Is Notre Dame a good school?

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<p>First of all, your post is an anecdote, meaning it pertains to you alone. There’s no doubt that ND is a much more selective institution, and I’m not surprised that you’ve talked to no students who got rejected from Michigan there.</p>

<p>My point is not that Michigan is a better school. That’s purely subjective. My point is that Michigan is academically superior to Notre Dame - as judged by professional academics in universities around the nation who chose to participate in US News’s Peer Assessment. It’s also a better feeder school than Notre Dame.
<a href=“http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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would try to ■■■■■ around Cal, UCLA, UNC, and UVa’s boards first because you have more of an argument to prove to them…seeing as though they’ve almost all basically eclipsed you.

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<p>The only public school that is definitively superior to Michigan is Cal. This I will admit. However, if you talk to UCBChemEGrad, he’ll personally tell you that he believes Michigan is better than UCLA and several reasons why. Michigan is ranked lower than UVA and UCLA because of its extremely high admittance rate, not because it’s an inferior school. Michigan’s better than both of those two in the vast majority of academic departments; if you don’t believe me, I’ll post some links. FYI, UNC isn’t a valid college to reference in this argument.</p>

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UMich boasts “the largest living alumni base in the world”…to me that devalues a degree.

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<p>To each his own.</p>

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Even with that stat, the Notre Dame alumni network (probably a fraction of UMich’s) is still regarded as the best in the country.

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<p>This statement is frankly ridiculous and causes your credibility to drop. Schools like Harvard and Dartmouth OBVIOUSLY have the best alumni networks in the country. If you still disagree, then prove your statement.</p>

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UMich people have an incredible heir about them–mostly attributed to the high concentration of east coast kids.

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<p>Yep, that’ll boost your cred - stereotyping east coast kids. Also, it’s AIR, not HEIR. Look it up.</p>

<p>One last thing, and this is my opinion completely:
It was a pretty stupid decision to transfer from U of M with a 4.0 to ND. If you had continued your excellence there, you would’ve been in better shape. I don’t understand why you’re proud of ending ND with a 3.4–this just proves either that the professors grade more harshly (which does NOT correspond to academic superiority) or you were just lazy.</p>