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We're also seeing more and more players graduating early. Aside from the advantages of being able to do a grad transfer, even graduating a semester early is a worthwhile goal. That way you can spend that last winter term preparing for the draft.

lets be fair here. you didn't get into michigan being a bad student. you got into michigan because highschool was easy, and your what me and others called a professional "slacker"...I was like this in Highschool. didn't bother with homework, wrote papers the night of, played calculator games during class... I would be taking the weekly math test and figuring out the material for the first time on said test. I took all AP courses where possible and got out of highschool with a 3.2 GPA which in retrospect sucked, because I knew I was better than that, but I just was bored. 

I think it depends more on what credits you come in with than just your major.

Sometimes testing out of 1st year classes is what kills folks.

 

That being said - I saw plenty of high school valedictorians at Michigan that must have went to awful high school, because they failed REALLy easy classes.

 

 

 

 

That's a pretty brutal first semester

Ugh.

I would've shot myself in the face if my freshman fall classes included either of those.

2.7 my first semester. Calc 3, Physics 2, and Eng 100. Two sophomore classes and intro engineering - where they explained that curves are dumb!

killed me frosh year.  I tested borderline between needing one or two years of Spanish and I chose to go into second year Spanish to be done faster. Wtih no Spanish class my senior year in HS, I was not prepared for that.

Orrrrrr maybe it was the unlimited social options/independence that I prioritized.

I also had orgo and Calc 2 first semester. And Spanish 202 (or whatever 4th semester is, which I tested into but probably shouldn't have). It was rough.

That was my first semester at UM as a transfer in...add UROP, accelearated french, and a 4 credit polsci coarse...almost dropped out. Had to cut French and UROP to survive...to this day, I have strong feelings for that counselor who gave that to me

It's not even the difficulty level of the course. It's the amount of work required to get good grades in all parts of the class. I had German my first or second semseter and I distinctly remember that I said  "what the fuck" out loud in the class when the professor said that we'll need to spend 8 - 10 hours outside of class each week on HW just to pass the class. I had AP German in HS and I did all of my HW right before class started, and I never had to study. So it's just that HS does bad at prepping you for the amount of work you need to do. Even though I belive that was the point of taking an AP class.

Also, how important it is to learn how to be a good test taker. Trying to figure out how each professor gives their tests. What they like to test students on. What type of questions they prefer to ask. HS me would have never known about any of that stuff. 

"However, if you come from a school that hasn't prepared you for a major university like UofM or you haven't developed study habits, you're going to struggle - period."

 

I wouldn't say that...

 

My highschool was academically rigorous for the area I grew up in - but I was the slackerest of slackers, always did homework last minute, and never developed any study habits.

 

At Michigan I was a slacker, but I went to class and turned in my homework... never studied, ever... only had one semester at Michigan below a 3.0 and graduated with a 3.3.