<p>The choices are now down to UM, Case Western or UCSD. Major: EngLit/Pol Sci or perhaps economics. The end game is law school. </p>
<p>Any thoughts or advices?</p>
<p>What sort of environment do you want socially?
What kind of weather do you prefer?
How do the costs compare?
What are your extracurricular interests?</p>
<p>Answering Allcapella’s questions:
outgoing but not a party girl…<br>
weather: with 360 days of sunshine a year, who can beat UCSD, but… that is not as important as what the college will bring. We know how miserable UM weather is, but it is just not fair compare the beach with the snow.
Cost: UM is about 200K, UCSD 120k, Case 140k. 300k has been set aside for both undergrad/law school.
EC: journalism, speech and debate.</p>
<p>I would go to Michigan hands down if you still have another 100K to spare for law school on top of that. You might end up getting scholarships to law school so the total COA may end up being less than 100K.</p>
<p>U of M is a far better school and offers a much richer academic environment compared to your other two options.</p>
<p>Go to UCSD. </p>
<p>It’s a fairly good school. Going for the cheaper is usually better when dealing with liberal arts major especially if when is interested in going to grad-school later on. For engineering/business it’s a different case.</p>
<p>UCSD is dead socially and imo not a very good academic environment for interests outside of the sciences. I’m a California resident and I’ve visited UCSD many times.</p>
<p>I think any of those three will adequately prepare you for law school, and all three are well respected.</p>
<p>allcapella, while I agree that all three universities are well respected, for some reason, Michigan places a lot more students than Case or UCSD into top law schools. For example, there are currently 23 Michigan alums enrolled at Chicago and Yale Law schools combined, compared to just 1 Case alum and 5 UCSD alums. </p>
<p>Another very important consideration is the fact that Michigan has its own law school and many Michigan alums end up going their for law school. At any time, there are 150 or so Michigan alums enrolled at Michigan Law school, compared to less than 10 UCSD alums and fewer than 3 Case alums. </p>
<p>Altogether, 110-130 Michigan graduates enroll at T14 Law schools annually. I doubt more than 20-25 do so from UCSD, or more than 10 from Case.</p>
<p>This may mean nothing but it is worth noting.
<a href=“http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/Announcements%202012-13%20FINAL.pdf[/url]”>http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/Announcements%202012-13%20FINAL.pdf</a> (pages 176-179)</p>
<p><a href=“Welcome | Office of the University Printer”>Welcome | Office of the University Printer; (pages 159-161)</p>
<p>Thank you for all your kind advices. My daughter has made her decision. Go Blue!</p>
<p>She’s going to have a great experience. There is no better place to get one’s undergraduate education than Michigan.</p>
<p>Your daughter has made the right choice.</p>