UMich Ross ED or Notre Dame REA?

[Anonymous]

Rossholes are out tonight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan Ross undergraduate acceptance rate is 9%. Notes Dame business is 11%. Not a great strategy to apply to Michigan thinking it’s an easier admit.

+1. Ross is incredibly hard to get into. Only one kid at our school got in that we know of. Haven’t heard about people applying to ND so I can’t tell you there…

[Anonymous]

Does DCUM realize Michigan now has ED?

[Anonymous]

Anyone who graduated from either ND or U Mich knows you can’t like both. Touchdown Jesus vs the Big House. 😉

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does DCUM realize Michigan now has ED?

Didn’t you read the Op which is about ED at Ross/Michigan?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Yet no one is seems to realize that this will change acceptance odds. Still tough but easier to get into, if you ED, than Notre Dame

[Anonymous]

Has your son visited both, OP? Should be an easy decision after visits. Very different schools and vibes. ED to the one your son prefers. One advantage to REA to Notre Dame is that it isn’t binding. He could technically get into Notre Dame REA, Michigan EA plus any other schools he gets into to in EA and RD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan Ross undergraduate acceptance rate is 9%. Notes Dame business is 11%. Not a great strategy to apply to Michigan thinking it’s an easier admit.

+2 This year Ross had over 13,000 applicants for 500 spots. Up from around 11,000 the year before. Even allowing for yield (in 2024 they accepted 840 to yield 500), the acceptance rate was probably closer to 6% this year. ED was likely enacted for LSA yield, not Ross yield. Ross is really transparent with numbers.

[Anonymous]

ND really cares about leadership, even plain ol in-school leadership, like team captains and class VP. Does dc have that?

[Anonymous]

ND really cares about service too. Without hundreds or thousands of hours of service, it's not happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan. Both great schools but I find ND to be so homogeneous, especially the pre-business types (which I assume he wants since he is applying to Ross at Michigan). I work with a lot of them and they can really be insufferable. The rest of the ND people I know tend to be better, but would still say Michigan.

But I'm sure the public school haters will come out of the woodwork on this...

Notre Dame is a better school all around than Michigan, but it is so much more difficult to get into.

[Anonymous]

OP, are you in-state for Michigan? That would weigh in. Ross is a very tough admit - esp OOS, and I can’t imagine that would change a lot with ED. Is an ED1 to ED2-like play an option here? I’m not familiar with the exact timing of the early options at these schools, but sometimes you can ED or similar and hear in time to convert another app if it doesn’t work out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ND really cares about leadership, even plain ol in-school leadership, like team captains and class VP. Does dc have that?

+1. I believe this is even more important than to them than just scores. The whole package.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But how much will ED help? Tough to guage

Agreed. I’d collect a lot of opinions before making a decision on this, particularly for applying to Ross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michigan. Both great schools but I find ND to be so homogeneous, especially the pre-business types (which I assume he wants since he is applying to Ross at Michigan). I work with a lot of them and they can really be insufferable. The rest of the ND people I know tend to be better, but would still say Michigan.

But I'm sure the public school haters will come out of the woodwork on this...

Notre Dame is a better school all around than Michigan, but it is so much more difficult to get into.