U Michigan EA results

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Anonymous wrote:No way would people take Michigan over Cornell. Please be honest.

Mine did.

Apparently it's the majority view.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way would people take Michigan over Cornell. Please be honest.

Mine did.

Apparently it's the majority view.

Yeah, but you guys are not being honest. Period.

[Anonymous]

I would take Michigan over Cornell in a heartbeat and would encourage my kids to...I've never met a Michigan alum who didn't love their time there. Half the people I know who went to Cornell were miserable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would take Michigan over Cornell in a heartbeat and would encourage my kids to...I've never met a Michigan alum who didn't love their time there. Half the people I know who went to Cornell were miserable.

One of the DC's long-time HS study partners passed on a NESCAC for Cornell. The parents really wanted an Ivy and the NESCAC-like Ivy Dartmouth deferred in ED. The kid ultimately rejected by Dartmouth in RD, but in @ Cornell and a couple of NESCACs. Parents made him take Cornell. Told DC its okay, but thinks a smaller school would've been better.

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Anonymous wrote:I would take Michigan over Cornell in a heartbeat and would encourage my kids to...I've never met a Michigan alum who didn't love their time there. Half the people I know who went to Cornell were miserable.

This is why kids choose Michigan over Cornell at the end of the day. Ithaca seems depressing and A2 is a blast. And everyone knows you had to be really smart to get into Michigan OOS and do well there.

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Anonymous wrote:No way would people take Michigan over Cornell. Please be honest.

My DD did two years ago. In the end she was worried Cornell might be too depressing, and she loved the idea of the football games and lots of people.

She applied because one parent went there, got in, and choose Michigan because that’s what she liked better. No one in our family has gone to Michigan BTW.

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We have a recent Michigan grad in our family (niece), she chose over an ivy as well. Liked the idea of school spirit, sports matches, etc. After four years, she had mixed feelings - good education and rock solid network, but still a cold weather school most of the year and huge classes at times. She felt like she went through a machine and was expected just to adopt the Go Blue mentality instead of something more pleasant in terms of community and weather. It really is an individual decision.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I was wrong-Parchment says this:

64% choose
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

95% confidence interval: 56.9% to 70.9%.

36% choose
Cornell University

This includes both in and out of state Michigan, right? So it’s really not an apples to apples comparison. In state tuition at UM vs full pay st Cornell, of course most would pick UM. Out of state UM vs Cornell would be a more valid comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:We have a recent Michigan grad in our family (niece), she chose over an ivy as well. Liked the idea of school spirit, sports matches, etc. After four years, she had mixed feelings - good education and rock solid network, but still a cold weather school most of the year and huge classes at times. She felt like she went through a machine and was expected just to adopt the Go Blue mentality instead of something more pleasant in terms of community and weather. It really is an individual decision.

No Ivy League school is located in warm weather. She should have gone to Miami.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way would people take Michigan over Cornell. Please be honest.

Mine did.

Apparently it's the majority view.

Yeah, but you guys are not being honest. Period.

As opposed to you not being open minded. Period.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred. 3.9 UW, all top rigor and math, NYC private, 1500 SAT (but 800 on math) and legacy. Good ECs but nothing on national level or super quirky. Hoping it comes through in March. Disappointed but not shocked. His school got 6 in EA last year and this year only 1. Hoping things shake out in the spring.

Your DC's FC?

I have either had kids or close friends with kids graduating HS over the last six or so years and this year seems like a departure from the last three years as HS '21 was a departure from HS '20 and preceding years. Am hearing about "last year Cornell took 5 and the year before 4 but this year 1" or the MI example above with a lot more frequency. It always seems tough when it is your kid's year, but from my POV, looking at it over this span, this feels like another inflection point.

Yes, his first choice. He was clear about that in his app and said he didn't go ED anywhere. We now know 3 kids from his school did get in and none were in the same level of advanced classes as he was. He knows that two had ACT scores of 32 and 33 (he didn't ask, they are good friends). All generally regular students -- no one was a standout or URM or anything. Definitely Cornell was a lot different this year at NYC privates. It's been a rough few days and even though you keep telling the kids it's not you, it's numbers, etc, this stung him.

[Anonymous]

If your kid was deferred at Michigan, did they ask for mid year grades? I read that they ask some students for mid year report and not others. Not sure why it’s not universal or what the significance is.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid was deferred at Michigan, did they ask for mid year grades? I read that they ask some students for mid year report and not others. Not sure why it’s not universal or what the significance is.

Yes, for my kid in a magnet school, her UMish "postponed" letter asked for mid year report to be sent in order to evaluate the student in the context of the larger pool of applicants in RD round. I thought this is standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deferred. 3.9 UW, all top rigor and math, NYC private, 1500 SAT (but 800 on math) and legacy. Good ECs but nothing on national level or super quirky. Hoping it comes through in March. Disappointed but not shocked. His school got 6 in EA last year and this year only 1. Hoping things shake out in the spring.

Your DC's FC?

I have either had kids or close friends with kids graduating HS over the last six or so years and this year seems like a departure from the last three years as HS '21 was a departure from HS '20 and preceding years. Am hearing about "last year Cornell took 5 and the year before 4 but this year 1" or the MI example above with a lot more frequency. It always seems tough when it is your kid's year, but from my POV, looking at it over this span, this feels like another inflection point.

Yes, his first choice. He was clear about that in his app and said he didn't go ED anywhere. We now know 3 kids from his school did get in and none were in the same level of advanced classes as he was. He knows that two had ACT scores of 32 and 33 (he didn't ask, they are good friends). All generally regular students -- no one was a standout or URM or anything. Definitely Cornell was a lot different this year at NYC privates. It's been a rough few days and even though you keep telling the kids it's not you, it's numbers, etc, this stung him.

Was your kid deferred at Cornell or Michigan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kid was deferred at Michigan, did they ask for mid year grades? I read that they ask some students for mid year report and not others. Not sure why it’s not universal or what the significance is.

Yes, for my kid in a magnet school, her UMish "postponed" letter asked for mid year report to be sent in order to evaluate the student in the context of the larger pool of applicants in RD round. I thought this is standard.

On college confidential people said some received request and some didn’t.