Frequently Asked Questions

All admissions are handled through the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Answers to many frequently asked questions as well as contact information can be found there.

Please contact the Math undergraduate office at math-undergrad-office@umich.edu and we will work with you to set up an appointment with one of our faculty, a meeting with one of our current undergrads, and if you’d like, a class visit. We’ll need to know a date, time, any other appointments you have on campus we’ll have to work around, and an area of mathematics you might be interested in.

In order to declare a math major, you will need to set up an appointment with a math faculty advisor. Appointments can be made online.

Math minors can be declared by sending an email to math-undergrad-office@umich.edu or stopping by the Undergraduate Student Services office (2082 East Hall)

We do not have walk-in advising. Appointments must be made online.

The advisors have chosen several different forms of communication for their advising appointments, including email, phone calls, and video conferencing. If the format is not indicated when you sign up for your advising, the advisor will reach out to you before the appointment with how they will contact you. No special software is needed, but it is helpful to have a video conferencing account ready like Skype, Zoom or Bluejeans.

In order to have a dual major with LSA, you need to contact the Newnan Advising Center to be admitted into LSA. Once that has gone through, we can help you declare a major in Math.

Once you are ready to graduate, you will need to have your major/minor "released". Minors should e-mail math-undergrad-office@umich.edu and include your UMID and major(s) in addition to a list of the 5 courses you will be using for your math minor. If you are an LSA student, be sure to indicate whether any of the courses you'll be using for your minor will be shared with you major. 

In order to release your major, you will need to setup an advising appointment. An advisor will go through your transcript with you and sign a form stating you’ve completed your requirements. Don’t forget to also apply for graduation on Wolverine Access.

Please find information on the LSA Pass/Fail website.

This depends on the course. Enrollment for many upper level courses is handled entirely through the waitlist, so if there is a waitlist available on Wolverine Access, please add yourself to it.

Enrollment is handled slightly differently for Math 105, 115, and 116. Seats for these courses are opened periodically throughout the registration period (for fall terms this means throughout the summer break). You'll need to check Wolverine Access periodically to see if any seats open up that fit your schedule. If you are still unable to enroll in a section of 105, 115, or 116 once the beginning of the term approaches, please add yourself to the Math 105/115/116 waitlist.

If the course was previously evaluated in the Transfer Credit Database as directly equivalent to a U(M) Mathematics course, it will transfer during the Winter 2020 and Spring/Summer 2020 terms regardless of whether or not it is taken online.  If it has not yet been evaluated, it must be submitted for evaluation through the aforementioned database.

Please visit our transfer credit page for details.

• The AB exam will not change and credits will be granted as listed on Admissions AP/IB Exam Website. 
• The BC exam underwent more drastic changes and we are currently discussing whether or not credits will be granted based on completion.  We will update this page when a policy has been created.

The Registrar’s Office runs this as a batch process sometime after the next term begins. If you still don’t see the credits posted by 6 weeks after the end of the term in which you took your first math course, please contact the Registrar’s Office directly.

This math tutor list includes those tutors interested in assisting middle or high school students.  For U of M students, the free “Math Lab” located in B860 East Hall, offers tutoring up through Math 217.

The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program runs every summer for U.S. citizens or permanent residents. This program is now open to non U-M students as well. Applications are usually available in February and due in March.

2020 Application Update: If you have not yet heard back from the program at this time, then we were unable to offer you a position in our 2020 REU program.  The program is highly selective and we had well over 300 applications. Selections were made based on the best match between faculty mentors & students.  If you will continue to be an undergraduate in the 2021 school year, then we encourage you to apply again then. Applications will become available in late November for the 2021 REU program.

Many mentors in the REU program will be moving research online for the entirety of the program.  As such, students participating in the program will not be expected to travel to campus, but are still expected to adhere to all other requirements laid out in their offer letters.   We recommend that you reach out to your mentor to discuss the possibility of remote research if you have been extended an offer.