<p>I love it. RML is more gung-ho about Michigan than most Wolverines! ;)</p>
<p>Ahhh, thank you Alex. hehehe… :)</p>
<p>Not trying to be biased to Michigan, but I honestly think that it is uber underrated on CC. I don’t know how it all started, but in truth and reality, it is one of the very best schools in the entire world. It does not make it less prestigious just because USNews say so. A lot of smart students would break an arm just to get a slot from there. I would choose it over schools like Emory, Vanderbilt or Notre Dame, in a heartbeat. And that’s because Michigan is superior to those schools.</p>
<p>I definitely agree that Michigan is underrated on CC. Thankfully, most people in the real world that know about universities respect it. Although I do not think Michigan is superior to Emory, Notre Dame and Vanderbilt, I do believe that it has superior academic offerings. Overall, I can only think of 5 universities that are truly superior to Michigan. 15-20 others are roughly equal to Michigan and another 20-30 are just sightly weaker.</p>
<p>If your EFC is high, just pick Michigan in-state!!!</p>
<p>Kellogg certificate program is self-selecting. The hard part is to finish those intense and quantitatively-oriented pre-reqs with good grades (As/Bs). And there are 7 of them in multi-variable calculus (preferrably honors) or MMSS math sequence, linear algebra, econometrics, probability/statistics, intermediate micro-econ; you need one more in optimization if you pick managerial analytics program. Ask yourself how good your math is. Once you do that, it’s almost a sure-in. Successful completion of those pre-reqs convince them you can handle those core courses; you will learn a ton as they are all graduate-level finance courses.</p>
<p>If you are instate (sorry didn’t read your Odyssey of a first post :)) then go to Mich. Northwestern is not worth the out of state exorbidant fees. You will be hard pressed to find a better Undergraduate school than Michigan if you are in state, if you consider the price AND the prestige.</p>
<p>@RML and @Alexandre
I think the underrated part goes to the fact that Mich’s acceptance rate is pretty ridiculous at 50%. Not to say that I or all students think this, but many do believe that the lower the acceptance rate = the more prestigious the school is.</p>
<p>^^^I think the common application is going to bring that number down by quite a bit. Also consider that although Michigan has the largest UG population among top 30 schools, it doesn’t have over 37,000,000 people living within it’s borders. It also never had an instate application that allowed residents the opportunity to apply to many campuses with a simple check of a pen.</p>
<p>batpad, as Tenisghs pointed out earlier, Northwestern sometimes gives such great aid packages that it actually turns out to be cheaper to attend…even for in-state students.</p>
<p>I agree that if Michigan wants to appease to the High School / USNWR crowd, decreasing acceptance rate will make the uni look more prestigious / exclusive i.e. Chicago which, despite its top top undergrad/grad program, had a pretty high acc. rate in the 90’s, and in the past years has seen a significant drop in the acceptance rate accompanied with a lot of extra notoriety in the HS-kid crowd</p>
<p>That is true ali. Michigan is not prestigious in the eyes of 15-25 year old students. Its reputation will not match its quality as long as it accepts more than 25% of applicants.</p>
<p>That said, among 30+ year olds, especially among the elite, Michigan is one of the most prestigious universities in the nation. If you want to impress fellow classmates, do not go to Michigan. If you want to impress graduate school admissions committees, CEOs of fotunate 500 companies and recruiters at the most exclusive firms, then Michigan will serve you well. I am an alumnus of both Cornell and Michigan, and I would not be exaggerating when I say that Michigan gets as much of a wow factor as Cornell, which is saying a lot.</p>
<p>To OP:</p>
<p>You ask an impossible question. There is currently a great deal of debate as to whether ANY elite school is worth the extra money it costs to attend. As between NU and U-M, both are excellent schools, with fine reputations. I would expect similar opportunities from either.</p>
<p>However, YMMV.</p>
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<p>But these 15-25 yr olds will eventually be given the keys to the car. Does that mean that my HS fr daughter might need to take a longer look at UMich than my sr hs son might take?</p>
<p>Roderick, 15-25 year olds have never been impressed by Michigan. People change their perspective on colleges as they get older. Their priorities and views change as a result of exposure, experience and maturity.</p>
<p>for such a high quality school that michigan is, instate beats northwestern no matter what. maybe i’m bitter because NU rejected me :p</p>
<p>I hear the wolverines’ main diet consists of wildcats…and Leprechauns.</p>
<p>yummmm i love it</p>
<p>But can you double major in econ and engineering at UMIch as you apparently can at NU?</p>
<p>Michigan and Northwestern have pretty identical graduation requirements. The answer is yes, you can double major in Engineering and Economics. It will take an extra semester, perhaps even two, but it can be done. I doubt it can be done at NU any quicker.</p>
<p>You could also try to get the minor in econ. If you really wanted to, I believe you can take all the same classes as a standard Economics concentration the only difference would be that you wouldn’t get the BA/BS from LSA.</p>
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The opposite would make that a true statement, novi. ;)</p>