Why is UMich so overrated?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Goes without saying but I would never send DC there. UMD has a lower acceptance rate and higher SAT average, and a better engineering school and law school. Plus the endowment is bigger.

OP, you seem to have a strange obsession with the University of Michigan. Last month you wrote that Michigan was one of your daughter's "top safeties"

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/914075.page#18172317

Then you started a thread asking why Michigan gets negative comments here (but then sockpuppeted a post bashing Michigan):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/915069.page#18203179

Then, earlier this month you started a thread claiming that Michigan was overrated (and sockpuppeted two replies supporting yourself):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/918436.page#18310694

The day after that, you started another thread complaining that Michigan is considered better than JHU:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/918813.page

You then started a thread about your daughter choosing between Emory and UMich:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/918990.page#18326783

In that thread, you sockpuppeted several responses. My favorite was the one in which you claimed to "a recruiter for big tech":

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/918990.page#18334194

But then in this post you claimed that your daughter already graduated from Emory's engineering school (two days from decision to graduation -- must be the fastest degree ever earned):

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/90/918990.page#18342372

You also twice referred to your own thread as "silly" -- something with which I think everyone would agree.

A few days later, you started a thread asking why UVA is preferred over UMich in this area:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/919888.page

In this thread you claim to have attended UMich for undergrad but also referred to the University as "a third tier toilet".

And now this thread.

I assume that you are finding this all very entertaining and you have probably entertained quite a few of the other posters, but could you please find another outlet for your issues with Michigan? We want this forum to be useful for things other than catharsis for your particular psychosis.

Oh wow.

[Anonymous]

Meh, I'll feed the trolls . . . .

Assuming I neither had "FU" levels of money nor were destitute enough to reap loads of need-based aid, Michigan is
- a good enough school that if I were in state, I would think very hard about attending any other school except for HYPS or (if I wanted to go somewhere smaller) Williams, Amherst, or Pomona.
- an ordinary enough school that if I were in state in California, Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Washington, or Texas, I would consider it crazy to pay OOS tuition at Michigan rather than attending my in-state flagship.

Both of these things are true.

I'll also add that
- the U of M alumni amongst my friends and relatives are brilliant and definitely on par with my friends and relatives who went to elite private schools.
- I also live in a major metropolitan area that seems to be a dumping ground for the bottom 75% or so of Michigan grads. They are the Dunning-Kruger effect personified and serve as walking advertisements against the schools. Harvard, it ain't.

One final note for younger readers: Much of Michigan's cachet is rooted in the fact that during the years of Jewish quotas at many elite, historically Protestant schools, Michigan and the University of Chicago were two universities that bucked that trend. As such, they became destination schools for affluent Jews from major cities. This ultimately helped Michigan's brand, especially in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.