Places to visit at Campus? (Prospective Student)

See one of the nonrevenue sports and the world class facilities, and athletes that will be your classmates. This weekend wrestling v. #1 PSU, swimming v. #4 IU, the 1st event at the new indoor track. Next weekend PSU for hockey ...go to the ticket office right when it opens and can usually get a wide variety of returned tix (then go get Spots). On Jan, 27 there is Army v. Navy wheelchair basketball in Crisler which is a lot of fun and a fundraiser for a good cause.

On the academic side West Engin and East Engin where all your classes will be, NUBS where you wil be doing your punch carding, the Econ building right by the Grad LIbrary. Night spots ... Dooley's or Bicycle JIm's.( Yes I want to live my freshman year over again).

1) Take the official student tour. When I did a long time ago, it was awesome.

2) Obviously check out North Campus, due to your major choice

3) Check out the UGLi (Under Grad Library) and Grad Library. You should/ will spend a lot of time there, even if you live on NC.

4) Michigan Union

Good luck and enjoy your trip. When I was a senior in HS, I flew to M with a friend (no parents) and we stayed in a frat house, off campus. It was nuts and made me not want to rush, but I loved all aspects of the campus.

Get UM Hockey tickets

(Sorry couldn't help myself.)

Seriously, best of luck to you as you strive to join the Michigan family.

With those majors you probably wont be spending much time at either place, but those locations always fire me up to be a UM alum! Lots of other good suggestions here. Good luck and Go Blue!

a lot has changed since many of the people who post on this blog were students.  that goes for me for sure.  try to focus on the areas that you'll spent a lot of time at as an undergrad.  with the caveat that a lot has problably changed, consider the following:

• the library and other common study areas;
• coffee shops.  no specific one because it may take time to find your favorite, but going to coffee shops gets you a feel for campus;
• the brown jug and amer's;
• walks up and down south U and state where you might often get lunch in between classes, and the union for the same purpose;
• houses off campus.  see the dorms, but recognize that dorms are for but one year and you have to feel comfortable with off-campus housing options as well;
• the gyms such as the CCRB if you plan to exercise.  very common place for students.  getting the vibe of campus from places where students spend their free time is important;
• take in a class.  based on the major-paths your projecting figure out one intro lecture you're going to have to take and walk in.  no one will notice because there are so many students.  get a sense of whether those large lectures are for you.  pay attentention to what the students are doing (such as paying attention to the prof) and how that sits with you.

good luck!

And take note of the location of what is now "Craft Brew City" - the business in that spot is likely to change 4+ times during your undergrad experience like it did during mine (2009-14)

I am sure you are an excellent student or you wouldn't be applying.  My advice is to pay particular attention to your essays.  Have a couple people you trust read them over, and spend time on them.  I am a HS counselor, and spoke to our UM admissions rep the other day about a few of our students who were deferred.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Here are a few things I learned:  they got over 8000 more early action applications this year, yet took about 2000 fewer students during this phase.  For LSA last year, the middle 50% of incoming freshmen had 31-34 ACT scores with an unweighted GPA of 3.9-4.0. That will probably go even higher this year, and the Engineering school is even more difficult.  Our school in particular had 21 students accepted 4 years ago during this phase, this year the number fell to 9.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        None of this is meant to discourage you.  I am just encouraging you to pay attention to deadlines and really take the process seriously.  If you are applying to Engineering, make sure your teacher rec letter is from one of your advanced math or science teachers, for instance.  Best of luck!

Love to study??  Sounds like you and my son (also applying next year) would be fast friends.  I'll have him keep his eyes peeled for "Orlando2".  (If you both get in. Michigan is so much more tougher these days!  Good luck!!)

I cannot understate how special a place Michigan's campus is. And I went to Illinois for two years and Michigan for two years. Michigan is special. For me, the Diag is Ground Zero for that specialness. My favorite memory of attending Michigan was watching the Westboro Baptist Church and counterprotesters yell at each other on the Diag. It was intense. Nothing like that energy at most other colleges and universities. 

take a tour of the buildings on North Campus.  This is where you'll spend much of your time your last couple years.  But, all the social life is still on the Central Campus.  So, my advice (as an engineering graduate) is to live somewhere down there and just drive or take the bus to NC.  

just go visit the Dude (Duderstadt Center) because you'll spend more waking hours in there than in your dorm

Michigan's a great place. Apply as early as possible, and if you get in, prepare to work your tail off for 4-5 years but be prepared to have a blast too. Nothing like Michigan Stadium on a Saturday or Yost on a Friday night.

Interesting this has turned into an admissions thread...  My son just got accepted to LSA  for next fall (waiting on Ross admissions *fingers crossed*).  My wife and I gradutated in 1996 and had no idea to what degree the process had changed.  Others on MGoBlog may find this interensting as well.

Two things I learned that make it impossible to read too much into the "average entering class" data.  They are VERY important:

• In-state students are accepteed at a much higher rate than out-of-state.  We are in-state, and we have several friends who are out-of-state whose kids applied, were VERY qualified and did not get in or got deferred. Conversly, we have several in-state families we know whose kids were not ultra-elite students (i.e. 3.6 or 3.7 and 1200-1300) but were accepted.  It absolutely matters.
• Michgan calculates it's GPA differently.  You send them your transcripts and they recalculate it based on their standards. Of note: an "A-" scores as 4 points the same as an "A". My son had a 3.9 unweighted GPA in high school because of a couple A-'s but is U-M GPA calculated as 4.0.   Similarly, a B+ is the same as a B or a B-.  

I know it goes without saying, but they ABSOLUTELY look at things way beyond grades and test scores. Extracurriculars and leadership experiences make a huge difference.

The other key point that was hammered into us over-and-over from admissions people was to apply "early action" and apply as early as you can.  Preference is given to early applicants vs. those that apply at the deadline, even the early admission deadline.

Best of luck and GO BLUE!

Get 2 forty ouncers of Mikey's Malt Liquor.  

Enjoy.

my advice to any rookie is to smoke a joint walking down State Street and get a sub and a choclolate/ peanut butter shake at Pizza Bob's.   

Angelo's for breakfast. 

Angelo's for breakfast. 

EDIT: Apparently that comment was so nice, I did it twice. Apologies.