<p>My niece was recently admitted to the Residential College with great financial aid and will attend in the Fall. She has strengths in language (English and French) and writing but struggles a bit with math. Her high school is relatively poor. She was "invited" to join Comprehensive Studies which appears to me to be an Upward Bound-type program for students (as were other students from her school). While I think RC will give her some additional support making the transition but wonder if getting involved with Comprehensive Studies would help in making sure she is able to keep up especially in math...or not. Any experiences? reputation?</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about the Comprehensive Studies Program, but the classes in the RC are small and professors are very accessible for extra help. If she picks a major that has minimal math requirements, and her language skills (French and English) are good, she should be okay. Most RC courses require strong writing skills, if she can handle that, hopefully all will be good. But it certainly can’t hurt to have her check-out the program to see if it’s something she feels she needs.</p>
<p>I got placed into the Comprehensive Studies Program as well, I emailed them and told them to remove me from this program but apparently I have to wait until my orientation. What the heck is that!? Seems like a pointless program to me!</p>
<p>It is similar to a summer bridge program – helps incoming freshmen adapt to college life.</p>
<p>[Comprehensive</a> Studies Program (CSP)](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/csp/]Comprehensive”>Comprehensive Studies Program | U-M LSA)</p>
<p>Well its not only for incoming freshman…I am a junior standing transfer student which a 3.7 gpa and 16-18credit course loads at my previous school. I really can say that I have no idea why I was put in the program, I am a bit of a non traditional student being 23 years old but no stranger to college work. </p>
<p>They enrolled me automatically at the time of acceptance and I don’t see how it is going to benefit me at all aside from the fact my adviser has less students. My first advising appointment made me quite wary though when I was able to navigate through WolverineAccess better than my adviser…</p>