My daughter will be entering nursing school in the fall at U Michigan. One of the reasons she chose it over her other options was that at those schools we were told over and over that the nursing program was the " most elite" one at the university. Students who we talked to often described how they had to work “harder than anyone else” or “only nursing students and the engineers work so much”
. But when she asked students in the nursing program at U Michigan if they worked harder than other students they looked at her like she was crazy. EVERYONE works hard at Michigan she was told. That spoke volumes about the university for her. Moreover not once did the U Michigan nursing administration feel the need to tout the top notch program as " elite."
She knows she will be working hard in Michigan’s excellent program but she also knows that she won’t feel like she’s one of the only ones. ( which students at other schools told us they did).