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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, Michigan is getting extremely selective.  Smart students from DC often get turned down.  Wisconsin, Minnesota and Indiana are becoming the new Michigan.

I didn't care for Duke when I visited.  It seemed homogeneous and cloistered.  It felt like someone has taken the Michigan fraternity and sorority community, added a few thousand people with southern accents, subtracted a few thousand people with Midwestern accents, demolished all the nearby restaurants and stores, and created a walled-in university.  
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I chose Michigan.  I chose it over real Ivy, not just Southern imitation Ivy.

Since then I've met many extremely bright, thoughtful people who went to Duke, including several people of color who told me they actually found it to be welcoming.  My negative first impression was probably wrong, or at least way too harsh.

Michigan may not be for everyone but it was great for me and most only friends.  Some people find it overwhelming but most people end up joining nice small communities there.  The post-college placement and networking opportunities are incredible whether you want to go into business, law, medicine, public service, the arts, or just about anything.

Different strokes for different folks.
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I like Michigan but Michigan is a state school.  That means the best from that state will attend that school, which is fine. But anyone that acts like a state school is as competitive or as hard to get into as a school that has a national reach, without a mission to educate in state kids, is just being self serving.  As for Duke, anyone that really knows the school knows that southern accents are in short supply as most of the kids are from the Northeast and places like, gasp, DC!  Indiana and Wisconsin are not as prestigious as Michigan (again, this is just someone that wants us to care about Big 10 culture) and Michigan is not as prestigious as Duke, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth and the like.  And Duke is not as prestigious as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Please stop with the nonsense.  Michigan is a fine school. It’s got an incredible sports program and therefore awesome school spirit, which matters.  But it’s not Yale Law School though.  It’s not Cambridge.  Hell, it’s not McGill.  It’s Michigan and you went there.  Congrats.  [/quote]

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