<p>I am going to LSA, but want to transfer to Ross after freshman year. I know they look a lot at course load...is it ok to take only 4 courses first semester? I was told that it is good to take 4 your first semester, to get adjusted, but will this work against me? The courses are calc, econ 101, freshman writing, and a polit sci course.</p>
<p>That is a perfect schedule and with Econ and Calc will be plenty challenging. Second semester you might want to take Statistics 350 as my daughter (a sophomore at Ross) has found that course to be useful. Good luck.</p>
<p>One more question…same issue, in LSA and want to transfer to Ross. Still deciding on what I want to take first semester, and just to get other’s opinions, does everyone else think its OK to take 4 courses (16 credits) first semester?
My new possible schedule is:</p>
<p>-Calc 115
-Econ 101
-Freshman Writing 125
-EECS 280</p>
<p>Why take EECS 280? And isn’t Math 115 a prereq for 280?</p>
<p>Out of curiousity, what courses are required to switch into Ross?</p>
<p>QwertyKey, one would need to take a First-Year Writing Course, Math115, and Econ101 to apply to the busines school.</p>
<p>Even from Engineering they’d have to take First-Year Writing?</p>
<p>I’d assume so, but I’m not exactly sure. I’d e-mail/call an adminstrator at the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>so if we place out of Math and Econ all we really need to take is Writing or is more advanced math and econ expected</p>
<p>you do not want to be taking eecs 280 with 16 credits applying to ross, especially you probably wont get that much leeway in GPA applying from LSA</p>
<p>bearcats, do you know if freshman applying to Ross from the engineering school need to complete the writing requirement?</p>
<p>yes you do. I know a friend who played the system. Apparently if you switch from LSA to engineering and has taken english 125, you can use it to substitute it for engr 100 from engineering’s point of view. So he switched from engineering to LSA before school year started, took english 125, switched back into engineering, have it counted as engr 100 (if he didnt get into ross), but he also fulfilled the first year writing requirement for ross application. Not to mention he became a person who “applied to ross from engineering” which allows more GPA leeway. Pretty smart plan</p>
<p>@collegefreak12: You should consider taking an easier class than EECS 280 because it’s one of the harder programming classes and because it could really hurt your performance in other classes. Look at the Ross distribution requirements and consider taking a class that satisfies one of those (Language, Humanities, Social Science (except Econ), and MSA) so that you can get a head start.</p>
<p>Don’t scare him out of 280. collegefreak12: if you think you are a pretty good programmer and know structs and classes, take 280. It’s a great class from what I hear. Econ 101 is not very hard, nor is Math 115. If you think you can handle all these classes and do pretty well, Ross will like it a lot. Further, I suggest to take Calc 2 and Econ 102 2nd semester. Even take EECS 281 2nd semester if you want, but Calc 2 is tough, as compared to Calc 1.</p>
<p>I took AP Computer Science this year and took the AB test, and the summary of EECS 280 is basically everything we did in the AP class, except in C++ instead of Java. I thought it would be actually quite easy to do well, since I did all the stuff.</p>
<p>In that case, then yes, you’ll probably be fine in EECS 280. :)</p>
<p>can a 5 on ap lang substitute for freshman writing ? I am in engineering, and wuld like to apply to ross.</p>