Down to the wire..help DD decide

[Anonymous]

Does money matter at all here?

We are in a similar boat w/ 2 great admissions. Each has unique strengths/opportunities and a couple drawbacks. It gets hard to keep comparing! We are waiting for final packages from FA to help decide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems silly to make any suggestions without knowing anything about this student other than where they were admitted and what they want to major in. What other factors are important?

I don't think OP has weighed in since the beginning. Perhaps they just wanted to throw some names out there and see people fight it out.

[Anonymous]

What about now ?

[Anonymous]

I lean toward W&M like a number of posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM loves to quote USNWR stats. Well look at this one:

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/undergraduate-teaching


Even here Michigan is top 20. #13 actually. So not “many schools” have better undergraduate quality than Michigan. Michigan has virtually no weakness as an academic institution. Yes even comparable to most of the Ivies.

Michigan is a good school but it is maybe way too large with its 40000+ student body and large class sizes (200+ in every classes) for some kids to handle.

You do realize that all schools have 200+ kids in Freshman classes and this starts thinning out as the classes progress, right? Or do you think all schools have a fixed quota of teachers and they just have to manage regardless of number of students?

They don’t all have 200 kids in them. However, it doesn’t matter if they do. SLACs usually use small class size as a selling point. For some, it matters. But one is not necessarily better or worse.

One tour guide said she wouldn’t know what to do in a class size of 200 and would not “know how to meet people” at such a big school. I chuckled. What is the world? Big. What are corporations like Tesla, Apple, Google, NBC? Big. May as well get used to meeting people…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM loves to quote USNWR stats. Well look at this one:

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/undergraduate-teaching


Even here Michigan is top 20. #13 actually. So not “many schools” have better undergraduate quality than Michigan. Michigan has virtually no weakness as an academic institution. Yes even comparable to most of the Ivies.

Michigan is a good school but it is maybe way too large with its 40000+ student body and large class sizes (200+ in every classes) for some kids to handle.

You do realize that all schools have 200+ kids in Freshman classes and this starts thinning out as the classes progress, right? Or do you think all schools have a fixed quota of teachers and they just have to manage regardless of number of students?

They don’t all have 200 kids in them. However, it doesn’t matter if they do. SLACs usually use small class size as a selling point. For some, it matters. But one is not necessarily better or worse.

One tour guide said she wouldn’t know what to do in a class size of 200 and would not “know how to meet people” at such a big school. I chuckled. What is the world? Big. What are corporations like Tesla, Apple, Google, NBC? Big. May as well get used to meeting people…

Yeah, but you still work in small teams within divisions.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you for all your input. DD is U Mich bound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you for all your input. DD is U Mich bound.

Congrats!!