<p>Cardinal and gold or maize and blue.</p>
<p>Both combinations are great.</p>
<p>Alexandre,
Your post above about the relative academic strength is a breath of fresh air. Am I reading your words correctly that you are saying that there is not much difference in academic strength between Michigan and the schools ranked 25-50, eg, U Texas, Penn State, U Florida, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, etc? If you do believe this, then I admire your personal growth and your new understanding of and respect for the great strength of other, less prestigious schools around the country.</p>
<p>That's where you are wrong Hawkette. I never claimed Michigan was appreciably better than UT-Austin or Wisconsin. By that reckoning, I also never believed there was a significant difference between schols ranked among the top 25. I am not the one who claims that there are huge differences between universities.</p>
<p>Alexandre,
Thanks for the clarification. I look forward to your future posts equating Michigan to the schools that I referenced.</p>
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<p>I guess it was other threads, not this one, where I read heart-warming pledges about being less snarky.</p>
<p>sorry hoedown...not an effort to be snarky-I just felt that congratulations truly were in order...and I really am excited and look forward to more balanced commentary from Michigan posters in the future...not to mention a greater appreciation from many CC posters about the great qualities of a lot of very good schools and people around the country</p>
<p>Sorry for misunderstanding your tone. </p>
<p>In my experience, when someone congratulates an adult peer on their "personal growth" on a message board, it's not sincere. It's either sarcastic, or an intentional swipe suggesting that the person had a need for growth. Or both. </p>
<p>Pleased to be wrong about that this time.</p>