<p>My son (rising Senior) is registering online with U of M to express his interest and applying this fall. The online prompt asks you to pick which school you'd be interested in applying to. For him, that would be either engineering or the lit, science, and arts. He's very strong in math and computer science, but likes liberal arts topics, too. While he's not interested in becoming an engineer, he tells me he thinks there may be some advantage to applying to the engineering school in terms of depth of courses offered in the computer science area and maybe an advantage in terms of admissions. Any thoughts? Thanks.</p>
<p>“While he’s not interested in becoming an engineer, he tells me he thinks there may be some advantage to applying to the engineering school in terms of depth of courses offered in the computer science area and maybe an advantage in terms of admissions.”</p>
<p>In terms of admissions? Imo, LSA and Engin share similar level of selectivity, care to share his stats =)?
A student does not need to be in LSA to study liberal arts and your son will definitely be able to transfer from engin to LSA and vice versa if he decides to change his mind. Since your son currently has no interest in Engineering, I suggest that he applies to LSA and explore the Engineering field later on in Michigan. Who knows, perhaps one day he may change his mind and transfer to the Engin school.</p>
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<p>If he’s not going to be an engineer, there’s really no reason to apply to the engineering school. It’s harder to get into the engineering school than into the LSA (though not by a lot.) Also, if his engineering interest is computer science, then be aware that there is a computer science major in LSA. It is identical to the one in Engineering - you take the exact same classes with the same people.</p>
<p>Don’t apply engineering if your not going to do engineering. There isn’t much of a difference in admission criteria and if there was a little, engineering would probably be harder to get into. Just apply LSA.</p>
<p>Excellent–sounds like LSA is the way to go. Thanks very much.</p>