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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Michigan is a party school for rich coastal kids who are shut out of the top 20. Everyone knows this. Brown is the Ivy cool kids go to when they can't get into HYP. Brown is a very hot school right now.[/quote]

+1.  The acceptance rate at Brown is something like 8%.  There are clearly a lot of kids who want to go there that are not admitted.  Brown has a national reputation and draws applicants from all over the country and internationally.  Michigan, while one of best known public universities and a great school, is not the "hot name" on the west coast that it is on the east coast.  I'm sure Michigan excels in areas that Brown does not and vice versa, but I would bet that students at Brown are exposed to a much more diverse (in every way) student body than those at Michigan.[/quote]

No skin in the game here...but, as a European who lived a couple decades in the West Coast, let me tell you that Brown and UMich are both pretty irrelevant in both Europe and the West Coast.

Meaning: if OP is willing to invest $68K...there's no particular reason to prioritize Brown over other, better schools.

And if OP wants to stay at the $28K level, UMich is a perfectly reasonable choice.[/quote]

Lots of people can say how this school or that school is not relevant in this place or that. In the end it is all just anecdote. Money talks to academics the world over and is the only universal measure of relevance. UM has the second highest research expenditures of any US university (1.3B, Behind only JHU at 2.2B, NSF 2014 data). No academic in Europe, Cali or elsewhere would consider them irrelevant. [/quote]

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