What other schools are you considering?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
1

<p>Obviously, many of you are applying to several universities other than Michigan. Which ones are you applying to and what are your top 3 or 4 in order of preference?</p>

<p>I applied to 11 universities back in the day and was accepted to 10. Brown (accepted), Cal-Berkeley (accepted), Chicago (accepted), Columbia (accepted), Cornell (accpeted), Duke (accepted), Georgetown (accepted), Michigan(accepted), North Carolina-Chapel Hill (rejected), Northwestern (accepted), Penn (accepted). </p>

<p>My final three were Michigan, Cal and Chicago. </p>

<p>How about all of you?</p>

2

<p>Top choice: University of Michigan...Go Blue!
I'm also applying/have applied to: Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and Kalamazoo College
I might also apply to: Case Western Reserve University, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Pennsylvania, or others. I'm really not even sure if I'll even apply to any of these schools as most are reaches and I would love to go to UMich even if I was accepted to one of the others anyway.</p>

3

<p>Columbia
Cornell
Northwestern
U Wisc
U Illinois
U Tex
Rose-Hulman IT
Purdue</p>

<p>so Mich is on the reach side for me.</p>

4

<p>I am almost positive michigan is my first choice. but im applying to
penn
ea to stanford
maybe washington univ or johns hopkins
cal-berkeley
case western reserve
ohio state
emory (realistically second choice)</p>

5

<p>Pman, how can Michigan be your first choice and apply to Ohio State at the same time?! LOL Seriously though, Stanford is awesome. If I had the grades to get into it, it would have been my first choice. After Stanford, Michigan is the best unversity on your list. So here's hoping you get into Stanford. But if don't, then I hope you go to Michigan. A great place to spend 4 years.</p>

6

<p>Alexandre, I just went back in the archives and found this. You said you didnt have the grades to get into stanford, but you had the grades to get into Duke, columbia, berkeley, cornell? I would think that you would have a shot at least at Stanford, is there any reason you didnt even try. I mean, look at you acceptance rate, 10 for 11. And any clue why you didnt get into Chapel Hill while you got into so many more selective places? Just curious.</p>

<p>Anyways, I have changed my ranking of school. Penn-wharton is my first choice. Michigan is my second choice, closely closely followed by Berkeley and Emory.</p>

<p>My final list of places im applying is</p>

<ol>
<li> University of Pennsylvania-Wharton</li>
<li> Columbia University</li>
<li> Stanford University (REJECTED)</li>
<li> University of Michigan- Ann Arbor (ACCEPTED)</li>
<li> University of California- Berkeley</li>
<li> Emory University</li>
<li> Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li> Case Western Reserve University</li>
<li> Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Ohio State University (ACCEPTED)</li>
</ol>

7

<p>I only applied to 3 schools: Michigan State University (accepted), University of Michigan (accepted), and Northwestern University (won't know until March). </p>

<p>I'm basically not even considering Michigan State anymore since I like Michigan and Northwestern a lot more than that university. However, I have to say that if I had my choice between the two of them, I'd choose Northwestern (even though I do love both of them). I don't know. There are just some aspects of Northwestern (such as the smaller size compared to Michigan) that I really like and that I wouldn't see at U of M. However, I won't be disappointed if I do end up at Michigan in the end.</p>

8

<p>Who knew that I'd feel really guilty typing that (because I did)? I think that my final choice is going to be a really tough one because I really and truly like those two schools.</p>

<p>Alexandre -
That's really strange that you didn't get into North Carolina (I haven't seen thos thread before so...).</p>

9

<p>cornell (rejected)
washington U
carnegie mellon
michigan
case western
virginia tech
wisconsin</p>

10

<p>PMan, when I applied to university, back in 1991, Duke, Cornell, Penn and Cal all had acceptance rates in the 30+% range. H,P,S,M and Y all had acceptance rates under 20%. </p>

<p>My GPA was actually very average. I was like a 3.5-3.6 student. I was ranked 7th in a class of 20. My recommendations were bad since my teachers did not like me. In short, I left much to be desired. I did have three strenghts:</p>

<p>1) I had a 1540 on my SAT. That was before the re-centering of the scores in 1995. In 1991, a 1540 was amazing. The mean at Harvard was 1350. The mean at most of the schools I applied to was between 1200 and 1300. Only 12 people in the world had perfect 1600 scores.</p>

<p>2) My essays were excellent. Although not technically great, my essays are usually effective.</p>

<p>3) My life experiences were rather interesting, from my languages (I am fluent in 4 languages and conversational in another) to my academic background.</p>

<p>But that would not have been enough to get me into the likes of H,P,S,Y and M. I was actually shocked when I got into 10 of the 11 schools I applied to. </p>

<p>The order in which I selected my scholls was as follows:</p>

<h1>1 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>

<h1>2 University of California-Berkeley</h1>

<h1>3 University of Chicago</h1>

<h1>4 Northwestern University</h1>

<h1>5 Brown University</h1>

<h1>6 Columbia University</h1>

<h1>7 University of Pennsylvania</h1>

<h1>8 Cornell University</h1>

<h1>9 Duke University</h1>

<h1>10 Georgetown University</h1>

<p>Ironically, UNC was my last choice! LOL</p>

11

<p>michigan (accepted), unc (ea), johns hopkins, cornell, rutgers (accepted)</p>

12

<p>Of my list of schools, I am only positive of my #1 and that is Notre Dame. I am applying with a 1470 top 5% and lots of ECs.
Notre Dame
Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Illinois (accepted)
Yale (probably rejected)
Northwestern
Wheaton (scholarship)
Hope (scholarship)
Gordon (scholarship)
Western Michigan (potential huge scholarship)</p>

13

<p>Well alexandre, i think if your SAT was that good back then and you did have such great essays and interesting experiences, i think you still had a pretty good chance at Stanford. Hey, I applied to Stanford and I dont have anywhere near you qualifications, I have a 1470 SAT after 1995...</p>

14

<p>my 8 schools are:</p>

<p>Uchicago
uiuc (accepted)
U of arizona (accepted with full scholarship)
U of michigan
U of florida
Cornell
Washington U
UVa</p>

<p>My top school is chicago but i wont know until march.</p>

15

<p>Yale
Harvard (deferred)
Amherst
Brown
Columbia
Wesleyan
Vassar
Dartmouth
Williams
Brandeis
Florida (in-state)</p>

16

<p>Northwestern Early (rejected)
UPenn
Dartmouth
JHU
U. Michigan
NYU
Claremont Mckenna
UMD CP
PSU</p>

17

<p>USC, UCLA/SD/Berk, UNC (ea), UMich, UW (Seattle)</p>

18

<p>University of Mich-AA (ACCEPTED)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (DEFERRED, makes no sense)
Tufts University (ACCEPTED E.D.1.)
Indiana University (ACCEPTED)</p>

<p>I feel bad about not being able to attend UM, but in my withdrawal letter i wrote how much i loved the school and that they should expect to see my application for graduate admission in 2009. But I am stoked about Tufts, I get to move back to boston, my hometown, and it's a great place, but UM is definitely a terrific school too.</p>

19

<p>UNC is probably the toughest for out-of-state, as it is mandated to take no more than 18% (compared to 35% for Michigan). I have several students who were admitted by Michigan, UVa and Cornell, but none got into UNC.</p>

<p>AndyLappin: Indeed it makes no sense that you are deferred by Wisconsin. The admission process there seems rather random lately (at least based on my limited samples). Two years ago, they admitted virtually everyone from my son's HS. Last year, they rejected about a third, and asked for mid-year reports for some.</p>

20

<p>1st Choice: Umich
2nd Choice: TCU
3rd Choice: University of Florida
4th Choice: University of Kansas</p>