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College Confidential

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Yes while that is true that usually you go to the best once you got accepted to, people aren't applying specifically for "fit", they are choosing on "fit" once they are accepted. Once you get accepted you start looking into schools more deeply, especially when they are similar in status. That's why people transfer midway through college. Some people end up at prestigious liberal arts schools like Bowdoin or Swarthmore and made a wrong decision because they didn't blend well with the atmosphere. This isn't exactly the case between Umich and Brown. Objectively Brown is more "prestigious" but prestige isn't everything. The same can be said when you hear of students who get accepted to almost every Ivy League, objectively Harvard and Princeton are the best out of the bunch, but some choose Yale over Harvard, P over H, and Brown over Harvard. At that point students are deciding based on school atmosphere. Moreover if you want to be an engineer, certain programs outshine Brown. Go where you think you will be the happiest. Brown is a fantastic school and so is U of M.