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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What door(s) does Michigan close?[/quote]

Yes. 2 Brown graduates have won Nobel prizes, whereas 8 UM grads have won. Michigan does not seem to have closed many doors for them.

The difference becomes even more dramatic if one includes faculty nobel laureates. Clearly UM is much bigger and has more of a research focus, so this is not meant to belittle Brown, just to show that UM is a fantastic school that will never hold anyone back. [/quote]

You also have to consider the Nobel prize rate per student.  I'm pretty sure the student body of UM is more than 4x that of Brown.

My anecdote is that my older sister went to UM, and I went to Stanford.  I had a job interview several years ago that really turned me off; because, they mentioned that they only interview people from schools like Stanford/Harvard/MIT etc.  I mentioned to my sister that I would not want to work at such an arrogant company, and she said she actually understood where they were coming from.  She owns a company, and she does feel that some of the elite schools provide a good first tier filter for hiring...despite the fact that she did not attend one (FWIW, she turned down Columbia).

Anyway, UM and Brown will both provide a rich set of opportunities.  Fit and finances are probably the most important deciding factors in any college decision.[/quote]

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