Michigan vs Boston College

Alexandre
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:15:33 +0000

Hawkette, like I said, I don’t believe the SAT is reliable. First of all, it has never been proven to measure intelligence, ability or success. All it measures is preparation. Students who apply to private universities prepare longer for the SAT and take the test more often. I only care about the bottom line. Yes, students who go to top universities generally want one of two things:

1) A high paying job in NYC or Chicago or another major amalgamation with a sexy and pretigious company.

2) Admission into a top graduate school.

There is no third direction. NONE! You can downplay the significance of this all-important fact all you want, but you can see it all over this forum. Allt he kids on this forum ask about placement into companies and placement into graduate school.

As for how well known and highly regarded Michigan is in various parts of the country. I have no idea. You are way off about NYC though. Michigan is valued correctly in NY as one of the nation’s top 10 or top 15 universities. If you think Fordham is as highly respected as Michigan in NYC, you really know very little about Michigan or NYC.

I also know that Michigan’s peer assessment score is sky high which means that among intellectuals and academe, Michigan is very highly respected all over the nation. The only truly universal university in the US is Harvard. Yale and Princeton are up there too. Other than those, universities are for the most part, regional. Even the likes of Stanford and MIT are somewhat regional if you drift away from a highly educated population.