<p>i am going into biomedical engineering, and I am so confused on selecting a good undergrad college.</p>
<p>I have to choose btwn Wash U in St.Louis, U of Mich, Georgia Tech, and Univ of Miami.</p>
<p>Can I have something that will help me decide. Thanks</p>
<p>Either WashU or UMich, cant go wrong. I'd personally choose WUSTL</p>
<p>is it the name recognition? the size?</p>
<p>agreed. WashU or Michigan. the size is obviously the big difference here.</p>
<p>id pick WASHU</p>
<p>Have you visited the campuses? Did you like one more than the others? Did you check out the course offerings at those schools to see which ones will allow you to delve more deeply in your chosen major?</p>
<p>First let's eliminate Miami and just choose between top 20 universities. You can go to Florida on Spring break every year with all the money you'll save.</p>
<p>Michigan all the way. GT is a great engineering/tech school, but it's not as balanced as UofM, too tech-heavy and a bit of a grind, almost like MIT and CalTech that way.</p>
<p>Michigan actually has broader name recognition than Wash. U., which is only top 25 because of the arbitrary criteria weighing into the USN&WR survery. It's a regional private school, not a world-class university.</p>
<p>Go to Michigan unless you find the big-school experience too overwhelming. My brother went there and loved it.</p>
<p>how much is each school going to cost?</p>
<p>washu will cost a couple thousnad more than Mich. I recently visited Wash U, and it was GORGEOUS. It was not overwhelming one bit. It is also very easy to switch majors. On the other hand, Mich. definitely has more name recognition! It has a more well-known Engineering Department. Yet Wash U is way more selective. Im still quite confuzzled.</p>
<p>WashU is not half as selective as it seems. It goes out of its way to market itself, even to the point of sending free applications to people it KNOWS it will reject. </p>
<p>Why do this? To make the admit rate 20% instead of the 50% it should be.</p>
<p>What does this lower admit rate do? -> Makes people think since school is "more selective" it will be better. Boost US News Rankings. Make people think it is a mini-Ivy with comparable admit rates.</p>
<p>I would choose UMich, WUSTL are caniving marketing scheming turds.</p>
<p>wow! I wouldn't go that far. WashU, as I have seen from a first-hand experience, has a very friendly student body. Both the engineering and sci/arts are reasonably good.</p>
<p>Reasonably good, but caniving backstabbing administration makes it so I would never go to the school. </p>
<p>WUSTL is the king of scams to make their school seem way better than it actually is.</p>
<p>I would say visit the campuses before you decide. Where would you most want to live? Are any of them offering you financial aid?</p>
<p>both offering fin aide</p>