<p>This is about the silliest, most deteriorated thread, ever. They are both terrific schools with some different (school) culture differences.</p>
<p>But the idea that Wash U.'s student body is superior to that of Michigan is untrue, no matter the disparity in SAT means; have none of you taken note of the research about SATs not relating, a whit, to intelligence or college performance (and I speak as a parent of a kid with a 2310, so no resentment, here–I’m just researched about such things).</p>
<p>What presumptuousness, however. My daughter, accepted ED, elsewhere, was very (!) interested in Wash U. and Michigan. Had she gone to Michigan she certainly wouldn’t have been, then, a priori, an inferior applicant; she would have been a girl who made an introspective choice. And, for whatever it is worth, the kids (not representative, of course, of everyone at Wash U) I know at Wash U. are not particularly imaginative–they are very (!) hardworkers, bright, but I wouldn’t classify the (current) 5 I know of as being iconoclastic, creative thinkers–high stats, you betcha, but the idea that high stats makes one student body superior to the other is the most concrete and sophomoric way of judging gifts and true talent. </p>
<p>Just a few thoughts.</p>