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hey, i've been looking through this forum and i still had a couple questions. plus, i am trying to figure out my chances, since michigan is my first choice. here are some of my stats

-competitive ohio college prep school

-pretty rigorous schedule, honors courses whenever possible, 2 AP's a year for 11th and 12th grade, (our school only allows three AP's a year and only in 11th and 12th grade)
-in 9th grade just the basic classes with honors geometry
-in 10th just the basic classes with honors algebra 2
-in 11th honors precalc BC, ap chem (got a 5 on AP), ap english (got a 2 on AP), us history, french 4, and digital projects
-in 12th honors physics, ap bio, ap calc BC, debate/expository writing, financial life skills, animation independent study
-overall GPA is a weighted 4.0 on a maximum unweighted 4.33 scale (i dont know how the normal system works, but our unweighted A is a 4.0 and our A+ is a 4.33)

-took the SAT twice got a 1370 first time, 1470 second time (800M, 670V)
-800 chem SATII, 800 Math IIC SATII, 700 Writing SATII

-Average extracurriculars/ awards/ volunteering/ etc., but no single special interest or talent.
-National honors society, high honors, couple class awards, an art award.
-worked at NASA last summer, did a couple littler assistant jobs throughout high school
-Did a little tutoring, food drives, health fairs, and other volunteering things each about once a year
-student council, french exchange, amnesty international secretary, and a couple other clubs just for a year
-tennis 10th and 12th, no awards
-took some summer classes at local colleges for two summers

-good recomendations and probably a decent, average essay

-sister is going to grad school there right now

-hope to submit everything by the end of september

what are my chances?

i was also not sure about ACT and AP exams. i took both of them but i dont think they will help me out in admission cause i think my sat and sat2's were better. do you still have to send them, or can you send your AP scores later if you get in and still get college credit.
Also, how important is getting the application in by the middle of this month versus the end of this month or even the middle of next month.

last, somebody told me michigan is all about the numbers and that essays do not matter much so it is ok to not have the best essay. How true is this, and is it more important just to get it sent off early rather than revising and redoing your essays for weeks.

Thanks alot, i know this is a long post.

By Skulkarni1 (Skulkarni1) on Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 04:23 pm: Edit

the essay does mater......maybe not as much in comparison to some other schools but i know that they do read them and consider them and that you should work on every part of the application. as long as you send it in september, u should be okay but i need to know ur unweighted gpa cuz thats what they use. to do the unweighted gpa its like this :

all A's, A-'s, and A+'s = 4
all B's, B-'s, and B+'s = 3
etc

test scores?

By Neil556 (Neil556) on Sunday, September 05, 2004 - 04:56 pm: Edit

ok thanks Skulkarni1 , yeah mostly A's, maybe a couple B's. so i would think that my gpa by that scale would be maybe a 3.8 or 3.9