How many people are admitted each year to MIT or Stanford as graduate students after completing their engineering degree at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor?
What are the best activities to partake at UMich as an undergraduate to maximize the chances of getting admitted to the above-mentioned universities as a PhD/MS student?
It was a long time ago, but when I was a graduate student at Stanford my girlfriend had done her undergraduate at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. At the time she was a Master’s degree student at Stanford (and in the top 20% of the class). The University of Michigan is a very good school.
She never mentioned any extracurriculars from undergraduate. I suspect that the main thing that she did as an undergraduate was get close to straight A’s.
I will assume that you know from other threads that you should have other choices for graduate school also, and that you don’t need to go to MIT or Stanford to get a great education and a well respected M.Sc. or PhD.
Also, when it comes time to apply to PhD programs, apparently finding professors that are doing research that you find interesting, and conversing (probably by email) with those professors and showing interest can help your chances.
When it comes to grad school admissions, the majority of students don’t want to go to graduate school much less PhD. Those that get into top graduate school programs have the combination of good grades and research experience
@YellowWolverine Thank you, this is helpful information. I’ll make sure to do both (or at least I’ll try
MIT thinks very highly of Michigan. As far as MIT is concerned, Michigan is a peer institution. Jerome Wiesner, who completed all his education, and part of his academic training at Michigan, was president of MIT from 1970-1980. Charles Vest, who completed his graduate studies at Michigan, and was part of the Michigan faculty for several years, served as president of MIT from 1990-2004. In other words, a Michigan alumnus was president of MIT for a total of 25 of the last 50 years!