<p>Washtenaw Community College.</p>
<p>It’s a community college on the border of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti that has a tie-in with Michigan. Their M-POD program all but assures you a spot into the university with a 3.0 GPA (to all schools but engineering (3.4) and business (3.5)). </p>
<p>I was in-town for the summer, took classes here to get up to 60 credits and heard about this program. I guess there’s a lot of kids who get into Michigan through this program. If you didn’t get into Michigan out of high school and still want to go there, you should consider going to WCC for 3 semesters then applying to Michigan. </p>
<p>Here’s the link to the program: [WCC</a> M-POD: Requirements](<a href=“http://www.wccnet.edu/studentservices/otherservices/transferresources/m-pod/requirements.php]WCC”>http://www.wccnet.edu/studentservices/otherservices/transferresources/m-pod/requirements.php)</p>
<p>“Their M-POD program all but assures you a spot into the university with a 3.0 GPA (to all schools but engineering (3.4) and business (3.5)).”</p>
<p>I am not sure that is entirely correct draftnik. As the website you have provided clearly states, students with the above GPAs will merely qualify for consideration. Those GPAs listed are essentially cutoffs. I would be very surprised if many 3.6 WCC students got into Ross or many 3.0 or 3.1 WCC students successfully transfer into LSA.</p>
<p>Alexandre, unfortunately Michigan is not that selective. A friend of mine who’s rejected by UIUC back then easily got into the so-called Michigan’s selective CoE along with my other friend who got a mere 3.4 GPA at WCC. Both of them are now studying Mechanical Engineering in Michigan that’s ranked top 5 in the nation.</p>
<p>Therefore Alexandre, except for the b-school, I think the WCC M-POD program does indeed assure a spot in the university.</p>
<p>ProudWolverine, it is always easier to transfer into a university than to gain admission as a Freshman. I also know that Michigan has a special relationship with WCC. However, ProudWolverine, it is not correct to say that a 3.0 GPA will assure a spot at Michigan. I have known several 3.5+ WCC students who did not get admitted, and that was back in 1993 and 1994, when Michigan used to admit over 70% of transfer applicants. Michigan now admits fewer than 40% of transfer applicants. One of my best friends had a 3.6 GPA at WCC, was rejected by Michigan LSA and ended up transfering to Eastern. I knew several 4.0 students who applied to the B-School. They were all rejected but admitted into LSA. That’s not surprising considering Ross only addmits 15 transfers each year. I also had several friends at WCC who applied to transfer into the CoE Engineering with 3.6 and 3.7 GPAs and did not get in. They generally ended up at MSU or Purdue. </p>
<p>3.0 (3.4 for Engineering and 3.5 for Ross) is the lowest possible GPA for consideration. I am sure many students with those minimum requirements get admitted, but to suggest that 100% are admitted isn’t accurate. I have seen way too many rejections to know better.</p>
<p>Alexandre, where did u get that 40% from? I couldn’t find any relevant information in the admissions website. They only wrote that out of the 3000 or so transfer applicants each year, more than 1200 decided to enroll. Based on this information, I’d say the admit rate exceeds 40%.</p>
<p>Although I do not have a link, Michigan recived 2,706 transfer applicants, admitted 1,081 (39.9%). Of those, 792 (73.3%) chose to enroll.</p>
<p>Michigan is not that easy to transfer into. It depends on which college you are interested in. My niece wanted to transfer into Michigan from State. She had over a 3.8 average and was on the honor roll at her college there after her sophomore year. She was ultimately rejected from LSA. Not enough space was the reason.</p>
<p>Draftnik, that is requirements for CONSIDERATION, not for enrollment.</p>
<p>Numerous Michigan advisers have told me to get a 3.2-3.5 for admission. Obviously Business and Engineering are different.</p>
<p>See above A2Wolves6.</p>
<p>The transfer stats provided by Alexandre in post #6 is for the school year 2006-07. Those are the same transfer stats posted on USNWR.</p>
<p>There is no way you can get a guaranteed transfer to Ross with 3.6 GPA from WCC. The spaces are very limited. Generally only 4% of the BBA class are transfers (14-15 seats). Besides, college GPA is but one of the criteria for Ross admission.</p>
<p>You should remember that Ross is a mandatory 3-year program. So if you transfer from WCC with 55 credits or more, you still have to put in another 3 years.</p>
<p>Ok I stand corrected =)</p>