<p>I was accepted to CoE and I listed biomedical as my first choice. However, nowhere on my Wolverine Access page or in any of the letters that I have received does it say anything about biomedical. It only says that I got into the CoE. So am I in biomedical or does everyone start in general engineering their freshman year and then pick their actual major later on or what???</p>
<p>As a freshman you will be declared as a “first year engineering” student or something like that. After Freshman year, you choose which engineering major you would like to pursue and talk to that department’s adviser who will declare you as that major. Then your wolverine access will say your specified major.</p>
<p>So is there a minimum gpa or something i need to maintain and is there a cap on the maximum number of students that can go into a specific major?</p>
<p>For Biomedical you need a 3.2, two other majors have min requirements (I don’t remember which ones but they were like a 2.8) and nothing else has a minimum (though since you need atleast a C-, you could say they have a minimum of a 1.7).</p>
<p>Minimum Gpas to declare program of study
Biomed = 3.2
Mech E = 2.75
Engineering Physics = 2.8
Everything else = 2.0</p>
<p>All programs require that you finish first year courses in math, chemistry, physics, engr 100 & 101.</p>
<p>EECS requires that students have grades better than a C- on all prereq</p>
<p>[Michigan</a> Engineering | Declaring Process](<a href=“http://www3.engin.umich.edu/students/advising/afterfirstyear/index.html]Michigan”>http://www3.engin.umich.edu/students/advising/afterfirstyear/index.html)</p>
<p>no there is no maximum amount of students per program of study</p>
<p>i think the only reason they have the gpa requirement is because some of these majors are too popular, for example, BME is very popular, but the department is small, and they want to make sure they have enough resources for the students.</p>
<p>Everything else = 2.0? Isn’t it 3.0?</p>
<p>Y is BME so popular when CS has the highest avg. salary?</p>
<p>^money isn’t everything and traditional engineering salaries have a low ceiling.</p>
<p>Also most biomed employers require a masters degree so thats different.</p>
<p>biomedical engineering is popular because it appeals to a large audience. people who want to save the world, women, especially, people who want to cure cancer/AIDS, normal engineering students who think this is the future of engineering, premeds who think this will help them get in a great med school, etc.</p>
<p>and it sounds hot, try saying it “biomedical engineering”, it has almost none of the nerdy/negative stigmas of engineering. for me, bme has been billed as the future, since i was in high school, i did research in high school, and every single professor i met told me to do biomedical engineering. It’s overrated, even for people coming out of JHU, it’s tough.</p>
<p>Minimum GPAs (everything else was 2.5):</p>
<p>[Michigan</a> Engineering | Admission Requirements](<a href=“http://www.engin.umich.edu/ugadmissions/crosscampus/requirements.html]Michigan”>http://www.engin.umich.edu/ugadmissions/crosscampus/requirements.html)</p>
<p>Degree Program Minimum GPA
Aerospace Engineering 2.8
Earth Systems Science and Engineering 2.5
Biomedical Engineering 3.2
Interdisciplinary Engineering 2.5
Chemical Engineering 3.0
Civil & Environmental Engineering 2.5
Computer Engineering 2.5
Computer Science Engineering 2.5
Electrical Engineering 2.5
Engineering Physics 2.8
Industrial & Operations Engineering 2.7
Materials Science & Engineering 2.5
Mechanical Engineering 3.0
Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering 2.5
Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences 2.5</p>
<p>Stargazing, that’s for transfer students, that’s completely different from what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about once you’re in CoE, what you need to declare. </p>
<p>Yosup, considering the average GPA is a 2.9, if declaring required a 3.0 it would immediately force like 55% of people out of the college.</p>
<p>In my opinion, Biomed sounds like an awful idea job prospects wise and such. If someone really wanted to be in Engineering and go to Med school I could see it (apparently they curve those classes higher than other Engineering majors to try to make it easier for people to get into Med school), though I still don’t think that’s a good idea.</p>
<p>Oops sorry about that</p>
<p>I can honestly say hat how hot “biomedical engineering” sounds broke the tie for me in choosing majors between that and chemical engineering (sounds old doesn’t it?)</p>
<p>So the minimum GPA for most majors is 2.0? I guess that makes sense, but I’d honestly be really disappointed if I got under a 3.7…</p>
<p>“I’d honestly be really disappointed if I got under a 3.7…”</p>
<p>Don’t… Seriously, don’t…</p>
<p>It’s not impossible, but if you think you’re going to be really disappointed with less than a 3.7 you’re severely underestimating the difficulty of getting a 3.7. Especially with the implication that you’d still be moderately disappointed with a 3.7.</p>
<p>"I’d honestly be really disappointed if I got under a 3.7… "</p>
<p>i don’t want to sound harsh, but i thought i’d be honest. if you are expecting to get above 3.7, please don’t be disappointed if you don’t. everyone who comes into michigan engineering (well, a good 90%) were at the top of their hs class. many classes at the university your freshman year will be curved, so being an average student in a class with so many other smart kids will only get you a b. and classes here are a lot tougher than in hs, especially since a lot of the gen eds are weeders. the reason why the average engineering gpa is so low is not because kids don’t work hard enough, i mean sure there are probably kids who should try harder/fix their priorities, but because this is michigan and it will be challenging.</p>
<p>I think when you get there, you’ll see. For me, it takes me a bit to settle in, but I am the master of manipulating a system to get me good results. Learn your teachers well, and if the material is tough, know where your limits are, and I don’t think you’ll be too disappointed, as you’ll end up about where you expect. I’m with you though Yosup, I’m determined to get above a 3.7, and I think it just shows personally, because my grades went up in math classes as they got harder, because the challenge was more appealing to me, and I have a 100 in BC Calc by doing nearly nothing (I literally write nothing down and the teacher gets mad when he hands me 100s on tests :D, and that’s part of manipulating a system as well) and it doesn’t get much better than that, so I expect the fact that I’ll actually be interested in engineering, I’ll not only excel, but go above and beyond, because it actually interests me (school interesting? <em>GASPS</em>). I think a lot of people jump on the engineering bandwagon because it’s the hot thing for money, much like business and med, and think that because they got a 35-36 on math on the ACT, they completely understand all the theories behind calculus, which is inevitably proven wrong over and over. So in conclusion, people think they’re math students, but often they just excel in high school where the environment has low expectations, and they only rise to meet those expectations and don’t get the same out of it that someone who actually understands the material.</p>
<p>That’s just my response to everyone who says it’s so hard to maintain a high GPA in engineering. Basically, my theory, is if it’s been done, I can do it. And that at the very least, possibly go higher. I think I’m very capable of achieving a 4.0, but that probably requires more work than I’m willing to put in, so I might be satisfied with a 3.5-3.9, but like I said for you, I’ll have to experience it myself to really comprehend the level of difficulty that we’re dealing with.</p>
<p>^good luck…</p>
<p>I don’t know whether to laugh at some of these responses or to respond seriously…</p>