Michigan State Honors Program vs. University of Michigan

[goldenboy8784]

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@Alexandre

Not really, 2 points on the ACT is negligible.The mean ACT at Brown and Cornell is 31 while the mean ACT are Notre Dame and Vanderbilt is 33. I doubt anybody would argue that Notre Dame’s student body is significantly more talented than Brown’s. Not that it matters since the mean ACT in the CoE is actually 31. As I explained above, the mean ACT in the CoE is higher than the mean ACT overall. If the mean at Michigan is 30, the mean at the CoE is around 31.

I don’t know if I would say that Vanderbilt’s student body is significantly more talented than Brown’s but they do have stronger students based on test scores.</p>

<p><a href=“Office of Institutional Research | Brown University”>Office of Institutional Research | Brown University;
[CDS</a> C](<a href=“http://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/CDSC.aspx?year=2011]CDS”>http://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virgweb/CDSC.aspx?year=2011)</p>

<p>Percentage of Students Scoring Higher than 700 on the CR Section of the SAT
Brown: 62%
Vanderbilt: 69.8%</p>

<p>Percentage of Students Scoring Higher than 700 on the M Section of the SAT
Brown: 67%
Vanderbilt: 76.9%</p>

<p>ACT Composite of 30+
Brown: 72%
Vanderbilt: 88.6%</p>

<p>However, Vanderbilt seems to only care about test scores in evaluating admissions while Brown seems more holistic. For instance, not all of Vanderbilt’s high scorers on the SAT/ACT did quite as well in the classroom. 22.3% had a GPA between 3.50 and 3.74 in high school while 14.2% had a GPA between 3.25 and 3.49. Grades don’t seem to be as important to Vanderbilt adcoms.</p>

<p>At any rate, all of these schools have average students that are still much stronger than Michigan Engineers academically.</p>