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Just curious. I presume you are a freshman in your first semester. What are the three classes you have that are taught by GSIs?</p>
<p>Charlesveritas, what other colleges are your friends at?</p>
<p>Charlesveritas, the grading in every class is different. Your professor decides how the class is graded, not the school. </p>
<p>Though I can see you being annoyed over classes taught by GSIs (or classes taught by professors who suck at teaching).</p>
<p>I’ll also ***** about registration on behalf of everyone not coming in with 30 AP credits. Actually, that’s not the problem, registration process is fine, I’ll ***** about the fact that they don’t have enough sections of classes to meet the demand. If a 3rd of the freshmen haven’t registered yet, and every single section of a particular class (why by the way, lots of people HAVE to take), is completely full, then they’re doing something wrong.</p>
<p>I agree about the classes filling up too fast. By the time I could register on Friday, none of the six STATS 350 lectures were open and one PSYCH 111 class already had over 30 people on its waitlist.</p>
<p>^I didn’t even know that about those two classes, I was talking about another one.</p>
<p>Psych is the most popular major at U-M. Psych 270 has 120 people on the waiting list, as a result, they had to open two more discussion sections.</p>
<p>I have had no problems with GSI’s so far. Some are very knowledgeable and helpful, some are hard to understand, while others are just plain mean. </p>
<p>Size definitely limits the University. Especially with a freshman class of 6071 students. All the classes that I signed up for were already full by the time I was given permission to sign up for classes.</p>
<p>Alexandre, do you attend any events for accepted students at U of M? A while back you said you were associated with admissions in an informal way, as an alum.</p>
<p>I visit high schools in my region and I contact all admitted students to congratulate them and answer questions they may have about Michigan.</p>
<p>Is your region within Michigan?</p>
<p>My region is the United Arab Emirates.</p>
<p>Im a junior living in virginia and Im moving to sandusky oh my gpa 3.4 and im somali what would i hve to get on my sat to get into michigan?</p>
<p>This thread is hilarious!!!</p>
<p>The majority of the people in my family went to Michigan and this is exactly what their conversations about michigan sound like, minus the people who say negative things about Michigan. It is kind of cultish, and I upset some people when I decided not to go there (but I still think it is awesome, that is why I came to this forum to read about it).</p>
<p>Alexandre, I have been impressed by your vehement defense of Michigan, and I can’t believe how much you remind me of my family.</p>
<p>One issue I have noticed about the U of M is that in some ways it has a Napoleon Complex. The Michigan students and alums on this board have shown that they are constantly trying to prove that they are as good as or better than other schools. All schools do this to some extent, but I can’t find any other school with a thread that is 39 pages long talking about how great it is.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I think you guys are arguably as good as you are saying you are, but why do you try so hard to prove it?</p>
<p>On a final note, I found one thing on this thread that I knew was wrong, it is rather insignificant but I still feel that I should correct it seeing as though I don’t want people to be running around with false info.</p>
<p>Post 246 you said that Andrew Dickson White went to Michigan, he did not. He went to Yale. I can’t believe I remembered that from when I researched Cornell. (I am too much of a CC noob to know how to do the quote thing)</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> University - Office of the President - Andrew Dickson White](<a href=“http://www.cornell.edu/president/history_bio_white.cfm]Cornell”>http://www.cornell.edu/president/history_bio_white.cfm)</p>
<p>I can’t believe you read all 39 pages and was able to point out a minor error on post 246. Your family have sure raised you properly, with the right priorities.</p>
<p>About Andrew Dickson White. You are correct that he was a Yale grad. However, Mr White was a professor of History and English Literature at the University of Michigan from 1858-1863. He returned to Syracuse after that and in 1865, “co-founded” the Cornell University.</p>
<p>GoBlue, there was no error in post #246. Firehose, I never said Andrew Dickson White studied at Michigan, I said he was a Michigan man. As a professor at the University of Michigan for several years, he certainly qualifies as a Michigan man. It is his experience at Michigan that qualified him as a good choice for the job of co-founding Cornell and becoming its first president. And his chosen replacement, after he stepped down as president of Cornell, was Charles Kendall Adams, a student of White’s and later a professor at the University of Michigan…clearly Andrew Dickson White had very strong ties to the University of Michigan as he could just as easily have chosen somebody from Yale to run Cornell. </p>
<p>I am glad to hear that your family supports Michigan…they should be proud of their association.</p>
<p>And for the record firehose, Michigan students and alums on CC comport themselves with utmost decorum. It is alums from other universities that claim their school is superior… we praise other universities and merely correct others when they falsely downgrade Michigan. We almost never go to other university’s forum in an attempt to insult that university. We openly admit that schools like Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale are better. When students come asking for advice here, we often recommend the school that costs less to attend, etc… I am in fact proud of the character of the posters on the Michigan foru. We restrict all of our chest bumping to the Michigan forum. I see nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I thought Michigan man meant that he went to Michigan. Also given the context of the thread, undergraduate education, I thought you would clarify if you meant something else by Michigan man.</p>
<p>In rereading my post I realize that that it had a negative tone. That was not my intent. I was slightly upset because I read the post with the intention of falling asleep midway but I was not that fortunate. I’ll explain better this time.</p>
<p>Michigan grads are too self conscious about what other people think about their school. Stop worrying about it. People who are uneducated about colleges understand how good of a school Michigan is. However, the people who think that OSU and U of M are the same thing also carry some other huge misconceptions. Here are some examples.</p>
<p>For example, I brought up MIT in a conversation and some one said “I didn’t know that the Milwaukee Institute of Technology was that good of a school”.</p>
<p>I was with a Notre Dame student and when he told someone that he went to Notre Dame they thought he was in training to become a priest. This person thought Notre Dame was a priest school. On another note about Notre Dame, it is bs that they are ranked much higher than Michigan.</p>
<p>Some one asked me where I was going to college, I told them I was going to Stanford, there response was “O that is nice you are only going to be an hour drive away from home”. I then explained to her the school was in California. She asked me what I wanted to study, and I told her I want to study engineering. She then asked “Madison and Marquette are really good at engineering, did you not get into them?”</p>
<p>People respect Michigan, I just think that Michigan people worry too much about the people who don’t know things about colleges or worship USNWR. That is why I said they have a Napoleon complex, they feel they have to prove how good there school is, but you don’t, you are just that good. Stop worrying.</p>
<p>I agree with your point of view firehose. I personally don’t take it personally if someone in the real world degraded Michigan. I would probably take pleasure in the debate, but I would not take it personally. Most Michigan alums are very proud of their school and confident in its academic strength. </p>
<p>But on CC, I take things very personally. Not just when it comes to Michigan mind you. Many young and impressionable students come here with insecurities and serious questions and are given very bad and potentially damaging advice.</p>
<p>Wow, that last post of mine had way too many mistakes in it, kind of embarrassing. But thank you for pointing out how bad my first post was, I don’t want to provide an unfair view of things.</p>
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<p>Tentai, there are literally thousands of examples. I am not talking about the Michigan forum alone but CC as a whole. There are posters who continuously claim that attending a very small group of universities greatly enhances one’s shot at success in life and how those few universities are far superior to all others. Some of those posters have no problem recommending going into tens of thousands (in some cases even hundreds of thousands) of dollars into debt to attend a university that is either fractionally better or, worse yet, not better whatsoever. That somehow good private universities are always better than public universities and that there are no exceptions. There are really too many topics I can list, but those are two recurring ones.</p>
<p>Let’s not forget some students feel pressured to attend only Ivy League schools when there are many great Ivy-caliber alternatives. tentai, CC is a bubble that unintentionally caters towards the Ivy League crowd; it has a separate section specifically on those eight schools whereas the other top universities (Georgetown, Northwestern, Michigan, Virginia, etc.) are relegated to another section. Some high school students think they must attend the best (i.e. HYPSM, Ivy League) to be very successful in life when that is not true at all. This forum can be very misleading when members post biased, false, malicious, and unverified advice to prospective students. The consequences, as Alexandre stated earlier, can be quite damaging psychologically.</p>