<p>I got into both, but can't decide which to go to....i also got into tulane but am pretty sure I don't want to go there.</p>
<p>Out of state for both, undecided on my major......opinions?? which do you prefer and why
thanks!</p>
<p>They are both tremendous state colleges and you won’t
regret no matter whwere you decide to go, according to people.
IMO, Umich has a little more honor and prestige than UNC does.
Umich is def. an all-rounded college. As a senior who applied to both
and still waiting for their answers, I would choose Umich.
But if there is financial difficulty, then I recommend going to UNC
It will be about 2/3 of what Umich ask for.</p>
<p>Personally I really wouldn’t mind where I go if I were in your position.</p>
<p>I was accepted to UNC and deferred from UMich (crossing my fingers that I get in!). They’re both great schools, but personally I would choose UMich over UNC in a heartbeat. Their academics are the best of state schools save UCB and UCLA, and I love their large student body and a 50:50 girl-guy ratio…(UNC is 60% female which I hate)</p>
<p>Never thought I’d post here – just ■■■■■■■■ for my son – but as a UNC alum who also has many UM friends, and who loved a visit to Ann Arbor, I felt I should say something.</p>
<p>Biggest message: you cannot go wrong. I don’t know any two schools that inspire the kind of loyalty, joy, even love from their alumni, that these two do. (I turned down Penn, Williams, Duke and others to attend UNC, and it was the best decision I ever made.) You are very fortunate. And the schools have a lot in common, so your experience may not end up being that different.</p>
<p>I would choose based on five factors.</p>
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<li><p>Does weather matter to you? It is difficult to overstate the euphoria that sweeps Chapel Hill in March as spring begins, and the sun shines. You will wait longer in Ann Arbor. </p></li>
<li><p>Do you like southerners? Carolina limits out of state admissions, and therefore you will meet a lot of not too smart people from rural North Carolina. I don’t know if there is a parallel at Michigan.</p></li>
<li><p>Where do you want to live when you graduate? It is fun having fellow alums around. So, if Chicago, I would lean Michigan. If the south, obviously Carolina. I suspect NY is a wash, same for LA/SF.</p></li>
<li><p>What do you want to study? Carolina has some world class departments, some less so. Don’t know if same is true for Michigan.</p></li>
<li><p>Are you in the honors program at either school? At Carolina, this is significant (smaller class size, special status); can’t speak for Michigan.</p></li>
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<p>Take this with a grain of salt; I attended a long time ago, and recent knowledge is limited (though I am confident the weather is the same).</p>
<p>Mostly, congratulations. If you choose Michigan, I hope my son (unfortunately, an engineering major and therefore zero interest in Carolina) is your classmate.</p>
<p>“4. What do you want to study? Carolina has some world class departments, some less so. Don’t know if same is true for Michigan.”</p>
<p>Michigan is definitely the stronger all around academic program. I like UNC, but only Berkeley bests Michigan in this broad area.</p>
<p>thanks for all your input…very interesting things to consider.</p>
<p>for what it’s worth, i am not interested in engineering (in which i know michigan has a very big edge over unc)</p>
<p>I agree with DCHeel. You cannot go wrong either way. </p>
<p>If money is a concern, definitely go to UNC. You can save $40,000 over 4 years by going there.</p>
<p>If money is not a concern, I would go with fit. Michigan has slightly stronger programs/departments across the board and has a slightly “bigger name”, but the margin is negligible. I would look at other factors such as campus vibe and culture (both excel in this domain in their own different ways), athletics (UNC rules in Baskebtall while Michigan is more of a Football and Hockey school) etc…</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>^How do the business schools compare? Does ross provide enough of an advantage that its definitely worth 40K more</p>
<p>Both have excellent undergraduate Business programs. Unfortunately, I do not think that Kenan Flagler releases detailed placement information into specific companies. However, I think Ross is better recruited by Midwestern, New York (IBanks and Management Consulting firms) and California (Tech firms such as Microsoft and Google) firms. On the other hand, Kenan Flagler will obviously be much stronger in Southeast and South. Both will be relatively strong in the mid-Atlantic (DC, MD and PA).</p>
<p>Ross>Kenan Flagler. For Business the extra 40K is worth it, especially if you’re thinking about going into finance.</p>
<p>UNC!<br>
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<p>Michigan!!!</p>
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<p>What does ‘wash’ mean?</p>
<p>Also what is your job?</p>
<p>what can anybody tell me about anthropology/classics at umich vs. unc?</p>
<p>"Where do you want to live when you graduate? It is fun having fellow alums around. "</p>
<p>Michigan has approx. 480,000 living alumni throughout the world. UNC about 270,000.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>If we’re going by number of alumni, obviously Penn State would be the best choice for the OP. :)</p>
<p>I’m going to be (hopefully) struggling with this same issue in a few weeks (god willing I get into UNC which is unlikely) and I always told myself Id pick UNC over any school but after visiting Michigan as an accepted student, I absolutely loved it, and I know it’s going to be really difficult to make a decision between the two. The thing I liked about Michigan is that I feel like I have more flexibility with whatever major I may choose.</p>
<p>^^^That’s because Michigan has no academic weaknesses. Whatever you major in, it is going to be among the top departments in the country.</p>
<p>If we’re going by number of alumni, obviously Penn State would be the best choice for the OP</p>
<p>480,000 is a lot closer to 514,000 than 270,000. ;-)</p>
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UNC has a slightly stronger classics department. Virtually any major classics department anywhere in the world is likely to have at least one Carolina graduate. Michigan also has an exceedingly strong classics department, and no undergraduate would notice much difference between the two.</p>
<p>What makes UNC particularly attractive is that it is in a consortium with Duke, which also has a top 5-ish classics program. The classics programs and faculty at Duke and UNC are highly interconnected; there is a joint track within the PhD programs of both, and professors at Duke and UNC frequently co-teach courses. A bus runs between the two every 30 minutes. The only schools or consortiums that come close to matching this amount of classical brainpower are Penn/Bryn Mawr and Columbia/NYU/CUNY (the latter only at the graduate level).</p>
<p>As for anthropology, it depends on the track.
[ul][<em>]Biological - Michigan has the stronger program by default, as Carolina has virtually no biological anthropology offerings. The consortium may again come into play here, however; Duke is a bioanth powerhouse.
[</em>]Cultural - It’s a toss-up. Michigan has historically been stronger, but I doubt an undergraduate would notice much difference. Both are similarly matched in sociology.
[*]Archaeology - Evenly matched. There is admittedly some fudging of numbers; Michigan beefs up its archaeology faculty by counting scholars in the Museum of Anthropology and emeritus professors who rarely teach, whereas UNC does the same with its state-funded archaeology research labs. Along with only a handful of others (Arizona, Berkeley, Brown, Penn, UCLA), they’re both among the very best archaeology programs in the country. Archaeology is a rapidly expanding field at UNC, and many of the scholars are quite young; that has the advantage of new and fresh people and ideas but the disadvantage of them being relatively unknown in academia.[/ul]</p>