<p>Could someone please give me good reasons to choose one of the schools over the others??? I can't decide between these three... I'll give some background information:
Male
From Michigan, so UofM is cheaper
I personally prefer warmer weather
Wanna major in business and math
Planning on joining greek life, love socializing/partying
Want intramurals
Ultimately, want a great education and degree</p>
<p>Could someone tell me about the three schools and which would fit these preferences best??</p>
<p>^ Agree! If you lived in Texas, the answer would by UT Austin, and if you lived in VA, the answer would be UVa.</p>
<p>However, if your stats are high enough you are confident you’ll be admitted to all 3, then there may be good alternatives to all of them. Selective private schools generally offer much better need-based aid than public schools do (especially compared to what public schools offer OOS students). For Math and other liberal arts, a number of private schools have departments that are at least as strong as Michigan/UVa/Texas, but with smaller average class sizes. For business, it may be harder to beat Michigan without getting admitted to a super-selective school like Penn/Wharton. In any case, for Greek life, socializing and partying, you may well prefer Michigan to any highly selective, private alternatives.</p>
<p>People are going to view those 3 schools as being rather similar so go where it’s most affordable unless your parents are wealthy and can pay for wherever you want to go. Both UT and UVA are hard to get into OOS.</p>
<p>Go to Mich…awesome B school.</p>
<p>what are your parents saying about paying? </p>
<p>I agree, the three schools are very similar so if UM is instate, it seems the obvious choice. The only concern with business at UM is that unless you are a preferred admit to Ross it can be competitive to get in the b-school (especially if you are planning on doing a lot of of partying) so you need a back-up major in case you don’t get in. </p>
<p>“For Math and other liberal arts, a number of private schools have departments that are at least as strong as Michigan/UVa/Texas, but with smaller average class sizes.”</p>
<p>How big do you think math classes are in Ann Arbor tk? Tell me the number of private schools (excluding LACs) that have math departments as strong as Michigan’s. </p>
<p>money isn’t necessarily an issue but I think I would feel guilty making my parents spend so much money on a college when they could spend more than 3x less sending me to Michigan. I just felt that maybe it would be cool to experience life outside of Michigan for a few years and thats really why I’m considering the other schools over UofM.
Thanks again</p>
<p>If you want to experience life outside of MI, consider doing a semester or year abroad or at a school in the US that has a reciprocal agreement with UM. Really not worth the money to do an OOS school that is the equivalent of your in state option…</p>
<p>Study abroad in a warmer weather country for a year.</p>
<p>A self contained college town is often extremely different than the state it’s located in because brilliant people come in from all over the world to study and teach at a particular school. </p>
<p>While there are reasons to pay 3X as much for UT Austin over Michigan, preferring warm weather is not one of those reasons.</p>
<p>“While there are reasons to pay 3X as much for UT Austin over Michigan, preferring warm weather is not one of those reasons.”</p>
<p>Neither are academics or prestige reasons to pay that much more for Texas. Actually, I can see reasons why Michigan would be worth paying three times as much as UTA moreso than the other way around. Furthermore, while Ann Arbor is a wonderful place, it is not extremely different than the state it is located in. </p>
<p>For the winter 2014 term, it looks like they have numerous sections of Math 116 (Calculus II) with capacity 31 or so, taught by graduate student instructors.</p>
<p>At the sophomore level, Math 217 (Linear Algebra) appears to be taught in 30 student sections by faculty members, but Math 215 (Calculus III) is taught in large lectures by faculty with graduate student instructor led discussions. But math majors are likely to take instead courses like Math 295 and 296 (Honors Math I and II) that has a capacity of 20, taught by a faculty member, or substitute Math 255 (Honors Calculus III), taught in 25 student sections by faculty members, for Math 215.</p>
<p>At the upper division level, math majors take either Math 351 or 451, among other courses. Math 351 (Principles of Analysis) has capacity 20, taught by a faculty member. Math 451 (Advanced Calculus I) has several sections of capacity 30, taught by faculty members.</p>
<p>Similarly, Math 412 or 493 is required for math majors. Math 412 (Intro to Modern Algebra) has capacity 30, taught by faculty members. Math 493 is apparently the honors version, not taught this semester.</p>
<p>Math is a subject that, at even the biggest research universities, most upper division courses (and honors lower division courses, if offered) will be in small faculty-led sections. So the usual advantages of LACs are more limited for math majors (particularly the more advanced ones who have already completed much of the lower division course work) than for (for example) biology majors.</p>
<p>“Math is a subject that, at even the biggest research universities, most upper division courses (and honors lower division courses, if offered) will be in small faculty-led sections.”</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to prove my point ucbalumnus. </p>
<p>UT Austin is much better connected to the resource extraction world than UMichigan. Of course, the OP isn’t interested in this field, so my point still stands that UT is not worth the extra cost. </p>
<p>For someone with your interests, it would be extremely difficult to justify spending money beyond what you would pay at the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>If you have been admitted to Ross at U Mich - save your money and go there. You can spend the extra on a semester abroad or you could take your History and Government requirements in summer session and transfer your credits. A popular choice at UT is summer school in Hawaii. (At least in my day)</p>