Is getting in as a soph transfer nearly impossible?

rushhour5
Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:29:08 +0000

@dppilotmets, no problem. I’m not sure if every single ENGCMP 0200 will be accepted now after I successfully petitioned to get mine accepted as fulfilling FYW but if you get yours accepted without question, be sure to come here and thank me. jk. Anyways, I had Nicholas Coles as my professor and his based on the courseload, it was enough to match what Michigan considers to fulfill FYW. I was told that they wanted something like 5 six page essays and lots of revision for every essays or something like that. I think you should ask to make sure.

The math courses here are undoubtedly challenging but not unreasonable. It’s definitely possible to get an A if you put in the work. A lot of times when people don’t get the grade they want, it’s because of a lack of effort. I would say make sure you know what kinds of courses you’re signing up for when taking them with your math classes because you don’t want to take a bunch of other time consuming and high effort classes with your math class. Make sure you have a mix of easy and hard classes. Spread the hard ones out and you should be fine. I still had time to be involved in a few things and had a social life.

Oh yeah and you should make sure you get that tier C meal plan because there are only two dining halls on the Pitt Campus, Market and the Perch and you’ll never be able to use all your swipes if you have anything beyond 100. My freshman roommate got the 200 swipe option and still had about 90 unused by the end of the semester. The Perch is just a smaller and worse version of Market in Sutherland, except they always seem to have the best bananas. You’ll find that the awful pizza, tasteless fries and never changing salad gets old real fast, but the stir fry and Magellans are pretty good though. I’d say get the one where you have 100 swipes and something like 700 dining dollars because dining dollars are a lot more versatile and you can use it at some pretty good places like Pasta Plus in the Pete, the Union and Einsteins.