<p>dang… why would people give up upenn…? id definately take upenn…
but anyways… i chose umich over
nyu, carnegie mellon, umaryland-college park, penn state, northeastern, binghamton, and boston univ.</p>
<p>Like Bearcats, I also chose Michigan over Penn (CAS, not Wharton) and several other good universities. Penn is a great university, but Michigan is just as good…and more well rounded if you ask me.</p>
<p>MIT, Caltech, and USC (with some scholarship, but not the best one, so it wasn’t that attractive.)</p>
<p>Oh, and a Princeton waitlist.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Wash U :)</p>
<p>Actually there are more people than you’d expect doing the same thing, including people I met at Stanford admit weekend.</p>
<p>^ Dude!!!</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Michigan over Duke or Wash U. is common indeed. Michigan over Cal, CMU, Cornell, NU, Penn and UVa are also common. Many of my fellow students I knew back in my college days at Michigan got into at least one of those schools. HYPS are not nearly as common. I did meet a handful that got into each of those schools, but they were few and far in between. Most of them saved a good deal of money by chosing Michigan. However, a couple of good friends chose Michigan over HYPS because they really liked Michigan better.</p>
<p>CMU, Columbia, UIUC, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara</p>
<p>I’m from New York City and I get bored really easily of other places but I fell in love with Ann Arbor like no other. If your smart and ambitious there is no doubt you will find the facilities, probably even a whole building or section of campus, dedicated to your specific interests and area of study. What did it for me was how real everyone is there - the camaraderie is very unique and the connections invaluable. The alumni give back so generously to the school and the endowment is something like the 3rd highest in the nation (7.6 billion $) and the #1 fastest growing endowment in the nation. Great to see there’ll be lots of bright minds and healthy competition.</p>
<p>just like alexandre predicted, Duke,Cornell and Ucla for me</p>
<p>I would have turned down Columbia for Michigan. Who wants to go to college in the middle of NYC? Turning down Duke, Penn, Northwestern or Wash U to go to Michigan for an out of state student though…is bold to say the least.</p>
<p>I don’t know ring<em>of</em>fire, so many people do it, I would say it is common-place rather than “bold”. I would estimate that the number of students at Michigan who turned down Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, Penn or Washington U runs in the thousands. Michigan’s cross-admit yield vs those schools probably runs in the 25%-50% (most likely even over 50% vs Washington U).</p>
<p>Passed up on:</p>
<p>UVa (didn’t like 2-year business program)
Georgetown (too close and expensive)
Carnegie Mellon (too small)
UNC (didn’t like 2-year business)
NYU (Michigan is just better)
Maryland</p>
<p>even though i am outta stater, i got a nice scholarship to mich so it makes it a lot more reasonable to attend. 54k to duke versus 23k for mich is almost a no brainier to an upper middle class kid going into electrical engineering, specially in these economic conditions.</p>