Top ten dream colleges and universities
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Anonymous
The original poster's kids got rejected from Yale, so she's now posting non-Yale schools YOUR kids should be applying to. Don't let her life's miseries affect your kid's life and future. |
Anonymous
Let’s see what parchment has to say about this https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Michigan+-+Ann+Arbor&with=University+of+California%2C+Berkeley Michigan 57% Berkeley 43% Michigan is not just a good university, it’s a great university. Only Berkeley bests it academically among publics. Also notice that it’s on the listing of dream colleges by both students and parents. It’s the only public to appear on both. There must be a reason. |
Anonymous
I think it's because Berkeley hasn't been regarded as a fun school for many years. Freshman classes sometime have 1500 students. Depending on the major, it often takes five years to get the credits needed to graduate. It can feel cold and impersonal for undergraduates. Plus the performative student politics. If you don't totally vibe with progressive sensibilities all the time it can feel like you're walking on eggs shells. Stanford has the same problem. And the town of Berkeley is very lightly policed. So there are a lot of fentanyl and meth addicts. Petty crime and shoplifting is taken as the norm. Oftentimes, Berkeley can feel like a lonely and stressful place to go to school. Whereas Michigan looks like way more fun for an undergrad. The vibe is much more chill. Ann Arbor is a very nice college town. The academics are outstanding and certainly at a similar level to Berkeley. The students are generally midwestern nice. And for a lot of 18-22 year olds, spending a Sunday afternoon with 100,000 of your closest friends cheering for a national champion football team is an exciting way to spend a Fall day. |
Anonymous
The Michigan obsession might be regional. On the west coast UCLA is the college many teens dream of.
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Anonymous
Yep same old same old |
Anonymous
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“The Michigan obsession might be regional. On the west coast UCLA is the college many teens dream of.”
The US is much larger than just the west coast. All schools have a regional bias. Saying that, this was a national survey from the Princeton Review “For its 2024 survey, which was conducted online between January 15 and February 20, the education services company polled 10,867 people. Seventy-three percent (7,935) were applicants to colleges and 27% (2,932) were parents of applicants. The survey featured 20 questions, nearly all of which presented multiple-choice answers. A summary of selected findings follows.” Also looking at Parchment: https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+California%2C+Los+Angeles&with=University+of+Michigan+-+Ann+Arbor Michigan 56% UCLA 44% |
Anonymous
Agree. No east coast publics listed. |
Anonymous
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2023 - The top 10 schools named by surveyed students as their "dream" colleges were:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University (CA) Harvard College (MA) New York University University of California—Los Angeles Princeton University (NJ) University of Pennsylvania Columbia University (NY) University of Michigan University of Texas—Austin |
Anonymous
Of course that was last year. This year, UCLA isn’t listed. |
Anonymous
| Really varies from year to year. |
Anonymous
You knew it was going to happen! Let’s just get it over with! |
Anonymous
| Why is Michigan there lol |
Anonymous
lol. What no Maryland? |
Anonymous
Why isn’t UVA there? lol |
Anonymous
Berkeley (the city) is a grotesque freak show with horrible housing options. |