<p>3.66 GPA, 4.22 Weighted. 32 ACT Overall, but 34s in math, english and writing. I am OOS and I also got into Honors.</p>
<p>You are correct – we learned that the UW GPA is all that matters and it needs to be at least a 3.9 or higher. We learned that a 3.65 UW GPA/3.9 W isn’t high enough, even with 1400 SAT score. A “C” grade in an AP class in Junior year was very bad timing. It was the lowest grade of the entire high school career, but admissions reps do not ignore these things. Beware of the AP classes. You have to take a rigorous course load w/o destroying the GPA. S waitlisted at UMich.</p>
<p>4.0w/4.7uw, 13 APs with a 5 on nine of them, a 4 on three of them. 34 ACT, 4th/568 in rank.</p>
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<p>3.94 gpa, 31 act</p>
<p>My dd is a junior in a metro detroit high school. So obviously, I am very interested in this thread. I have two co-workers and a close friend all have their kids accepted into UM. One from AAH, with one B in one semester, all accelerated classes (I assume same as honor classes) and only one AP, 31 act, got into COE. One from Hartland, with ~3.7-3.8 uw GPA, 29 ACT, got into COE. One with 23 ACT got into LSA to study music, but later on got rejected by music school, so she is not going. I wonder if a lot of music students with super low ACT hurt UM’s statistics. I don’t know the details, but a ton of students from my dd’s school got in. But I did hear a few surprised defers in Dec, but all kids should have gotten in eventually got accepted. Overall, it seems if you have >3.8 uw GPA and >32 ACT, you should be ok in state.</p>
<p>My dd wants to get into LSA with preferred admission to Pharmacy. I also have a son wants to get into Ross with preferred admission. It’s going to be a tough few years for me.</p>
<p>ACT: 36
UW GPA: 3.97
W GPA: 4.22 at the time (I applied EA), now 4.38</p>
<p>I don’t know how other schools calculate weighted GPA, but mine just adds .0225 to your GPA for an A for the semester of an AP class.</p>
<p>I was accepted into CoE. I had 9 AP and dual enrollment classes, a 3.96 UW GPA and a 31 ACT.</p>
<p>“I wonder if a lot of music students with super low ACT hurt UM’s statistics.”</p>
<p>Not a lot JH8888, but enough to knock a point off on the ACT range (would be 29-33 if we only looked at LSA and CoE) and probably 20 or so points on each section of the SAT (would be roughly 1280-1480 if we only looked at LSA and CoE). </p>
<p>“Overall, it seems if you have >3.8 uw GPA and >32 ACT, you should be ok in state.”</p>
<p>I would agree with the assessment, but it is becoming more and more common to hear of in-state students with such statistics getting rejected. Assuming the trend of the last two years continues for the next 3-4 years, there will come a time when in-state students with such credentials will have to consider Michigan a reach.</p>
<p>My son had 3.9 UW, 31 ACT, 5 AP’s, from a top public HS in-state, average EC’s w/ heavy involvment in symphony. All parents were told at the start of senior year by a HS counselor that kids considering michigan had to have at least a 3.8 UW. Most of my son’s music friends who had 34+ ACT’s were using michigan as a safety, as they were trying to get into Ivy’s (harvard, MIT etc)</p>
<p>UM loves challenging classes for their potential students. My S 's school offers 16 AP classes. UM admissions was upset he took " only " six of them . He was accepted with a 33 ACT ( and a GPA of 4.01/3.79 ) plus top 5% of class . EC’s are mildly importance , not not hugely. Band, symphony , NHS, sports are just ok. Working in a research lab between your junior and senior is huge ( for science / engineering people ) , or some type of pertinent co-op job for business folks.</p>
<p>I was accepted from an in-state public high school for Fall 2011 with a 3.99 UW GPA and 36 ACT.</p>
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<p>I agree. Before UMich went to the Common App, a 3.8 UW was supposedly a pseudo-minimum. That’s only likely to get worse. (I may be remembering the wrong number here, but I’m pretty sure this is correct.)</p>
<p>A lot of the admissions process depends in-state on where you go to high school. My daughter goes to the International Academy where last year 84 of 101 applications were accepted. There are only 150 students in the school. Of course IA was ranked by US News recently as the #5 best public HS and the #1 best IB school in the nation.</p>
<p>Our daughter has a 3.77 with 33 ACT and 2250 super-scored SAT (Yes I know that UofM doesn’t super score but they’ll see the scores none-the-less) and she was told by her guidence councilor that UofM can be considered a safety school. Much of that is due to the relationship that the IA has with UofM. </p>
<p>I do agree that below 3.6 - even at the IA - can make it tough to get into UofM. I’m just glad we michiganders have such a quality public university in the state.</p>
<p>I agree with mekozak. At Northville and Novi High, about 70 students get in each year without fail and their GPA is 3.7+ usually and ACT is 29+ generally. I myself was accepted to the Honors College and got an LSA scholarship with a 35 ACT and a 3.83 UW GPA (I took 12 APs though).</p>
<p>It does seem to matter what HS you go to in Michigan. My niece’s boyfriend had very similar scores & grades to my son w/ more AP classes, and he was waitlisted. He goes to a HS in Livonia. One of my part-time employees is also a senior from the same HS, and he was accepted to michigan, but I know he had an ACT of 33.</p>
<p>We only give weighted GPA. How does your school calculate unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>A - 4, B - 3? Only for core courses?</p>
<p>My high school is a very good public school but wouldn’t be considered one of the top schools in the US like IA is–maybe top 20ish in the state of Michigan?</p>
<p>Last year 50 to 60 kids from our school enrolled at the University of Michigan. The only university with more people enrolling at our high school was Michigan State and slightly behind Michigan was our local public college.</p>
<p>lisa, I believe Michigan will recalculate your GPA on the standard 4.0 scale after you turn in your transcript and they review it.</p>
<p>I knew someone that got in last year with a 23 act (definitely not for music either). I know his essay’s and recommendations were good (he worked with a teacher for a month working on them) but I don’t think his gpa was that impressive. His EC"s were somewhat good though.</p>
<p>When will the EA letters/emails start for LSA?</p>
<p>senna, they will come by December 24 and I think they came mid-December last year according to my graduated friends. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>30 ACT. 3.96 GPA (our school barely weighted GPAs, highest in class was 4.15ish).</p>