Why would Sasha Obama attend University of Michigan?

[Anonymous]

OMG OP - some people don't look at rankings when picking a school. They look at fit. Maybe Sasha wants to be an engineer. U of M has one of the best engineering programs in the country. It's also an amazing campus, a great location, and a really down to earth student body.

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Anonymous wrote:Security question and sure Jenna Bush had the same issue at Texas. How in the world does the Secret Service protect these children of Presidents? If Sasha is walking through the Diag or pops into Zingerman's for a sandwich, how can they watch her? Wouldn't it be easier at HYP or Stanford based on size?

They protected Melania and kid in NYC for 6 months. They can handle Ann Arbor. The Secret Service are professionals. It just costs more if you need more of them because of a location's difficulty.

How much security do adult children of former presidents actually get? I don't think adult children are routinely covered, although they may be able to request protection fora period of time.

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Harvard lives off its rep and brand name faculty, but the instruction there is no better than anywhere else. In fact, students can find a more personal experience almost anywhere else, particularly in grad school.

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Anonymous wrote:Because that’s where she wanted to go? My daughter was accepted to two Ivy schools. She chose University of Florida. Kids have all kinds of reasons for choosing their colleges.

+1 An athlete so slightly diff but DD chose a Big Ten school over an Ivy where, senior fall, she was given a verbal offer by the coach and positive pre-read of her academic materials from the admissions office.

but she didn't actually get in to the Ivy in the end?

She got into Yale. She turned it down for Michigan.

Someone is getting fired in New Haven.

[Anonymous]

Any kids who pay the price of growing up under the glaring light of the White House, and survive without public drama, deserve far better than the snarky jealous swipes by some posters on this thread. ‘...from what I hear...’....’turned down Yake...’ leave them alone and get a life.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard lives off its rep and brand name faculty, but the instruction there is no better than anywhere else. In fact, students can find a more personal experience almost anywhere else, particularly in grad school.

This is very true, but the snobby, "Big 3" DC elitists will never openly admit it.

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Anonymous wrote:"great" != public U undergrad

Only oblivious Tailgate State alums would ever say such a thing. It's a fine college, but it's huge, and tends to attract a very obnoxious out-of-state subset who want to party, do drugs and leave with an easy bachelors -- kids rejected from USC, Penn and Georgetown.

Yes, it's this big secret of U of M grads. We coast through our four years in a perpetual drug-addled state en route to an easy bachelor's degree. And thank god because it seems to have been a major admission criterion for all the top grad schools my friends and I attended: e.g., Harvard, Yale, Stanford. And, yes, I am so fortunate that I turned down one of the schools you mentioned above because I really wanted to put an asterisk on my cv to distinguish they my bachelor's degree was in fact an "easy" one.

Nevermind that Michigan has one of the best Law, Business, and Engineering programs in the country. Tailgate State indeed

[Anonymous]

Maybe this is the thing to do for famous people? To send their kids there.

Madonna's daughter Lourdes Leon to attend the University of Michigan, follows in famous mother's footsteps

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/madonna-daughter-lourdes-leon-attend-university-michigan-article-1.1843457

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Anonymous wrote:"great" != public U undergrad

Only oblivious Tailgate State alums would ever say such a thing. It's a fine college, but it's huge, and tends to attract a very obnoxious out-of-state subset who want to party, do drugs and leave with an easy bachelors -- kids rejected from USC, Penn and Georgetown.

Yes, it's this big secret of U of M grads. We coast through our four years in a perpetual drug-addled state en route to an easy bachelor's degree. And thank god because it seems to have been a major admission criterion for all the top grad schools my friends and I attended: e.g., Harvard, Yale, Stanford. And, yes, I am so fortunate that I turned down one of the schools you mentioned above because I really wanted to put an asterisk on my cv to distinguish they my bachelor's degree was in fact an "easy" one.

Nevermind that Michigan has one of the best Law, Business, and Engineering programs in the country. Tailgate State indeed

What does law school have to do with undergrad? None of the coastal drug addicts are in the intense college of engineering. Undergrad business school is uncouth, it's where you go when you're rejected by every top 20 private. "Top ranked" undergrad business school is a joke. They're all glorified marketing or accounting programs.

Michigan's liberal arts college is L-S and A literature, sciences, arts -- it's called L-S and Play on campus because so many obnoxious idiots are in it.

[Anonymous]

After 13 pages, do we even know that she's going there for sure?

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Quite honestly, does she need the name brand of a school to be successful? Her dad can make a simple call and get her any internship she wants when she's ready. I hear she's also more of a party girl.

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Because Harvard is boring.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"great" != public U undergrad

Only oblivious Tailgate State alums would ever say such a thing. It's a fine college, but it's huge, and tends to attract a very obnoxious out-of-state subset who want to party, do drugs and leave with an easy bachelors -- kids rejected from USC, Penn and Georgetown.

Yes, it's this big secret of U of M grads. We coast through our four years in a perpetual drug-addled state en route to an easy bachelor's degree. And thank god because it seems to have been a major admission criterion for all the top grad schools my friends and I attended: e.g., Harvard, Yale, Stanford. And, yes, I am so fortunate that I turned down one of the schools you mentioned above because I really wanted to put an asterisk on my cv to distinguish they my bachelor's degree was in fact an "easy" one.

Nevermind that Michigan has one of the best Law, Business, and Engineering programs in the country. Tailgate State indeed

What does law school have to do with undergrad? None of the coastal drug addicts are in the intense college of engineering. Undergrad business school is uncouth, it's where you go when you're rejected by every top 20 private. "Top ranked" undergrad business school is a joke. They're all glorified marketing or accounting programs.

Michigan's liberal arts college is L-S and A literature, sciences, arts -- it's called L-S and Play on campus because so many obnoxious idiots are in it.

LS&A has top programs in psychology, political science, economics, and sociology among others. What has happened is as college has become more vocational, everyone wants to get into engineering and the Ross business school vs. liberal arts. And therefore, LS&A is looked down upon.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard lives off its rep and brand name faculty, but the instruction there is no better than anywhere else. In fact, students can find a more personal experience almost anywhere else, particularly in grad school.

This is very true, but the snobby, "Big 3" DC elitists will never openly admit it.

As someone with degrees at three academic institutions with widely held rankings, this is how it works at Harvard or Southwest Podunk State:

-- there are good and bad teachers (with so few tenure track positions available, even HYP graduates will teach in the hinterlands to get on the ladder)

-- the top students in each class would have done well anywhere, even HYP. Some didn't start early enough, have parents aware of the game, gas up their "resume", etc.

-- the difference is that at the lower ranked school, maybe 4 or 5 out of 15 in a class are top notch whereas at the better school, it might have been 10 or 12 out of 15.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard lives off its rep and brand name faculty, but the instruction there is no better than anywhere else. In fact, students can find a more personal experience almost anywhere else, particularly in grad school.

This is very true, but the snobby, "Big 3" DC elitists will never openly admit it.

As someone with degrees at three academic institutions with widely held rankings, this is how it works at Harvard or Southwest Podunk State:

-- there are good and bad teachers (with so few tenure track positions available, even HYP graduates will teach in the hinterlands to get on the ladder)

-- the top students in each class would have done well anywhere, even HYP. Some didn't start early enough, have parents aware of the game, gas up their "resume", etc.

-- the difference is that at the lower ranked school, maybe 4 or 5 out of 15 in a class are top notch whereas at the better school, it might have been 10 or 12 out of 15.

My experience is that the rankings are mostly predicated on what federal and other research grants the faculty can obtain. That has nothing to do with teaching undergrads or the undergrad experience.