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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in the District Mon-Thurs and our main residence is in Metro Detroit. Daughter likes UMich but believes too many students from her h.s. matriculate so it ends up being h.s. 2.0. She plans to specifically target Brown and would attend UMich if rejected. But if she's accepted to both, is Brown worth the extra $120K? I'm on the fence.[/quote]

UM is huge; she would probably never need to see anybody from HS if she didn't want to.  IMO I'd pick UM over Brown; no way is Brown worth the extra cash.[/quote]

I grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. and went to Northwestern. 100 per year from my high school went to U of M; easily 500 a year within a 10 mile radius of my house. Acting like you can avoid everyone from high school at the state flagship is a lie. Good luck reinventing yourself when everyone still hangs with everyone from home and everyone joins the same frats and sororities. It's doable, obviously, just not all that realistic. You're going to bump into kids from high school on a daily basis.[/quote]

I belive there is great similarity between the UM and UNC Chapel Hill, where I went to school.  About 60-70 kids from my high school class (in Charlotte)went to Chapel Hill (perhaps more), and "easily 500 a year within a 10 mile radius."  There were large numbers of students from a few other parts of North Carolina that had similar numbers/situations. I was very hesitant about going to Chapel Hill for similar reasons as the OP, but that was definitely not my experience.

I'm sure there were people who only hung out with people from high school, but that was very, very much the exception.

OP, I think the true question you are asking is: is it better for my child to go to a small and highly elite school (where there is likely to be much more coddling, a different academic environment, etc.) or a large elite state institution that will offer a myriad of choices but where s/he will have to be a strong self-advocate and seek out opportunities within a larger system.  (Things may have changed in the last 15+ years, but I had a friend who was at Duke when I was at Chapel Hill.  The difference was kind of stunning...it was normal for Duke students to get extensions, turn papers in very late, etc. She had friends at a lot of elite private schools/ivs, and she said it was all normal for them.  At Chapel Hill, that was simply not allowed; my peers and I would never have done those things...and certainly not with any regularity. Contextually, we were both had GPAs that put us at the top of our respective classes.)[/quote]

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