<p>Im not a parent, but I would like your view on this.</p>
<p>Im a senior choosing a college. My options are Michigan, Xavier, and Marquette. </p>
<p>Im planning on premed.</p>
<p>With scholarships the all cost around the same.</p>
<p>I live 15 minutes away from Michigan.</p>
<p>Compare and Contrast an Choose away!!!</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>I went to Marquette (never been to the other 2), so I here’s my $0.02…</p>
<p>Of the 3, I think Marquette & Xavier are similar (medium size, in a city, Catholic), vs Michigan (huge state school in a college town). </p>
<p>Although the Marquette campus is bi-sected by Wisconsin Ave, it feels like a campus and has green space, unlike other urban schools (such as BU). When I was there, Marquette had a strong science program (I was an accounting major) and it’s BioMed engineering is considered top-notch. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Absolutely Michigan…</p>
<p>Seems like a no-brainer. Michigan is a great school. However, do you like a large school, big ten atmosphere?
Marquette biomedical sciences is a great route to med school.</p>
<p>Thanks! One question, whats the academic difference between the 3? How would you rank them and by how much difference?</p>
<p>I wrote this on another post, so sorry about the repeat if you read my other one -
My older kids have and/or will leave the state for college because of Michigan’s financial situation, including absolutely no incentives for remaining in-state and the continued impact of budget shortfalls on educational institutions. Last year, I even moved one of my highschoolers from a public school into a private boarding academy. And then the “Promise Scholarship” elimination was just the last straw for us. We’re finding the educational climate outside Michigan to be far more positive. For those of us who reside in Michigan, it’s certainly a shame. Even hard-hit California offered one of my sons a scholarship at UCSB, while our own Michigan schools offer little or nothing (and who knows if what they do offer will be around next year when so much has already been cut? I heard recently that Michigan’s nursing scholarship has been eliminated now as well). The educational climate here is just not good. My oldest just got a job working over the summer for his college in NC, and while we’ll miss him, there certainly isn’t anything for him here at this point in time.</p>
<p>profmom89,
As bad as it is in Michigan, some poeple in my city continue driving to their places in Detroit on a daily basis. It has always been much worse here than yes, even in Detroit. And to add to this there are good number of kids here who are very proud if they get accepted to Michigan (Ann Arbor) and they usually choose to attend despite of huge OOS tuition bill and much cheaper options in our state (my own D. is in-state on full tuition Merit scholarships, she would not apply to expensive UG. Grad. school might be another story, as Michigan is on top of her list). So, everything is very relative.</p>
<p>Academically Michigan is fantastic but I do know that pre-med is very competitive. I was a ChemE and we had to take Chem classes with the pre-med students. They were always the ones hounding the professor about their exam grades and obsessing about every detail. This was back in the 80s so maybe things have changed and maybe it’s just as competitive at the other two schools - but something to think about.</p>
<p>^pre-med is competitive everywhere, they have to have over 3.5 to be considered, only about 43% of applicants will get accepted to ANY american Med. School. Michigan Medical school is one of the very best in the world. It is a reach for anybody, no matter what scores/college GPA…</p>
<p>To be fair state educational budgets especially in the west have been devastated. UC Berkeley, UCSD and UCLA have announced tuition increases of 32% over the next two years, ([Protests</a> of tuition increase continue on California campuses - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/20/california.tuition.protests/index.html]Protests”>Protests of tuition increase continue on California campuses - CNN.com)). Those increases will bring the UC in-state tuitions to a level almost equivalent to those of Michigan. Furthermore, the California legislature has proposed that Berkeley and UCLA be mandated to admit the same number of California residents they always have while adding up to 1,000 additional OOS students in order to get the higher revenue. Making matters worse was the fact that there would be no additional resources added for those students - same number of dorms, same or fewer teachers but with 1,000 more students, hardly a “bargain”.</p>
<p>In a convoluted way UMichigan has benefitted from the prolonged decline of the State of Michigan economy. They have had to do more with less for a longer time. They have learned to function without state funding, the systems in California, Washington and Arizona are only now beginning to face their issues. UMichigan, depending on ones source, receives between 7 and 10% of its funding from the state of Michigan. Put frankly there just isn’t much more that the state can do to them.</p>
<p>Attending UCSB as an OOS student costs roughly $50,000/year before any aid; Michigan in-state is approximately $24,000. So anything short of a $26,000 scholarship from UCSB falls short in leveling the expenses between the two schools. With the potential of larger student populations and little hope of additional resources, it is hard to hold up California as the ideal of a state with a great commitment to higher education.</p>