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<p>Are you a psychologist now too Alexandre in addition to a college admissions expert? I think Michigan is a fantastic school that is probably slighlty underrates by USNWR but making statements like Michigan sends more students to top 10 law/med/biz schools when that is patently false is unbecoming of a supermoderator. You are not only a Michigan alum but you are supposed to be an objective arbiter on this forum and website as a whole and not just a Maize and Blue booster.</p>
<p>To rebuke your theories however,</p>
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<li><p>I have no dislike of Michigan, but rather I have dozens of friends that go there and used to be a football fan but now I admit I’m rather apathetic when it comes to college football.</p></li>
<li><p>I come from a wealthy family, am in good shape and have a great job lined up. Not too many reasons to really have a low self-esteem…</p></li>
<li><p>I was admitted to LSA Honors but turned it down after getting into Columbia/Duke/etc. so I don’t understand why I would have a chip on my shoulder.</p></li>
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Then why don’t you be fair and include UVA Law into the equation and Wharton’s MBA program, both of which are top 10? I know Michigan would drop a little further but that’s your responsibility as a supermoderator to be as fair and impartial as possible.</p>
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You know as well as I do Alex that the WSJ Feeder Rankings actually unfairly advantage Columbia, Dartmouth, Michigan and Yale in particular since neither Columbia’s Med School, Dartmouth’s Business School, Michigan’s Law School or Yale’s Med School are really worth of top 5 rankings in their respective fields.</p>
<p>If you truly wanted to be fair Alex, you would discount the placement of Wolverines into Michigan’s Law School since they would obviously be the most represented there due to home institution bias yet you don’t. Even with including Michigan Law, Duke and Penn are still on Michigan’s heels with regards to absolute placement of students into the top professional programs.</p>
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You’re lucky they don’t because I’m willing to bet the house that Duke is more represented than Michigan at every top 10 professional program besides Michigan and perhaps Chicago and Northwestern’s.</p>
<p>At any rate, UVA and Wharton publish their numbers at least for certain years and Michigan lags behind most of the schools I mentioned there as well.</p>
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Where did Princeton come from? Duke places better at most of the placement bulletins I’ve seen than Princeton so you might as well include it, Penn and Columbia as well.</p>
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I don’t think Duke is as good as HYPSM. Why all the state school posters make this claim is beyond me. I think Duke ranks somewhere between #6 and #10 depending on how you rank universities. I can say Duke is better than Michigan but not as good as HYPSM. That’s not a mutually exclusive concept considering that Michigan’s range as institution falls between #20 and #30 and not as high as top 15 like Alexandre would claim.</p>
<p>I think Alexandre has taught all the posters here how to use the Straw man fallacy to their advantage. Saying I think Columbia or Duke is better than Michigan does not mean I think that they are as good as HYPSM.</p>