<p>whenever you call someone dumb on the internet, you have to make sure you proof read your sentence. Its "You're".</p>
<p>haha...its Whenever. Nobody proof reads... It is like aim to most of us. you keep digging yourself into a deeper hole. just stop doin this to yourself. "You're" beginning to make me feel bad for you, and I really hate that.</p>
<p>hahaha thanks for the input Omniscient1, and to be fair, you are right NYao has a real ego problem, this was a thread for me to compare to schools, not for you to talk about how you think you are better than everyone else. I have heard about top notch schools having a plethora of stuck-up people, and you certainly aren't dispelling these myths with your attitude on this topic. Just say you think Michigan is better,okay?.... not that people at UConn are inferior, have you ever gone there? Maybe this has answered my question, I should go somewhere with down to earth people like UConn. </p>
<p>I'm interested in environmental policy/law so I'm unsure which school is better at enviroscience...anyone know?
And yes this is speculatory, but if I got into Michigan I'd like to know the facts before I jump to signing the dotted line. I'll let you all know next week my decision!</p>
<p>I have to agree with Yao. UConn does not compare to UMich. UConn doesn't even belong on the same playing field as UMich. A UMich degree is worth much, much more than a degree from UConn. To put it bluntly, UConn is simply a state school for mediocre people from Connecticut.</p>
<p>I think it's great and all that you're defending your school, but you can't ignore the cold, hard facts.</p>
<p>I'm also not only interested in the academics, that's big, but I want to know socially which is better for someone. I think both are great, but I mean it comes down to the fact of at UMich do you feel like a number/ slip through the system, and at UConn will it be challenging enough in LSA? Those are two of my major concerns.</p>
<p>Say I get into UMich, but because of cost and distance, go to UConn, am I still not the same student, who's good enough to be at Michigan? Think of it that way. I'd say academically it's tougher to get into Michigan, I just want to know if it really THAT much different from UConn once actually in. </p>
<p>Oh, and "mediocre" is not bottom 10% at UMich either......let's be real, anyone good enough to get in period isn't a mediocre student, we can all agree on that.</p>
<p>It is not different. I'm a college junior, and none of my friends who go to top schools feel that their education is superior. That is just not the case. Go where you will be happiest. I will give the slight edge to Michigan, but it is not that much better. Haha, they think michigan is on the level of an ivy league school. It is not!!!! It is what you make of yourself when you are there. I know that recently I beat out students from schools considered better than mine for a job. I also know that their might be individuals that go to schools less known than UConn that can get better jobs than me.
Remember one important thing, the school you go to may get you in the door at a particular company, but it will not keep you there. People may be academically superior to others, but may not have the personality to make in their industry. "Street smarts" is the name of the game. You either have it or you don't. A high class education can't provide that for you. Most of what you learn in college, anyways, is different from real world situations. If you argue this, then save your money and get a blue collar job.</p>
<p>It's ranked #22 in the country, better than Georgetown. It's the second best public school in the nation. That's pretty damn good.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you're just mad you were rejected from Michigan a while ago because, simply, you weren't smart enough.</p>
<p>Stop dissing UMichigan, you obviously have no idea what you're saying.</p>
<p>Wow, im really getting to you. I never applied there. I couldn't have afforded it!!!! Michigan is a good school. I never said it wasn't.</p>
<p>OKAY FOR THE RECORD NO CALLING PEOPLE DUMB OR NOT SMART OR ANYTHING ON THIS THREAD, stop bullying each other!!!! I've heard enough of you guys bickering.....agree to disagree.</p>
<p>You get to be insufferable for the rest of your life during football season if you go to U mich.</p>
<p>hahah yay! (This may burst your bubble but I am a HUGE Notre Dame football fan). And ironically I'm a huge Syracuse Bball fan, and yet I'm deciding between UMich and UConn, lol, how'd that happen.</p>
<p>the fact that you said that you never applied to michigan because u knew u couldn't afford it, either shows that you are lying, or you had no idea how college financial aid works. Michigan offered me more money than my state school. and this is even more the case at top schools like HYPS. If you can get in, u can afford to go.
It is true that someone from someone from Connecticut might get better jobs, get into better grad school. But, on average, Michigan students are better than Connecticut student in every way. Also, college is not about getting a job, it is an experience that you get to take for the rest of your life. This is why I tell people to goto the best school with the best feel possible. It's also funny that you are the one that mentioned blue collar jobs.</p>
<p>You both sound like 5 year olds</p>
<ul>
<li>the average student at umich is, by numbers and scores, superior to the average student at uconn</li>
<li>test scores and gpa are not necessarily predictors of success in life</li>
<li>a motivated person will succeed and get a job whether they go to umich or uconn</li>
</ul>
<p>im of the belief that the reason so many people come out of harvard, princeton, yale and go on to change the world is because they are talented and motivated human beings to begin with, and surrounded themselves by similarly distinguished people, not because that particular university "made them" superior and influential</p>