Congrats to the new Wolverines. (Acceptance letters went out today).

I won't deny that I am the real Mr. Radric Davis. 

A lot of students don't get the struggles of cummunity college. The classes require real effort, and often times the commute takes up a lot of time that could be afforded to studying. Plus many CC kids have jobs or other commitments. Community college helps a lot of students who have very diffrent goals. In my experience the top 5% at CC is close to the top students at UofM, but the bottom half of CC really are awful students. 

As far as anyone looking down on me.....that is no concern of mine, I was told by my origininal high school administration I didn't even have what it takes to graduate high school. I would welcome any additional motivation. 

I had a 3.9 and did a lot of elderly care. I'm also a minority and that may have helped. But it sounds like some other students I met at orientation had around a 3.5 and nothing much in terms of extracuricular. Make sure you go online and check which classes at your school transfer to UofM, that is my biggest advice.

Me too. They called me up to offer law school admission as well back and in the day. GREAT feeling. Grinned ear to ear the rest of the day at work. Bonus was the attorneys at the large Chicago firm where I worked who had previously treated me as invisible as a file clerk suddenly were coming around my cubicle when word got out that I got accepted to Michigan Law.

I'll never forget when my younger daughter decided to go to U-M.  She grew up in Ann Arbor and knew the campus pretty well.  But she was a "Wisconsin lean" up until her "official visit" weekend for parents.  She and my wife and I were having lunch at East Quad and she announced her "verbal" to Michigan.  I was so happy I almost cried.  Every U-M alum's dream is for one (or all) of their kids to go to Michigan as well.  

at Michigan. He's having the time of his life there and may even be learning a thing or two.

I was very proud the day he got accepted to Michigan, and am equally proud today, as his brother just got accepted.

Good luck to your daughter. I hope she receives the same good news when her time comes.

Yeah I forgot about those. I think though if your parents are making over 150k or so they don't apply. Not trying to get in a fight about 150k being rich or not rich, but if you have 4-5 kids going to college it's tough regardless.

Not true about HYP. It's need-blind admission and more than half the students receive financial aid. You may still need to take out loans, but because the financial package is so generous, you don't really need to take out more than the Stafford. Even before the free/minimal contribution policy was instituted, they made it well affordable, and my brother & I paid much less than friends who went to Northwestern/U Chicago, etc. The parental contribution is capped, so the more siblings get in, the better the deal.