<p>Anyone who applied as a transfer student to UM/Ann Arbor have any success? If successful, where did you transfer from and what GPA/ACT scores did you have? I am currently at at community college in Michigan and want to transfer after two years--I would be applying this fall. Any suggestions/info appreciated.</p>
<p>I went to schoolcraft community college for two years and transferred here. I had a 3.6 at scraft and a 29 ACT. I was way too excited to actually have reasonable course offerings and really overloaded myself my first semester and got a 3.0, so don’t do that. 
I don’t know about your CC but mine was mind numbingly easy so it was a big jump to be taking junior and senior level classes at a university. This semester’s grades are looking a lot better now that I have a feel for things. I would expect that if you do well enough to get accepted, academically you’ll do fine, likely better than me. Socially, transferring sucks, but as long as you are proactive about everything you do you’ll be fine here.</p>
<p>Schoolcraft… I took a class there during high school… it was 5x easier than the classes here.</p>
<p>U of M - Dearborn. 3.8 GPA. 39 credits taken in Fall/Winter/Summer terms. 30 ACT</p>
<p>lol blackpen, did you dual enroll? I’m taking a class right now as a high school student and its so easy 
I guess my expectations for a cc were really high. the teacher really doesn’t give a **** about the students and most of them don’t care about the class either. Like last lecture, about a third of them just walked out the door while he was talking.</p>
<p>Yeah I hardly even went to class when I went to Scraft. I went to most of my poli sci classes since that was my major, and I went to Spanish and math since those were hard for me, but I took about 45 more credits than that. lol. But if you take too much advantage of the easiness you won’t be prepared when you get here and suddenly it’s challenging. I did a lot of outside stuff when I went to Scraft to keep my brain working in those two years.</p>
<p>Yeah, I took microbio. I probably topped in the class.</p>
<p>NOVA ( community college in Northern Virginia). My GPA is a 3.8 and I never took the SAT. My major is computer science and I took all the required prerequisites and even completed the honors program here. I am also president of Phi Theta Kappa. The classes here were very easy and most of the students were completely dumb, hell, even the honors program was a joke. </p>
<p>It is definitely possible to transfer into Michigan from a community college. To be honest, I was shocked to see I got in. I thought being at a community college (especially out of state) would keep me out of Michigan for sure. Stay positive and focused and you will get in.</p>
<p>wolfpackfan—i think you were succesful because of phi theta kappa, UMich is REALLY big on that for transferring community college students. Supposibly its the first thing they look for on your app (told to me by my phi theta kappa president)</p>
<p>do you think ill get in with weak high school stats and weak ACT(took junior year in h.s.) but a 3.9 gpa after 40+ credits at a community college (major is math/Econ) I also work 2 jobs and am an active member in phi theta kappa.</p>
<p>Tom0, are you instate or out of state? That could make a huge difference for Michigan. Michigan has a small number of transfer student applications and they admit a small amount as well (around 40% of total applicants). They typically give priority to applicants transferring as juniors, and if you wont be a junior by the time you transfer in, your high school record will be used. If you transfer in as a junior, they will look at your record, but it wont be weighted as heavily as if you were sophomore. Also, are you taking the most difficult classes at your school? Any honors? Those will also help in your favor as well. But if you have a weak high school record, applying out of state, and wont be a junior by the time you would matriculate, I don’t think you too much of a good shot. You may have a decent one, but maybe not the best.</p>
<p>By all means though apply. I haven’t set one foot on the campus yet and I am not claiming to be an expert on the Michigan transfer process. TwistedXKiss’s opinion on this would be useful though. She went through the process and seems to be pretty knowledgeable on how to approach it.</p>
<p>I take a lot of math classes and took the intro Econ classes(only Econs available at my school) and took a physics course and then the rest are electives. I live in-state. On my application I would have 40+credits making me a sophomore but students have to wait a semester after being accepted so if you take that into consideration i would have around 60 credits making me a junior…how does thatt process work?</p>
<p>I was a sophomore the first couple weeks of school until all my credits processed, then the registrar changed it and I had to notify financial aid to get my other 1,000 in stafford loans for being a junior. I had to get a little bit obnoxious at orientation to get them to let me register for junior only classes, but I was granted all the overrides I wanted in the end and got the classes I wanted.</p>
<p>You mention high school record, I graduated with a 2.8. I got D minuses in all my math classes in high school, until I finally failed junior year. I didn’t complete the math sequence and took computer programming instead to graduate. Your ACT shouldn’t have any bearing at all at this point, especially if you’re applying after two years. The longer you are in college the less your HS GPA and ACT matter. I had a 23 on the ACT in high school and Mich told me not to even bother retaking it. I did anyway for reasons I can no longer explain, but it wasn’t at all necessary.</p>
<p>I really think you’re probably in good shape. Keep up the good work and be hitting on those gen ed requirements if you haven’t already. As a transfer student, they will consider your progress towards a degree so they will want to see that you are working on getting requirements out of the way. It’ll help you a lot to make sure you get the prereqs for declaring your major out of the way before you transfer if you haven’t already and if you can, so that you can declare and dig in as soon as you get here. And don’t blow off the application essays, I think as a transfer student they find those a bit more interesting because the expectation is that you are more focused than a 17 year old applicant who’s coming straight from high school. The essays still won’t make or break you but I think a good essay does contribute a lot.</p>
<p>alright do they consider credits that will transfer or total credits? because most of my classes first semester of freshman year wont transfer to UMich…</p>
<p>what was your gpa, recs, and job/service like? If you don’t mind me asking because it seems we have gone down similar paths.</p>
<p>Transferable credits only.</p>
<p>I had a 2.8 high school, 3.6 college (I went from a 2.7 to a 3.7 in one year). I had a rec letter from the supervisor of student activities but I didn’t know him very well so I have no idea what he wrote, he’d just supervised a fundraiser I ran and offered to write it. I was on the paper staff, was nonprofit fundraising chair of the student activities board, did rotoract and phi theta kappa, and I had like 50 hours volunteer work at the humane society. I did three months of work at borders over the holidays my freshman year of college. That is pretty much the gist of it. As long as you make good grades it’s not that hard to get in here as an instate transfer.</p>
<p>yea it seems that way. a friend of mine just got accepted to UMich from my school with only 30 credits but high gpa so i guess now i should worry about the essays. thanks twistedxkiss, much appreciated</p>
<p>Anyone in engineering ( IOE particularly ) who has transferred and how was their experience overall? I transferred this semester from an average mid-tier univ in Boston and am kind overwhelmed by the multitude of exams ( 3 midterms on average per course ) and am kinda getting screwed in them… does it get better? i’m taking 300 level courses in the fall.</p>
<p>i got in for summer semester and all 55 of my credits transferred. My h.s gpa was weak, 2.8 at best and I got a 29 act(21 on math) I went to western michigan for 1 semester and got a 3.6. 3 semesters at community college, the lowest grade I have gotten is an A-in existentialism lol.</p>
<p>Also had a letter of rec from professor who also works at UofM as an academic adviser. I went to Washtenaw CC</p>
<p>RageRoolz, what was your overall gpa that UMich would have considered on your application? you transferred in during the summer?</p>
<p>my gpa is a 3.85 or something. I got a 3.6 at western with 15 credits, and I have taken 40 credits at wcc(12 currently in progress)</p>
<p>The lowest grade I got at wcc was an A-. My gpa is a 3.8ish currently and will remain around a high 3.8 even if I get all a’s again lol</p>
<p>I transferred in for summer semester, so I start classes at the end of june. I was trying to beat all the competitive kids going for fall by being non traditional ;)</p>
<p>It also will help because UofM sent me my transfer credit eval and I am going to get credit for all of my classes. That will put me at 55. I need 120 to graduate. So if i take a 3 or 4 cred class this summer, I am basically even with everyone else, even though I have already attended two different colleges lol</p>