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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great safety if you get rejected from Boston College, Wake Forest, Georgetown, Vanderbilt and USC.[/quote]

I’d add NYU, Villanova and Tufts and I’d mull adding Miami (FL) to the list. In the real world, Michigan is competing against George Washington and Wisconsin.[/quote]

Random list of comparison colleges. No one who wants true city life like at NYU or GW is applying to Michigan. Of course Wisco is a peer and I guess I could see students being interested in Villanova and Michigan but there are a lot of obvious differences. Miami shares some overlap characteristics with Michigan minus the obvious - weather. Michigan is stronger academically than most of these, too. Tufts is very strong academically but is another planet to Michigan in terms of vibe. [/quote]

Correction. Michigan is stronger academically than all of those…..[/quote]

Michigan is higher ranked than all of those, but I disagree that means it is stronger academically. I honestly don’t know.

Michigan may have more “renowned” profs - but how much interaction are the undergrad students getting with those profs?

And  does “renowned profs” even mean - they may have more ivy leagued educated profs or those who are more published, but does that makes them better teachers to undergrads?

Based on size alone, there is no way that the Michigan student body taken as a whole is more accomplished than those at Haverford, Tufts, etc. Also at my
kids’ hs, it is harder to get into Haverford and Tufts than Michigan.

And I’m not saying this makes Haverford or whatever better than Michigan. But the appeal of Michigan to an undergrad (and there is much to appeal!) usually isn’t rooted in its academic rigor surpassing these other colleges, unless a student is hung up on the ranking game. 
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My Michigan student chose it over Tufts and other mid-sized urban/suburban universities.[/quote]

And there are plenty of students who chose BC or Tufts over Michigan.  Michigan has much to recommend and if one is seeking a big rah rab spirited school, there is no question to choose it over both of those. But is the academic environment different at them- doubtful. If anything, Michigan admits a much broader academic range of students. [/quote]

I can only go by peer assessment scoring at USNWR to determine at what level its academics are rated as opposed to other universities. Michigan regularly receives a 4.5 in this metric. That is higher than all other public universities except for Berkeley.  It’s also higher than BC or Tufts and is comparable to Duke, Northwestern, Cornell and other elite schools of that caliber. [/quote]

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