<p>Hello, </p>
<p>I am a transfer student who has received a full ride to UW-Madison. I will most likely go there. I have already posted this on UW-Madison's forum, but I wanted to hear both sides. Did any one of you guys have to decide between UW-Madison or UM-Ann Arbor in your senior year or before you transferred? I will be studying actuarial science/mathematics. Is there so much difference between the AS program at Michigan and at Wisconsin? If you had a full ride to UW-Madison but not to UM, would you still choose Michigan? Have you visited both campuses? I know most of you guys love going to Michigan, but please don't bash another university... I just wanna hear your honest opinion. Thank you!!</p>
<p>I’m really biased toward the U of M and even I have to say take the full ride.</p>
<p>I’m sure Michigan kicks ass at Math, and I know Wisconsin is a very good school. Even if Michigan Math was better than Wisconsin it can’t be that much of a difference, and certainly not a full rides worth of difference</p>
<p>I agree with MLDWoody. The difference between Michigan and Wisconsin is not worth a full rides worth of difference.</p>
<p>I have children at both schools and I can tell you that they both love where they are. You really can’t go wrong. Both have great academics and tons of school spirit and pride. If I were in your shoes, I let money drive your decision. My out-of-state child received a full scholarship and that is the only reason that child is out-of-state. Best of luck! You have two great choices.</p>
<p>Go Blue! Go Badgers!</p>
<p>Wow, ok thank u for the replies. BigTenMom, which state do u live in? Your child received full scholarship at Wisconsin also? Are there any differences between the two schools from what u see concerning academics?</p>
<p>Just sayin, no one actually from MI refers to it as “UM-Ann Arbor.” That’s such a CC, dilettante thing.</p>
<p>I know. That’s why I started referring to it as Michigan after the first time. Thanks.</p>
<p>"Just sayin, no one actually from MI refers to it as “UM-Ann Arbor.” That’s such a CC, dilettante thing. "</p>
<p>Dilettante thing?</p>
<p>“Dilettante” = novice-like; na</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who ditched full rides at some really good schools to pay full cost at Ann Arbor…just saying, so I wouldn’t cross of Michigan just yet.</p>
<p>And a lot of people in Michigan refer to it as UM-Ann Arbor too (I’ve heard it referred to that quite a bit)</p>
<p>Well that doesn’t make it a good financial choice. The amount of money that the OP is going to save is around 170k.</p>
<p>"And a lot of people in Michigan refer to it as UM-Ann Arbor too (I’ve heard it referred to that quite a bit) "</p>
<p>Are you from Flint or Dearborn? I can’t imagine people calling it “UM-Ann Arbor” anywhere else.</p>
<p>I call it U of M Ann Arbor sometimes but that’s cause I live in the same area as Dearborn and went to the community college right next to U of M Dearborn.</p>
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<p>In my humble opinion, if you are interested in becoming an actuary, it will be more important to do well in school and pass your actuarial exams. From a career perpsective, there will not be any advantage of going to Michigan instead of Wisconsin. I’d take the free ride.</p>
<p>Take the free ride at Madison. I doubt that it will make any difference where you go job wise, but will make a huge difference in your wallet. It will be nice to not have to pay off student loans when you get out.
I like U of M being refered to as u of m ann arbor. We have a friend who went to the Dearborn campus years ago and he tells everyone he went to University of Michigan, so everyone assumes it is THE U of M at Ann Arbor. Wish they would rename the Flint and Dearborn campus. He is a bit quieter about it now that my daughter is a student at the Ann Arbor campus. lol</p>
<p>Liv4physicz… I guess u weren’t entirely correct, since people DO refer to Michigan as UM-Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>UM-Ann Arbor? Nobody affiliated to the University calls it that. Virtually 100% of the people who know of Michigan refer to it in one of the following ways:</p>
<p>University of Michigan
Michigan
U of M
UMich
Ann Arbor</p>
<p>The following are used on CC but seldom by people affiliated to the University:
UMAA
UM Ann Arbor</p>
<p>If you really want to go in act sci, then it doesn’t matter what the college or major is. You don’t even need a college degree. For example, I am currently a junior in HS, and I passed my first actuarial exam last month, and taking the 2nd/3rd this month (very sure I can do well). As long as you can pass the exams all the way to FSA or fellowship,(5 prelims+2 six-hour with more than 2k pages of material+11 educational modules with around 2-3k pages of reading overall+VEE education reqs), it doesn’t matter if you go to college or not, or what major/college. So if you really want to be an actuary, don’t waste the money of going to college. But if you are not sure, choose the one that’s the cheaper, b/c exams > college.</p>
<p>I mean ofc, if you really can’t pass all these exams by yourself all the way to fellowship within half a year without college, then I guess you can’t find a job. Because an FSA is almost NEVER unemployed since there are so few of them in the U.S. and demand of them is high. </p>
<p>All I am saying is that college might not be the best choice for you, because [True</a> or False? “No HS student can possible HOPE to complete all FSA reqs?” - Actuarial Outpost](<a href=“http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/blog.php?b=337]True”>http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/blog.php?b=337) , here Drake University says that undergrads can never even get ASA (halfway to FSA) after graduation. So take my route, get FSA before graduating H.S, or follow everyone else and not get ASA even after college.</p>
<p>This ofc also means that UMich and UWis’s act sci programs will NOT cover the FSA exams… so why waste money and go when you can self-study on your own???</p>
<p>Don’t attack me, I’m just saying my sincere opinion. >_< Sorry if it offends anyone.</p>
<p>billlin, although a straight up college degree will not qualify a person to be a CA, CFA, Actuary etc…, most companies expect employees to have college degree these days. Many companies will not hire people who do not have college degrees, let alone promote them.</p>