<p>I’m a female pre-med major who’s having a very difficult time deciding between the three. Academic reputation is most important to me, but I also want a great social environment and school spirit. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Sorry to steal the thread, but can anyone help me w/ BC v UVa v UMich?</p>
<p>UVA will probably be the cheapest option as it is a public school. It Is still a great school, although I’m not sure about it’s premed program or acceptance rate toed school. Northwestern Is probably the most academically prestigious school you’ve been accepted to, and if you are going on prestige alone, that should probably be the school you end up choosing. I believe that northwestern even gas a medical school, but I’m not too sure about that, perhaps someone could clarify. Umich is also a great public school and has plenty of school spirit, but as I assume that you want to major In business, i think bc would be the better choice for several reasons.</p>
<p>Onto BC. Bc has an 84 percent acceptance rate toed school if one can maintain a 3.4 and 9.0 mcat. And if you were able to get accepted to BC, I’m sure you could manage to do that. And you were also accepted to the honors program, which I absurd will challengeyiu just as much as any of the other schools, even if they are known to be more academically prestigious. And the school spirit at BC cannot be seen at any other school. All BC students love their school, their campus, and their sports, and the social scene at BC is probably better than the other schools listed in this thread. As for wharton wannabe; BC or UVA are really your only options If you are a business major. But in the end I would choose BC because BC has better connections, a strong alumni program, a stronger, more prestigious school of business, and better connections to the major cities in the northeast such as NYC Boston philadelphia, all the way to DC.</p>
<p>All of these schools are great choices, but in the end it comes down to your preferences. Large state school vs medium sized private? Honors program vs normal program? Northeast vs Midwest? Social campus vs academic prestige? I’m sure that wherever you choose, you’ll end up loving it.</p>
<p>I’ve only been to UVa’s campus in the summer, so I didn’t get a feel for its “school spirit.” But it’s an amazingly beautiful place (though if you’re not into red bricks, it would be a nightmare), and apparently people are very proud to go there.</p>
<p>Both BC and UVa seem to have a fairly preppy vibe to them, with Northwestern being a bit more welcoming to the occasional free-spirit. Being a free spirit at Michigan is no problem at all.</p>
<p>BC’s campus is very compact and pretty, but if you’re not into the neo-Gothic architecture on the main part of the campus, it would get old quickly. Northwestern’s campus has a great location (on the shore of Lake Mich., very close to, and with a great view of Chicago), but the campus itself is a bit of a letdown, with a lot of ugly and mis-matched buildings, and the football stadium a little ways away. Michigan has huge buildings, but only the Law Quad is apt to make you take a second look.</p>
<p>Re Michigan’s “school spirit”…the students there seem very proud to go there, but it doesn’t translate into a rabid rah-rah atmosphere. The people there seem to think such an attitude is beneath them…the football crowds are notoriously quiet (apparently the U of Texas crowds are similarly too hip to scream) and the basketball games are joked about on local sports-talk radio as being pretty dull affairs as well. Michigan hockey fans, hoever, are rabid. One of my main concerns at Michigan is just how sprawling it is…it’s like miles from 1 end to the other, though from what I can tell, a lot of the main academic buildings are clustered into a relatively compact central area, so maybe it’s not as inconvenient as it looks.</p>