<p>I've already applied EA to Michigan, and I'm trying to find motivation to write my essays for ND & NU. Can anyone give reasons why the latter two are better than the former.</p>
<p>I hope you have applied to other schools as well, and not just Michigan.</p>
<p>Yeah I’ve already been accepted into Pitt, should get PSU acceptance soon, and I have seven others in addition to Mich. ND and NU would be my eleventh and twelfth school.</p>
<p>Michigan has already beaten Notre Dame this football season, and Northwestern lost Mike Kafka to the Eagles in the draft, so I’m gonna say Michigan>Notre Dame>Northwestern</p>
<p>Michigan bests Notre Dame and Northwestern.</p>
<p>Better at what? Norhwestern and Notre Dame are both excellent in their own rght…certainly on par with Michigan. I give Michigan the edge in Engineering (although Northwestern certainly holds its own in that domain) and in campus life, but in all other ways, it is a question of personal fit, academically, financially and socially.</p>
<p>Foosball, until today.</p>
<p>Would you choose NU and ND over Pitt (and Penn State if it accepts you before you complete the applications for NU and ND)?</p>
<p>Any early acceptance with sufficient financial aid (if needed) is an automatic safety. Don’t bother applying to schools that you like less than your safeties.</p>
<p>They are all excellent schools. You would have the opportunity to get an excellent education at any one of them. In terms of student selectivity, Notre Dame and Northwestern both attract (or at least admit) higher quality students than Michigan does - although Michigan is at or near the top of public universities.</p>
<p>I guess the heart of my question is the social difference between the three. Although I haven’t visited Michigan, I love the school pride, prestige of Ross, and how everyone seems happy.</p>
<p>So ND doesn’t have school pride, prestige? I know it has happy students. I believe it was ranked #2 to Harvard in percentage of matriculated students for whom it was their first choice. They are all good schools and very different. Visits are the best way to tell.</p>
<p>Yeah I worded what I said in the wrong manner. As you said, they’re all very different. I won’t be able to visit before application time, so I was wondering if anyone could put in verbatum why are they so different from each other?</p>