U of M-Dearborn First 2 Years a Good Idea?

[sharjil333]

<p>I am interested in attending University of Michigan-Dearborn with the full tuition+books scholarship they are offering. Junior year, I want to transfer to UofM Ann Arbor. Does this sound like a reasonable plan? Would this school be the best choice in metro-Detroit for the first 2 years of computer engineering?</p>

[sharjil333]

<p>Bump please</p>

[ucbalumnus]

<p>Is the reason for not going to Ann Arbor as a freshman due to expected costs?</p>

[mom2collegekids]

<p>*My GPA weighted is 4.175, unweighted 3.95. My ACT composite is a 33. </p>

<p>I want to stay in Michigan, so that I can either transfer to U of M Ann-Arbor for the last two years and get my MS from there, or I may take pre-med courses and try to enter medical school.*</p>

<p>Since your goal is med school, why not do all four years at Dearborn or similar to save money? </p>

<p>How will you be paying for the last two years at UMich?</p>

[Alexandre]

<p>Will the academic rigor at the Dearborn campus prepare the OP for the MCAT as well as the Ann Arbor campus? Will he have access to the same sort of research and hospital internship opportunities that medical schools value so much at Dearborn as in Ann Arbor? Will advising at Dearborn be as good as in Ann Arbor?</p>

[sharjil333]

<p>At the time, my goal is not medical school. but finishing a Masters in engineering from Ann Arbor. Medical school is another option I’m keeping open, but I will probably go for engineering. My parents are willing to pay for Ann Arbor for two years. They said they could pay for all 4 years if the price is under 15k per year including housing, but I don’t know if that is possible. So, yes the reason is expected costs.</p>

[beyphy]

<p>That sounds like a pretty good plan actually. Speaking as a transfer student, two years would probably give you more than enough time to take advantage of Ann Arbor’s resources (e.g. Advising, internships, etc.)</p>

<p>If you ultimately decide to do this, my advice would be to take an aggressive workload at Dearborn. This would give you flexibility when you transfer to Ann Arbor in both the courses you’d want to take, internships you’d want to do, and would make it easier to finish within two years. </p>

<p>But obviously take care that the workload isn’t too aggressive that it puts your GPA at risk or you might not get accepted into Ann Arbor your junior year.</p>

[sharjil333]

<p>Thanks for the advice. Is it any easier to transfer from Dearborn to Ann-Arbor since they are part of the same school system? If I transferred, I couldn’t do the 4+1 year Master’s option, could I?</p>

[happymomof1]

<p>You need to ask the department at Ann Arbor if transfer students are able to complete the joint program. There also us nothing wrong with graduating from Dearborn and then going to Ann Arbor for your MS. Run the numbers to see if that option is cost effective.</p>

[beyphy]

<p>I wouldn’t go to Dearborn for four years. This comment by Blah2009 about CPSLO is especially insightful.</p>

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SLO is better than Cal Poly Pomona but SLO has never impressed me as a school - especially when I was interviewing candidates back at my old engineering firm. </p>

<p>They train engineers to be extremely pragmatic. As you can tell from their coursework, a lot of the classes have labs and are hands on. There is a lack of advanced theory classes in the engineering curriculum, however. As a result, the students I interviewed from there were adept at solving by the book problems they were exposed to before, but they severely lacked critical thinking skills and would struggle when I presented a problem that was slightly outside the box. This is likely due to the limited curriculum and lack of research opportunities at the school typically afforded by a more reputable research university.

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<p>This doesn’t mean go to Michigan for four years either. You’ll likely just be doing GEs at Dearborn your first few years, so i won’t matter much. I actually made use of a few concepts the other day that i learned, i believe, four years ago when i was in a GE class in my former JC ([Cinema</a> Verite](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_verite]Cinema”>Cinéma vérité - Wikipedia) and [Kino-Pravda](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino-Pravda]Kino-Pravda[/url]”>Kino-Pravda - Wikipedia)</a>). Your classmates may not be as engaging or as intellectually stimulating, but that matters very little imo.</p>