<p>If admitted to Michigan, would a high GPA be more attainable in Ann Arbor or at Central Michigan? Just wondering. 99% sure I would still pick Michigan, but what would be easier to make like a 3.7-3.8? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>It is obviously a lot harder to maintain a high GPA at Michigan than it is at Central.</p>
<p>What causes that difference?</p>
<p>The quality of the student body is higher. This means that your classmates are likely to be smarter and try harder, resulting in it being more difficult to obtain such a GPA.</p>
<p>lol is this thread suppose to be a joke or what?</p>
<p>Naw, not really. People have told me it would be the same and I was just wondering what your opinions were.</p>
<p>well its not really the same. See those admitted students to UM every year? 25% of them will get destroyed when they get here, simply because first yr courses are graded on a curve, so your peers have an influence on your grade.</p>
<p>Damn, so is the first year kinda cut-throat?</p>
<p>Actually, it is the quality of the students but the quality of the faculty that determines how hard a school is. Michigan’s faculty is very demanding.</p>
<p>first year is pretty tough, but if you have a decent ability and a good work ethic, you should be fine.</p>
<p>What classes would a first year poli sci major have??? Not just poli sci classes but a typical first year schedule. And i dread math but handle chem and bio relatively well</p>
<p>did u get in yet? not sure about poli sci classes, but from what i heard, youre going to hate calc 1 if u take it.</p>
<p>Naw not yet. Maybe tonight though. I was told that a poli sci major could completely avoid math?</p>
<p>You can technically avoid courses in the mathematics department, but everyone must fulfill a quantitative reasoning requirement. A very easy one is Stats 100. I happen to find it appalling that kids are allowed to graduate from college without taking Calc I, but what do I know.</p>
<p>^^^^I am sure there are plenty of majors where Calculus I is totally useless.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly. I just believe that understanding basic calculus concepts can make a lot of things that occur in the world easier to grasp.</p>
<p>giants, that’s just like saying, knowing how to deal with PDEs makes black-scholes so much easier to grasp, but half the finance majors have no idea what PDEs are.</p>
<p>The QR req is really easy to meet without any remotely difficult math. That is part of why I came here. I don’t expect you should have any problem with that. When it comes time to register PM me if you want and I’ll help you sift through the QR courses and find the easy ones.</p>
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<p>True statement, but why the average educated college graduate should have an intro calculus course in their education is not analogous to why a general finance major should be able to deal with PDEs (they really shouldn’t need to). </p>
<p>What I mean is understanding basic calculus concepts gives you a peak into understanding the progression and discoveries of modern science, Newton/Leibnitz and onward. It just contributes to a person’s general understanding of how and why things work in the universe. If anyone’s interested, here’s a good piece: [Why</a> study calculus? a brief history of math](<a href=“http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/courses/whystudy.html]Why”>Why study calculus? a brief history of math)</p>
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<p>I am a philosophy major who has taken stats and will never take a math class again. I do not need to know calc and I do not need to be tested on it.</p>