<p>Hello All, </p>
<p>I'll be in LSA next year (transferring to Engineering after 1 year)</p>
<p>I'm worried about the work load associated with engineering, I plan on getting a part time job, joining a club or two, and trying to have an active social life. I feel like with an Aerospace Major this would be really difficult to handle and still get above a 3.4.</p>
<p>I'm currently thinking about taking 12-13 credit hours/ semester until I graduate, and take summer semesters (If I don't get an internship) so I graduate on time, what do you guys recommend?</p>
<p>The CoE requires 128 credits to graduate. This averages out to 16 credits per semester for 8 semesters. If you only took 12 credits every semester, you’d be short 32 credits assuming you took no summer classes. Keep in mind that taking classes over the summer requires additional money.</p>
<p>How many hours a week would you work? The average course load for engineering takes about 30-35 hours a week. There’s a big difference between working 5 hours a week and 30 hours a week.</p>
<p>You probably want to take more credits after the freshmen year. You primary goal is to get a good GPA and fulfill the internal transfer requirement. You should be able to find the cross campus transfer info on the web. I saw it there before.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/admissions/undergrad/cross-campus”>http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/admissions/undergrad/cross-campus</a></p>
<p>You’ll want to refer to this page to plan your semesters. I don’t recommend that anyone take only 12-13 credits every semester for precisely the reasons that Repede mentioned–unless you’re made of money. And taking summer classes comes with a sizable opportunity cost in the form of not being able to seek/accept internships, which will be vital to your professional success. </p>
<p>If you have a lot of AP credits and will take 13 credit per semester, it is still feasible to graduate in 4 years. But you should be able to find out how many credits you can handle per semester. I told me D to aim at 14 credits or less per semester for freshman year to avoid paying upperclassman tuition in the first semester of sophomore.</p>
<p>Just look at the courses you need and plan it out. AP credits are a wonderful thing</p>
<p>Thank You for your responses, </p>
<p>Repede, I plan on working 10 hours / week; Also, I was told to expect 3 hours of work per credit hour that I have, so with 16 credit hours, I was thinking I would have to work 48 hours / week to keep up - is this not true?</p>
<p>Billcsho - The transfer GPA required after freshman year to Aerospace is a 2.8, so it should not be very difficult </p>
<p>Finnlet - I only plan on taking summer classes if I don’t get something like an internship.</p>
<p>ThisisMichigan - I will end up getting between 10-18 credits depending on how my tests go. </p>
<p>Also, does anyone know if you get paid for doing UROP, and if so, how much do most students get paid?</p>
<p>For regular UROP, you don’t get pay. For Summer UROP, you may get pay. Alternatively, you may talk the professor to see if they can offer you a lab assistance or something like that for certain number of hours. I think the rate is $8-$10 per hour. Someone do that as work study too.</p>
<p>Yeah, you don’t get paid for UROP if you’re doing it for credit. Still, it’s an easy A and it’s something you can throw on your resume. You’ll enjoy it too if you like your project and your sponsor/whoever is in charge of you is chill. I know i did these past two semesters!</p>
<p>I think the “you’ll need to devote 3 hours per week per credit hour” crap they tell you at orientation is bull… well, at least for freshmen. Freshmen year, it’s more like 1-1.5 hours per week per credit hour outside of standard lecture/discussion time, unless you’re jumping into something like EECS280 your freshmen year. Also, depending on your section, ENGR100 will eat up a lot of your time with the group work… </p>
<p>Hours of work per credit vary hugely. It’s hard to say anything. Though unless you already know how to program 280 is pretty high workload. It’s hard to say anything without knowing the classes you’re going to take.</p>
<p>I don’t really see the point in working a minimum wage job now. Might as well borrow and use that time to study. But if it’s major related that’s very different. </p>
<p>Unless things have changed since I was in UROP, you can do UROP for 1 credit and wages if you qualify for Work Study.</p>
<p>what 777Blue77 said above aligns with my UROP experience</p>