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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll start off by saying that UMich is very expensive compared to in-state UVa. It’s so high that families should consider what private full cost colleges they’re considering rather than other public colleges.

There are a few LSA departments that might be better than the UVa equivalent:

Undergraduate math
Undergraduate statistics 
Undergraduate CS (classes in engineering school)
Undergraduate Data Science (in stats department

There are no doubt others.

I think the following UMich programs are weak:

Required distribution classes for LSA
Economics
Required writing classes

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Disagree on required distribution classes for LSA.  There is huge choice.

In 3 semesters, my kid had:

1 Western History (which fulfilled the Race & Ethnicity requirement since it covered Western Colonialism).  Really liked this.  Professor wrote the book.

2 Freshman seminars that were open access to all LSA freshmen on interesting topics.  Science and social science.

3 interesting mini-courses that were about contemporary issues.

1 Statistics which was a good class even though he had AP Statistics.

1 Art History class that was very engaging (and helped him reflect on prior family travels).

Spanish 4 was hard for him.  His high school version didn't cut it.  He wished he took one of the themed versions of Spanish  4 instead of the standard class. Supposedly they are easier and more interesting.  But he had a full professor, smaller class, and supports available.

Agree he didn't like the intro Econs but that's not his major and there were a lot of kids busting their tails to get the best grades in those classes.

He is very satisfied overall and loves attending Michigan.  He does especially well in small classes where the teachers get to know the kids quite well. And he has had quite a few of those.  And more coming.  We are flagship people, and don't want or expect all classes to be high-school-sized.

Where there have been stumbles, I think a lot of it comes from being in a bigger pool of highly-talented students like he's never seen before.

I think he only has 1-2 distribution requirements left.[/quote]

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