptance rate is projected to be about 36% this year. It’s a far cry from the 51% acceptance rate a couple of years ago. During our campus visit, some of the current students from Michigan said that while they got in, many of their in state friends did not. Bottom line - it’s hard to get in and getting harder. </p>
<p>Regarding Classclown’s statement about it’s easier for out of staters to get in, our experience was that its equally hard regardless of where you live. We are from Colorado. Son attends a private Jesuit school with great academics. 17 kids applied to U of M and only 6 got in. The students who were accepted all have high GPAs, tests scores and ECs - in other words, all at the top of their class.</p>
<p>31 with a 3.7/4.05
I completely agree with what Alexandre said. I’m in state, do a lot of extracurriculars, and come from a great high school. Kids go to Ivies each year and at least 5 or 6 kids go to Michigan every year. Also, I took more challenging classes than kids who had better GPA’s and higher ACT’s, and I got in while they got deffered/rejected.</p>
<p>To me a 36% admit rate for a school that matriculates approx. 6,000 students anually at the undergraduate level is quite impressive. It is even more impressive when you consider than there is also another huge quality school in the state and that the population of Michigan is not growing.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, the unweighted GPA and the course rigor are most important factors are considered. An ACT score of 28 will not keep out an otherwise qualified applicant. As far as the OP is concerned, the GPA given was weighted which suggests that the unweighted GPA is much lower than a 4 - nothing is provided as to course rigor.</p>
<p>I agree with SportsMom. It’s just as hard for out of state kids. I am also from a private well known all boy Jesuit high school with no grade inflation and I was waitlisted despite having comparable stats, rigorous coarse load, and a lot of ecs/volunteering. I’m guessing the 3.75 uw gpa for engineering was just a little too low.</p>
<p>If you’re from in-state, this school is NOT that difficult to get into. At my high school (from which I didn’t graduate due to poor attendance and radical family life) at least 15 kids from my graduating class alone matriculated into the university of michigan on the sole basis of marginal test scores and institutionally inflated G.P.A’s. And not be rude, but a good majority of these individuals weren’t what you would call exceptionally bright, either.</p>
<p>I get the sense that a lot of these posters, who commonly portray U-of-M as some vaunted and inaccessible institution, are from out-of-state and therefore naive. That’s the only way I can figure their ignorance to the remarkable accessibility of the school. At the end of the day, U-of-M is a major public university whose monolithic operations necessarily make it more permeable than not.</p>