Rigorous courses are those courses that show your academic ability not those “easy-gpa booster”courses. You said you finished all prerequisites. I guess these prerequisites can be considered rigorous.
I have been on that journey myself. Much sweeter on the other side. Just keep it up and you will be fine.
I am currently working towards transferring to UofM’s CoE for winter 2019. I am currently a freshman at the University of Detroit Mercy working for a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Pre-Medicine. My stats:
3.67/4.0 (Fall 2017)
Probably around the same GPA for winter 2018
Gen Bio 1: A-
Gen Bio Lab: B
Gen Chem: B+
Basic Engineering Graphics and Computer Aided Design: A
Engineering Computing and Problem Solving: A
Honors Academic Writing: A-
University Honors 1st Year Seminar: A
Analytical Geometry and Calculus I: A
As of now, I am in Gen Bio 2, Gen Bio Lab 2, Gen Chem 2, Gen Chem Lab 1, Physics (calc based) 1, physics lab 1, Analytical Geometry and Calculus 2. In the Fall I will take other classes to fill pre-reqs needed for CoE. I will then have a total of 53 credits. I am also in the Honors College. I am a D1 Athlete in Fencing. I really want to know my chances of getting in because this is my dream school!
Oh boy… this is the first year I’ve ever heard of anything like this… this is important, does anyone have anymore insight?
@blue5342021 I have no insight into your or anyone’s acceptance but I was curious if you had thought about bio-mechanical engineering? Mix of pre med and mechanical engineering.
@Overestimated I have and in fact my senior year, I applied to some other colleges that I got accepted to that offered biomedical engineering but my current college has given me a very nice financial aid package and they have told me I can get a masters in biomedical engineering after
So the kind of email error happens again this year. Almost every few years, one school would have this kind of error.
As for the transfer application, I noticed over the years that students from certain CC usually have a higher chance. It is not nessarily that they have better students as I found some of them were not. It is more likely that they are more familiar with that CC as they have more applicants from that school in the past. If you cannot find your college on the transfer credit database, it may mean either they do not accept those credits or they don’t know about your school. In the latter case, it will take a lot longer for the admission process.
@AKK@uofm Did you transfer from UMD with a twin brother last year?
@blue5342021 interesting, so did you not apply to Michigan during senior year? After I think about it you may be able to reach out to an admissions officer and chat with them about transferring and your current stats. Here’s a hypothetical, if I were your admissions officer I would say: write a damn good essay, tell me about yourself. I say this because an admissions officer will want to know who you are, they see that you can handle the rigor of college but they want to know more about you and if you will fit in to their university. Take this as a biased answer because I am not an admissions officer, that’s just my view of the college admissions process. To conclude, I’ve seen people get accepted with horrible gpa’s but they wrote beautiful essays (example of horrible gpa:3.4), horrible to me for CoE at umich. I don’t know if that helps.
@billcsho Nope! Not a twin brother… although I might know who you’re talking about.
@billcsho what CC are you referring to?
Does Umich look at my weighted GPA? bcz I’m an international transfer applicant and my grades are over 100 so how do they convert them?
@MaybeWolverine A CC in Boston area.
@Shaibleb Unweighted gpa from my knowledge… they convert it to the 4.0 scale
@“AKK@uofm” any ideas if i can find the conversion chart somewhere?
@Shaibleb Not entirely sure, can you tell me more about your grading scale? You probably can find it online
Michigan Daily published this article about the email mix up relating to transfer admissions.
Just got accepted into the school of kinesiology. Good luck to everyone.
I was accepted today to LSA! Here’s what I applied with:
College GPA (UMD): 4.0, 3.92 Mid-term
Credits: 30 (14 of which currently taking), all credits transfer
HS GPA: 3.59 UW, AP/IB/Honors courses (our school never had weighted GPA or class rank)
Submitted on 2/1, Marked complete on 2/6
Good luck to everybody waiting to hear back! 
2.76 HS
3.92 college
48 credits
Does anybody know how long it usually takes after they ask for progress reports?