UM-ANN ARBOR or UVA?

hawkette
Sun, 11 May 2008 21:53:02 +0000

Nothing to do with disliking the school or the way that it operates. LOL. Not sure where you got that.

I just have a different opinion of the school. It’s very good and certainly well liked in academia, but unlike you and other U Michigan partisans, I don’t place the school and its student body in the highest echelons in the real world and I think that the data very much supports my view.

I also think that U Michigan’s undergraduate student profile and its commitment and resources to undergraduates lags that of many of the colleges that you repeatedly (and IMO, inaccurately) claim are its peers. IMO, the true elite colleges all have better students on average, superior learning environments for undergraduates as measured by things like Faculty Resources, and greater financial resources as measured on a per capita basis.