Universally beloved schools

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan's undergrad population is woefully weak compared to stronger, usually private, seletive colleges. 40% of Michigan's freshmen class score below 1340. That is not a bad number, but definitely not elite.

You post this made up number on every single thread that mentions Michigan. The 50th percentile is 1470 and probably even higher for 2024. And, for out of state kids, even higher than that (my kid was in mid-1500s) and it was their top choice. Why are you always spreading misinformation about UMich?

Direct from University of Michigan's Common Data Set, available at the university website:

https://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/cds/cds_2022-2023_umaa.pdf


SAT
25% 75%
1350 1530

Percent submitting SAT score 52%
Percent submitting ACT scores 18%
Historically at Michigan about 10% of enrolled freshmen submitted both an ACT and SAT score.

Those students who scored below the 25th percentile are encouraged NOT to submit scores.

No matter how much you hope that it is not true that about 40% of Michigan's freshmen class have mediocre SAT scores, the facts DO NOT LIE. 25 percent of those who did submit scored below a 1350, and most likely a good percentage of the remaining cohort of test optional freshmen were low scorers (otherwise they would have submitted, doh!)

You aren’t even posting the most recent information from the common data set but are citing 2022-23. You are also leaving out the 50th percentile. What is your beef with Michigan? You clearly keep trying to manipulating statistics to prove some kind of point - do you think no one notices this?

Everything he is saying is sorta true but the reason is because michigan is a state school. Half the kids at michigan are in state. They dig pretty deep in state.
The in state acceptance rate is high for such a hard admit school. The out of state SAT score is probably a bit lower than the 75th percentile while the in state SAT score is probably a bit higher than the 25th percentile. The mentally unstable michigan football fans are mostly homegrown, they didn't grow up in connecticut and then decide to start painting their bodies blue and gold and cosplay a wolverine.

In state admission is 40% and one of the best values in higher education. Trust me, the kids who go to Cranbrook and Grosse Point schools are usually not slouches. But what makes it rich as a state school are kids from a small town in the Upper Peninsula or 30 minutes outside of Grand Rapids who are excited about getting in and meeting people from all over the world. Should better schools only be populated with privileged kids?

That's a private school.

The county that sends the most kids is Oakland (home of Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills). U of M doesn't need to dig deep there.

I'm pretty sure the post you responded to was just a movie reference to a line from the final rap battle in 8 Mile.

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Notre Dame

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Anonymous wrote:Universally loved by whom? Your in laws and neighbors? The lady in the grocery store check out? Employers? The most important judge for me is the students and alumni themselves. Their lists may be very different from the ones mentioned frequently on these boards. For example, I hear parents say their UVA targeting kids would rather die than go to JMU. But I’ve never heard a JMU grad throw shade on the school. I’m sure there are many examples like that. I’d like to hear about schools with the happiest students.

I’m thinking “universally” means NOT just one segment of the population, like neighbors or employers.

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Emory. Maybe Tulane.

On the spectrum's other end.....most universally despised? USCw. For good reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame

just stop with the Notre Dame boostering today. You're beginning to sounds lije the unhinged Northeastern booster machine

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Barnard!

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Anonymous wrote:I think the real question is, what schools are universally loved by those who WENT there....

And three come to mind for me.

Syracuse.
JMU.
Christopher Newport.

Every graduate and current student I know has loved those schools. People seem happy there.

Agree. I would add Virginia Tech.

This. Hokie. I’ve never met anyone who hasn’t loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard!

I have no personal beef with Barnard but:

1) weird to apply the word “universally” to a school where half the population can’t go

2) people with kids there last year (particularly Jewish kids) were NOT happy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the real question is, what schools are universally loved by those who WENT there....

And three come to mind for me.

Syracuse.
JMU.
Christopher Newport.

Every graduate and current student I know has loved those schools. People seem happy there.

Agree. I would add Virginia Tech.

This. Hokie. I’ve never met anyone who hasn’t loved it.

+100

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Hokies and Dukes looooooooooove their schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Barnard!

No. Most people have never heard of Barnard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the real question is, what schools are universally loved by those who WENT there....

And three come to mind for me.

Syracuse.
JMU.
Christopher Newport.

Every graduate and current student I know has loved those schools. People seem happy there.

I'd add University of Scranton to the list. It's not like Scranton is a great city, but the people I know who went there LOVED it, and are all among the most kind people I know. I don't know what they're doing up there, but I'm insisting my son at least visit based on what I know of its alumni.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the real question is, what schools are universally loved by those who WENT there....

And three come to mind for me.

Syracuse.
JMU.
Christopher Newport.

Every graduate and current student I know has loved those schools. People seem happy there.

I'd add University of Scranton to the list. It's not like Scranton is a great city, but the people I know who went there LOVED it, and are all among the most kind people I know. I don't know what they're doing up there, but I'm insisting my son at least visit based on what I know of its alumni.

Syracuse and Scranton would both fail the DCUM weather test. Big babies! They are great schools!

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame

If the question is happy students/alumni I think that's probably true. But universally loved? Nope. Lots of people hate Notre Dame, including plenty on this board.

[Anonymous]

Have you ever met a Duke alum who didn’t love the school??