<p>I think they started handing out acceptances before June 1. In other words, the earlier you applied the better chance you had. After I realized that Umich places promptness before merit, I filed my Urop app on May 2, the day after it was released.</p>
<p>Does anyone know any specifics about UIR? Is it possible to get work-study if you are in UIR? And what's the difference in the amount of time constraints between UIR and UROP? Also, since UIR is a residencial MLC how are the people? Are they for the most part easy going/like to have fun in their free time or are they the study every minute I get really competitve kind?</p>
<p>For what its worth, the guy talking about UIR at campus days said the floor was really tight nit. I eventually decided to just to UROP and not to apply for UIR, but it was a tough choice and I still wonder if I made the right decision.</p>
<p>How many hours do you usually put in for UROP? and if you do UROP is there still time for extra-currics and a job?</p>
<p>Also, how does UROP fit into your daily schedule, do you have a specific time period to do it every day? Or is it more of an independant study? Also, does it take up time on the weekends or is the majority/all of the work done in class during scheduled research time?</p>
<p>I was in UIR this past year and it was awesome. Because the entire floor is full of cool people who work hard play hard, it's better than just being in a regular floor.</p>
<p>And yes, if you're doing UROP for credit, you do get a letter grade, which tended to be my highest grades at UM so far. Depending on what UROP project you get will partly determine how many credits you can do: some projects want you to do 3-4 hours, not 2 or 3. I believe if you're doing work-study (but not credit), you can do 5 hours.</p>
<p>UROP takes a LOT of time, so don't overdo it with classes. When you're making out your schedule, leave open time because, at least for my project, you can't work when no one else is there (weekends, before 8am, after 6pm).</p>
<p>what kind of project did you have? What kind of course load would you recomend taking if I was doing UIR for work-study and am on the drumline? 14 hours?</p>
<p>Dude I think I'm in trouble lol...I have to take Bio, Chem, Calc which is 4+5+4 = 13 cred and then maybe english cause of 1st yr req which adds another 4 = 17 credits...that leaves 1 credit for UROP!! AHHH!!!!!! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!!!!!!</p>
<p>My project was on the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer instrument for the NASA Cassini-Huygens mission. If you're doing <em>UIR</em> (not UROP), then you must also take UC 104 "Intro to Research", a one-credit pass/fail class for the fall term (this is instead of the biweekly UROP meetings, which you will have winter term). I did a total of 17 hours, 1 being UC 104, 2 being my UROP project. I'd suggest 15-16 hours for someone's first term.</p>
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<p>If you're thinking about doing Chem 125/126/130, you could break it up into just the labs (Chem 125/126) or just the lecture (Chem 130). That will give you 2-3 less hours your first term. Say, you could do Bio/Chem lab/Calc/English/UROP (2 credits) and that'd be 4+2+4+4+2 = 16 hours. If you're concerned about graduating in four years, there's always summer school which is a good time to catch up on stuff like calculus and physics, which are usually not nice to many people's GPAs anyway.</p>
<p>summers out of the question, i need it to do med-related activities and im not spending another cent on mich for the summer...thats like more than 40 grand a year. So i can do Bio, Just Chem 125, eng, calc and UROP. thats 4+4+4+4 =16 credit...cool</p>
<p>Well, obviously don't go to Michigan for summer classes. It's like $1200/hour for out-of-staters. I just went to a cheap local school where it's like $150/hour or less.</p>
<p>I'm still trying to find out if by "research" they actually mean research, as in novel research in the field that has the potential to be published... Or is it "research" as in you study current work that has already been done?</p>
<p>Michigan is a research university. Your work will be be new because you'll be working under a professor, and some undergrads even get published.</p>
<p>how do you find out if you are admitted into UROP or UIR? I applied last week for UIR, if I don't get admitted into UIR will they automatically put my application in for UROP or do I have to fill it out again?</p>
<p>Definitely serious, original research ... aiming to be published at leading trade journals. And if you are good, you may be able to do this:</p>
<p>"David Zhen, a University of Michigan student from Grand Blanc, Mich., will be among 60 undergraduates from around the nation invited to present the results of their independent research in science, engineering and mathematics in Washington, D.C., on April 19 ...</p>
<p>"The presentation by Zhen, a sophomore in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, will be on research he is conducting in the laboratory of Eva Feldman, professor of Neurology, under direct supervision of Tracy Schwab, research investigator in U-M's Department of Neurology. Their collaboration is part of the University's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). The research is on neuroblastoma, a neurological childhood cancer..."</p>
<p>i wanna do that someday, wish me luck! lol :)</p>
<p>You know what...I've been thinking, is UROP gonna really be a waste of a time. I'm a premed, i got loads of prereqs to do along with double majoring and when going through my course schedules (that arent setup yet), it seems UROP is wasting away my credits that i could use to get Med reqs and UM reqs out of the way.</p>
<p>Cause for 1st sem, i wanna take Chem + Lab, Calc 1, Eng...and then i can choose either UROP or physics. Which one should it be? A lot of people say you shouldn't take physics with Orgo Chem cause thats pushing it which i would have to do 2nd yr if i wanna get done with my premed reqs by end of soph yr...i need to double major 2!!! omg lol</p>
<p>If you're going the premed route, then I assume you're well aware of the importance of a high GPA. UROP could really help out in that regard, I did well in all my classes but 2 of my 3 A's first year were in UROP.</p>
<p>Sorry for repeating this question, but I don't think it's been answered yet...
Does anyone know what the chances are of getting into UROP from the waiting list? Also, when would we find out?</p>
<p>i don't know</p>