<p>And that’s comparing 2010-2011 costs (including books and other expenses) at Michigan to 2009-2010 costs (not including books and other expenses) at WUSTL. There is roughly an $8,000/year difference for the first two years and $5,000/ year difference the last two years.</p>
<p>Tyler09: Actually you said half of WUSTL students are mediocre (ludicrous on its face), and since they are smarter than UM students by your own admission UM must have a whole lot more mediocre students than good students. Strange thing to say for a UM booster. And the question about acting smart is perfectly legitimate. I have no idea what you mean by it.</p>
<p>As far as your sentence construction and babbling, I was just quietly pointing out that if this is the output of a typical UM student, I can only assume you fall into that mediocre majority. It wasn’t so much that it troubled me, it is that it was unintelligible. “…so the whole student body things probably bears out even less.” Huh? And now you are saying it is (slightly) anti-intellectual? That is highly amusing. Since the students are so much smarter than UM (again, your statement) UM must be positively Cro-Magnon.</p>
<p>The professors statement is just too idiotic to argue about.</p>
<p>You really shouldn’t make it so obvious that Wash U turned you down.</p>
<p>^I’m just going to let you keep all of those statements/assumptions, but hopefully the people looking for advice on this thread will find helpful what I have said so far… :)</p>
<p>Though one place where I suppose I could clarify is that in this pair of sentences:</p>
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<p>I was saying that if you are the type of student who gets into Wash U, your experience at Michigan will be x. I say that because I attend Michigan, and that has been my experience. I then proceeded to say that at Wash U you might feel that way about a still significant, but smaller number of your peers. I then concluded that the difference won’t be that apparent in your everyday interactions with people. HopefullyI didn’t confuse anyone else.</p>
<p>“You really shouldn’t make it so obvious that Wash U turned you down.”</p>
<p>This statement seems to be very popular with the WUSTL supporters here on CC. Just because someone questions certain aspects of WUSTL, this doesn’t mean that they ever even applied there, let alone were “turned down.”</p>
<p>“You really shouldn’t make it so obvious that Wash U turned you down.”</p>
<p>I’m actually going to enjoy this one: do me a favor and click on Tyler’s profile and let me know where Tyler was accepted last year Wash U turn him down? Damn, that’s cute. Know your facts before you talk a big game, hot shot.</p>
<p>It was a sarcastic comment, not a statement of fact. His posts are so ridiculous, making sweeping statements about anti-intellectualism at WUSTL, that UM professors are far superior, etc. that he just begs to be made light of. I suppose you are right that I should resist such a temptation, but come on people. You really don’t find his post #194 completely absurd on its face? I think in 10 years or so if he comes back and reads it he will cringe that he even said such naive, silly things.</p>
<p>Besides, just because Tyler claims whatever it is he claimed in his posts or on his profile doesn’t make it true.</p>
<p>No, what I am saying is I planned to registered a 10-month-plan which will cost me more than 41000. I know exactly how much an 8-month plan costs, I can read!!</p>
<p>And if I add WUSTL’s summer program’s cost which is around 3700(and this includes living expenses) into the total of 39000, the difference will be a little more than $1000. So all clear?</p>
<p>Exactly!! I also never applied to WUSTL. This statement is very annoying.</p>
<p>The WUSTL supporters may not like this but it’s true: WUSTL games the US News rankings through questionable tactics. Another school who engages in similar activity is USC.</p>
<p>This is about the silliest, most deteriorated thread, ever. They are both terrific schools with some different (school) culture differences.</p>
<p>But the idea that Wash U.'s student body is superior to that of Michigan is untrue, no matter the disparity in SAT means; have none of you taken note of the research about SATs not relating, a whit, to intelligence or college performance (and I speak as a parent of a kid with a 2310, so no resentment, here–I’m just researched about such things).</p>
<p>What presumptuousness, however. My daughter, accepted ED, elsewhere, was very (!) interested in Wash U. and Michigan. Had she gone to Michigan she certainly wouldn’t have been, then, a priori, an inferior applicant; she would have been a girl who made an introspective choice. And, for whatever it is worth, the kids (not representative, of course, of everyone at Wash U) I know at Wash U. are not particularly imaginative–they are very (!) hardworkers, bright, but I wouldn’t classify the (current) 5 I know of as being iconoclastic, creative thinkers–high stats, you betcha, but the idea that high stats makes one student body superior to the other is the most concrete and sophomoric way of judging gifts and true talent. </p>
<p>Ok, someone should close this thread and stop the argument. We need peace here in Midwest. So, can someone please make a new thread about Duke VS UNC or Stanford VS Berkeley? ^.~</p>
Wash U turn him down? Damn, that’s cute. Know your facts before you talk a big game, hot shot.</p>