The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Date: Apr 06 2003
Major: Physics (This Major's Salary over time)
I was terribly excited about coming here. I hoped to be surrounded by people just as intellectual as I am and have classes so exciting that I loved the challenge. My first encounter with students here (orientation) I realized I wasn't so speacial getting in, a lot of people who seem academically uninclined are wandering about. I've also had some very poor professors and GSI who took all the fun out of the classes. I think that U of M is just a name brand, it's the graduate schools that are "top notch" not the undergraduate programs. They will actually curve grades lower if they think students have done to well in several classes. They don't inspire learning, the inspire competativeness. They care a lot more about the academic reputation that you. There are a lot of things the campus could be spending money on (or just not hiking up our tution) but instead they spend vast amounts of money shipping people to Washington DC to march around for affirmative action. I was very disapointed.