<p>The chemical E at UIUC is very good but I Love U Mich</p>
<p>So if you have your choice of UIUC or Purdue for chemical Engineering, which would you choose?</p>
<p>zuzusplace: Go Mounties.</p>
<p>I'm getting really antsy here. My application was completed on 12/18. I have not heard anything regarding a decision. It's been SO long.</p>
<p>My friend got in....Black Female...but I guess it doesnt matter cause they ended AA</p>
<p>OOS (MD)
SAT: 1960
UM GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>for chemical engineering id choose illinois over purdue..</p>
<p>i got into both and if michigan scholarships r low and other schools dont rise up ill probly choose UIUC</p>
<p>Last year, 12,196 were admitted from an applicant pool of 25,733. That's a 47.4% acceptance rate. </p>
<p>I am assuming Michigan will probably accept 12,200 or so students again this year out of an applicant pool of 27,200 (5.4% increase from last year). That would drop Michigan's admit rate to 44.9%!</p>
<p>I finished mine on 12/14 and just received my acceptance on Friday. Hopefully you will receive yours in the coming days! :)</p>
<p>My daughter's app was considered complete 11/7 and she is still waiting for a decision, (her stats are as good as anyone that has already been accepted here), so to those who just recently applied, patience.</p>
<p>i got my deferred letter today...i was expecting to get rejected because they ended AA</p>
<p>Jaw...what do you mean, "they ended AA?"</p>
<p>I just got accepted to LSA!</p>
<p>ACT: 33
SAT II'S: 800 Math II, 740 Chem, 760 Math I
Rank: 1 outta 95
-All State Saxophonist
-State Track and Cross Country Runner
-Student Body VP
-State Jazz Sax</p>
<p>AA=Affirmative Action?</p>
<p>To all the people who come in here and say they got accepted: does that mean you're going to the school this fall and was it your first choice school?</p>
<p>I don't know, I can get back to you in April when I get my decisions from the ivies. Michigan is my 4th or 5th choice, but money will be important and I don't know if I will get in anywhere else. I am very happy to be in somewhere, however.</p>
<p>I am in the same boat as ungst.. Waiting to hear from the ivies..</p>
<p>I hope some of you who are considering the Ivies remember that Michigan is considered a peer and offers as good an overall education and as many opportunities as most Ivies. Obviously, Harvard, Princeton and Yale are in a league of their own, and if a small LACish environment is your thing, Brown and Dartmouth may be a better fit, but there is virtually no difference between Columbia, Cornell, Michigan and Penn.</p>
<p>God I hope I get in. I just had an epiphany and realized how badly I want to go to Umich. I'd totally choose mich over columbia if i got enough cash. I can't stand the wait...., admit me alrdy! *smacks self for not applying earlier.</p>
<p>I dont know. My friend applied with a 3.8 uw and a 1960 (school ranked highyl in CA we sned like 60-70 to both LA and Cal) and she recently got in...so im scared lol. Obviously my stats arent as good w/ a 3.4 uw and a 2140 but i have a Microsoft intenrship and im hoping Microsofts presense there and my rec from them will push me in</p>
<p>Alexandre--That's definitely not true. As far as academics, the schools are close to be comparable, however their atmosphere and philosophies are completely different. UMich is lower on my list not because it isn't a great school (of course it is!) but because it is not compatible with my own personality and learning style. That being said, just applying to the ivies because of their reputation is pointless, especially considering their price tags.</p>
<p>Honied_dreams, your point is well taken, but only serves to reinforce my point. My concern is that some students are easily misled into believing that the Ivy League are better universities. They aren't. The Ivy League are eight of the top 20 or so universities and colleges in the nation. Schools like Amherst, Cal, Caltech, Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford, Swarthmore and Williams (to name a few) are just as good. If a student choses one school over another because it fits his/her personality better, that's great. But for the most part, schools like Cornell and Michigan many personality types. I'd say given their size and their resources, they actually fit more personally types than most other universities.</p>
<p>Back to your point. All universities are different from each other. Columbia, Cornell, Michigan and Penn each have their own cultures and atmospheres. But again, they share much in common. I know, I happened to have also attended Cornell and I have known many people who have studied at two of those four universities and by and large, most of us agree that those universities share a lot of characteristics. Students at all four universities are intellectually and academically driven. Unfortunately, given the size of all those universities' graduate programs, undergrads have to deal with TAs early on and must share their faculties with graduate students. Faculties at all four love to teach and are at the cutting edge of their field. All four campuses are considered are considered "strategic" hunting grounds for exclusive and top companies. All four universities receive the highest possible rating from graduate school adcoms. </p>
<p>Of the four, Michigan and Cornell are the most similar. In fact, I would say they are almost identical. Columbia and Penn are more pre-professional and their campuses more urban and crowded. Columbia's graduate student body dominates the social scene, as they outnumber undergrads 3:1. </p>
<p>I am not sure I understand what you mean by "philosophies". As far as I am concerned, all universities have the same philosophy, the search for truth.</p>