Penn State vs University of Michigan

Colleges & Universities University of Michigan
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<p>Hey!
I am currently a freshman at Penn State hoping to transfer to UMich next year. The reasons I don’t like PSU are as follows:</p>

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<li>academics aren’t very challenging</li>
<li>Low diversity</li>
<li>University Park is in the middle of nowhere; almost too sheltered from the outside world</li>
<li>If you aren’t an Engineering, Science, or MTheatre student, you just came to party</li>
<li>I feel no pride in the school because of the entire ‘Paterno’ thing</li>
<li>The school almost seems like a cult instead of a proud student body</li>
</ul>

<p>I would be transferring to the Performing Arts Technology program. I like the contemporary combination of composing and different art/media forms, as opposed to Penn State’s more classical theory-oriented training. Does anyone have any insight with either program?</p>

<p>My worries are that UMich is going to be very similar to PSU, except more difficult and academically stressful. </p>

<p>I’ll also be joining the UMich ROTC program to pay for the school, so if anyone has any experience with that, it would be much appreciated.</p>

<p>Thanks!!</p>

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<p>Michigan’s student body can hardly be described as a “cult”… the student body is huge like PSU’s, but the diversity is definitely a lot higher. There’s definitely a lot of football pride on Saturday’s during football season, but football discussion hardly consumed most conversations on campus, so I don’t think you need to worry about a cult culture at Michigan.</p>

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<p>Thanks! How about Ann Arbor? Are there a lot of things to do there? Is it like a college town or a town that’s near a college(if you get what I mean)?</p>

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<p>College town</p>