@guitar321 I was also invited to apply to the LSA Honors program. If you wouldn’t mind elaborating, what are some of the main benefits of entering Honors? I plan to pursue finance/economics at the Ross School or LSA, if that means anything in your explanation
@yewlongbow I would recommend honors even if you’re a pre admit to Ross!
- You get guaranteed to live in South Quad. Best building location on campus with the best dining hall inside so you never have to leave or get cold to eat good food. Highly recommend
- You get to take smaller, more in depth honors classes that are really awesome and get to put Honors on every resume you send out
- You get to register first at orientation so you'll get the classes you want, when you generally have to fight for them and get lucky otherwise
As for an honors Econ and financial math degree, pursuing an honors degree should help you for obvious reasons like when you apply to jobs and internships
@guitar321 how hard is honors compared to “regular” LSA, like how hard is it to maintain a high gpa? Also, for admission to the program, is it very essay based or is it primarily numbers?
If we were deferred from LSA, does that mean we have no chance of getting preferred admission into Ross, even if we get accepted in the RD round?
@RobertoKarlos ross decisions come out in march so if you are accepted in the next round (late jan/early feb) for regular action, there’s a chance your application may be reviewed by ross but keep in mind that the strongest ross applicants are accepted early action. make sure you look into other business schools where you have a good chance of getting in (look at test score and gpa range) to give yourself options in case ross doesn’t work out. ross average act is 33 and gpa is 3.9.
@Eeeee127 I think I was deferred from umich because I was out of state. I think my resume was on par with, if not better than, in-sstate applicants who got accepted. I’ll just have to see what happens
I think this was similar to what happened to me. My test scores, grades, extracurriculars, and resume exceed many of the in-state applicants who were accepted. However, I have also heard that applying closer to the deadline slims down your chances as well, since they supposedly get so many applicants for EA that they just defer the ones they don’t get to. I think this may have been a factor in my deferral.
It doesn’t matter to me though, as I got into Johns Hopkins Early Decision… I’m bitter about it, though…
Is there a GroupMe or Facebook group for accepted students? If so, could someone add me please! GO BLUE!
^^ Same with @apple22 , if there’s a groupme or Facebook and someone could add me that would be great! Thanks, merry Christmas and go blue!
No there were out of state ppl who got in with low stats. Plenty of in state people with high stats are deferred. (Girl at my in state feeder school was Waitlisted with 3.9 GPA and 34 act but got into uc Berkeley and UCLA Umich is weird with in state ppl too) Umich has the highest out of state acceptance rate (24.5%) compared to other public ivies and their out of state is now 50% of their class. Also umich defers out of state people because they dont know if the out of state people are going to come and also they r waiting for early decision people to withdraw that’s why they defer u if they suspect u were already accepted early decision somewhere or if u r treating umich as a safety school. just be glad umich doesn’t restrict the number of out of state they accept like uva and unc. umich is a public university so they are supposed to educate the state of Michigan first. @akb @robertocarlos
@guitar321 Where do you get the info that Honors students register first? I work at the Advising Center and I know for a fact that Honors students don’t register first… Your registration date is determined by your orientation date, which varies from student to student.
@hailbate By saying “you get to register first at orientation,” I meant that, at the orientation date that you personally selected, you get to register for classes before everyone else at your orientation date can register.
So, I suppose—by fact—Honors students register first at orientation. 
@guitar321 That’s a bit misleading don’t you think? Someone who registers for orientation June 1st in regular LSA is going to have basically every freshman class available to them; someone who registers for orientation in Honors on June 16th (for example) is going to have half the options that the June 1st regular LSA student has.
While you are factually correct, I’d hardly call that a perk of being in Honors (although I do agree in general that the Honors Program has some great perks to it)
@hailbate Is COE honor program different from LSA? I heard someone was saying that students in COE get apply after freshmen year is done? Only students that were invited get to apply? Is there a page for honor program details for COE? Thanks.
@sunny_01 it would probably been easier to google “umich engineering honors” than to post a question asking for the page.
Great, thank you!
@hailbate I don’t think it was misleading. In fact, I specified “at orientation” — and you seemed to have interpreted what I said as if I didn’t say “at orientation” at all glad we could clarify, though
@Eeeee127 I don’t think UC Berkley decisions are out until March??? When did your friend get hers?
Just wondering how many people who applied to LSA are planning to transfer to the CoE? It’s a well known fact that it’s much harder to be admitted to the CoE, and since a lot of freshman year classes at LSA are similar to CoE, seems like there might be quite a few folks playing this game of getting the foot in the door and later applying for internal transfer. Would be curious to see some stats on internal transfer from LSA to CoE after the freshman year.
@educationfan no this was last year she’s class of 2016 umich knows ppl try to internally transfer to coe from lsa so I wouldn’t recommend it just apply to coe first time that way u don’t have to worry about not getting in and there r plenty of excellent engineering schools