^ If you are a sophomore already, transferring to engineering may cost you a semester or even a year more at least for some major due to the required course sequence.
@billcsho I do see they want <55 credits. I meet that requirement despite my rising junior status because they exclude AP/DE credits.
Certain engineering majors also have additional requirements on top of the general requirements, but I still have all of them (programming, composition, chemistry, extra math, etc.)
By “required course sequence” do you mean courses that come after the prereqs?
@eyo777 Yes, those major specific courses that you have to take in specific order. All those you mentioned are just basic requirements for engineering that most students would complete within the first year or sometimes the second year, while they will also start their major specific course sequence in sophomore which you don’t have.
@billscho Isn’t it common for engineering students to take five or so years to graduate, though?
I guess this is it then? 
dang… guess I’ll have to try transferring.
@eyo777 It is not uncommon, but it is not the norm either. Most still graduate in 4 years, some even less. All the engineering majors have a 4 year sample schedule even start with all basic requirement course (e.g. no AP credits) included.
@Jamesesesess Yeah this is it 
Engineering students have it hard alright hahahaha.
I will be trying to transfer too!
@derprage @Jamesesesess it sounds like the waitlist closed? I’ve been checking this thread for a few friends and we’ve been hoping all of us would be there in the fall (we knew it was a long shot)
so are we all getting rejected?
It sure seems that way, @niboss96. I can’t imagine that they’d be sending out a bunch of acceptances at the last minute. I wonder if the official emails will go out on Friday.
@BSM1987, would it be that farfetched to think that they’d release a batch of acceptances at the last minute though? They said they would use the wait list more this year, and based on the assumed acceptance rate, there should be a sizable amount of spots left, yet it doesn’t seem like many people were accepted off the wait list. I’ve seen <10 posts. Hopefully I’m right cause I’m still waiting.
The problem is that the enrollment deposit deadline has passed, meaning they’ve been pretty much positive how many spaces they’ll have since may 1. It would be very bizarre and even unprofessional to wait until after freshman orientation is well under way to inform hundreds of people they were accepted. I mean, thousands on the waitlist should be sending enrollment deposits and attending orientation at another school by now…in other words, moving on with their life.
@EnginClassOf2019 Since i have a roommate in engineering, it’s a lot harder to do well in CoE than it is to get admitted or transfer from LSA. It’s no guarantee you’d do well in LSA prereqs either though. Your heart has to be set on whatever you do, not spending your time hedging your bets.
Keeping so many hanging on a thread for so long is utter torture. If they can’t finalize things by now, it doesn’t speak too well of the administration.
I am glad my daughter has moved on and has already completed her orientation & enrollment and is fully engaged and looking forward to fall. I just wish Michigan would deliver a definitive response and be done. It is just like having a rock in your shoe, but it would be nice to be done done!
It’s far more unprofessional to leave around 5 thousand (that’s aprox. the amount that accepted the wait-list) people waiting for this long. Most of us waiting applied in October. We’ve been told we have a ‘chance’ and to keep waiting for 9 months now.
Their level of ‘professionalism’ is already at rock bottom in my book, so it wouldn’t surprise me for them to accept a few hundred, and it wouldn’t surprise me for them to keep us waiting another 2 weeks to reject us.
In the past, of the ~15,000 offered waitlist and ~5,000 on the waitlist, not more than 2% were accepted from there. Move on if you have not heard anything. It is not that they don’t know how many spots are open or are holding the spot and wait till the end of June to notify you. They have notified some students on the waitlist already and some may be pending response. In case of some waitlist admitted student declining the offer, there may be some late opening but the process should be complete shortly.
@billcsho. Do you think that Michigan really made " heavy use of the waitlist" as they said they were going to? And if they didn’t do we think that this must mean better than expected rate of acceptances of offers of admission?
It depends on the actual yield rate. They may have admitted 1000-2000 less than last year, but there may be not much open spots if the yield rate goes up a couple percent.
In the end they will fill their class and don’t really care about the individuals.
It will be fascinating when they finally release stats. Looks to me as though it’s likely to have significant drop in acceptance rate and an increase in yield rate.