<p>“employers will treat her like she’s at her old school, not at her new one (at least until she graduates)”</p>
<p>This is not true in my experience. You pay a price for being a transfer – she won’t get the same callbacks as her classmates who were UM 1Ls – but she’ll have on-campus interviewing opportunities that may far outpace those at her present school. It was not unusual, during my years at Northwestern, to see transfer students get summer associate offers that would have been stretches at their original schools.</p>
<p>She has a reasonable chance of getting into UM with a 3.8 at a tier two school, but even if it were a long shot, why not apply? And why only apply to Michigan, and not to its peers? Does she need to stay in the Detroit metro area?</p>