Why does Michigan get such negative comments from posters here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a great flagship state school. Nobody denies that.

But people on this site think it is on the same level as an Ivy or SLAC or Stanford ... which is bash worthy.

Many put UVA on par with an Ivy/SLAC/Stanford but it doesn't get the same level of bashing, which is odd

Not sure what SLAC in the middle of that means.

Selective liberal arts colleges... Amherst, Williams, etc

The notion that anyone can compare a small liberal arts college to a large university is asinine. You all have absolutely, 100% no clue what you’re talking about.

I agree Michigan can not hold a candle to a SLAC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a great flagship state school. Nobody denies that.

But people on this site think it is on the same level as an Ivy or SLAC or Stanford ... which is bash worthy.

Many put UVA on par with an Ivy/SLAC/Stanford but it doesn't get the same level of bashing, which is odd

Not sure what SLAC in the middle of that means.

Selective liberal arts colleges... Amherst, Williams, etc

The notion that anyone can compare a small liberal arts college to a large university is asinine. You all have absolutely, 100% no clue what you’re talking about.

I agree Michigan can not hold a candle to a SLAC.

Oh for the love. My point is they are entirely different, but comparable, experiences.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a great flagship state school. Nobody denies that.

But people on this site think it is on the same level as an Ivy or SLAC or Stanford ... which is bash worthy.

Many put UVA on par with an Ivy/SLAC/Stanford but it doesn't get the same level of bashing, which is odd

Not sure what SLAC in the middle of that means.

Selective liberal arts colleges... Amherst, Williams, etc

The notion that anyone can compare a small liberal arts college to a large university is asinine. You all have absolutely, 100% no clue what you’re talking about.

I agree Michigan can not hold a candle to a SLAC.

I ageee that a SLAC cannot hold a candle to Michigan.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a great flagship state school. Nobody denies that.

But people on this site think it is on the same level as an Ivy or SLAC or Stanford ... which is bash worthy.

Many put UVA on par with an Ivy/SLAC/Stanford but it doesn't get the same level of bashing, which is odd

Not sure what SLAC in the middle of that means.

Selective liberal arts colleges... Amherst, Williams, etc

The notion that anyone can compare a small liberal arts college to a large university is asinine. You all have absolutely, 100% no clue what you’re talking about.

I agree Michigan can not hold a candle to a SLAC.

I ageee that a SLAC cannot hold a candle to Michigan.

Yup. This is the correct answer.

[Anonymous]

Full of Georgetown and USC rejects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Full of Georgetown and USC rejects.

LOL

- Someone who went to Georgetown SFS and thinks Michigan is terrific and, in many ways, better than Georgetown (except for very specific things)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rah-rah athlete worshipping party college... insanely huge and overwhelming campus... 500+ student lectures... rampant cheating... Greeks control social life... advisors don't care about you... more diversity administrators than mental health therapists... the bottom 10% of the college is dumb... half the college is the worst assortment of New Jersey, California and Long Island residents.

Your kid will thrive if they want to rush, drink and do coke for a few years -or- if they're the pushy super elbowy TJ magnet school sort.

First rate grad schools though.

Insane huge and overwhelming campus? LOL. Ann Arbor has many charms and facets, but huge and overwhelming it is not. Are you from a very small town, possibly in the South?

Over 50,000 students and all the bureaucracy that comes with it is in fact huge and overwhelming. Ann Arbor is just a podunk cold weather flyover country college town.

The kids who thrive on such a massive campus are the obnoxious Greek life coke trash there to party and the obnoxious ruthless striver Tiger cubs that went to magnet schools. If your kid isn't in either cohort, don't send them there for undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Full of Georgetown and USC rejects.

All the California kids at Michigan were rejected from Cal, UCLA, USC and UC-Santa B.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rah-rah athlete worshipping party college... insanely huge and overwhelming campus... 500+ student lectures... rampant cheating... Greeks control social life... advisors don't care about you... more diversity administrators than mental health therapists... the bottom 10% of the college is dumb... half the college is the worst assortment of New Jersey, California and Long Island residents.

Your kid will thrive if they want to rush, drink and do coke for a few years -or- if they're the pushy super elbowy TJ magnet school sort.

First rate grad schools though.

Insane huge and overwhelming campus? LOL. Ann Arbor has many charms and facets, but huge and overwhelming it is not. Are you from a very small town, possibly in the South?

Over 50,000 students and all the bureaucracy that comes with it is in fact huge and overwhelming. Ann Arbor is just a podunk cold weather flyover country college town.

The kids who thrive on such a massive campus are the obnoxious Greek life coke trash there to party and the obnoxious ruthless striver Tiger cubs that went to magnet schools. If your kid isn't in either cohort, don't send them there for undergrad.

Seriously? Have you ever been there?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Full of Georgetown and USC rejects.

All the California kids at Michigan were rejected from Cal, UCLA, USC and UC-Santa B.

Yes, I’m sure that the kids who got into a school with a 19% acceptance rate got rejected from a school with a 33% acceptance rate (UCSB).

Moron.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:b/c Michigan is a 3rd tier safety school for rich snobs. The school has no value and deserves to be bashed.

What?

Personally I would not send my kid, because it's a very large state school.

But it is extremely well connected in terms of graduate school and jobs. The idea of college is to get a job right/

Let's hope they start to produce good, ethical leaders and knowledgeable voters or else we're screwed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Full of Georgetown and USC rejects.

All the California kids at Michigan were rejected from Cal, UCLA, USC and UC-Santa B.

Yes, I’m sure that the kids who got into a school with a 19% acceptance rate got rejected from a school with a 33% acceptance rate (UCSB).

Moron.

High percentile Asians drown out rich white kids from the California colleges. Michigan is money hungry for full-pay OOS kids, so that's where they land. Everyone knows this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full of Georgetown and USC rejects.

All the California kids at Michigan were rejected from Cal, UCLA, USC and UC-Santa B.

Yes, I’m sure that the kids who got into a school with a 19% acceptance rate got rejected from a school with a 33% acceptance rate (UCSB).

Moron.

High percentile Asians drown out rich white kids from the California colleges. Michigan is money hungry for full-pay OOS kids, so that's where they land. Everyone knows this.

And you think that means it’s a crappy school?

Where did you go to college, if you feel so free to crap on these schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Rah-rah athlete worshipping party college... insanely huge and overwhelming campus... 500+ student lectures... rampant cheating... Greeks control social life... advisors don't care about you... more diversity administrators than mental health therapists... the bottom 10% of the college is dumb... half the college is the worst assortment of New Jersey, California and Long Island residents.

Your kid will thrive if they want to rush, drink and do coke for a few years -or- if they're the pushy super elbowy TJ magnet school sort.

First rate grad schools though.

Insane huge and overwhelming campus? LOL. Ann Arbor has many charms and facets, but huge and overwhelming it is not. Are you from a very small town, possibly in the South?

Over 50,000 students and all the bureaucracy that comes with it is in fact huge and overwhelming. Ann Arbor is just a podunk cold weather flyover country college town.

The kids who thrive on such a massive campus are the obnoxious Greek life coke trash there to party and the obnoxious ruthless striver Tiger cubs that went to magnet schools. If your kid isn't in either cohort, don't send them there for undergrad.

Seriously? Have you ever been there?

Yes. Only a provincial townie would defend it as aggressively as you are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rah-rah athlete worshipping party college... insanely huge and overwhelming campus... 500+ student lectures... rampant cheating... Greeks control social life... advisors don't care about you... more diversity administrators than mental health therapists... the bottom 10% of the college is dumb... half the college is the worst assortment of New Jersey, California and Long Island residents.

Your kid will thrive if they want to rush, drink and do coke for a few years -or- if they're the pushy super elbowy TJ magnet school sort.

First rate grad schools though.

Insane huge and overwhelming campus? LOL. Ann Arbor has many charms and facets, but huge and overwhelming it is not. Are you from a very small town, possibly in the South?

Over 50,000 students and all the bureaucracy that comes with it is in fact huge and overwhelming. Ann Arbor is just a podunk cold weather flyover country college town.

The kids who thrive on such a massive campus are the obnoxious Greek life coke trash there to party and the obnoxious ruthless striver Tiger cubs that went to magnet schools. If your kid isn't in either cohort, don't send them there for undergrad.

Seriously? Have you ever been there?

Yes. Only a provincial townie would defend it as aggressively as you are.

I didn’t even go to Michigan. I’m from NYC. But it was a lot cooler of a town than I thought it would be. I gave it a chance — something you refuse to do.