<p>For Engineering</p>
<p>Wow, that was brief! ;)</p>
<p>What kind of Engineering? Any career goals once you graduate? Do you have personal preferences as far as campus setting is concerned? Is cost of attendance a factor to consider (are you IS at Michigan or did you get a scholarship or FA from one of those two schools)?</p>
<p>For Engineering, all things being equal, Michigan is significantly better than Notre Dame. However, personal circumstances and preferences could level the playing field.</p>
<p>It is now 6:47 AM. Just waiting to see how long it takes someone we all know to chime in with his opinion…</p>
<p>@rjkofnovi: I think he should go to Duke, don’t you? Even though that’s not what he asked at all… And, your original comment made my day.</p>
<p>Any field of Engineering = Michigan</p>
<p>all else equal… Michigan for sure</p>
<p>I’m female interested in mechanical engineering, I’m OOS but Michigan has giving me two scholarship and grants. I know michigan has a great program but it’s such a large school. How do I make it feel small?</p>
<p>The concept of the large vs small university is blow out of proportion. Unless you have behavioral problems, you can fit in as easily in a large university as you can in a small one. Whether a university has 5,000 or 50,000 students, the student body is not going to function as one unit. They aren’t all going to habd out together, get to know each other, eat together etc… Either way, students are going to join organizations and meet fellow students with similar intellectual and social interests. That is the way a student makes a university, regardless of size, home.</p>
<p>The beginning classes are huge (gen chem, intro psych, calc), but they’re not a problem if you can get the time to find a tutor/GSI/time for your professor… I would imagine that the later classes you take would have significantly smaller class sizes. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. If you got what it takes, the size of the rest of the school will be fine.</p>
<p>Oh, and as for calc… they’re broken down into small discussion sections, so mine have both just been in a tiny room with probably 20 people tops in my class. Calc I I had an actual professor teaching us, Calc II I have a GSI. Both have been very helpful and have had no problem explaining concepts I’ve had trouble grasping.</p>
<p>The actual size sucks sometimes for your long walks, but at the same time, I like taking in the scenery for those walks. It’s nice going from a school with 400 kids w/ about 100 showing up for a football game to a school with 40,000 people and 110,000 showing up for football games lol. Still crazy to me how such a large area and such large buildings are all for one school ha… It’s nice.</p>
<p>Trust me, in terms of the large school question, among the people in your freshman dorm hall/suite, the student organizations you join, and possibly greek life (if you’re interested in that kind of thing), it is very easy to make the school small.</p>
<p>The saying is, you can make a big school small but you can’t make a small school big.</p>