<p>Greetings, all. Could anyone provide insight as to how difficult/easy it is to double major in a business related field (in the Ross School of Business) and a field in LSA (perhaps political science, or philosophy)? Are there any exceptions for LSA Honors students? I have also read (on these forums) that the acceptance rate for students applying to Ross from LSA Honors is 90%; can anyone else corroborate this?</p>
<p>Responses are appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>A double major between Ross and LSA takes 150 hours.</p>
<p>Someone on an earlier post questioned the 90% acceptance rate for honors students. I have never seen any published data on this. It seems too high to me.</p>
<p>Many Honors kids get accepted, but I never heard of the 90%. Out of the many I know who applied from Honors, only one was rejected.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information, Anhydrosis and redhare.
Anhydrosis, what do you mean by 'A double major between Ross and LSA takes 150 hours.'? Does this mean it is relatively easy?</p>
<p>I'm assuming that refers to 150 credit hours...which may take up to 5 years.</p>
<p>I think that LSA requires 120 credit hours for graduation and Engineering requires 128 credit hours. Both of which take 4 years to complete. However, with a lot of AP credit, you could definitely make the 150 in 4 years.</p>
<p>why is it that lsa honors kids get admitted into ross at a relatively higher rate than other applicants?</p>
<p>"why is it that lsa honors kids get admitted into ross at a relatively higher rate than other applicants?"</p>
<p>Umm, because (in theory) the people in the Honors college are the more qualified people? Admission to both is at least partly based on high school stats, so you should see a pretty high correlation.</p>
<p>You can do the double major in Ross and LSA pretty easily as long as you know what you're doing from the start and stay focused on taking classes that meet some requirement (multiple requirements, if possible). AP/transfer credit can count as electives towards the minimum number of credits you need in a school, so it's not like you'd need to take 150 credits of classes at U of M.</p>
<p>I can speak on the subject, as I am a joint degree in Ross business and in Cellular Molecular Biology. In order to complete this in four years, you really need to come in with a good amount of AP credits and you need to get a good start on your degree requirements in LSA. That means, sadly, that if this is what you want to do, make sure you take as many classes toward your LSA degree as possible freshman year.<br>
You will have a very full schedule. I will be taking between 17 and 19 credits every single semester and I only really have space to take two classes that interest me. You won't have any fluff classes, so your schedule will be very packed and that is pretty difficult when you're trying to compete with cutthroat bschool kids and premed kids at the same time.
Keep in mind that the distribution requirements are also more in BBA than in LSA.</p>