<p>Hello, I am a soon-to-be freshmen college student. I have applied for electrical engineering to the University of Michigan and have gotten wait-listed. I know I probably won't make it, so I committed to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for the same major.</p>
<p>I have been born and brought up in Michigan for many years and then moved to a foreign location to finish off high school. During this time, I have developed a true love for UMich and I still do. I wanted to know whether I could transfer after to UMich engineering after a year at Wisco. What exactly is the process? How hard is it? What kind of GPA will I need? Is it common for people to transfer to UMich engineering after one year? Is Wisco a good school to transfer from (it's better than transferring from let's say a community college or UMich-Dearborn)?</p>
<p>My stats:</p>
<p>29 ACT (34 in math and 33 in english. 25 in the other sections. I have minor OCD and so I read really slowly so I do bad in science and reading)
9th gpa: 3.97 (taking honors courses)
10th gpa: 4.0
11th gpa: 3.7 (kept falling sick and it was hard to keep up in school) (take IB Diploma)
12th gpa: yet to be determined</p>
<p>Ec's:
Varsity sports
Laser research at a prestigous local university (wrote 45 page research paper)
3 internships
Online electrical engineering courses
Helped start an NGO
Worked for en event organizing company to help earn extra money (due to some personal reasons)</p>
<p>Please help me out. I know this message is long. but I wanted to give as much clarity as possible. I'm Asian if that changes anything, btw. Please message me for more details!</p>
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<p>Michigan appears to have a similar admission rate for transfers from community colleges as for transfers from four year schools (about 40%). Community college transfer applicants and admits are only about 20% of the total, though. The stats do not indicate strength of each applicant pool or what divisions or majors applied to:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.umich.edu/drupal/community-college-students”>http://www.admissions.umich.edu/drupal/community-college-students</a>
<a href=“http://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/cds/cds_2013-2014_umaa.pdf”>http://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/cds/cds_2013-2014_umaa.pdf</a></p>
<p>Total admits/applicants: 1331/3486
Admits/applicants from community college: 277/686</p>
<p>Michigan appears to have pre-listed transfer credit equivalencies for both many community colleges and four year schools at <a href=“UM Transfer Credit Equivalencies”>http://www.ugadmiss.umich.edu/TCE/Public/CT_TCESearch.aspx</a> .</p>
<p>As far as getting admitted, you need to ask Michigan engineering about it, since the main transfer admission page is for LS&A: <a href=“Transfer Students | University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions”>http://www.admissions.umich.edu/drupal/transfer-u-m</a> . However, high grades in courses preparing for the major you are transferring to should be expected as criteria for transfer admission.</p>
<p>Of course, you also need to consider cost at each school.</p>
<p>However, Wisconsin is a very well respected school. You may want to rethink whether you really want to make it your goal transfer to Michigan. If you somehow maintained Michigan resident status, that may be a good reason, but having a degree from Wisconsin should not hold you back.</p>
<p>Thank you! Yeah, I’ll look into that. It’s just that Michigan is more highly regarded and I thought it might’ve been a better school to attend in case I wanted to go to grad school (some Ivy League) or something. </p>
<p>If you are an electrical engineering major, why is Ivy League an aspiration?</p>
<p>In any case, Wisconsin is a perfectly good school that should not hold you back for getting into PhD programs.</p>
<p>I want to go on to do CS after undergrad. So, I thought maybe Cornell or something like that. I just wanted to know if Wisconsin has a good enough name for me to get top-notch jobs and Master’s Placements. I have heard that Wisconsin students get the same jobs as UMich students, like in the end. But, when I looked at the Wall Street Recruiter’s List and the Company Tie-ups on each college website from their Annual Report, I noticed that UMich had more prestigious Fortune 500 companies coming to recruit, whereas Wisconsin was mainly small, local companies. </p>
<p>Where you get your undergraduate degree is more or less irrelevant for getting into graduate programs. It depends more on your academic record and GRE scores. That being said, Wisconsin is an AAU school, just like Michigan,. I don’t see any appreciable difference in the education you will get between the two if you put the same effort in.</p>
<p>Grad school is just an option. After 4 years of engineering hell, I might not want to go to grad school and go directly into the industry. Wouldn’t Michigan put me in a better position to get better internships and jobs? It’s more prestigious, has better brand image, ranked higher on Recruiter’s lists on the Wall Street Journal, is part of the top 10 richest alumni college group. Michigan also has a better alumni network as well, helping me get better jobs in a larger span of areas in the US (Cali, Texas, Florida, Ilinois, etc.). </p>