<p>I'm an incoming freshman who's considering applying to Ross at the end of the year. Anyone have any advice for me? I know the obv stuff: get good grades, participate in ECs, etc. I also know that Econ 101, Calc 1, and the FYWR are the prereqs. Anyone have anything else to add?</p>
<p>STATS 350: Will help you tons in a OMS 301 (Business school course)</p>
<p>as another person (forgot who) said, do not take stats 350. You learn so much less. Take stats 265 (equivalent to IOE 265, taught by the IOE department), so much more in depth and useful. You might suffer a worse curve and harder material but it aint that bad and you learn so much more. Take stats 366 (IOE 366) too if you can.</p>
<p>Also, OMS classes are pretty easy. I have taken some with overrides. According to my IOE professor who basically also developed the curriculum for half of the OMS classes (notice that a lot of OMS content is based on operations modeling which is IOE’s specialty), OMS classes are basically dumbed down and simplified versions of operations modelling or stochastic/markov chain classes in IOE. Except that in OMS classes you only learn the surface and application but a lot less on the reason/math/logic behind it. (for those who might take it the wrong way, this is not an insult. It’s just the difference in the goal of two completely different programs.)</p>
<p>It’s going to be easy if you had had prior expose to the course (i.e STATS, IOE).
If you never had any exposure to anything related to OMS, it’s not so easy.</p>
<p>Especially when you take it with bschool kids.</p>
<p>I second Penelope’s recommendation of Stats 350 - it’s a good statistics course to get you ready for OMS 301, which you’ll take sophomore year in Ross.</p>
<p>Read the book “Economics for Dummies” before taking Econ 101. It covers the material so much better than the actual textbook for Econ. I read it the summer before Freshman year and breezed through Econ 101.</p>
<p>Also, consider taking classes that fulfill the Ross distribution requirements (Language, SS, MSA, etc…) That way you’ll have more options for electives later.</p>
<p>Finally, get a current B-school student to look over your essays before you submit them.</p>
<p>i personally find IOE 265 a lot more useful and in depth than stats 350. but unless you want to get into something quantitative, there’s no point ruining your gpa doing so. </p>
<p>OMS in very easy, but that might be because i am from IOE, and as a pervious poster said, most of the OMS stuff come from the models in IOE, so take it FWIW.</p>
<p>If your dream is Ross, do this:</p>
<p>Do whatever it takes to get a 4.0 GPA. Stay in weekend nights to study if you have to. You do not need to take hard classes. Take the prerequirements (ECON, CALC, ENG), then take what interests you and get A’s in those courses (might be a good idea to take courses that will knock out the distribution requirements for Ross).</p>
<p>Join 2-3 solid extra curricular activities (do not have to be business related. In fact, make sure they aren’t ALL business related). Participate a lot in these extra-currics. Obtain leadership positions if possible. Make sure you can write solid essays about teamwork regarding these extra-currics. </p>
<p>Which brings me to my last point. Write very good essays. Begin them as soon as they come out. Have SEVERAL INTELLIGENT B-School students revise them for you.</p>
<p>If you do the above, you will get in.</p>
<p>Oh, also, don’t get in trouble with the law- like getting arrested or anything like that. Don’t even get an MIP.</p>
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<p>not true at all. ross looks at course difficulty. i had far, far from a 4.0 and got in with ****ty essays i wrote in like an hour, but i had 18 credits/semester of really hard classes. i know 4.0’s who have been rejected.</p>
<p>Well from my experience, I’ve known mostly people who had high GPAs and took easy classes. I know people who have taken the hard route and gotten rejected. If people got rejected with a 4.0, then I’m sure they had bad/boring extra currics, and did not have very substantive essays.</p>
<p>"Stay in weekend nights to study if you have to. "
Sorry I plan on having a life and still getting in to Ross.</p>
<p>haha why did you apologize?</p>
<p>Do whatever you have to do; the more effort you put in the better your chances.</p>
<p>I never said you couldn’t have a life to get into Ross. However, if your grades won’t be top notch unless you stay in some nights, you have to weigh going out vs. studying in the grand scheme of things.</p>
<p>when do people that have applied which already attend UM hear?</p>
<p>Sometime in June</p>
<p>“However, if your grades won’t be top notch unless you stay in some nights”
Yes they will.</p>
<p>It’s a case by case basis. If your grades are where you want them to be then don’t stay in some nights to study. That case does not concern you.</p>
<p>a lot of ross applicants take stats 350. What about math 147 or accounting 271. or get started on your distribution</p>