<p>I am not paying $25,000 a year to BS, and certainly don’t think I could be a contender for a competitive law program not knowing “anything exactly.” I am not saying that engineering isn’t more difficult, I could certainly never do it, or even that all credits are created equal. That’s obviously not the case. I just think dismissing social sciences altogether is more than a little bit silly. It’s not like we are all idiots bumbling around slamming into each other over here at the LSA.</p>
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<p>I agree with you. There are plenty of extremely talented and hard working folks over in LSA. </p>
<p>However, I do think that these LSA courses are more susceptible to being passed without requiring too much work. To get an A or an A+ in one of these classes still takes a ton of work, just like any engineering class. But doing very little work one can earn a B- or B in one of these courses. In an engineering course, the same level of work would earn an F. Part of it is just the nature of the courses, and part of it is the difference in the grading policies of LSA and Engin professors.</p>
<p>Barrons, I don’t know how it works in all situations, but to get a double major, one in Engineering, one in LSA, you need two separate degrees, requiring 90 additional credits (so I guess 218 total). the 30-40 gets you an “area of concentration” in the LSA field.</p>
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Her max is 23 in the spring. Spring term is only a half term, isn’t it? Thus she is taking an equivalent of 46 in a full term. This makes me question whether the reporting is accurate.</p>
<p>“Barrons, I don’t know how it works in all situations, but to get a double major, one in Engineering, one in LSA, you need two separate degrees, requiring 90 additional credits (so I guess 218 total). the 30-40 gets you an “area of concentration” in the LSA field.”</p>
<p>pretty sure you are wrong. The situation you are describing is dual degree and it indeed takes a lot more credit. Double major means something like psych and econ</p>
<p>I’m not going to argue with that. You could scrape by with minimal effort in some upper division LSA classes if you’re fairly intelligent and that’s the kind of joker you are, and you can’t in engineering. I understand that. I am just noticing a major trend here of disrespecting LSA programs and I am pretty disgusted by it. Just because we aren’t all rocket scientists in training doesn’t mean we aren’t intelligent or that our studies are invalid.</p>
<p>Look. It disgust me how some soft LSA classes are so lax even the biggest idiot can get an A with 0 effort</p>
<p>I am currently in polsci 489 to buff my gpa but look… it’s a 300 people lecture. The professor guaranteed that everyone will receive an A no matter what, and attendance isnt even taken. So all you have to do is to register on wolverineaccess and do nothing, not even show up in class and reap in 3 credits of A at the end of the semester, this is for a 400 level class. You could completely forget that this class is even on your schedule and you end up with an A at the end of the semester</p>
<p><a href=“http://ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=884571[/url]”>Richard Bernstein at University of Michigan | Rate My Professors;
<p>It pretty much rubs the engineering and hard science majors the wrong way when we spend a couple hours a day or more on a 3-4 credit class. This is just one example. There are a lot more. It really disgusts me.</p>
<p>One of my friends finished all his requirements except for 2 credits before his senior winter semester. So what he did is he basically registered for those 2 credits, and used ratemyprofessor to find LSA classes that he doesnt have to do anything to receive As and registered for 12 credits of those classes. Low and behold, he had a 4.0 for 14 credits that semester doing 2 credits of the work. He didnt even show up more than once for 8 credits of the 12 credits of the soft LSA classes, including the polsci 489 class that I registered for… so maybe I should thank him…</p>
<p>I’ve had science professors just as bad if not worse. But since I am just a dumb LSA student, I will drop it. You win.</p>
<p>“I’ve had science professors just as bad if not worse.”</p>
<p>I thought this is your semester at U of M…sure it’s the case at Podunk CC…but the same could be sad for any community college or directional michigan colleges… It’s funny how I see people’s resume where they dont list their U of M gpa and list their Washtenaw gpa as 4.0 all the time… I mean seriously, like that’s worth a damn to recruiters.</p>
<p>and I can guarantee you that you will not be able to find such classes where you dont have to show up, dont have to do any work, no exams and still get an A in any science classes at U of M…save the science for non-science major classes like physics 105…but you actually still do work in those classes</p>
<p>LOL, it’s the guy from the Bernstein advantage?!? LOL!!</p>
<p>yea he is the 1800-callsam guy</p>
<p>omggg that’s crazy…</p>
<p>I actually registered for the class late and it was full…guess how i contacted him…1-888-call-sam for an overide lol</p>
<p>Exactly what keywords do you use to find the free-A classes in ratemyprofessors.com?</p>
<p>bearcats, Could you give me contact info of your friend who already found those easy classes? Or could you even invite him to make a post with list of all the free-A classes that he is aware of?</p>
<p>i’ll pm them to you. I dont want to post them here and have everyone register for them next semester because I am planning to take one of them every semester to buff my gpa.</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
<p>I must say, I am also interested in these classes…</p>
<p>You are dead wrong on needing 200+ credits to get two degrees. Read again. Carefully.</p>
<p>[College</a> of Literature, Science, and the Arts | Students](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/advising/requirements/jointdegrees]College”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/advising/requirements/jointdegrees)</p>
<p>bearcats, mind sending me that list of classes?</p>
<p>Could I possibly get that list sent to me too?</p>