<p>Agree, ND is certainly not for everybody. In Michigan, depending on your family’s circle, ND might as well be included in with HYPSM, maybe a very slight notch below. CC members aren’t the general populous, most people can’t rattle off the top 25 schools in the nation, down to their freshmen profiles. People know Michigan is a great school, but they also know dozens of family members, friend’s kids, et al. there. HYPSM & ND are rarely heard and are going to stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>I didn’t say Michigan (i.e., public school) students should feel inferior, but they apparently do, as illustrated in attribute’s earlier response. Many Michigan grads harp on about how they wish the acceptance rate would lower as if it rewrites history and loathe the public school stigma.</p>
<p>where are you going to college, lakeforest?</p>
<p>nubswitstubs,</p>
<p>Michigan or Northwestern.</p>
<p>oh are you a rising senior in HS? otherwise, why haven’t you decided? for some reason i figured you were a rising freshman in college</p>
<p>LF, are you a RISING senior who hasn’t actually applied to schools yet?</p>
<p>“In Michigan, depending on your family’s circle, ND might as well be included in with HYPSM.”</p>
<p>So what? We are talking about the vast majority of elite students, not just a select few. </p>
<p>“HYPSM & ND are rarely heard and are going to stand out from the crowd.”</p>
<p>In Catholic circles I suppose this could be true. With top students from other ethnic/relgious backgrounds, no one is going to equate ND with HYPSM. It’s really not even open for discussion. IMHO, Notre Dame would not even be an afterthought to the vast majority of non Catholic top students. Even though I am not Catholic (obviously), I would have say that even for the majority of top Catholic students for prestige and academics ND is not HYPSM…or a number of other fine schools.</p>
<p>You guys are hard to talk to because you’re so biased. Just because you don’t want to go there doesn’t make it criminal that people put more value on the private and more exclusive education offered at ND than the public education at Michigan. For whatever reason, a lot of competitive families of means won’t allow their children to be either “another number” at a large public school, or another one of the dozens in their social circle headed there. I personally don’t feel that way, but a lot of my friends parents do. I guess if you’ve been eschewing your kids from public school their whole life, why put them in one for college? Not sure, but it’s their money. And when we’re talking about elite schools, the difference in instruction is fairly minimal. At the end of the day, bragging rights and prestige are major factors.</p>