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2026 Case Study: She Was Ranked in the Top 2% of Her Texas High School. Michigan Still Waitlisted Her.
Ranked in the top 2% of her class at a large, competitive Texas public high school. A 3.95 GPA. A 1510 SAT. Full IB Diploma candidate.
Her course load was exactly what a pre-med applicant is supposed to build: IB Biology HL, IB Chemistry HL, IB Physics SL, IB Mathematics AA HL, and a dual-enrollment Anatomy and Physiology course she sought out independently because her school didn't offer anything comparable.
Her extracurriculars matched. Over 200 clinical volunteer hours at a hospital system near her home. President of her school's HOSA chapter, where she organized career panels and led a CPR certification drive that trained more than 80 students and faculty. A summer research internship at a university lab studying protein folding, where she contributed to data collection and co-presented findings at an undergraduate symposium.
She knew what she wanted to study and why. Her application showed it across every section.
Michigan waitlisted her anyway.
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