<p>Why ask a question “hypothethically” on College Confidential when you could get a better answer by calling Yale’s admissions office to have a hypothetical chat?</p>
<p>This should be a decision that you would discuss with your family and teachers.
People here at CC can only speculate on why you should choose UMich over Yale, or vice versa, and many of us have personal biases ;D
You will end up with a whole bunch of different opinions, which might end up confusing you more.
I can only wish you the best of luck, and tell you that no matter which college you choose, you will have an amazing college experience and continue on to a successful career. :D</p>
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I would be very skeptical about believing this story unless this is a top highly recruited athlete. We are in a lower income bracket and I have a daughter attending U-M and having seen both her and my son’s financial aid awards I would be very surprised if you came close to any significant aid from U-M (especially considering your parents income). If you did apply EA to U-M then you should already know what your fin aid award is.</p>
<p>Also, you are wrong about being able to apply to any other school if you did apply SCEA to Yale. See excerpt below:</p>
<p>Yale’s Early Action plan is unlike many other programs in that if you apply for Single-Choice Early Action at Yale, you may not simultaneously apply for Early Action or Early Decision to any other school.</p>
<p>@absweetmarie - The admissions office is closed right now, so I turned to the next best thing…CC. Haha, but I probably will end up calling them when they open up again next year.</p>
<p>YushikoJay, I agree wholeheartedly…I started this thread just to figure out how transfer admissions worked, and if they took into account prior acceptance into the college. Me going to U of M is not really a question, however much I’d love to go to Yale.</p>
<p>Kdog, straight from the Yale website:</p>
<p>"You may apply to any public institution in your home state at any time provided that admission is non-binding. "</p>
<p><a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/scea[/url]”>Single Choice Early Action for First-Year Applicants | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions; - bottom of the page</p>
<p>Therefore applying EA to U of M, my instate public is allowed.
Also, I should clarify - she received a full ride MERIT scholarship. I did not apply for need based aid, however I did apply for merit aid. Merit scholarship results come out starting in december until around february. As of right now I’ve only received a $1500 nonrenewable one, but I hope to be lucky enough to get a bigger one. I hope this clears things up.</p>
<p>@Kdog044 - Actually, that is not the case.
From [Yale</a> University|Single Choice Early Action](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/single-choice-early-action]Yale”>Single-Choice Early Action | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
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<p>Their web site contradicts itself.</p>
<p>[Single-Choice</a> Early Action for Freshman Applicants | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/scea]Single-Choice”>Single Choice Early Action for First-Year Applicants | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>If you would like an admissions decision by mid-December, you may apply under Yale’s Single-Choice Early Action program. The program is like other non-binding plans in that candidates who are admitted early need not respond to the offer of admission until May 1, and may apply to other schools for Regular Decision. Being admitted to Yale early would, for example, still allow you to compare offers of financial aid in the spring.</p>
<p>Yale’s Early Action plan is unlike many other programs in that if you apply for Single-Choice Early Action at Yale, you may not simultaneously apply for Early Action or Early Decision to any other school. If you apply early to Yale, you will be asked to sign the Single-Choice Early Action Agreement on the Yale Supplement stating that the only Early Action/Early Decision application you intend to file is Yale’s.</p>
<p>Not saying you are wrong but they really need to clean the verbiage up.</p>
<p>UM has the Shipman scholarship which was full tuition, R&B for OOS students 5 years ago. It has since changed and I think it’s still substantial, although not a full ride anymore.</p>
<p>Most State schools like UT Austin, Minnesota offer rolling admissions and don’t call it EA while schools like UVA and UM call the admission EA which makes it ambiguous except for folks instate. If it is an instate flagship, the SCEA rules can’t apply to them for a person who is instate.</p>
<p>OTOH if OP was from Illinois, I am curious if it would be breaking rules.</p>
<p>Kdog: MI students can and do apply to both SCEA Yale and UMich EA. Yale allows it. I can 100% guarantee that.</p>
<p>D is a Yale senior. She turned down UM free-ride to go to Yale. She gets a nice aid package from Yale, but we’ve still spent quite a bit on tuition and fees. We all think she made the right choice. She loves Yale. (Of course, she might also have loved Michigan.)</p>
<p>That said, Go Blue!</p>
<p>Go to Yale and if it’s not for you, transfer to Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>OP: Are you really concerned only (or primarily) with preparation for a career as an engineer or a physician? Undergraduate school can be so much more than that. Michigan is a fine school where you will get a fine education. At Yale, though, you’ll broaden your intellectual horizons in ways you can’t imagine in company with some of the finest minds on the planet (peers and professors alike). That is not an opportunity to be given up lightly. I agree with the previous poster: Go to Yale and if you’re not happy there, transfer to Michigan. They’ll take you with open arms.</p>
<p>Lots of helpful comments, but I think some maybe missing that the OP is asking about transferring primarily because of personal reasons that keep him/her in MI.</p>
<p>^What those “personal” reasons are is unclear. From some of his/her posts, it sounds like the OP’s personal reasons have to do with projected career path:</p>
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<p>If in fact the OP’s personal reasons have to do with family, health, etc., that’s a different story, and I can understand why s/he might want to stay in Michigan.</p>
<p>Sorry for any confusion, my primary reason has nothing to do with career path. That said, my comments regarding my career path are to simply put into context why going to Yale is not necessarily essential for me to get to where I want to go in life.</p>
<p>Sounds like OP has BF/GF issues…</p>
<p>On a side note, is Yale trying to one up Harvard in Basketball? I am surprised to see them playing #10 Florida today.</p>
<p>Well, I can personally say that the Bulldogs’ basketball team put on a pretty sorry show against unranked Wake Forest on Thursday. I doubt they’re trying to upstage anyone. XD</p>
<p>Good heavens. I never thought of GF/BF issues as the “personal” reason. If that’s your obstacle, OP, go to Yale! If the relationship is meant to last, it will.</p>
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Isn’t it sad that many (I am not trying to single out OP as many others are like him/her) have this kind of opinion toward the value of many elite schools (not just Yale) of this country?! Another fact is that relatively few who go to such a school will continue their education (especially on the PhD track) after they graduate from such a school, even though they were more advanced in academics than their peers while in high school. It is as if the excellency in academics serves no other purpose than helping you break into a career which may turn yourself into a Wall Street fat cat someday, rather than an intellectual endeavor itself.</p>
<p>Another recurring topic here is that one does not need to go to a top college in order to get into a medical school. No comment on whether this is correct or not because I really do not know.</p>