Michigan has a much larger sports presence than Northwestern, the students take sports very seriously there, it’s not Alabama or the SEC but it’s big. Michigan alumni I know are still not over their loss to Ohio State, they probably won’t till they beat them, or at last when football season starts. Northwestern fans are not into their sports like that. I don’t know how to say it but basically the UM fan is a lot more involved emotionally with sports than the NU fan. But I think Greek life is much bigger at NU than UM.
Also, what’s your potential major or school you applied to at UM?