<p>I was waitlisted by northwestern today.</p>
<p>I'm waiting to hear back from some schools, but I don't have a good feeling (Dartmouth, Cornell, Middlebury)</p>
<p>Plus I got into honors at Michigan</p>
<p>Looking forward to (potentially) seeing all of you in AA next year</p>
<p>It's pretty rare that an honors student gets rejected from a school like Northwestern..hmm. Well, hope to see you here, man!</p>
<p>Bummer. I was accepted into Northwestern today, but I think I'll be picking Michigan over Northwestern.</p>
<p>I'd chose Michigan over Northwestern in an Ann Arbor minute, and as we all know, I am very UMbiased! hehe</p>
<p>yea, it's actually nice that the choice got made for me...</p>
<p>I'd be tempted to go to Northwestern, but it's a few miles away from home. At least now I know that I don't have to even consider it.</p>
<p>I personally chose Michigan over Northwestern and would do so again in a heartbeat. Northwestern is an awesome university mind you. I would say as good as Michigan. However, I prefer Ann Arbor to Evanston and I prefer Michigan's trimester system (summer vacation starts in late April through early September) to Northwestern's Quarter system. Unless if one intends to major in Drama or Journalism, I honestly don't think it makes sense chosing Northwestern over Michigan.</p>
<p>I hate michigan's trimester system. You basically get no break for Christmas. I always get about 11 days and then u get all this time during the summer. Like what the hell do you do with 4.5 months of vacation that u can't do with 3?</p>
<p>Get a summer job earlier and work it longer?</p>
<p>Hey, NYao and I are in full agreement on something. I couldn't believe it my first year of grad school.... in undergrad I had a month off for the winter holidays, and assumed Michigan would be somewhat the same. I was shocked to learn school would start again on the 2nd or 3rd of January.</p>
<p>I suppose a long summer can be great for some things, like getting a leg up on some summer jobs ahead of the competition. But I wouldn't have minded a longer winter break and then second semester that ran a little longer into the springtime.</p>
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I'd much rather have a long winter break too....on that I will agree.</p>
<p>Well, I was thinking more about having a productive break. Let us face it, whehter you have 2 weeks or 3 weeks over the winter doesn't make much of a difference. But in summer, most of us try to get internships with companies and being able to work for 3 months and still have a whole month off is awesome. My friends had to struggle to get internships and when their internships ended, they had to rush back to school.</p>
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It does sound good when you put it that way, but who wouldn't want that long vacation off? How does spring break work?</p>
<p>Due to Michigan's early and short trimester schedule, Spring Break usually comes a few weeks before most other universities around the nation get theirs. In fact, Michigan's spring break take place in winter! LOL So it is a nice reprieve from the cold! hehe!!! Michigan's spring breaks, like most other schools, are 9 days long. they usually start the last Friday of February and last until the first Monday of March. The drawback of having such an early spring break is that whereever you go, you won't have many other students because most university students have their spring break later in March. However, that's also a benefit as things will be less hectic, more availlable, less crowded and cheaper.</p>
<p>I guess I'm the only one who loves Michigan's system. All my friends at schools like UIUC complain about being bored for a month-long winter break while all their friends are in school, while I get to stay in the groove of school and get in tons of work, research, fun, or whatever I want in the summer. My summer is booked right now, and I'm wishing we had an even longer one.</p>
<p>My high school is on trimesters and we don't really get that much time for break(back on Jan. 2), but I think the variety that you get throughout the year will outweigh what was accomplished with the older semester system.</p>
<p>BTW, looks like I'll be in Ann Arbor next year studying Astronomy/Astrophysics, so maybe I'll see some of you around!</p>
<p>Yea, especially me</p>
<p>today I was rejected by Tufts, Cornell, Berkeley, and dartmouth!</p>
<p>I think Michigan (honors) just wants me more... weird</p>
<p>Go Blue! (pending middlebury decision)</p>
<p>another michigan "honors" student who got rejected from even a TTT like Tufts, and still waiting for Middlebury decision.....</p>
<p>NYao, there is no shame in being turned down by any of those schools, or in Michigan having to compete with Middlebury. Tufts' acceptance rate is 25%. Cal is harder to get into for OOS applicants than some Ivyy League schools. Cornell and Penn accepted fewer than 25% of their applicants this year. And Middlebury is one of the top 6 or 7 LACs in the country.</p>
<p>so, you are saying that Michigan is not as selective as those schools, correct?</p>