<p>Reposting someone’s observation about California “fires” and “Earthquakes”</p>
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<p>Lonesoul, What makes you think everyone in the state of Michigan applies to Michigan?</p>
<p>Those numbers are pr-common app. Plus as i’ve said before Michigan doesn’t play the low acceptance game. They dont let every high schooler think they can get in. Self selectivity. </p>
<p>Its not like you do well on your PAST and Michigan floods you with pamphlets. Tons if schools sent me spam, Michigan never did.</p>
<p>Before I even consider a transfer to umich or ut what are my chances? Sat not too great 1840, 3.6 unweighted gpa on a weird grading scale. (94-100 is a range, 85-93 is b range) will I have to have a perfect freshman year?</p>
<p>^^ you would have a 50% chance at Michigan</p>
<p>Honestly, a 50% AR is practically the same thing as having a revolving door in admissions.</p>
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“OCELITE, if you go to a school outside of Cali, you won’t be killed by a tornado.”</p>
<p>Hmm…well, tell it to the families of the recent victims who live in tornado land. It’s not a joke. Tornadoes can be deadly otherwise it won’t make headlines. As a matter of fact, it actually affected one of the Chapman-bound students. How many people died every year from tornadoes compared to wildfire? You can put out a fire but you can’t put out a tornado. [Chapman-bound</a> student missing in tornado - Orange County Register](<a href=“http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-05-24/news/29583493_1_deadly-tornado-facebook-page-tornado-threat]Chapman-bound”>http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-05-24/news/29583493_1_deadly-tornado-facebook-page-tornado-threat)</p>
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“I don’t know how I’m gonna convince you but watching Chapman play football will never be a tenth as exciting as Michigan football. And this does matter if the student cares about sports, and the OP said it was what n his criteria.”</p>
<p>I would rather watch Chapman football than being killed by a tornado. If I wanted to watch D1 football, I can watch USC, Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA.</p>
<p>CGerrsti, from the info you provided you probably wouldn’t get into Umich OOS straight out if high school. So I am guessing you need to have a pretty good freshman year. </p>
<p>You could post a chance thread on the Umich forums if you want.</p>
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"We also learned OCELITE has a weird “tornado-phobia.”</p>
<p>Chill out PurpleDuckMan! All I’m saying is that you can’t convince me to move to that part of the country. I won’t be the only one that can’t stand that kind of weather conditions. Based on your comment, the rest of us choosing to live in the West Coast are all sick then. What does that have anything to do with your school? Nothing personal about your school, I was only giving the pros and cons based on the weather. You can have a great school but if it’s located in a place where I don’t want to be at, you still can’t sell it to me. If people choose not to move to the East Coast, is that mean everyone hates the schools there? Use your common sense. As I had said, you are too obsessed with Michigan and their football team. Have a nice day!</p>
<p>I’m chill brah. You r the one that thinks you’ll be killed be a tornado if you move east.</p>
<p>And I’m not obsessed with anything. I just chose to defend my school. I also now realize that as a D3 kid you’ll never understand D1 sports, let alone football.</p>
<p>You two are hilarious tbh. You get way too defensive about your schools.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between attacking and defending. Some of us come here to try to give some sound advice to the OP while others obviously have different purposes. I’ve been on cc long enough to tell the difference both kids and parents alike.</p>
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<p>That’s funny. I’ve watched tons of D-1 football games in the Southeast and I haven’t been killed by a tornado yet. Haven’t even seen one. Seriously, if you are worried about getting sucked up by a tornado and are letting that define where you want to go to college, you are better off just building a giant bunker in your backyard and never leaving it. There are more realistic things to worry about.</p>
<p>I’ve lived in the southeast for nineteen years and have never seen a tornado in person.</p>
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" That’s funny. I’ve watched tons of D-1 football games in the Southeast and I haven’t been killed by a tornado yet. Haven’t even seen one. Seriously, if you are worried about getting sucked up by a tornado and are letting that define where you want to go to college, you are better off just building a giant bunker in your backyard and never leaving it. There are more realistic things to worry about."</p>
<p>Sorry to tell you this, but many people do pick where they want to go to college based on weather. There are other West Coast states that have better weather than the east. As many posters on cc also have said that they wouldn’t consider places with bad weather such as cold, harsh, flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes. Perhaps you may be one of the lucky ones and haven’t experienced or get hit by one yet, you never know where it will strike next. There’s a difference between visiting a place during better weather season compared to moving there to live for four years.</p>
<p>Where tornadoes strike the most. History and data tell the story.
[url=<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtornavg.htm]USATODAY.com[/url”>http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtornavg.htm]USATODAY.com[/url</a>]
[url=<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/wthist0.htm]USATODAY.com[/url”>http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/wthist0.htm]USATODAY.com[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Year-by-year history
2000
Mississippi Valley tornadoes, Jan. 4
Southeastern tornado ouotbreak, Feb. 14
Fort Worth, Texas, tornado, March 28
2000 (to date) killer tornadoes, reports by state
1999
The May 3-6 southern Plains, Southeast outbreak
20 years ago: Red River Valley tornadoes of April 10, 1979
25 years ago: April 3-4, 1974 super tornado outbreak
Six killed in Louisiana tornado - April 3
One year later, Fla. tornado survivors reflect - Feb. 22-23
Record number of January tornadoes hit U.S.
Another eight killed in southern tornadoes - Jan. 21-22
Tennessee tornadoes wreck homes, kill 8 - Jan. 18
1998
October 4, 1998, tornado outbreak, western Okla.
Index to stories, reports on April 1998 Southeast outbreaks
Outbreak spawns F-5 twister in Alabama April 8, 1998
Tornadoes kill two in Virginia April 2, 1998
Tornadoes claim two lives in Minnesota March 29, 1998
Two tornadoes kill 13 in Southeast March 20, 1998
Killer tornadoes shatter central Florida early Feb. 23, 1998
1997
“Rare” F-5 tornado flattens part of tiny Texas town, killing 27, in May 1997
Miami tornado in May 1997 blows away myth that tornadoes don’t hit cities
NWS storm survey of the Rainsville, Ala., tornado of April 22 (with photos)
Chicago area remembers 30th anniversary of deadly 1967 tornado outbreak
March 1 -2, 1997 tornadoes kill 25 in Arkansas
Unusual January tornadoes rake parts of Tenn., Ala. in 1997
1996 and before
Links to information on 1996 tornadoes
April 1996 tornadoes in the Midwest and South
Disaster team report on Fort Smith, Ark., tornado
Record number of tornadoes hit the USA in May 1995
Monster on the Prairie: Hesston, Kan., tornado of 1990
The Woodward, Okla., tornado of April 9, 1947</p>
<p>OCELITE, I want you to get help.</p>
<p>The only people that would let weather define where they go to college is some one going to college in Cali. That’s honestly a horrible reason to pick a school.</p>
<p>OCELITE, I was kind of feeling what you were saying until you brought up death statistics. I’m pretty sure just the Bloods in South Central kill more people than tornadoes across the country.</p>
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Like I said…</p>
<p>PurpleDuckMan,
As they say, some people like it hot and some like it cold. Perhaps you should do your own research to find out how many people by choice would prefer brutal weather over mild weather? This is why it’s so important for all college-bound students to visit their college of choice during the worst weather months to see if they can endure that kind of conditions. I’ve heard of students who have gone to the east without even visiting the schools at their worst weather months to only later find themselves unhappy with the conditions and then decide to transfer to the west. It would have saved them a whole lot of money and time if they had done their research carefully.</p>
<p>Therefore PurpleDuckMan, anyone that would need to seek help, it’d be you who prefer brutal weather over mild weather.</p>
<p>I don’t have “tornado-phobia”</p>
<p>Like I said, if kids from Cali just grow a pair this wouldn’t be a problem. </p>
<p>And really? Mild weather vs. brutal weather? BRUTAL?</p>
<p>You poor brainwashed guy.</p>
<p>OCELITE,</p>
<p>Do you post from a concrete bunker? You realize that when (yes, “when”, not “if”) the “big one” hits California, it is going to kill more people there than all of the tornadoes in the US have killed in the last 10 years combined, right?</p>