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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure why all the UM hate. It’s a great school. Look at the number of applicants, selectivity, and transfer rate. All suggest that students go there and love it. I don’t think the facilities are amazing. It’s really the people that make it great. So much school spirit. You may not feel that on an admissions tour. I suggest applicants talk to current students to get a sense of what it’s like being a student there. 
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Any school that some people get really excited about - and Michigan falls in that category - prompts a backlash on this website.  You'd have to be naïve not to recognize that.

One of my kids recently got a graduate degree from Michigan.  It was a very positive experience - lots of internship opportunities that turned into paid research jobs when he was in the program, and then multiple job offers with good salaries (in a field that one wouldn't necessarily associate with high salaries) in his second year.  He picked Michigan because it had the best program in his field of study, and it delivered.  We only visited AA for his graduation and it was what you'd expect - a big university that's clearly grown in fits and starts over time, in a college town that seemed like a great place to spend several years.  We talked about retiring there to enjoy some of what a large university community has to offer - and it's definitely not an inexpensive area.

But overall if people choose to attack Michigan, we'd all shrug.  Spouse and I have degrees from other schools that also regularly get attacked on this forum for different reasons, as does our other kid.  It just kind of washes over. 
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You talked about retiring in Mid-Michigan? Sure, Jan. :roll: More thinly veiled homerism.[/quote]

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