Will I regret not transferring schools?

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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:43:27 +0000

I do think that Georgetown’s campus culture / vibe / typical student differs to a meaningful degree from that at the University of Michigan. Both are great, but different.

To some extent, the overlaps for each university might reveal some differences:

University of Michigan overlaps: UCal-Berkeley, Univ. of Illinois, Cornell, Ohio State, Michigan State

Georgetown overlaps: Boston College, University of Chicago, Duke, NYU, Notre Dame, & University of Virginia.

Both Georgetown & Michigan have Northwestern University & the University of Pennsylvania as overlaps in common. I find these two overlap schools to be a reasonable middle between the cultures found at Michigan & Georgetown.

P.S. @gtransfer1: I just looked up the college matriculation numbers for our family’s prep school. The students are very intelligent, very hardworking,and most come from financially successful families. The students typically qualify for & matriculate at the most selective universities in the country. Over the past 4 or 5 years, the students’ most commonly matriculated at:

1. Brown

2. Georgetown

3. Cornell

4. Yale

5. Harvard

6. Univ. of Pennsylvania

The University of Michigan was not among the top 25 colleges or universities at which these students matriculated.

(The list has not changed much over several decades except for MIT becoming a more common destination.)

My point is that you are entering into a different league of undergraduate school–even more so when considering your major area of study. Save Michigan for grad school or law school. Academically, you are clearly making the right move.