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Am I the only person here going to a non-Ivy league school ????? Anybody have any experience, good or bad or have something at all to say about Madison, Bloomington or MSU???? PLEASE TELL ME!!!!!!! Anyone get in to any of these schools??

By ztp on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 09:53 pm: Edit

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By Marcie (Marcie) on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 06:50 pm: Edit

I graduated from MSU. What do you want to know? It's a beautiful campus with lots of different kinds of dorms, lots of performances going on, football games were fun. Madison might be a little more liberal and perhaps the best thought of academically of these three, Bloomington a little more conservative. Do you live in one of these states? What do you want to major in?

By Drusba (Drusba) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 01:38 am: Edit

You have chosen three good schools and three that have very impressive and large campuses. I would not say that the programs at any one are significantly better or worse than at the others. I did Bloomington and it is a typical large university like the others where you can have very large freshman lecture courses but advance courses are fairly small (or at least as a math and econ major they were very small). The surrounding area, including various rock quarries, is impressive and I never found the campus atmosphere or political bent to be conservative (and a party was usually easily found if desired). Unlike MSU and Wisconsin, we are still searching for a football team to do more than be fodder for the others but very often (but not this year)we have the better basketball team. Bloomington has the somewhat milder winter than the others and Wisconsin's is the most brutal. Madison and East Lansing are more urban than Bloominton but they are not big cities and have a lot of small town flavor. I think with this group you really don't have a wrong choice.

By Admiralexe (Admiralexe) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 07:57 pm: Edit

I was accepted to UW Madison - I have a lot of friends who live there (I live in Milwaukee) and find the campus a very enjoyable place to be. It is my 4th choice though (after University of Chicago, Brown, and Carnegie Mellon).

By Carrro (Carrro) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 05:47 pm: Edit

I plan to major in international business management. I'm an international student, (but have lived part of my life in Missouri), so I havn't had the chance to visit any of the Universities. I'm kind of an urban person, but for college I don't wanna go to a major city cause I don't think you get the sam college-feel, so what I really want is a nice semi-big collegetown. What worries me about MSU, is that it's in a suburb (right??) so I get the feeling it's more like "just a campus" than really a college town, am I right???
As for the liberal/conservative part I'm more of a liberal (and atheist), how conservative is bloomington, like deathpenalty, really religious people, and anti-abortion people everywhere???
But then also I'm a hate-to-freeze-easily-cold-person so Madison & Lansing kind of fall back there. So far I've only been accepted MSU, but how will I ever choose???????
Accedemicly wise I'm pretty smart and have good grades but I am a underachiever, and I have a hard time making myself study outside of class, so I don't wanna be too challenged, coz that would just stress me out.
Thanks for all the advice guys!!!!!

By Marcie (Marcie) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:58 pm: Edit

I grew up in Lansing and graduated from MSU, as I said in previous post. East Lansing isn't really a suburb of Lansing; it is a small college town right next to Lansing. If you want a "semi-big college town," then I think Madison would be best as far as the town atmosphere. Lansing is the state capitol, but is also a manufacturing town, and Madison would be a more liberal place as compared to Lansing. I heard recently from a parent whose daughter goes to Indiana that she (the mom) felt it was a rather conservative town with "a church on every corner," and that the mom (an outspoken doctor) did not feel she would be comfortable living there, although her daughter likes it there.

All three towns are going to be real cold in the winter. MSU is VERY COLD in the winter. It is a huge campus with some wide open spaces and my memories of the winters are of being very cold. We kind of stayed in our dorms a lot in the winters, but it was fun.

Michigan State has a good business school. Maybe you could call the schools and ask to speak to or email a few business students at each school.

By Carrro (Carrro) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 06:56 am: Edit

A small town, I guess is ok, since there's a big university in it and still will be alot of people my age and a bunch of stuff going on, what I don't want is a place that's built up like and feels like a suburb with a university in it. But I guess if you say East Lansing, is more college town like, it sounds alot better.