<p>I feel embarassed asking this, espcially being a michigan resident, but I was wondering. </p>
<p>I heard there is a separate accellerated course for undergraduate students to attend the business graduate school. It either was to guarantee a spot in the graduate school, or to take courses at the graduate school... Since my idea of this program is so vague that I have no idea where to start doing research on UofM's website. Can anybody be kind enough to walk me to through the steps?</p>
<p>My understanding is that the program is a way for a very, very small number of freshmen to be accepted to the Ross School of Business to get into the BBA program. Previously, all candidates had to apply for it after being at U-M for two years. This progam is incredibily selective and the overwhelming number of candidates seem to not understand this.</p>
<p>+1</p>
<p>It's extremely selective. Although UM is a big school, it does not have a large BBA enrollment (relatively). You basically need 3.75 at least to have a chance.</p>
<p>A friend of mine who is has applied and is awaiting his decision said they had rougly a 50% acceptance rate...which I dunno is true or not but he said they also reject LOTS of candidates with 4.0's so that shows how competitive it is</p>
<p>my friend has a 3.97 btw if you're wondering about it lol</p>
<p>oh my oh my. how many kids do they accept anyways? 50 percent doesnt seem whole lot but its all the top kids that apply and out of them the 50 percent so im sure its highly, highly selective. </p>
<p>i heard my school counselor talking about how U of M is gonna change the system you can apply to that BBA program when you apply to the college and guarantee your enrollment in the program on the spot. has anyone heard anything about that?</p>
<p>Yeah thats how it was this year for the first time. It is called Preferred Admissions, but they only allow 50-75 kids in the program. First one applys to the general LSA, but you can put Ross BBA preferred admissions on your app too. Most kids, however, transfer frosh, soph, or junior years.</p>
<p>I heard someplace that Michigan admits about 50% of applicants to Ross transfer and that the average GPA is around 3.59 :)</p>
<p>ditto futurenycstudent.</p>
<p>I think my high school sent 5 kids to ross preferred. That is a lot considering they only take 50-75 total.</p>
<p>I was accepted as a Ross "pre-admit" and a 3.3 is still required to get in. I also understood they were going to pre-admit about 70 students. Ross also requires freshmen prerequisite courses - Calculus I and Microeconomics. I've also read on this site that both of these class give out very few A's.</p>
<p>Maybe for the Ross pre-admit, they accept more than 70 but are aiming for a freshman BBA class of 70, so a targeted enrollment of 70 and not acceptance number?</p>
<p>they might really just be admitting 70, cause they wouldnt know how many might enroll and so wouldn't really want to over enroll or anything. Since theres no harm to them if the admitted ones didnt go.</p>
<p>They are admitting around 70 high school seniors, but there will be plenty more who are admitted after their freshman year. I think the class size will eventually be a little over 300</p>
<p>Ross sent me a publication entitled "Dividend" (page 28) that says the school will admit 70 students directly from high school and 280 students will be admitted for their sophomore year.</p>
<p>They were shooting for a preferred admit class of no more than 70 students. I heard that over 500 applied - which is less than I would have expected. It's not all about GPA -- many of the admits have started businesses. My kid was rejected with a 3.9, lots of APs, respectable SATs and ECs. He was accepted to Michigan in October -- but rejected from Ross Preferred Admit in Nov/Dec. Plans to apply to b-school again. So that means he's got to keep his Michigan GPA over a 3.5, take the required classes, and get involved in some kind of activity that demonstrates leadership.</p>