<p>How much harder is it to obtain admission at the School of Engineering vs. LS&A?</p>
<p>Is it possible to transfer to the engineering school from LS&A? How long must you stay at LS&A before transferring?</p>
<p>Lastly, my school offers AP Physics, but I couldn't take it due to scheduling issues...would that hurt my chances?</p>
<p>The CoE historically has a higher acceptance rate than LSA, but the students accepted tend to have higher GPAs and SAT averages. In other words, if you are highly qualified (3.8+ unwighed GPA and 2100+/32+ SAT/ACT scores), it is easier to get into the college of Engineering but if you are borderline (3.5-3.7 GPA and 1800-2100/26-30 SAT/ACT), your chances are probably better if you apply to LSA.</p>
<p>I got in with a 3.966 GPA, unweighted, and only a 30 ACT and 1960 SAT. Not many EC's. Good rec's and essays though.</p>
<p>I think you can transfer in from LSA pretty easily. There were LSA students at my orientation who were talking about switching already.</p>
<p>Alexandre answered question 1 quite well.</p>
<p>As for question 2, yes you can transfer from LS&A to the College of Engineering. If you are sure you want to transfer, you should talk to an advisor during your first semester and try to get it done by winter term. Look at what classes you'll need for your engineering degree and make sure your LS&A classes would count (shouldn't be too difficult for most freshmen since typically you'd only take 1 engineering course each semester that year anyway). Once you become a junior (achieving 55 credit hours), it becomes significantly more difficult -- so if you come in with a lot of hours, time is of the essence if you want to transfer to CoE. From my judgment, it's much harder to go LS&A to CoE than vice versa.</p>
<p>As for AP Physics, you're judged partly on the difficulty of curriculum. I wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>My cousin started her college life at Michigan's college of LSA with the intent of majoring in Biochemistry on her way to Medical school. After two semesters, her GPA was floating around 3.4 (too much partying and dating! hehe) so and she realized that medicine was probably not for her, so she transfered to the CoE. Her 3.4 was more than enough to get her straight into Mechanical Engineering. She graduated from Michigan with a BS in ME with a GPA of 3.4, got a high paying job with Ford and 4 years later, got into Northwestern's Kellogg MBA program.</p>
<p>If you are in LS&A, what GPA (min) is required to transfer into CoE? Is there a minimum? </p>
<p>Is it possible to transfer before you start FR year? (after you are accepted to LS&A)</p>
<p>Well I had a close to 4 GPA (never really calculated it the UM way), but had an LSA kinda ACT score, some EC's, good rec's and essays and I got accepted to CoE 2 months after I sent in my app in November.</p>
<p>I am not sure if you can transfer from LSA to Engineering before ever taking a class at Michigan. Ask your advisor. As far as GPAs go, the CoE will probably expect a 3.0+ GPA with solid grades in basic math (Calc I,II,II and DFQs & LA) as well as in Physics and maybe Chemistry.</p>