<p>Wow, I’m really excited that UMich has such a high class Anthropology program. It’s not a very popular concentration so this is a pleasant surprise!</p>
They are weak in their response to applications!
I agree adkdad, although universities with that many applicants are always going to struggle. In recent years, several universities (including UCSD and recently CMU) have sent hundreds (if not thousands) of acceptances to students that were in fact rejected and were forced to rescind their offers.
That being said, Michigan needs to move its deadline forward to January 10 and increase the size of its admissions team.
Yes!!! @OutdoorsCal , my daughter will be majoring in Evolutionary Anthropology in the Fall as she wants to go to Med School and/or pursue a PhD in Genetics. U-M has an incredible program!
The first year classes at UM are often very weak compared with Amherst and Swart more or even Albion, Calvin and Hope. 400 people in a class. A TA with limited English skills. True False exams. Or, a small class taught by a TA with no experience or interest in teaching.
The first year program at UM is not as good as that at Ann Arbor community college.
The good news: except for business and education, junior and senior courses are very good, as good as Hope and Calvin, if not quite as good as Amherst and Swartmore.
LOL. There is no Ann Arbor Community College. Also, UM is so big that I don’t think one person can generalize for all first year classes. None of my D’s lectures were taught by TA.
Houston’s got a problem…with Michigan! hehe!
My son is ending his freshman year and he never had anything close to a 400 person class and he has taken several science classes, which are large at most schools. He has had a couple classes with 20 students (not the small section, the entire class). Lectures are always by professors, except that math classes that have very small class size may be taught by instructors or TAs.
There’s Washtenaw CC which in Ann Arbor or Ann Arbor township or some place like that, and I think it’s pretty obvious that’s what he means.
^^^^I think it was pretty obvious that the poster who made the original comment about AA community college was not being serious or thoughtful. In any case, there was no need to correct a correction.
FYI. WCC is in Ypsilanti which is not a township of AA. No one that has ever enrolled at UM or lived in Ann Arbor would call WCC Ann Arbor Community College. Period.
WCC is in Ann Arbor township. You can look at the map.
How strong does mich look to employers?
You really have to compartmentalize Michigan when it comes to academic and corporate reputation.
The CoE is among the top 10 in the nation in terms of reputation, both in academe and industry, and this is reflected in graduate school and professional placement.
Ross (BBA) is among the top 5 in the nation. It is one of only a handful of BBA programs, and of perhaps only a dozen universities that is highly recruited by all the major companies in all major industries, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.
Those two programs are truly exceptional where corporate placement is concerned.
LSA is not quite as potent when it comes to corporate placement, not for lack of reputation (it is still considered among the top 15 or 20 colleges in the nation), but because the compartmentalization of Business and Engineering programs cannibalizes on opportunities. Still, I would say LSA is very well regarded and recruited, but students have to be more proactive and the opportunities will not be as ample.
Did you seriously delete everything I posted? That is completely unreasonable, as I wasn’t harassing anyone, didn’t say anything untruthful, etc. I should’ve seen this coming but man, I am still shocked. Totalitarian regime board moderating over here.
^^^TOS violation. Read the rules again. Also, your comments were off topic.
I don’t know how this possibly could have been missed to this point but … there are no Michelin 3 star restaurants in AA yet! Oh my! 
Now that IS a weakness! I had not missed it, I was merely hoping nobody would notice.
^ But there are only 12 in the whole country. Most are in New York but 2 in Chicago and 2 in San Francisco.
That’s because the Michelin guide only rates restaurants at a handful of cities in the US. If it covered the whole country, like it does in Europe, you would have more than 12 (probably in the neighborhood of 20-25).