<p>I'm Stuck between MSU WSU and UFM Dearborn. </p>
<p>also i want to do some computer engineering as well as premed and go on to med school to become an orthopedic surgeon. the computer science will be my back up in case I don't get accepted or decide medical school isn't for me. i was wondering which of theses schools would be better for me. </p>
<p>I'm not a party kid, though i like getting together with some (up to 5 usually) friends and hanging out often.</p>
<p>i want to go to a "big" school where people mind their own business and you get to know a close group of friends, not a bunch of loose friends. (i have a few close friends who already go to Wayne, but also some people who i don't want to see if i can avoid them(family)</p>
<p>i like MSU cause its big, but the town doesn't look like it has much to do, like Detroit or Dearborn, where there's always something going on. (correct me if I'm wrong)</p>
<p>then there's prestige, from what i hear Dearborn is considered the University of Michigan on the diploma and there's no difference between it and the Ann Arbor campus</p>
<p>3.4 Weighted& 29 ACT from PCEP (Canton High school)
200+ hours at local hospital
50+ hours through key club international</p>
<p>The saving could come in handy in paying large tuition charged by med school if you get admitted.
However, the downside of being a commuter is that you may miss out the fun of exploring & meeting new students from around the counry (& world), especially during the freshman year.</p>
<p>Have you assessed the net price for each of the schools? </p>
<p>Note that despite what the diploma may state, there is a big difference between Ann Arbor & Dearborn. At all levels, Ann Arbor is a far better campus than Dearborn. It has well established research labs & a better accomplished student body & faculty.</p>
<p>Why do you want such a big school? Are you okay with being just a number in a lecture hall filled with hundreds of students? I wouldn’t consider Msu personally.
I’m from Detroit. I think it would be between Wayne and UM-D depending on what you want to focus on. Wayne excels in the health and medical fields while Dearborn excels in engineering and the sciences. Both are commuter schools so I don’t think kids will be “in your business” as much. Lol. Have you visited any campus?</p>
<p>@barrk123 What you said is true, but wouldn’t the difference only be known locally? I think, on a national level, if a prospective employer saw the words ‘The University of Michigan’ on a resume, the prestige would still be there.</p>
<p>No, I think employers nationally know that Ann Arbor is the main campus and any other location is not the same. Maybe because Ann Arbor has such a reputation as a great college town… and certainly it gets mentioned a lot on nationally televised football games. You are fooling yourself to think the prestige (and difficulty/challenges/rewards that go with it) are the same. I agree with barrk123, MSU is more prestigious than Dearborn.</p>
<p>I am sort of confused about your comment about big schools and “loose friends” vs. “close friends”. I don’t think the size of the school has anything to do with that. If anything, it can be harder to develop a group of “close friends” at a bigger school. One of my D’s friends started at a large school last week, and she complained to D that she met some cool people, but then “lost” them because the school was big and she never saw them again. Just saying it takes some effort at any size campus, but it is not easier to find close friends at a large school</p>
<p>I’m wondering if the student means that the diploma doesn’t say “Dearborn”? Maybe the issue is that resume and diploma will say U Michigan and from that he’ll get the same prestige?</p>
<p>Maybe, but I wouldn’t go to a college on the off chance that you might be successful in confusing an employer.</p>
<p>Your degree should indicate in some way that you attended Dearborn. My degree from UCLA states that it’s from ‘The University of California at Los Angeles.’</p>
<p>I would go for MSU. It has a strong sense of pride and community that WSU and Dearborn do not have. Plus MSU is an excellent academic institution, to say nothing of its solid football and excellent basketball programs. </p>
<p>Just to make it clear, graduate schools and employers will ask which University of Michigan you attended, and they will differentiate between Ann Arbor and Dearborn, just as they would differentiate between UCLA and UC Riverside, or between UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Charlotte, or between UIUC and UI Chicago.</p>
<p>Just to clear some things up a little, if you attended UM Dearborn, you really shouldn’t put “University of Michigan” without including the " - Dearborn" on your resume. There are many employers that would consider that intentional falsification of application materials. Not good at all. As for the difference between UM Dearborn and the University of Michigan, it’s huge. They have their own separate budgets, atmosphere, faculty, student standards, opportunities, program requirements, goals, etc.</p>
<p>Back to the original question though, I too would recommend MSU over Wayne or Dearborn. MSU is a very good school and it will almost certainly have more opportunities available compared to the other two.</p>