<p>Listen Coolbrezze, I know it’s a painful reminder for me to have to dig up those posts, but I (and everyone else) would have so much more respect for you if you stopped lying to yourself and accepted the truth. Michigan was your dream school.</p>
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I have not made a stupid statement, and really trying to stay on topic just refer to my list above for top ten public universities.</p>
<p>Coolbrezze, we’re not looking down on you. We’d just appreciate it more if you were honest with yourself.</p>
<p>How are Iowa, Maryland, Rutgers, OSU, Florida and UIUC all better than UM? Please explain using statistics.</p>
<p>Recharge University of Michigan was never my dream school only top choice for a short period. Michigan State University was my top choice for a long period. University of Iowa is not only my top choice ( which I will be attending) but also dream school.</p>
<p>For those of you asking for statistics since my list may seem suprising I will not be able to provide all of them now though I can with time provide a few.</p>
<p>All of the public universities you named in your list are indeed great schools, but to not include Michigan is ignorant.</p>
<p>It really isn’t, though. You’re going to be plagued with thoughts of “What if I had been accepted…” your entire time at Iowa unless you lay to rest your inner demons now. I’m seriously trying to help you out, I know what it’s like to get rejected. Denial is not the way to go.</p>
<p>Very typical. Coolbreeze continues to deflect the questions with runaround statements.</p>
<p>“For those of you asking for statistics since my list may seem suprising I will not be able to provide all of them now though I can with time provide a few.”</p>
<p>Translation: I cannot prove these few schools in my list are statistically better than Michigan, sorry.</p>
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I would only ask “what would it be like if I attended _____” to schools I have been accepted into and decline my attendance in that I had the opportunity to attend. Never would I question such for a school not being admitted into as I simply wouldn’t care.</p>
<p>To stay on topic, answering OP’s question
Looking at the big picture (figure of speech) I would say:
- University of California- Berkeley
- University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
- University of California- Los Angeles
- University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
- University of Virgnia- Charlottesville
- University of Iowa- Iowa City
- University of Wisconsin- Madison
- University of Maryland- College Park
- Ohio State University- Columbus
- University of Washington, Pennslyvania State University, University of Florida, Rutgers</p>
<p>It’s really tough to rank top ten public universities since we have such a great selection of schools in our country. After rank ten I would say many that follow after would be a few of the Big Ten schools.</p>
<p>This ranking doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>You do care. You didn’t get accepted into Michigan and my point remains. Unless you’re perfectly comfortable with who you are (part of which includes the rejection), you’re never going to come out of that state of denial.</p>
<p>Tier 1
Berkeley</p>
<p>Tier 2
Michigan, UNC, UVA, UCLA</p>
<p>Tier 3
Illinois, Texas, Georgia Tech, Wisconsin, Washington, Purdue</p>
<p>Tier 4
Maryland, Penn State, OSU, Michigan State, Iowa</p>
<p>Come on guys. How many people can say they attend a college founded by Thomas Jefferson? 
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<p>Oh, and don’t forget about UVA’s Rotunda & Lawn— sounds prestigious to me. </p>
<p>Again, I am biased. lol.</p>
<p>CUT THE MAN SOME SLACK.</p>
<p>He can’t spell “counselor.” You expect him to present a coherent ranking of schools?</p>
<p>rjk, sorry - but as the data shows, there are no “strong seconds” to UC Berkeley in the level of “prestige”.</p>
<p>Michigan, UCLA or Virginia are probably #2 - but very far behind.</p>
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<p>fully agree</p>
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<p>Entertainer, please review the departmental rankings posted and come back to correct your statement.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
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<p>JohnAdams12, you never listed rankings for nursing, public health, social work, information science, social policy, higher education, and other professional specialties. No matter what you believe, Michigan is arguably second-best when you include those statistics. Compared to the rest of the publics, more than 70% of Michigan’s departments are ranked in the top 15 which makes it very well-rounded. If you want to include my graduate programs, both are ranked higher than Berkeley.</p>
<p>but coolbreeze, any way you look at it, Univ. of Michigan is a top 10 and most likely a top 5 public university for prestige</p>
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<p>fully agree with Entertainer here</p>
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