<p>Michigan better overall academically than ND? lol. Give me a break. Michigan may have certain departments that are better, but overall there is no way a state public school that has to admit a certain percentage of Michigan kids is going to be academically superior to a private school like Notre Dame which is much more selective. Its simply a fact, the average student at ND is going to be more qualified and smarter than the average Michigan student. On top of that, ND emphasizes undergraduate teaching, and Michigan, being a huge land grant research university, emphasizes graduate school resources and stats. The average class size at ND is much smaller than at Michigan, where you are subjected to a lot of large lecture hall size classes. While Michigan is a very good school, and one of the best public schools in the country, ND is more selective, harder to get in, and has average test scores that exceed Michigan. By the way, I got into both schools, and chose----guess.</p>