<p>Hi</p>
<p>I got into Vandy(college of arts&sc) and University of Michigan(college of lit, arts&sc).
I'm choosing between the two and have a few questions! :D</p>
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<li><p>Which undergrad degree is more reputable in securing a good job?</p></li>
<li><p>Which degree is easier/better for going to grad school?</p></li>
<li><p>Studying in which school (for the first year) wld b easier for transfer to an Ivy later on?</p></li>
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<p>thank you so much for your help!</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a material difference between the two in the categories you listed. I would base your decision on which school you find to be a better fit.</p>
<p>Hi resipsa thanks for ur reply !</p>
<p>Regarding the fit:</p>
<p>I think both would probably fit well(I can’t b sure cos I’ve not been to either n I could only base my judgements from my research online),that’s why I’m having this dilemma. </p>
<p>Do you think this maybe one negative factor for ‘‘fit’’?</p>
<p>as I’m Chinese, I heard that Vandy is mainly white, has lots of frats and Greek life, therefore it mayb difficult for non-white to fit in. I’m not sure if this is true, if any of you know about this, please advise! :)</p>
<p>you’ll be just fine at U of M, I visited on Campus Day and half of the prospective students I met were Asian like me.</p>
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<li>Which undergrad degree is more reputable in securing a good job?</li>
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<p>I think UMich would give you a more reputable degree. Don’t get me wrong though, Vandy is really well known in the US, but UMich is known worldwide. For example, I had to choose which school to apply to (not decide which to attend). At the time, I was working as an intern in a world renowned financial institution branch in Indonesia. All of the people from all walks of life are there (Africans, Germans, Italians, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, you name it)…I asked each and everyone about Vandy, their reply was a simple “huh?”. Only the dudes from the US knows about it, but when I mentioned UMich, everybody’s replies were wonderful; only positive things were said about the school. UMich was literally known worldwide…so i guess UMich would be a better choice (in terms of worldwide reputation)</p>
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<li>Which degree is easier/better for going to grad school?</li>
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<p>the answer to number one can answer your question easily. If you want to go to grad school in the US, then both institutions are equally great. But if there is a possibility that you want to go abroad for a Masters degree (say Oxford, LSE, or London Business School), then UMich would be a safer bet</p>
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<li>Studying in which school (for the first year) wld b easier for transfer to an Ivy later on?</li>
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<p>even if you go to a community college and maintain a solid 4.0, great essays, and achievements, your chances of getting into schools like Cornell is pretty good…so I would say that you need to choose a college where you know that you will get a great GPA.</p>
<p>If you’re worried about not fitting in, then “Go Blue!”</p>
<p>Hi wow thank you so much for your superb& detailed reply!!</p>
<p>Just wondering, between U of M and Vandy which one is easier to get a higher GPA?</p>
<p>^ both aren’t easy…UMich is known to be incredibly rigorous…Vandy is hard, and even harder when the lure of partying is STRONG! hahahaha if you take engineering as a major, choose Vandy, if you choose pre-med choose UMich…(Vandy is stronger in pre-med, so therefore, taking one in UMich will decrease the workload…but only infinitesimally…similarly, UMich is stronger in engineering, then if you take one in Vandy…well it’s still hard actually 
hahaha) but any other departments in both colleges would give you a strong GPA; provided that you keep your mindset at the right track of course…</p>
<p>Good Luck :)</p>
<p>i’m sure you’ll do well with any of the decision you make…you did get accepted to both…so those universities think that you can excel in their respective institution</p>
<p>Vandy is not stronger in premed. As if premed were a major anyway.</p>
<p>UMich all the way. Vanderbilt is a regional southern school that is ranked high because they’re loaded.</p>
<p>i made this decision years ago, i simply couldn’t make myself goto a southern school where the best college is the teachers college.</p>
<p>@wahoomb “Vanderbilt is a regional southern school that is ranked high because they’re loaded”</p>
<p>not really…in the field of science, they are wonderful (nowhere near the level of MIT and Caltech of course)…yeah they’re loaded, and so does the top 10 universities; they are loaded and brilliant…so you can’t just say that because of Vandy’s wealth they are able to reach a spot at the top of the food chain…they earned it…once a party school, now a party school and a top academic university with a well-established faculty and incredibly cunning students…just look at the list of alumni…</p>
<p>P.S. to the OP, just go Blue! you won’t regret it</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t get why people look at degrees this sort of way. First and foremost I’d like to say congrats, because both schools are first-rate. However, once you get out of college, people aren’t going to hire you because you went to lets say Vandy or Michigan over someone who went to a sub par school like Univ. of Arkansas because your degree “looks better”. </p>
<p>After your first job people could honestly care less which college you went to. What they care about is what you’ve accomplished in the past.</p>
<p>Listen, it’s nice your thinking about your future…but just because a certain degree may look better then the other shouldn’t even be a factor in your decision, particularly in this case since both Vandy and UM are such great schools. My father has people who went to Harvard, Stanford, and G’town and some of them are so idiotic you wouldn’t even believe.</p>
<p>I’d say U of M…it is friendlier to non-whites than schools in the south.</p>
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